Theatre Southwest’s Festival of Originals – a showcase of five one-act, 20-minute plays – typically receives hundreds and hundreds of submissions from all around the world. And yet, for the first time, four of the five plays featured this year are from playwrights in Houston. Well, more accurately, the Greater...
– a showcase of five one-act, 20-minute plays – typically receives hundreds and hundreds of submissions from all around the world. And yet, for the first time, four of the five plays featured this year are from playwrights in Houston.“That was not on purpose,” says Mimi Holloway, the artistic director of Theatre Southwest . “I just plain liked the Houston plays better.
“It is the hardest-hitting play,” says Holloway, adding that it’s “intense,” “very effective” and “mildly violent” with “beautifully written” dialogue. “We discover that maybe some of the memories aren't quite accurate,” says Holloway. “There's more to it than meets the eye.”. Holloway says the Sugar Land, Texas-based writer’s play “is a pure comedy,” where a wife interviews a prostitute for the position of affair partner for her husband.
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