So much has happened since I returned home form living abroad. I recently turned 26 and have officially crossed over to the other side of 'past a quarter of a century old.' My 25th year of life was a real adventure marked with a lot of development not just personal but as a playwright I think maybe I get it.
I wrote this new play - well I started it at 23 years old and wrote a version that was an all over mess, a total picture of what not to do. Then I started my master program at City Uni and for the first time I was forced to read and see as many plays as possible. Before this I had only studied screenwriting. But I began to take up this failed play of mine and start over. - I couldn't loose the theme, or the main characters because it was something I had to put down. I tried moving on to other work but for some reason I couldn't let this play go. I let GT read it because he's honest, especially about my plays. For the first time he read it in one sitting and actually liked it. He had two notes which were to add a scene I had thought I needed as well. Suddenly with a little bit more fine combing I have to say I'm actually glad I didn't give up on this piece.
GT liked it so much he's got it a possible home, with me attached to direct. Though I'm always weary about a full production Right after the ink is hardly dried I think actually this is a long time coming - for this play (SPOILED CHERRIES). SO he sent it to actors and the theater Board he's on and the response is really positive . I know I shouldn't be surprised but something in the back of my head was starting to think maybe I'm in the wrong place. Well, not me but my chances. It's not so much getting a production so fast for a script (that's just finished) is the responses form the readers... My last plays I had to beg people to maybe take a look and weeks, months later I'd get a shrug. This time it was a day turn around. I don't know what that means but I suppose that's good.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Past a smll hump
Labels: birthday, nyc life, Spoiled Cherries
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