This year’s edition of Launchpad, UCSB Theater Department’s artist residency and performance program for new plays, features “WE WANT THE FUNK, a rustbelt lullaby on the one!” written by multi-talented Idris Goodwin.
UCSB Drama Department’s Launch Pad 3/31/16 UCSB HSSB 1151
In a round (well, yeah, it’s a rectangle) table give and take session, playwright, director Risa Brainin, actors and production team explore the motivations and emotions, meanings and intentions of the characters and the play. They read a bit from the script and then take it from there in a really exciting exchange of ideas. This happens at the beginning of every new production, but since this is a new play, never before performed, there is more freedom to explore and discover. There was electricity in the air!
Playwright Idris Goodwin and director Risa Brainin work with UCSB Drama Department student actors 3/31/16 UCSB HSSB 1151
