A Birthday Present

Today is my birthday.  And for my birthday, I get to watch my play The Mayfair Affair performed at The Wesleyan School's Wolf Players!  I did get to see the show last night, so I know that it will be a great performance, and I will laugh at all of my own stupid jokes that make me laugh no matter how often I hear them.  And I'm spending part of the day on campus here, so I get to be a sort-of celebrity for a day (which always feels good).  Then I'll get to go to dinner with my family, and some friends.  There are worse ways to spend a birthday.

Worse ways to spend a birthday that I can think of right now:

• Russian gulag
• trapped in a mine
• space jump
• public flogging (either real or metaphoric)
• Chuck E Cheese

I actually went to a Chuck E Cheese birthday for a non-child and it was a lot of fun - on a Tuesday; today is a Friday, which would be insane.

I'll stick with watching my play be performed.

Granite - a rewrite

Granite

Here is the rewritten version of Granite - play #31 of my submissions to the 31 Plays in 31 Days project.  I just submitted this rewrite for consideration for the project's Internet Staged Reading and for publication in the ensuing Anthology.

Since this was yet another play where I started writing not having much idea of exactly where I was going, the chance to consider rewrites and really dig back through the script was really helpful.  Since the main image of the script turned out to be the block of granite, I made some adjustments to the placement of Litha's speeches, so that she starts the play now.  I was able to expand and complete more of the stories of the other three, and put some more touches into the scene descriptions to clarify what it is we see on stage.  I definitely like this more after the rewrite.  Might almost be worth staging...

Rewrites. And Writes.

So, I'm working on a rewrite of one of the 31 Plays- due by Oct 15, but I can only turn in one, so I need to pick which one to send. This resubmission will be considered for an "Internet staged reading" and possible publication.

I'm also trying to pull together a couple scenes for a short play for December. I have a start, and think it could come together soon enough to have a workable draft in time to move forward with that project.