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Adding New Dimensions to Beloved Cartoon Characters in JINKIES! OR THE DOG PLAY

Josiah Thomas Turner’s UTNT (UT New Theatre) script Jinkies! or The Dog Play prolongs the nearly 60-year legacy of our favorite gang of meddling, mystery solving teens. But unlike its predecessors, Turner has revitalized these characters, opening up their identities beyond the images plastered on TV screens and lunchboxes for decades. We delve into the complexities of UTNT’s presentation of Jinkies! or The Dog Play with Turner, director Braxton Rae and members of the cast to better understand the development process and the new life being brought to this classic cartoon.

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Unpacking the Urban Legend that Runs Through Tiny Fingerprints

When creating the play Tiny Fingerprints, M.F.A. candidate Jaymes Sanchez wove an urban legend from his hometown of San Antonio, Texas into the framework of his script. In his exploration of grief and belief, Sanchez chose the famous haunted train tracks as a backdrop, testing the limits of his protagonist’s belief in this ghost story. To find out more about the original story and its retelling in cities across Texas, we spoke with Sanchez and a few of his Tiny Fingerprints collaborators about the haunted train tracks ahead of their performance as part of UTNT (UT New Theatre) this spring.

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Celebrating Fifteen Years of New Play Development with UTNT

For fifteen years this spring, UTNT (UT New Theatre) has served as a springboard for emerging playwrights to explore their newest works on stage. On the outside, UTNT serves as a showcase for these new plays in their infancy, before many of them go on to premiere across the country. On the inside, the fruits of UTNT’s collaborative rehearsal process extend far beyond a single performance. In celebration of its fifteenth season, we are exploring UTNT’s history of fostering experimentation, creative collaboration and hands-on new play development, through the eyes of its playwriting alumni.

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