Week 25 - Grandpa's New Harley

Next week I will hit Week 26 of this project.  Which will mean that I've been doing this project for (Lord help me) half a year.  I feel like I need to do something to celebrate.  I'm not sure what that is.  I think I'm going to print out all my plays thus far because it still doesn't feel real to me.  I don't feel like I've written 25 separate plays (26 next week) since the beginning of this year.  I need some tangible evidence.


In my previous post, I wrote about how I felt that it was getting harder and harder to write each week.  I supposed that my creative well was rapidly drying up.  One of my friends (and a playwright himself) Dan Kennedy wrote on my Facebook wall "When the well dries, you begin to be creative."  I thought that was a pretty profound observation (thanks Dan.)  So this week, I took time out to just sit.  And think.  And imagine something new. And I did create something.  The well, as it turns out, wasn't dry at all.  I just had to sit and let things marinate a bit.  Week 25's play is Grandpa's New Harley.   

Week 23: Scouts' Honor and Week 24: The Cassie Complex

Hello faithful readers! Apologies for the delay in posting.  Between out of town trips, surprise trips to see baseball games, auditions, and busy times at work, finding time to write and post has been a challenge.  I actually spent most of today stressing out about the project.  I have to be honest, it's getting harder and harder each week to sit down and make myself write.  Blame it on summer, blame it on too much to do, blame it on the creative well being dry.  They are probably all factors.  But I am determined to see this project through, even if each week doesn't produce a stellar play.

Speaking of, Week 23's play is Scouts' Honor and Week 24's play is The Cassie Complex.  Both plays have things to recommend them.  I've been playing with structure and have been trying to write outside of my Bonnie comfort box.  But I'm not entirely happy with both of them.  I'll be interested to hear from my dear readers what you all think.  I personally think they are unfinished in certain ways but I don't know how to finish them right now.  But, onward and upward, I suppose.  :)

Week 22 - The Wondrous Machine

Hello rabid play-readers (or playwriting blog readers.)  :)  I have a big audition coming up on Wednesday.  Writing this week's play was a bit difficult because I have been rehearsing my monologues all week and the words of Shakespeare and Shaw have been whirling about in my brain.  There are worse ways to live, though.

Week 22's play, The Wondrous Machine, was partly inspired by my reading of Sarah Ruhl's In The Next Room; or The Vibrator Play and partly inspired by this week's immersion in Shaw's delightful world, a world that always seems to be a bridge between Victorian decorum and modern outspokenness.  I am definitely not the heir to Shaw's talent (or Ruhl's, for that matter), but I enjoyed my time in that world, if only for a while.