February 2012
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Field Trip Theatre is taking STOPGAP to the 2012 Capital Fringe Festival. We’re so incredibly excited for this opportunity because it will mean so much growth for our play and our artists. But we can’t get to Fringe without your help. We’re $1,234 and 42 days away from our goal. We mean it when we say every dollar counts. For more information about the project and how to...
January 2012
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We’re on the #newplay map and couldn’t be happier about it.
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Inciting Incident
By Danielle Mohlman
This play started as a joke. It’s jarring to look at that sentence and then see where the play is today. But it’s something that I have to face. Because it’s the truth.
I started toying around with May and Robert as characters in July of 2010. I had just finished working as a stage manager on a new musical about Leonardo da Vinci. A musical that, for reasons that...
Tangible Connections
By Elena Hight
When I first read Stopgap, I remembering thinking how refreshing it was to read a play about same-sex marriage that wasn’t just about equality. Instead, it attempts to track how love constantly binds people together in strange and unconventional ways. Not only that, but it recognizes the need to do this when the traditional idea of family—a group of people inextricably linked to...
December 2011
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Proposition 8 Timeline
Proposition 8 Timeline: California’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban Over The Years
From The Huffington Post
January 3, 2000: California begins registering domestic partners, allowing same-sex couples: hospital visitation rights and health insurance coverage for the dependents of government employees covered by CalPERS, the state retirement system
March 7, 2000: Proposition 22, a ballot measure...
First Rehearsal
Tomorrow is the big day: our first read through and rehearsal at 7pm. Stopgap’s playwright, Danielle Mohlman, has been furiously working on play revisions all weekend! Best of luck Danielle, and cast, get ready for one crazy trip!