A Necessary Sadness

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SUBMISSIONS REQUEST for A Necessary Sadness at the Seattle Fringe Festival: (Due February 7th, 2016)

I am looking for five minute pieces on sorrow, and sadness. They can be fiction, stories, creative-non fiction, dance, sketch, or show and tell. You can base them on words from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, or your very own experiences. You would be performing or reading them in front of a live audience. Send your submission ideas or completed submissions to [email protected]

You must be available for one of the three shows in February. The final show in March is already booked.

Thank you so much for your interest. If you have any questions please PM me.

The dates are in for the A Necessary Sadness shows at the Seattle Fringe Festival! Mark your calendars. Each show will be completely different and hopefully we will have a very special musical guest on the last show!

Thurs. Feb. 25 @ 9:00pm
Fri. Feb. 26 @ 7:30pm
Sat. Feb. 27 @ 5:30pm
Sat. March 5 @ 7:30pm

The dates are in for the A Necessary Sadness shows at the Seattle Fringe Festival! Mark your calendars. Each show will be completely different and hopefully we will have a very special musical guest on the last show!

Thurs. Feb. 25 @ 9:00pm
Fri. Feb. 26 @ 7:30pm
Sat. Feb. 27 @ 5:30pm
Sat. March 5 @ 7:30pm

The four words from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/) for September's show are:

opia
n. the ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable—their pupils glittering, bottomless and opaque—as if you were peering through a hole in the door of a house, able to tell that there’s someone standing there, but unable to tell if you’re looking in or looking out.

vellichor

n. the strange wistfulness of used bookstores, which are somehow infused with the passage of time—filled with thousands of old books you’ll never have time to read, each of which is itself locked in its own era, bound and dated and papered over like an old room the author abandoned years ago, a hidden annex littered with thoughts left just as they were on the day they were captured.

adronitis

n. frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone—spending the first few weeks chatting in their psychological entryway, with each subsequent conversation like entering a different anteroom, each a little closer to the center of the house—wishing instead that you could start there and work your way out, exchanging your deepest secrets first, before easing into casualness, until you’ve built up enough mystery over the years to ask them where they’re from, and what they do for a living.

gnossienne

n. a moment of awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private and mysterious inner life, and somewhere in the hallways of their personality is a door locked from the inside, a stairway leading to a wing of the house that you’ve never fully explored—an unfinished attic that will remain maddeningly unknowable to you, because ultimately neither of you has a map, or a master key, or any way of knowing exactly where you stand.

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a compendium of invented words written by John Koenig. Each...