Friendly Fire: The Indigenous
When writing Friendly Fire: A Forty-niner’s Life with the Me-Wuk, in 1995, I was acting, and thinking, locally. The impetus had been my indignation when I discovered how completely the…
Author: Rick Foster
Dust Storm: Means, Motive, Opportunity
Writing a play may or may not be a crime, but to create a produced play one needs the same ingredients. You must write a play that can be performed…
Money Man: “These are the times that try men’s souls”
As of this writing in the summer of 2016, Money Man is our most recent play. It imagines what Alexander Hamilton might have said to a group of friends who…
Building on the Idea of Duende
1. Defining the Duende Play So, Duende began in 1998, producing tours of the three plays I had written for Sierra Repertory Theatre. We immediately started scouting for projects to…
Duende: The Origin Myth
In the fourth grade I learned that our California Missions were founded by the good friars who wanted to help the Indians live and save their souls when they died….