QUOTES
“Allow me to highly recommend Jackpot
Tiger, a
production company run by Adam Watson, for anyone considering videotaping a
show, a wedding, or just about anything else. Adam and I were two of the four
playwrights in Bunbury Theatre's Honest Abe 23-Minute Play Festival. Jackpot Tiger's DVD of the show
will ensure that I can revisit the wonderful experience I had as part of the
festival. The DVD was edited with just one camera, but the look and sound are
very good, and they can do more sophisticated work, too.”
Nancy Gall-Clayton, Playwright and
Writing Instructor, in the May 2009 “What’s New” section of
her website
"Occasional Poisonings from the Kitchen,
written by Adam Watson and directed by Juergen K. Tossmann, is a surreal and occasionally morbid tragicomedy
which finds Lincoln and an insecure James Garfield (a very funny Dale Strange)
as gatekeepers of a kind of Purgatory for Presidents who died or were killed
while in office. As Lincoln and Garfield have a Pastry together — and
that does not mean what you think — they ruminate on such themes as how
little actually changed for African-Americans between Lincoln's time and
Kennedy's, and how the relationship between a nation and its President mirrors
the slave-master dynamic of pre-Lincoln America. This one takes its sweet time
getting to the point, but when it does, it's a doozie!"
Cory Vaughn, in
his February 10, 2009 Theatre
"A sweet play . . . [t]he final exchange of the play was
powerful. . . . [T]he playwright did a good job
of building two characters in a star-crossed love affair."
Mike Lerner, in his March 1, 2004 review of A
Richard Donner Heaven, posted at LouisvilleMojo.com
"The production [of Live at Waverly
Hills] was so well accomplished that not knowing at first if it was fact or
fiction, I bought into it as a real event. The actors, as well as the
technical rendering, were superb. A definite
congratulations to Adam Watson and his crew."
Mark Borchardt, director / writer (Coven),
actor (Jet Li's The One),
star of the documentary American Movie (Winner of 1999's Grand Jury
Prize at Sundance)
"The foreword of
this cool book ["Lollygagged and Flannel Flogged"] is alone worth the
price. . . . Mr. Watson's book is a fine collection of eclectic intelligence,
poems full of inspired twists of metaphor that aren't just clever to impress,
cool insights that don't push their emotions at you either. . . .There are too
many great poems in Adam's book to do them all justice . . . The one-liners
scattered throughout are gems . . . The photos in the book, by Douglas Staley,
are an excellent complement to the poems in the book; not there to illustrate
any of the pieces, but as poems in their own right, sparking introspection in
concert with Adam's words. . . . This is a great book of verse, let alone being
Adam's first. I look forward to reading,
and hearing, his
poetry in the future."
Larry Winfield,
in his Winter 2002 City Table Review
"'The Rocky Horror
Radio Show' made for a marvelously ghoulish evening.
Leslie
Clements, in her November 12, 2002 Louisville Cardinal review
of RHRS
"[For 'The Rocky
Horror Radio Show,' Watson] totally impressed me with his enthusiasm and
professionalism. He had a plan, was very well organized, and made me a
believer."
Dan Reed, Vice
President of Programming and Marketing for the
Public Radio
Partnership (WFPK, WFPL, WUOL)
"I thoroughly enjoy
Adam Watson's work! He is a rising star, a brilliant poet!"
Ron Whitehead,
internationally known author and activist
"I found [Watson's]
work to be of the utmost quality . . . Adam's play was chosen out of 60 plays
submitted for the [10th Anniversary] festival and the reviews for
‘The Birdbath' were among the best."
Juergen K. Tossmann,
Producing & Artistic Director of Bunbury Theatre
REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
“Literature podcasts
‘really getting their voices out there’” by Matthew Tungate, Kentucky
Teacher, April 2009. A cover story that features
Dragon Booktalk. (Downloadable
PDF: see cover, page
8 and 11.)
“The Honest Abe 23-Minute Play Festival” reviewed
by Cory Vaughn at Theatre Louisville, February 10, 2009.
"SOHS Teacher’s Play Debuts Tonight," by John
Foster
The Oldham Era, February 5, 2009
A feature
article and interview with Adam.
"Abraham Lincoln takes the stage in February," by Judith
Egerton
The Courier-Journal, January 25, 2009
A feature
article about the Honest Abe Festival and other regional plays about
Lincoln.
Dragon Booktalk is mentioned in the NCTE’s INBOX newsletter (sent to 115,000 subscribers)
on February 3, 2009 . . .
. . . and described in more detail in a
corresponding blog entry by Millie Davis.
“South
Oldham High uses podcasts for literary chats”
by Sara Cunnigham.
The Courier-Journal, January 21, 2009
A feature article, interviewing Adam and his students about their podcasting site, Dragon
Booktalk.
"History of the Devil" article archive:
LEO Magazine StaffPick, April 27, 2005
"Barker's 'History of the Devil' to premiere," by
Charlie Denison
The Louisville Cardinal, April 26, 2005
A feature article, containing an interview with Adam.
Louisville Playwright Festival 2004 review by Mike Lerner.
(Posted at LouisvilleMojo.com on 3/1/04.)
"Pet-Fish short-play fest spotlights local talent":
Courier-Journal article by Missy Baxter, 2/27/04.
Quotes Adam and highlights "A Richard Donner Heaven."
"Some unexpected treats arise": article in The
Courier-Journal by Carla
Mentions "Live From Waverly
Hills."
"Live Without a Net" gets a Staff Pick in LEO's "Hot Times," 4/02/03.
"Lollygagged and Flannel Flogged": reviewed by Larry
Winfield, City
Table Review, Winter 2002.
"The Rocky Horror Radio Show": reviewed by Leslie Clements, The Louisville Cardinal, 11/12/02.
"Let's Do the Time Warp -- in your living room": a feature article about "The Rocky Horror Radio Show" by Cindy Lamb, LEO Magazine, 11/6/02.
Adam's listing in the ConGlomeration 2002 Program.
Adam's ConGlomeration 2002 appearance
makes Dark Horizons's July 29th news.
"Bookshelf" mention in U of L Magazine, Summer 2002.
"Gorgeous Grins" article by Darlene
Young, The Courier-Journal, 4/8/02.
Contains interview
with Watson about his braces.
"Lollygagged and Flannel Flogged": reviewed by Paul Kopasz, LEO Magazine, 7/25/01.
PRESS RELEASES
Bunbury Theatre’s
production of The
Honest Abe Festival, February 2009. 1.12.09
Sight and Sound's production of “Live Without a Net” at the Rudyard Kipling, August 2006. 7.16.06
Sight and Sound's production of Clive
Barker's "History
of the Devil" at
Pet-Fish Theatre announces the Louisville Playwright Festival. 2.19.04
"Frighten the Horses and Other Plays" now published! 12.03.01
"Lollygagged and Flannel Flogged" now
published! 12.03.01