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Every semester Advanced Theatre Arts works with a living playwright to unpack the connections between writing and performance. Every other spring, the fruits of their writing are turned over to the Theatre Arts classes for their final performances.
 
Quarantimes class are no exception! In the spring ATA students engaged in Micro Play workshop with playwright and Beacon alumna Maya MacDonald where they cranked out a one-page play per week for five weeks.
 
From their prolific output we’ve curated the Micro Play Festival you see here.
 
A Mirco Play is exactly what it sounds like. A tiny perfect PAGE that is a self-contained play. A Micro Play has a beginning, middle, end, story, character, and conflict. All the good stuff, but tightly packed in a single moment.
 
The challenge was simple: Can you create a believable story in a thimble?
 
Sure we can!
 
Our Theatre Arts students collaborated over zoom, google chat and FaceTime to crate the tiny microcosms of the world in their Mirco Plays. Congrats to our two Theatre Arts 1 classes who collaborated cross zip codes to celebrate original work created by their ATA friends!
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ATA and T1 Proudly Present Beacon Micro Play Festival 2020

Ain't No Man Good Enough for Jemma Porter

Apples and Oranges

Baby Talk

Better Beach Days

The Doctor'sOffice

The Earth Is Still Getting Hotter

The Golden Child

Half Empty

Is the Blood of Christ Vegan?

Just Records

Nice Little Life

Out of Milk

Tequila

This is What Makes Us Girls

Timothee Chalamet

Wish You Were Here

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