Brian Watkins is a writer originally from Parker, Colorado. His plays include My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer, The Bison of Kiowa,High Plains, among others. His work for both stage and film has been produced and developed in New York with b. swibel presents, New York International Fringe Festival, Horse Trade Theatre, Wide Eyed Productions, Emerging Artists Theatre, as well as with Route 66 Theatre in Chicago. Brian and his wife live in Brooklyn.
It was as if fate dropped into their beer mugs and they stared at it as it swirled into some cruel divination, which they imbibed with the relish of a cup everlasting. Here’s to Opportunity. Here’s to Recompense.
“At seven o’clock, the sun set across the edge of her cheek, as she faced south and the violet evening turned dark and empty, her voice still resounding, now with an elderly tremble, oscillating between a broken yowl and a soft lullaby.”
Or how hubris was sent to the hospital.
There is life (and good theatre) beyond the tkts booth.
The independent music world seems to be shrugging off the cynicism and fighting snark with two very different weapons: sincere folk-based orchestration and digitally futuristic innovation.
What the National Football League tells us about cultural capital.
No one watching a soccer match ever says “I hope the refs get it wrong so we can see some drama.”