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Exactly which fairy tale is Carlo Gozzi’s The Green Bird based on?

Exactly which fairy tale is Carlo Gozzi’s The Green Bird based on?

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 25, 2015 | Evergreen, External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized

Sometimes a coincidence so weird happens, you just gotta share it. As you know, I’m adapting an old collection of obscure Italian fairy tales called the Pentamerone into several plays. Well, as part of that process, I wanted to find out the name of some other...
Orange is the new Black but Green is the new Orange

Orange is the new Black but Green is the new Orange

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 18, 2015 | My Writing, Uncategorized

Some people shouldn’t own Photoshop because they’ll just use it to make random stupid graphics. I am one of those people. Behold!…yeah. Somehow I convinced myself that making this was a productive use of my limited time tonight. It probably...
Adapting the Tale of Tales aka the Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile

Adapting the Tale of Tales aka the Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 11, 2015 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing, Playwriting and Theatre

The follow up to my adaptation to The Green Bird was already well underway when I finished that project and, while I’ve referred to it generally a few times before, it’s time to really introduce you to my next adaptation.  In college, when I was working on...
Read all of The Love of Three Oranges for free on Playscripts this week only

Read all of The Love of Three Oranges for free on Playscripts this week only

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 6, 2015 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized

  Playscripts has been doing this neat thing where they feature a different play each week and this week the spotlight’s on my adaptation of The Love of Three Oranges! That means you can read the entire play, for free, right here until next Wednesday,...
What’s different in Hillary DePiano’s adaptation of The Green Bird vs Carlo Gozzi’s commedia dell’arte original

What’s different in Hillary DePiano’s adaptation of The Green Bird vs Carlo Gozzi’s commedia dell’arte original

by Hillary DePiano | Jul 28, 2015 | My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Uncategorized

While my adaptation of The Love of Three Oranges stayed fairly close to the original (outside of everything related to the whole Narrator/Celio thing which was all me, baby), my adaptation of The Green Bird is fairly different from Carlo Gozzi’s original. While...
eBooks of The Green Bird are available for pre-order now, acting editions to follow

eBooks of The Green Bird are available for pre-order now, acting editions to follow

by Hillary DePiano | Jul 16, 2015 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized

My adaptation of Carlo Gozzi’s The Green Bird is done and I’m incredibly excited to share it with you. There’s  a lot to debrief after this massive project but I want to get some business out of the way first. While I may someday pursue traditional...
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