If you ask Mimi Holloway, the artistic director of Theatre Southwest, to choose between a ten-minute play and a 20-minute play, the answer is obvious. “A 20-minute play is so different from ten minutes and, to me, it’s a lot more satisfying,” says Holloway. “In 20 minutes, you can develop...
Photo by Jonathan Moonen, to choose between a ten-minute play and a 20-minute play, the answer is obvious.
Holloway says when the festival started out, they received about 50 scripts. Now, they get around 800 from playwrights around the world. Other than trying to balance the selections so there’s a mix of comedy and drama, Holloway notes that they deliberately try to avoid having a theme.Once Holloway narrows it down to “an eclectic group of plays” and recruits five directors, she asks the directors to list, in order, which show they’d like.
The first of three Texans to make this year’s FOO is Fernando Dovalina, and it’s the second year in a row that the former assistant managing editor of the“When he retired he took up playwriting, and it appears he’s quite good at it,” says Holloway., directed by Jay Menchaca and and starring Joshua Figuerra, Reijon Liboon and Helen Warwick, a young man visits a fortune teller seeking help in finding his imaginary friend from childhood.
Directed by Justin Holloway, the play is about two brothers at odds in life who encounter a moon goddess in death.
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