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Winter Stars Book Club: Comedy – “Auras in Suburbia”

By Callie Feyen 6 Comments

Winter Stars Auras in Suburbia

In the final discussion of Sonia Barkat’s collection of 10-minute plays, Callie Feyen laughs along with swooshing trench coats and seafood hedges in the comedy “Auras in Suburbia.”

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Winter Stars Book Club: Fantasy – “To The Shadows We Return”

By Callie Feyen 6 Comments

Winter Stars dark flower

In this week’s book club discussion of the short plays in Sonia Barkat’s Winter Stars, Callie Feyen considers the complexities of love and friendship in the fantasy play, “To the Shadows We Return.”

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Winter Stars Book Club: Tragedy – Winter Stars

By Callie Feyen 7 Comments

Hot springs winter stars book club

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Book Club Announcement: ‘Winter Stars’ by Sonia Barkat

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Sonia Barkat

In September, Callie Feyen leads our next book club discussion of Sonia Barkat’s ‘Winter Stars: three 10-minute plays.’ Come play with us.

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Packing Urgency and Story into 10-Minute Plays: “Winter Stars” by Sonia Barkat

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

In “Winter Stars,” a trio of 10-minute plays, Sonia Barkat uses a few characters and simple narratives to tell powerful stories.

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The Play’s the Thing: Winter Stars is Born

By T.S. Poetry 7 Comments

Winter Sugar Stars

Do you have a writing dream? Maybe it’s time to funnel it in a new direction. That’s what happened for Sonia Barkat, with Winter Stars.

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