Travis Helwig and Penguins

If I ever die, and you think you should write on my facebook wall, you are not my real friend.

THAT CONCLUDES FALCON FRIDAY

F-F-F-FALCON FRIDAY

More of my conversation with Ed Albee

• 1.
  How do you know you want to be a playwright?
• 2.
  Language. I love writing sounds and I love creating characters and seeing them interact in environments.
• 1.
  Have you read a lot of plays?
• 2.
  Getting there.
• 1.
  Have you read the Greeks?
• 2.
  Yes.
• 1.
  Elizabethans?
• 2.
  Ehh- yes.
• 1.
  Do you know about structure?
• 2.
  I'm learning that here.
• 1.
  Ah, well start from the beginning. That's the best way to learn about structure. Keep reading, start with the Greeks and move forward. Greeks knew a lot about structure. Do you listen to classical music?
• 2.
  No.
• 1.
  Well you're writing classical music. Start listening to it. Beethoven, early Bach. Listen to the chamber music, not the symphonies. Very few plays are symphonies. You're writing chamber music.

Jon Payne's Conversation with Ed Albee this afternoon

• 1.
  I was told at a young age to write from yourself and-
• 2.
  What does that mean?
• 1.
  Well to write from experience and your own-
• 2.
  So to write your own life into a play? Write a play about yourself?
• 1.
  Yes
• 2.
  Well I guess masturbation is a good place to start learning about sex. I think that's where we all started.