Everything Looks Like A Face: Sketched out an overture/montage/dumb show to establish the out-of-chronological-order storytelling style of the mosaic version. Mother Antonia: Did some reading in S. Helen Angela Hurley’s On Good Ground: The Story of the Sisters of St. Joseph in St Paul to try to get back in the groove; new draft due...
Category: The Project Diary
Six months of posting progress on plays in the hopper.
that was quick
Infrastructure: Got a rejection, another one from a New Play Exchange opportunity I didn’t record in my tracking application. Initial data entry on an opp and marking it with a “No” all in one transaction.
planning
Everything Looks Like A Face: Met with Elizabeth about the next steps for refining the book.
the next last game
The Last Game: Heather Helinsky, who has been dramaturging this script, sent an email to check in. I agreed to have a new draft by April 7. Infrastructure: Because Heather asked me to send her a synopsis, I now have a synopsis for “The Last Game,” and added it to the portfolio.
nothin’
Set strike for “The How and the Why.”
reassessing
It’s All Good: Finished rereading The Lord of the Flies. When I read it in seventh grade, it struck me as a cold-hearted book. These days, I find more compassion in it. As best I can recall, in seventh grade I felt Golding was standing outside the bewilderment of the boys, judging them for being...
it’s all good, Ralph
It’s All Good: Started re-reading Lord of the Flies, which will be germane to the companion monologue. Oddly, it cheers me up.
nothin’
Again.
nothin’
Glorious nothin’.
flash forwards
Everything Looks Like A Face: Rough Cuts presentation of the scenes in mosaic order. Last night, for the presentation in chronological order, I felt the audience was almost wholly with us throughout; this time, less so. But judging from the comments, a number of people “got it” – we don’t always experience life in chronological...