Speck's Last in the Boston International Film Festival and Phoolan Devi: The Bandit Queen at the Boston University Tsai Center Last fall, we wrote about Speck's Last, Michael Dowling's (Playwriting Fellow '09) play-turned-screenplay-turned-short film (read about the work's origins and metamorphosis). The film had an initial screening at Triplex Cinema in Great Barrington … [Read more...]
First look at Speck’s Last
It all started when Michael Dowling (Playwriting Fellow '09) began writing a taut, involving play about three siblings in the wake of their brother's death. He conceived the work - called Speck's Last - at the Atlantic Theater Company's New Works Series and later held a reading at the Berkshires Playwrights Lab. The play would eventually garner Michael an MCC Artist … [Read more...]