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I wanted to post something new today, but I've wound up this Labor Day with a number of jobs to do otherwise (but with very little sleep last night, and very little energy to do anything). So in lieu of that, a short play of mine in the LJ cut below that I've been wanting to share (as always with things that are REALLY TOO LONG for a post, if short for a play) For those of you who, like me, use Bloglines or certain other RSS readers, and will just get the whole furshlugginer thing anyway with no cut, sorry, it's the price we pay for some kinds of convienience.
I worked on this play a long time (though really in many short bursts of creativity each several years apart), and now that it's done I wonder how playable it really is. As in, could it be memorized? It is designed to be heard and performed live, no question about that, but I wonder if I did my job well enough as a writer in making that practically possible. I've heard the voices of many actresses I know personally over the years doing the play (for a long time, Moira Stone as S and Debbie Troche as J, more recently Moira as J and Alyssa Simon as S, but most actresses I've known have had their voices star in it in my head at some point during the writing and are thus responsible for certain lines), and I know it works aloud, but . . . could it be done?
Also, despite my feelings that when you write in various media you write for each medium, that is, you do in theatre or prose what you can't do right in the other, I've rewritten this play slightly and made it a chapter of the novel I have that's been in the works for even longer, Worlgdinprogcess, where it fits just fine. Maybe that's where it belongs. But here it is below, as a play, as it was conceived.
I worked on this play a long time (though really in many short bursts of creativity each several years apart), and now that it's done I wonder how playable it really is. As in, could it be memorized? It is designed to be heard and performed live, no question about that, but I wonder if I did my job well enough as a writer in making that practically possible. I've heard the voices of many actresses I know personally over the years doing the play (for a long time, Moira Stone as S and Debbie Troche as J, more recently Moira as J and Alyssa Simon as S, but most actresses I've known have had their voices star in it in my head at some point during the writing and are thus responsible for certain lines), and I know it works aloud, but . . . could it be done?
Also, despite my feelings that when you write in various media you write for each medium, that is, you do in theatre or prose what you can't do right in the other, I've rewritten this play slightly and made it a chapter of the novel I have that's been in the works for even longer, Worlgdinprogcess, where it fits just fine. Maybe that's where it belongs. But here it is below, as a play, as it was conceived.
