last night we wrapped Sacrifice, a movie i wrote with @romaingavras , who directed the living hell out of it. i can’t wait for everyone to see it next year. we shot in bulgaria and greece and it was dusty and intense and hard and i loved every second. i love making things. i love people who make things. especially cool was that @yiyihuang was by my side the whole way, making her producing debut. she didn’t miss a single day on set — she crushed it. the cast and crew were all next level. i’ll have more to say soon. we did it. for the 🔥.
pretty huge couple of weeks for events
join us Monday, Aug 5 at 7PM to celebrate the publication of a double-volume of plays by @warbery , Corsicana / Evanston Salt Costs Climbing, at the @dallascontemporary • the playwright will be in conversation with his sister and the director of the Dallas Contemporary, @lucia.sim
Monday, July 30 at 5:30PM marks the start of a Cause-Minded Conversation Series co-presented by @communitiesfoundationoftexas and @deepvellum • We Are One City: Elevating the Story of Dallas
more info at deepvellum.com/events
Artist @joshklinejoshkline and playwright and screenwriter @warbery both live, in a sense, in the future. For more than two decades, Kline’s work has looked unblinkingly ahead to the most daunting implications of 21st-century life, while Arbery’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated play, “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” (2019) presents the frighteningly realistic prospect of millenarian religious warfare in America.
Now, as we find ourselves both in the midst of rapidly unraveling political chaos and on the cusp of revolutionary technological change, the pair met to share their thoughts on the ramifications—both cultural and political—of the emerging artificial intelligence revolution.
🔗 Read their full conversation at the link in bio or in print in Ursula Issue 11, out now.
Josh Kline, Unemployment (2016), Installation view, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, 2016–17. Photo: Paolo Saglia. Courtesy the artist and @fondazionesandretto , Turin
three years. the best years. every day with yi feels like being given a whole new life. love you more than i can say, bob. (also yes we did get courthouse married in march. but also we’re doing another wedding next year in case you have deja vu next year. bye!)
so happy that this book is at last a real thing in real space that can sit on my table. i think it’s right that these two plays hang out in one book forever, even though some of the characters inside will be grumpy about having to share. (others will totally get it and be corny about it.) i miss these plays and all the people who made them. by the way, these paintings are of @itsmemsjamiebrewer learning her lines on zoom, and they’re by didi o’connell herself, can you believe it. thank you to @sovaxkathy and vero diaz at @bookstcg for the painstaking work of bringing this book into being.
available for pre-order now wherever books are sold. tell your local bookstore to beef up their theater section!
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In this two-play volume, acclaimed playwright Will Arbery explores the dynamics within tight-knit communities of outsiders working together to persevere against despair, whether intimate or cosmic. From wildly different angles, Corsicana and Evanston Salt Costs Climbing both examine the shape-shifting specters of grief, the pull of desire and dreams, and the universal need for receiving and giving care.
