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JOHNNY 3600, ANDROID EXTRAORDINAIRE

THE CAST: Johnny 3600, Android Extraordinaire – Ageless King Rex – Late 20s Squire Servio – Early 20s Voldemort Lector – 55 Royal Greeter – 60s Soothsayer – 110 Apothecary – 40s Enforcer 1 and Enforcer 2 – Late 20s Tree Mover – Early 20s – Lights rise on a tall, three-sided flat upstage. An unassuming, leafy tree is painted on the... [Read more of this article]

TWO OF US

THE CAST: John – Early 20s Paul – Early 20s Jill Gonzalez – Early 20s Helicopter Parents 1 through 9 – Mid-30s to Mid-40s - NOTE: Helicopter Parents 1 through 9 should be played by only three performers, who enter each time having changed their accents and traded articles of clothing with one another. - Lights on JOHN, passed out. He is covered... [Read more of this article]

FUNERAL

THE CAST: Jacob – 40s Michael – 50s Ethan – 30s Emma – 20s Isabella – 20s Madison – 50s Joshua – Child Ava – Child - Lights rise on a closed casket. JACOB enters, opens the casket carefully, and exits. - MICHAEL enters, moves to the casket, and crosses himself. MICHAEL exits. - ETHAN enters, eating from a plate of shrimp, and stands... [Read more of this article]

A BURMESE EAGLE

THE CAST: Brendan Spade – 30s Emily Archer – 30s Laura O’Shaughnessy – Late 20s Detective Tom Trueman – 40s Casper Pin – 40s - Lights rise on LAURA O’SHAUGHNESSY and EMILY ARCHER. ARCHER is sprawled on the floor, dead. LAURA paces back and forth, distraught. BRENDAN SPADE enters, looking grim. - LAURA: Brendan, how terrible! - SPADE:... [Read more of this article]

BROMANCE (comedy)

THE CAST: Jack – 20s John – 20s - Lights rise on JACK sitting in a chair, rifling though a backpack. JOHN enters. - JOHN: Jack. Have you seen Ted? - JACK: No. Where’d he go? - JOHN: Don’t know, bro. That’s why I’m looking for him. - JACK: I’m sure he’ll turn up, John. - JOHN: Hang on– - JOHN exits and enters... [Read more of this article]

Villa Miseria (verse)

Villa Miseria I. You walk beyond the barrier, into swarms of bus travelers and bleary eyed stragglers. Where are you going? Behind you lurks a composted community, a palette of stolen paint. An ashen form sells rusted trinkets, broken phone books, mismatched outfits. A curtain covers another row of secret merchandise. You and the others cross thresholds, well... [Read more of this article]

NEWS FLASH! Say yea for Katie de Heras!

The editors of New York Magazine know good work when they see it, whether on Flickr or The Vassar Voice. After the Yeasayer concert, New York reached out to Katie de Heras (Class of ’13), photography editor for The Vassar Voice. Katie’s lead photo can be seen on This Week’s Concerts. Congratulations, Katie!  Read More →

Marvin Campbell (verse)

Silent, Memory for Marcel Marceau “To mime the wind, one becomes a tempest,” and spins oneself so thin the Parthian paint, the sailor suit, the red rose on the stovepipe hat burst out from line to form cyclonic bands. Is it any wonder he walked against the wind? All he had to do was take one step inside, and grin: his pincered hands, his... [Read more of this article]

Why not write a novel this month?

Happy NaNoWriMo! Welcome to “thirty days and nights of literary abandon” known as National Novel Writing Month. Who says novel writing is only for the serious types? Any of us can write a novel, of perhaps questionable quality, in thirty days. With some dedication and a thorough squashing of any self-doubt, you, too, can write your first... [Read more of this article]

Laura Tillman, for THE NATION: “Crossing the Line”

Laura’s “Crossing the Line” appeared in the September 13, 2010, issue of The Nation. Brownsville, Texas.  Diana, a slight, 30-year-old office manager wearing a smart blouse and pencil skirt, has a tired note in her voice. In the privacy of her office, she has spent the afternoon discussing an event in her life that she previously... [Read more of this article]

Nothing Covers the World Like a Newspaper

My fingers ran along its weathered embroidery.  Even today, years later, I like to let my fingertrips trace the swirls.  It was here, as I burrowed into my grandfather’s armchair, that our conversations began. “Louise, what do you think of President Clinton?” I was just seven years old.  Like many first-graders, I was not too much engaged with... [Read more of this article]

Ben Rutkowski and Brian Paccione, ’09, featured filmmakers

Vassar filmmakers, Ben Rutkowski and Brian Paccione, have produced stunning work.  Their films have been placed in national and international film festivals, and won a number of awards.   Ben and Brian are now in grad school, working towards an MFA in Film–Ben, at NYU Tisch School of the Arts; and Brian, at Columbia University School of the... [Read more of this article]

An Accidental Icarus

Did I ever tell you the story about how I fell to earth? How, like a burning meteor, the sky dispelled me into the sea, there nearly extinguished, and spat up onto the shores of the earth. I declaim, but first let me disclaim that I author no creation story: I did not seek to ride the rosy chariot across the sky, nor fasten waxen wings between imperfect... [Read more of this article]

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