Past Events

Six plays written, rehearsed, and produced in 24 hours. A galvanizing evening! The previous evening, six writers, six directors, and 20-odd actors meet and greet each other; the actors offer audition pieces, and then they and the directors go home and sleep—and the writers get to work. The writers choose the actors they want to use (all actors must be used, and each only in one play) and write until dawn, when the actors and directors return (and the writers…

Mary Hallock Foote & Wallace Stegner: An ongoing dilemma of authorship. Sands's comic-drama, Fair Use, which explores the controversy surrounding Wallace Stegner's use of the life and the verbatim writing of 19th century artist/illustrator, Mary Hallock Foote in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Angle of Repose, receives a staged reading in Boise, ID. The reading serves as a fundraiser for the Foote Park, to protect what's left of the building where they lived near the Snake River, and to relay information about this…

NSH_FairUse_sm_posterA reading of Sands Hall's play, which explores the controversy surrounding Wallace Stegner's use of Mary Hallock Foote's life and writing in his novel Angle of Repose. Takes place in the courtyard of the Footes' Grass Valley home. Tickets $15; all proceeds benefit The Northstar House.