Week 20: It's Academic and Week 21: The New Guy

Yes readers, this evening you get two posts and two plays for the price of one.  My apologies for not posting last week.  An old friend was in town and I had to say goodbye to a former roommate before her move across the country.  Shakespeare's "Parting is such sweet sorrow" seems apt here, but partings feel permanent to me and I know that I will see both of these people again. :)

You may remember from an earlier post that I spoke about abandoning writing ten-minute plays for a time in favor of writing my full-length play about Shakespeare's clowns.  Well, as it turns out, I am doing both.  Week 20's play is It's Academic and concerns scholars at a Shakespeare conference.  Week 21's play is The New Guy and introduces Will Kempe and some of his co-workers (a guy by the name of Shakespeare figures into the plot as well).  Together, the two plays might not seem to go together.  But as Cousin Larry would say on Perfect Strangers "I have...an idea!"  And they are going to go together.  Right now I'm sort of envisioning it as something similar to one of my favorite plays, Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, as the play goes back and forth in time.  Not that it will be as good as anything Stoppard could write, but that's where some of my inspiration is coming from.

Week 19 - New Rules

Apologies for the lateness of this post.  Yesterday was Mothers' Day, as you know, and my sister and soon-to-be brother-in-law came into town.  By the time everyone left, I needed a nap.  So I took it.  And it was glorious.  Of course, it delayed my posting of my new play this week and for that I humbly apologize.

This week's play is titled New Rules.  It's sort of a take-off on Bill Maher's New Rules.  Instead of making new rules for politicians, these new rules involve relationships.  Judging from the confusion and worry a lot of my friends are experiencing as they navigate the world of dating, I'm thinking it might be time for some new rules to keep everyone from hurting other people's feelings.

Week 18 - Run

I'm posting a little later than usual this week.  I got sucked into watching a Law and Order: SVU marathon today.  They always suck me in and then I emerge, five hours later, hungry, having not gotten dressed, with none of the weekend projects completed.  Ah life.

Week 18's play was inspired by my cop show binge, as well as the visit I took to the dog park today with my parents' dog Holly.  I know most people go to the dog park to watch adorable dogs running about.  I went to observe people and let my imagination drift.  In this week's play, two strangers meet in a dog park.  But all is not as it seems.  Week 18's play is Run.