For Worse: Working on Stacey’s monologue. Thanks to an article by James R. Baker, learned the startling fact that the screenplays for the 1940 Pride and Prejudice and the 1943 Jane Eyre were written by Aldous Huxley. Got a live lead on a great stage manager. Fingers crossed.
Tag: Studying
Conducting research and organizing material.
tell them what you’re gonna tell them
For Worse: Watched this video of a 2006 University of Kansas production of The Bacchae. The performances strike me as uneven, but nonetheless it is compelling to watch. A good reminder that theatre does not require elaborate stage machinery or even suspense in the plot. Dionysus tells you what he’s going to do and does...
whom gods destroy
For Worse: Reading The Bacchae.
bacchanalia – not
For Worse: Started reading The Bacchae. Or, let’s be real, started reading the introduction to the Penguin edition of The Bacchae.
effulgence, flink, whelming
Mother Antonia: Phone call with Anya to hear her thoughts & questions. A foray into the CSJ’s digital archive to try to get a better handle on the limits on where and when the Sisters could leave the house; the Sister at the reading last night pointed out that the community tended to be pretty...
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...
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...
the cosmic ocean
The Last Game: Revising. A mention of Carl Sagan has made its way in. I didn’t really plan to put it there, but it seems another good indicator of the time period, like the air traffic controllers’ strike. Reading more of Collision Course.
suppose your favorite doomsday scenario
The Last Game: Did some reading in Collision Course. Started revising. There is definitely a mental threshold between planning to start revising and actually revising, and it takes me some energy to get over it. Then, once I’m over that threshold, I don’t want to leave writing-land. The blog post title is, as of today,...