{"id":11559,"date":"2015-10-21T12:21:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T17:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=11559"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:08:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:08:14","slug":"seminar-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=11559","title":{"rendered":"PlayMakers hosts free creative writing discussion with \u2018Seminar\u2019 Sunday, Oct. 25"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PlayMakers-Seminar-Print\"<\/a>Creative writing faculty will participate in a free discussion following the 2 p.m. Oct. 25 performance of PlayMakers Repertory Company\u2019s current production, \u201cSeminar.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event is sponsored by PlayMakers and the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English & Comparative Literature in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Both the play and discussion will be held in the Paul Green Theatre at the Center for Dramatic Art on Country Club Road. The post-show event is free and open to the public. For information and to purchase tickets to the play, call (919) 962-7529 or visit www.playmakersrep.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Daniel<\/a>
Daniel Wallace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The post-show conversation will feature Daniel Wallace, J. Ross MacDonald Distinguished Professor of English, and Randall Kenan, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and will be moderated by Gregory Kable, PlayMakers\u2019 dramaturg and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Dramatic Art.<\/p>\n

Daniel Wallace is author of four novels, including \u201cBig Fish\u201d (1998), \u201cRay in Reverse\u201d (2000), \u201cThe Watermelon King\u201d (2003) and \u201cMr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician\u201d (2007). He has written one book for children, \u201cElynora.\u201d His illustrations have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Italian Vanity Fair, and many other magazines and books, including Pep Talks, Warnings, and Screeds: Indispensible Wisdom and Cautionary Advice for Writers, by George Singleton, and Adventures in Pen Land: One Writer’s Journey from Inklings to Ink, by Marianne Gingher. \u201cBig Fish\u201d was made into a motion picture of the same name by Tim Burton in 2003.<\/p>\n

\"Randall<\/a>
Randall Kenan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Randall Kenan is the author of a novel, \u201cA Visitation of Spirits;\u201d two works of non-fiction, \u201cWalking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century\u201d and \u201cThe Fire This Time;\u201d and a collection of stories, \u201cLet the Dead Bury Their Dead.\u201d\u00a0 He edited and wrote the introduction for \u201cThe Cross of Redemption: The Uncollected Writings of James Baldwin.\u201d\u00a0 Among his awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, the North Carolina Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters\u2019 Rome Prize.<\/p>\n

In the dramatic-comedy \u201cSeminar,\u201d four aspiring young writers ante up big bucks to learn from a legendary novelist, but their fiction and their egos will be unsparingly dissected before he\u2019s through. PlayMakers\u2019 Ray Dooley (\u201cA Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream,\u201d \u201cWho\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?\u201d) leads the acting company in a no-holds-barred master class on power, sex and the nature of art. Ferocious and fast-paced with sparkling wordplay, \u201cSeminar\u201d takes no prisoners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Creative writing faculty will participate in a free discussion following the 2 p.m. Oct. 25 performance of PlayMakers Repertory Company\u2019s current production, \u201cSeminar.\u201d 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