A Tough Nut Never Boils: Thoughts and Ruminations on Language and Playmaking
type: CreativeWork
description: After an unorthodox journey through higher education ending during the coronavirus pandemic, which has made the typical theatrical thesis production and subsequent typical final year impossible, the author reflects on the body of work she has created at the University of Arkansas as an M.F.A. candidate in playwriting at the Department of Theatre, how she has reached both deeper into her own discipline and outside of it to widen her understanding of liveness, performance, and textual creation. She interrogates her own unexpected experiences, from figuring out how to make theatre without theatres, to teaching students who have never seen a play about theatre in a time with no theatre and offers post-mortem lessons about what she has learned about herself and the work she makes.
abstract: After an unorthodox journey through higher education ending during the coronavirus pandemic, which has made the typical theatrical thesis production and subsequent typical final year impossible, the author reflects on the body of work she has created at the University of Arkansas as an M.F.A. candidate in playwriting at the Department of Theatre, how she has reached both deeper into her own discipline and outside of it to widen her understanding of liveness, performance, and textual creation. She interrogates her own unexpected experiences, from figuring out how to make theatre without theatres, to teaching students who have never seen a play about theatre in a time with no theatre and offers post-mortem lessons about what she has learned about herself and the work she makes.
author: Ferebee, Lauren
keywords: malaphor, entertainment industry, theatre, Playwriting
date published: 2021-05-01T07:00:00Z
date modified: 2026-07-24T00:59:08Z
provider: University of Arkansas
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Arkansas