United Beyond Borders Hear Thalia’s Daughters Laughing
United Beyond Borders Hear Thalia’s Daughters Laughing
Coordinated by Dr. Catalina Florina Florescu
This international volume is hoped to be multi-lingual, thus giving each playwright a chance to submit a short piece in their mother tongue and its translated into English version. Submissions from the United
States/UK/Australia/Nigeria/etc. shall remain in original unless the author knows and speaks fluently another language or can work with a translator.
FYI:
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the play must be a comedy (because the doctor is in the house and she has
prescribed laughter),
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the script must be written by a female identified playwright (because the
volume is coordinated/commissioned via an organization dedicated to
womxn playwrights exclusively),
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the script must be short, i.e., no longer than 20-30 pages (because I, like
you, crave for comedic essence),
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the script must be composed during “the longest year of our lives,” or how I
call 2020-21 (because the intention is to see how womxn have used
laughter as a coping mechanism during the pandemic),
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hence, it can be realistic, symbolic, absurd: you choose, you are free! It
could have had a reading, two readings, or 1,000 readings on Zoom.
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Our main goal is to see how we understand and produce
and how we tap into our creative resources to deal with the trauma of a
pandemic via mild to strong laughs.
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There will be a total of 10-12 accepted scripts.
Submit your piece by New Year’s Eve of 2021 to fflorescu@pace.edu
with the subject line “Thalia’s Daughters.” The process of reading, evaluating, and making a decision will commence with a good wine, a great laughter, and a chance to see womxn in their full, vibrant potential. Info about the publisher and how to devise our own apotropaic masks will be announced at a later date.
About the coordinator: Catalina Florina Florescu was born in Romania, earned her Ph.D. from Purdue University, and lives on the East Coast of the U.S. She
has published and/or edited 8 books on immigration, hospitalization/health, motherhood, and more. She teaches at Pace in New York. She organizes a festival of new plays and is the coordinator for “Voices,” an international festival of plays both organized by JCTC. Her CV and other info can be found here: http://www.catalinaflorescu.com/