From The Actors #2

We asked our actors from The New New News Staged Reading to give their thoughts on the art and process. Here's a few words from Betty Campbell. - ed.

First of all want to say thanks to NewsWrights for doing what you are doing. I am a big fan and you are dealing with ideas that really reverberate with me as vitally important: Information is power; money controls flow of information; the impact of modern technology on the creation and dissemination of information; TMI is just noise. I think it's scary.

And for you, in a process that is collaborative, to create a piece of theatre that is entertaining, that is really about important ideas, without being polemical is sure a challenge. But you're definitely on the way. What we read on the 24th (and the good comments you got from cast and audience that day) has so much great stuff in it and I don't have the kind of smarts that could really advise you how to make it better....I could see enough there to make more than one play (maybe a separate one that is about the relevance of journalism/ professor/ tenure).

Georgiana* had a good statement..."Tis a gift to be simple". I so look froward to the next iteration of The New New News.

*Georgiana was Betty's character in the staged reading; she's an elderly Seattleite whose political blog becomes suddenly and surprisingly popular.