The Ivey Award Essays

It’s easy to leave a theater experience with more questions than answers. Why was that particular music used? What was the director trying to convey to the audience? Or even more basic: Why did that show get a standing ovation?

The Ivey Awards has asked several noted authors to help enrich your theater experience. Their essays, presented here, may help educate, entertain, and amuse you. Prepared exclusively for the Ivey Awards and the Web site www.mnartists.org, new essays will be published periodically on both sites. Check back often…and enjoy!

Essay 1: To Stand or Not To Stand? One of Those Questions...
by Steven LaVigne
June 2005

Essay 2: How Words Get Real
by Quinton Skinner
July 2005

Essay 3: Creating an Alternative Universe
by Anna Pratt
July 2005

Essay 4: The Lovable Mongrel
by Dominic P. Papatola
August

Essay 4: The Lovable Mongrel
by Dominic P. Papatola
August

Essay 5: Beyond Beginning, Middle, and End
by Jaime Kleiman
September

Essay 6: Brave Souls
by Graydon Royce
September