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The Love of Three Oranges is now Playscripts’ 5th most popular full length high school play!

The Love of Three Oranges is now Playscripts’ 5th most popular full length high school play!

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 25, 2011 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized

So, remember a few weeks ago when I told you that Playscripts had given The Love of Three Oranges a starred recommendation for high schools? I glanced at the list of recommendations today and we were gone and I panicked for half a second that I ticked someone off and...
Playscripts gives The Love of Three Oranges a starred recommendation for high schools

Playscripts gives The Love of Three Oranges a starred recommendation for high schools

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 16, 2011 | My Writing, Uncategorized

There’s a special section on the Playscripts website that serves as a portal for high school productions and drama classes. Divided into full length plays and short plays, it shows the best selling high school plays since Playscripts opened its virtual doors in...
The Love of Three Oranges is one of the most popular adaptations on Playscripts!

The Love of Three Oranges is one of the most popular adaptations on Playscripts!

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 4, 2011 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized

A fan just pointed this out to me and I’m so thrilled they did because I had no idea this page even existed. Playscripts lists their top ten most popular adaptations on a page that’s linked right from the homepage and, what do you know, Three Oranges is #5...

The Love of Three Oranges excerpts: Comedic scenes for drama or speech competitions, classrooms & forensics

by Hillary DePiano | Jun 9, 2011 | My Writing, Uncategorized

You want to perform Three Oranges in some kind of shortened setting, maybe a drama competition, classroom scene practice or 1-Act or scene festival. But where to begin? Let’s talk scenes. You could really use any single scene you wanted for drama class scene...

The Love of Three Oranges excerpts: Competition & classroom friendly comedic monologues

by Hillary DePiano | Jun 9, 2011 | My Writing, Uncategorized

I should have done a post on this ages ago because it’s long been a FAQ. You want to perform Three Oranges in some kind of shortened setting, maybe a drama competition, classroom scene practice or some kind of 1-Act or scene festival. But where to begin? To keep...
The Love of Three Oranges: the fairy tale that became a commedia dell arte scenario that became a play

The Love of Three Oranges: the fairy tale that became a commedia dell arte scenario that became a play

by Hillary DePiano | Jun 2, 2011 | My Writing, Uncategorized

For some reason, people always try to say that my play is based on the Sergei Prokofiev’s opera, The Love for Three Oranges (1919). It isn’t. Both my Three Oranges and his are based on the same source material: Carlo Gozzi’s The Love of Three...
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