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What were the onstage highlights of 2008? Mnartists.org wants to know

by Matthew A. Everett • OK, everybody. Forget Graydon, Rohan, Dominic, Quinton and John - time for *you* to sound off. I write some for MNArtists.org, and my editor Susannah is pulling together a "2008 Year In The Arts" series. She got so many responses from areas other than theater that it quickly convinced her it was not one, but several articles. One drawback, no theater feedback. That's right, nothin'. I feared I had missed her deadline by being out of town, but now it's been extended to next Monday or Tuesday.MORE »

Greek mythology in an era of tiny passions

by Matthew A. Everett • So the process I’m in the middle of right now, is putting my two previous versions of the Medea play together, and trimming the fat out of it, to get the purest form of the story I can manage. Still a work in progress at the moment. At first as I was working on it, I was thinking of creating it all again from scratch, and just referencing the two existing scripts as I worked my way through it.MORE »

Rewriting "Medea": One of the most heterosexual storylines you're gonna find

by Matthew A. Everett • The blessing and curse of Greek mythology is that there’s always another layer. It’s what piqued my interest in the Medea legend in the first place. When I realized that Medea’s faithless husband Jason was the same Jason of Jason and the Argonauts fame, and the quest for the Golden Fleece, I was hooked. But then you start pulling the whole thing apart and realize that there aren’t even six degrees of separation between any of these legends.MORE »

In the incubator: "Medea"

by Matthew A. Everett • “How quickly could you write a fun, up to date version of MEDEA? 1-1/2 hour tops?” “A fun up to date version of MEDEA? Does she still kill her kids?” “well, yes she kills her children.MORE »

It seems like happiness is just a thing called...

by Matthew A. Everett Joe. I’ve been avoiding writing this. For over three months. Just like I avoided writing the final monologue in my play “Leave” even though I knew for a couple of days exactly what it was going to be. That time I was unconsciously trying to avoid the death of a fictional character. This time it’s real. It’s not new.MORE »

Vote, but let's be careful out there

by Matthew A. Everett • 11/3/08 • I've got to hand it to the Internet. It makes finding information on the candidates pretty handy sometimes. I don't know about you but when I see a list of unfamiliar names for things like judge and school board and even soil and water supervisor, I start to get a little nervous.
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Shameless Plug of the Day - My play Dog Tag opens in Chicago

by Matthew Everett, 10/17/08 • Just in case you have friends in the Chicago area, I thought I'd let everyone know that the year of the dog for my friend and co-writer Anne Bertram and I continues.MORE »
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