Complicating the Process

After an inspiring weekend spent with the great folks at the fall SETC Board Meetings (who'd have thought board meetings could be inspiring...), I have returned to Jackson with several things on my proverbial plate which will likely be cross-complicating my creative projects for the next few weeks. While I hope to continue progress on the latest draft of Mayfair so that we van begin the casting/reading process, tonight I begin rehearsals on the Galileo production I am directing with the Highland Players Guild (Belhaven theatre alumni). This will make for an interesting couple of weeks...

Workshop Production scheduled

The premiere workshop of my new farce, The Mayfair Affair, will be produced at Belhaven University in February of 2012.  My good friend, John Maxwell, has agreed to serve as the director for the show, even though up until now, the play has only been a series of outlines, and one really terrible draft that has to be almost completely set aside for the next pass.

Yesterday, I started the new draft, a 12 page rewrite of the opening scene - a much better version (if I do say so myself).  The hope is that I can get enough pages of this draft done in the next few weeks that we can cast the show and have an initial read with them in place, so I will have time to do at least one more draft, if not two or three, before rehearsals begin at the start of the spring semester.

I'm really looking forward to the opportunity to be in rehearsal as the playwright again, where I can put all my focus on the script, and leave the directing to someone else.  I found that process to work well for me during the staged reading of Anathema at Square Top Repertory in Colorado - made a lot of progress in just one week.