It’s All Good: The quest for a stage manager continues (as does the quest for a title). Lisa Conley will design costumes & Sadie Ward will coordinate set – this is great news. Mother Antonia: Next reading tomorrow night. Director Anya Kremenetsky will be with us.
Category: The Project Diary
Six months of posting progress on plays in the hopper.
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Mother Antonia: Interviewed M. Antonia’s niece. I felt presumptuous calling on her; but she was quite forthright and willing to talk about her aunt. When I asked her what she would like people to remember about M. Antonia, she told me about the time she (the niece) was baptismal sponsor for a friend who was...
switcheroo #2
Infrastructure: The rejection I got last week came with a handwritten note telling me the panel had had lots of “great discussion” about my application, so I got in touch with the staff to see if they could share any more detailed feedback. They made an appointment to talk with me today. I was expecting...
bacchae
The Last Game: Put a few last touches on the new draft and sent it to Heather H. It’s All Good: Bought a used casebook copy of Lord of the Flies. Have learned that Golding was a schoolmaster (!!! – like Stacey’s character, Michelle) and that one of his sources was The Bacchae (!!!!). In...
go Finches!
The Last Game: Put in a chunk of time revising. (The Darwin Prep Finches are the home team, hence the post title.) It’s All Good: Still working on recruiting the creative team. Still need a title for the pair of monologues.
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The Last Game: Finished reading Collision Course. Among many painful ironies is that in the 2000’s, the FAA had to scramble to replace the controllers who were retiring in a body, having all been hired in a body to replace the strikers in 1981. It’s All Good: Drafting a budget and recruiting a design team.
switcheroo
The Last Game: In Collision Course, I’ve reached Reagan’s ultimatum to the striking controllers – return to work in 48 hours, or you are fired. When he writes about critical decision points for the controllers, McCartin will give brief quotes from their wives which evoke a great deal about what their dinner table conversations must...