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There
is a wealth of information available online about the life and work
of D.H. Lawrence. Here are some useful links:
D H Lawrence resources at The University
of Nottingham.
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here>>
D.H. Lawrence and his hometown of Eastwood.
click
here>>
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D.H. Lawrence the poet.
click
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The D.H. Lawrence Review.
click
here>>
The D.H. Lawrence Society of North America.
click
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On
behalf of the Mint Theater Company board of trustees, staff
and the artists who make the work, I’m extremely pleased
and honored to accept this special Drama Desk award. I’d
like to express my deep gratitude to the Drama Desk for recognizing
the value of our work (with a special thanks to Ed Karem for
that lovely introduction.) To receive special recognition just
for doing what we do is so gratifying and such a great honor.
Thank you so much.
I’d especially like to thank the members of the nominating
committee for making room in your very demanding schedules to
attend our productions. I think I have some idea of how much
ground you nominators have to cover and frankly, I’m honored
by the fact that you each have chosen to come and see our work
at all, up on the fifth floor of an office building in a cozy
82 seat theater. I’m doubly honored to see just how seriously
you consider our productions—as evidenced by this recognition
and the much-deserved nomination in the Outstanding Director
category for my very talented colleague Carl Forsman who directed
The Voice of the Turtle.
I have to express my heartfelt gratitude to our press rep. David
Gersten, who is, of course, the person who deserves the credit
for making sure that the Drama Desk is paying attention to our
work and attending our productions. In addition to being a terrific
press agent, David has been a great friend and collaborator.
David has always believed in the value of the work we’re
doing at the Mint, even when my own faith has flagged, and David
has always made sure that our story gets communicated to the
press with the same sense of passion and commitment that we
put into making the work.
I’d also like to take a moment to express my gratitude
and appreciation to Jeni Mahoney, who is the associate director
of the Mint. Jeni has played an invaluable role at the Mint
over the last three years, weighing in on virtually every decision
that I’ve made with clear thinking, critical insight and
creative authority. And she’s done it all invisibly, allowing
me to receive all the credit and forever enduring the widespread
misperception that I do this all by myself, whichis emphatically
not the case.
Finally, because I have this rare opportunity to talk about
what we do at the Mint in this room filled with people that
I admire and respect, I’d like to take a very brief moment
and explain how this whole thing came about. I never set out
with the idea of rescuing lost plays from oblivion, you know.
All I ever really wanted to do was to tell good dramatic stories.
I ended up at the library reading lots of old plays that I’d
never heard of before. Well, I found what I was looking for,
and, lo and behold, it turns out I’m not the only one who
finds this interesting, which is tremendously gratifying. Thanks
to the Drama Desk for offering this wonderfully encouraging
acknowledgement.
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