The diagnosis that my daughter Mattea had been born with severe brain injuries arrived in tandem with a dire prognosis for the future of my family. Doctors volunteered the “fact” that 95% of families to which highly involved children were born failed under the strain of caring for them. Other interested parties fleshed out this [...]
(Technical note: it is appropraite to italicize or underline the titles of plays, but for some reason my computer does not allow this, so I’m using quotation marks).
I was a Freshman in high school. My familiarity with Mormon Theater was pretty much limited to particpating in BYU’s summer theater camp for youth (EFY for drama [...]
I’ve been typing and deleting my thoughts on United 93 for too long now. I just don’t have the ability to do this film justice. Forgive the following rambling words. My thoughts about the film are coming up like the vomit that my queasy stomach wants to produce.
Popcorn Popping, a new online magazine for Mormon narrative art, has posted its first issue. It feature a short story by AMV’s very own S.P. Bailey and a personal essay by Rosalynde Welch.
Oh, and, I’m one of the editors.
I’ll let AMV readers wander over there and see what it’s all about, but let me just [...]
This was already pointed out by Jared over at LDS Film blog, but I find it particularly interesting. The DVD for New York Doll has two different DVDs: the one sold at Amazon is for a general audience and the one sold at Deseret Book is tailored for a Mormon audience.
Stan Bronson’s folk music and stories may be ordered by contacting him directly at ProudEarth@msn.com. He’ll provide interested parties with pricing and ordering information. He requests payment through check or money order. His CDs may also be purchased in Blanding UT (for anyone happening through the area) at Cedar Mesa Pottery, The Purple Sage, San [...]
I live once again in the western United States. I have shortly lived elsewhere, two years in Brazil, two years in Maryland, but the west is home. I knew this for certain crossing the plains by car last fall. Around the same time, I read Wallace Stegner’s Big Rock Candy Mountain.
This morning I received an erratum notice for information released originally about The Leslie Norris fund, a fund established in Leslie’s name to benefit creative writing students attending BYU.
Checks should be made payable to BYU (not the BYU English Department, as originally stated). Leslie Norris Fund should be written on the check’s “memo” line. The [...]
Mahonri Stewart is a Mormon playwright who resides in Provo with his wife Anne and upcoming son Hyrum. Mahonri’s debut play, Farewell To Eden, a British period drama that premiered at Utah Valley State College and then went on to be entered in the Kennedy Center’s American College Theater Festival. There it won second place [...]
The Utah Country newspaper The Daily Herald reports that Leslie Norris’s funeral will be held April 12th at 1:00 pm in the Sharon Stake Center, 545 South 800 East, Orem UT. Instead of sending flowers, Leslie’s friends and admirers are asked to send donations to a fund set up in Leslie’s name. The fund’s purpose [...]
The Welsh poet and educator Leslie Norris suffered a massive stroke and died April 6th at 9:30 p.m. He was eighty-five years old.
Leslie Norris was born in the Welsh mining town of Merthyr Tydfil. A man of remarkable sensibilities, he felt life intensely very early on and began writing poetry as a boy. In his [...]
I flunked out of first year piano. By no means, shape, or shading could I be considered an authority on music. But recently I happened upon a disc I enjoy thoroughly and I thought many AMV readers might enjoy it as well—if they can find it.
Stan Bronson’s two-volume single disc Storysinger (2000) contains songs from [...]
We are pleased to announce that this place has just become a bit more dramatic.
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Mormon playwright Mahonri Stewart has joined A Motley Vision.
The premiere of Stewart’s British period drama “Farewell To Eden” at UVSC kick-started an era of exciting, interesting productions at the college and the blossoming of projects for talented writers, actors and directors [...]