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Why Attending The Boston One-Minute Play Festival Is More Important Than Ever

12/30/2015

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We get our news from a gazillion sources that ultimately shape our opinions.  NYT, Boston Globe, CNN, NPR, Fox News, LA Times, USA Today, The Guardian, Al-Jazeera. RT. Politico. Even Comedy Central. But, except for Comedy Central, all of the other outlets (and a host of which I didn't list) fall under the misnomer of "factual" news outlets. But they are as far from factual as you can get; they all have their own particular editorial slant and agenda.

We rarely look to the arts for commentary on the news of the day--on actual current events in real time--and I don't understand why.  I don't understand why an artistic lens isn't as viable as a journalistic one, given that journalism is just as bias as any other lens. You just have to be cognizant of which lens you're looking through.

The 5th Annual Boston One-Minute Play Festival is taking a new course this year, presenting the festival in two series, A and B. Each playwright was asked to write two one-minute plays; for Series A the playwrights had to answer the question, Where have we been? and Series B answers, Where are we going? The context of the questions are our community at large: Boston.

Approximately 50 playwrights were asked to participate, and what you get are 100 heartbeats that make up an entire night of theater/commentary on who are are as a community, where we've been, and where we're going.

The 5th Annual Boston One-Minute Play Festival runs January 2 - 5, 2016, right at the time in our lives when we're looking back on an old year, and looking toward a new one.

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