Before entering medical school, I read Pauline Chen’s book Final Exam. I was terrified at her description of a terse conversation she had with a supervising physician…
Unscripted
PlayMakers welcomed students and faculty from the UNC School of Medicine to a special preview performance for Love Alone last week…
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Composing Music for “Love Alone”
I was thrilled when Vivienne Benesch approached me to do the music for Love Alone. I composed a few songs for the premiere production at Trinity Rep two years ago…
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A Sneak Peek of “Love Alone”
The final dress rehearsal has taken place and previews have begun for PlayMakers’ new production Love Alone. With opening night just a few days away, […]
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Bringing One-Armed Edna to Life
Love Alone is a fantastic story that crosses a generational gap between the mother, Helen Warren (Julia Gibson), and her daughter Clementine (Arielle Yoder)….
Deborah Salem Smith’s intimate and expansive drama Love Alone deftly engages several seminal debates of our cultural moment…
In the opening number of Assassins, a carnival proprietor invites eight people onto the stage to take their turn in the carnival’s shooting gallery…
Director Vivienne Benesch and playwright Deborah Salem Smith discuss staging the regional premiere of Love Alone at PlayMakers. Vivienne Benesch & Deborah Salem Smith VB: […]
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Cocktail Culture in the 1930’s
ELYOT: I think I mentioned once before that I have only had three minute liqueur glasses of brandy the whole evening long. A child of two couldn’t get drunk on that.