Spat! - a ten minute play (eTens)

No, not that NFL. The National Forensic League. But so far none of these schools has been willing to foot an international flight for the playwright. Well, I did get to see the production in Second Life. I had to create an avatar just to see it. She just kept standing on theater seats.

Up on the seat, down on the floor. It was really hysterical. What made it even more funny was my husband who is a computer consultant watching me attempt to control my virtual self.

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Though he was no help, thank you very much. Though most of the other avatars were sitting down like good theater patrons some seemed to have the same problem I was having. One avatar had his back to the stage through all of the plays. And another just kept walking up and down the aisle. Forget about cell phones ringing, you had to worry about your avatar jumping up in the middle of a play.

It was just moments before the plays began that I finally got my stubborn avatar to sit properly. It was a relief. And will probably be there the rest of the day. And it has a competitive spirit. Claiming it will get more productions in and go to far more countries.

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Is this a healthy sense of self? Or is it an inflated ego?

Time will only tell as these two ten-minute plays battle it out in May the best short play win. In , my husband lost his job soon after we had completed a major renovation on our Silver Lake home. Our only back-up plan was to sell the house. We were committed to learning everything we could from the experience and actually creating the life of our dreams.

The ups, the downs, the maddening struggle for a loan modification, the re-calibrating of our priorities and perception of the world, the selling of everything and everything else in between. Who would buy it? Stephanie Walker has the wit to transform the shame and anxiety of foreclosure into a genuine human adventure. Stephanie Walker writes about tough experiences with honesty, humor and a good dose of optimism.

Her story is a window on a downturn that affected millions of Americans—for worse, but also sometimes better. There are life lessons in here for all of us. And put it out of my mind. That would so amazing! But trying to put it out of my mind so as not to obsess. I just need to decide which play to send. And I need to send it fast because they have changed their submissions and are only accepting the first The Living Newspaper Project.

Like the original productions, the artists incorporate vaudeville, traditional scenes, music, dance, visual arts, and with the addition of electronic media as well. This reading series cultivates new material and allows audiences to discuss topical issues together. We are developing material for a production series in September The playwrights were not credited in the piece. Hello, HuffPo writer Wyatt Closs. And thanks for fulfilling my wish to see a production pic… and an awesome one at that!

I just wanted to post the complete line-up to give a sense of just how many people and cars it takes to produce The Car Plays. Lem Thornton Stage Managers: Tara Thomas Dressing Room: Jackie Moses Walking Tour Guide: Paul Stein Assistant Dir: Skip to main content. Here is some information about the plays and playwrights: Come on out, have a listen, stay for the talk back and talk back. The Car Plays are back again! Related articles Next Week: What was I talking about? Online publication of ten-minute plays. Love in the Time of Foreclosure.

Last year they received 1, entries! I am so happy to be a part of this exciting project. And full details for anyone who wants to attend: Bring some new notebooks and pencils. We bickered, competed, and pummeled each other. But we also played together endlessly, from morning to dusk, indoors and out. We played every sport in the backyard, built forts in trees, jumped off ramps on our bikes, swam in the lake, and built elaborate haunted houses in our basement. Laurie Kramer, one of the world's leading experts on sibling behavior, the fact we played together so often matters more than the fact we fought so often, which is why my brothers and I have such close friendships as adults today.

Sibling quarrels are a fact of family life. On average, young siblings argue or fight 3. In observational studies, siblings make percent more negative and controlling statements to each other than they do to friends. Because if you treat a friend badly, they'll eventually stop being your friend. Siblings, meanwhile, will be there tomorrow, no matter what. In the words of one scholar, "Siblings are genetically sentenced to live together, with no time off for good behavior.

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Kramer's body of research suggests that parents should worry less about how they break up sibling fights, and concentrate more on teaching brothers and sisters the skills of initiating play together. It's not about conflict resolution, it's conflict prevention: Less fighting will be the consequence of siblings initiating play in an amicable manner.

Conventional wisdom holds that children learn social skills at home, with their siblings, then apply that template to their friends. Kramer's work says it's the other way around. In her long-term studies, she was able to videotape older siblings playing with their best friend before their younger sibling was born. Their style of playing together became the older sibling's template to use on the younger sibling a couple years later. In fact, one element of their play was especially foretelling: Older siblings who could enjoy shared fantasy play with their best friend in a mutual, reciprocal style went on to have great relationships with the younger siblings, years and decades later.

Kramer's work calls into question what both parents and kids are reading and learning about sibling relationships. In parents' case, the 47 most popular parenting manuals all suggest that sibling conflict is rooted in an eternal struggle to compete for parents' affection -- a theory first promoted by Freud.

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But empirical polls of kids say otherwise: If you think about it for a second, this makes sense -- even when all children in a family get plenty of attention, siblings will still quarrel. And what do parents turn to, for help? Often, it's childrens' books that portray brothers and sisters learning to get along. Kramer analyzed the most popular such books and videos.

Despite their happy endings, the first half of these stories model all sorts of ingenious ways for siblings to taunt, belittle, and blame each other. Young readers actually learn from the characters new undermining techniques they'd never considered.

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So when Kramer gave a control group of families these books to read daily, the siblings' behavior didn't improve -- it got worse so quickly Kramer had to stop the study. When I was a child, my parents would agonize over the battles I had with my brothers. They warned us we'd end up hating each other.

But the one thing they got right was they never separated us -- they never forced us to play apart, to avoid conflict restarting. We'd sulk for an hour, sure, but usually, maybe always , we'd be playing again before nightfall. We never got around to saying "sorry" or resolving who started it. It turned out that was okay-- it was starting the games again that mattered.