theatre. It’s invaluable and it’s
rare. It’s so rare to have a theatre take these kinds of risks on
a play, develop them, and then
say I’m going to charge money
for them now.”
Madeleine George knows
how difficult it is for a theatre to
survive doing new works. For
about a decade, she was part
of 13P (13 Playwrights, Inc.) - a
company formed in 2003 by
13 midcareer playwrights concerned about what the trend of
endless readings and new play
development programs was doing to the texture and ambition
of new American plays. Together
they took matters into their own
hands with the idea that they
weren’t going to develop plays,
they were going to do them.
They produced one play by each
member playwright during their
run. They presented their final
production in the summer of
2012 and then immediately imploded. The website 13p.org
tells their story and offers a possible roadmap for artists to fol-
Watch Madeleine George look back at her time at 13P
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