Limitations
Description
Long after the death of theatre, Limitations explores a married couple living under a technology-addled society and their unexpected rediscovery of the live world and theatre. Limitations is a half-film, half-play script designed to demonstrate the strengths, weaknesses, and current uses of both film and theatre.
About the Artist
Anthony Monteleone is a third-year BA Theatre Major focusing on playwriting and directing. He specializes in analyzing everyday behavior and current events through satiric, historical, and oftentimes absurdist ends. Anthony’s past work includes The Haber Collection, An Allegory for Death, and Timeline’d!, and explores everything from human mortality to business showmanship. In the future, Anthony plans to continue writing for the stage with expectations of Grad School in the near future.
Reflection
In the mad world of college, it can be difficult for students to find the time, drive, and resources to focus on personal projects, which, in turn, creates a substantial set of missed opportunities for not just the students but the societies in which they live as well. Students spend so much time learning how to create that they forget to create.
It is through this grant that students are given the opportunity and resources for student creatives to continue creating whilst in college; allowing stories and ideas from young voices to reach out.
More than anything, for Anthony Monteleone, this grant supplied the resources and the drive to tell this story that, otherwise, would have likely been left till, if not entirely forgotten by, the end of Anthony’s own college curriculum. It is through the funds of this grant that Anthony Mpnteleone was able to continue using his preferred scriptwriting software, as well as focus less heavily on basic human and college monetary needs.
Over the course of this project, Anthony has particularly struggled with time management, as the life of a college student is a busy one. The delicate balance between life, work, and school finds itself to leave little room for extra activities and holds even less regard to how fundamental those activities may be to a students well being or future career. As such, it is integral that students learn successful time management skills, the skills of which Monteleone is still learning, but always attempting to improve upon.
Anthony would like to thank Professor Dionne O’Dell and the rest of the CREATE! Microgrant team for making this script possible, as well as Professor Robert Roznowski and Professor Margo E. Sawaya for mentorship on writing for live theatre and film, respectively.