The Last Game: Talked with Heather H. about the latest draft. At her request, I added some dialog at the very beginning between 23 and 24, giving a swatch of their relationship up to this catastrophic day. Writing it felt very much against the grain, though I can see now that it’s useful. The conversation...
Tag: The Last Game
A one-act drama about a high-school field hockey team.
worse and last
For Worse: Met with Miriam and Sadie to discuss ideas for the set. Sadie has good leads on office chairs we can get for free, which she can turn into a row of airline seats, because she’s awesome. Miriam suggests having a whiteboard for Michelle to write on, making two monologues I’ve written this summer...
too old for this
The Last Game: Revising till 2:30 AM Sunday.
revenge of the Peace Valley Friends
The Last Game: Revising. Moved Dori’s Mom’s big speech earlier, as Heather advised, and later in the day suddenly see how she will take her revenge against substitute coach Mrs. Wallace. Sometimes it seems there is no end to the tinkering that can be done.
not panicking, nope
The Last Game: Looked at the calendar and realized the next draft is due Sunday.
to-do list
The Last Game: Talked with Heather H. about her observations of/suggestions for the script. Among other thoughts, she raises the idea of a second act set some decades into the future. This doesn’t click for me; though it’s difficult to pick apart how much it fails to click on its own merits, and how much...
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.
teams
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...