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the process, whether it’s getting together for mailings, making
curtain speeches or helping at the box office.
“People help with other kinds of stuff — but it’s very
much on an as-needed basis and there is no official designation.”
When it comes to getting people involved it also helps
that 13P is a social — and finite — experience. Once the 13
plays have been produced, they’ll no longer exist.
“It’s such a social experience being in 13P, it involves so
much fun — going to parties, and doing mailings and different
stuff like that, but then when it’s your turn, it’s your
ups,” says George. “It’s all about figuring out where your
priorities are.”
And the deliberate expiration date?
“There’s sort of the point of 13P as a life responsive organization
that’s being made and remade according to the
needs to individuals, and it really runs counter to what happens
to a lot of theaters when they institutionalize,” says
George. “It’s invigorating to us to feel like this is the thing
that’s happening in the present moment, and it’s happening
for a reason, and it serves each one of us as we need it
to serve us, and then, you know, poof, it’s gone.”
Jim Baldassare
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Getting a new play produced is not the only obstacle,
though.
“Many theatres are doing premieres,” says Dramaturge
Matthew Maher and Frank Deal in the 13P production of Have
You Seen Steve Steven by Ann Marie Healy
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