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For the most part, these plays were written in Los Angeles in the first decade of the 21st century, a time, I am certain, that will come to be regarded as a low point in the country’s political and cultural history. While only a few of these plays are overtly political, each of them represents an act of protest against a culture hurtling further into the small-minded darkness of American materialism.
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The Padua approach to the writing of plays, cultivated collectively in writing workshops, involves training rigorously in the formal aspects of the playwright’s craft, and then neutralizing the conceptual mind in favor of a more open awareness in which listening constitutes the fundamental act.
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Read MorePadua Playwrights exists to cultivate unique and transformational voices in American theater through workshops, publications and productions.
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