Monthly Archives: June 2015

Boston Globe article profiles Absence and other plays dealing with dementia

by Peter Floyd Posted on June 25, 2015

The Boston Globe features a beautiful article by Don Aucoin on the recent flurry of plays about victims of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. Among the plays he discusses are Bruce Graham’s The Outgoing Tide, Sharr White’s The Other Place, Barney Norris’s Visitors, and my own Absence.  … Continue reading →

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Writers at Play Showcase

by Peter Floyd Posted on June 9, 2015

Writers at Play: 2015 Showcase of New Work Monday, June 22. 7:30pm. FREE Boston Playwright’s Theatre I belong to a playwriting group called Writers at Play, all of who members are MFA playwriting alumni of Boston University. The group is launching … Continue reading →

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Absence Goes to Oslo

by Peter Floyd Posted on June 9, 2015

My play Absence, winner of the Jean Kennedy Smith Award and nominee for the Elliot Norton and IRNE awards for best new play, will get its European debut this fall at the Oslo Nye Trikkestallen. The play will be performed in Norwegian, … Continue reading →

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Format change!

by Peter Floyd Posted on June 9, 2015

As it’s been over two years since I last made a standard blog entry, I’ve decided to rethink the structure of my website. I originally intended to make this page a regular forum for essays and commentary, but the sad … Continue reading →

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