I’ve started making notes about writing a play.<\/p>\n
Aside from my role as Geppetto in a pantomime of Pinocchio<\/i> a few years back*, the only theatrical background I can claim is a childhood littered with tearful Sunday school performances.<\/p>\n
The seed idea is The Goddess’s, of course. It’s based on a situation in which I’m a mere bit player – a walk-on part, really – and it needed her bystanding perspective to recognise its dramatic potential.<\/p>\n
What really turned me on to the idea\/situation as a play was that mere moments after sketching the concept in four sentences, I could already see the final scene. Not long after that, having decided arbitrarily on a three-act structure, I had titles (names?) for each act. How freakin’ easy was that<\/b>, baby?<\/i><\/p>\n
Sixty minutes of theatre. Two, maybe three, ‘locations’ – all achievable (in my head at least) with a stage and some decent blocking. I wouldn’t mind a first draft by year’s end but I suspect this time next year would be more realistic.<\/p>\n
Enthusiasm is high, tempered though it is with the acknowledgement of there being only seven days in any given week.<\/p>\n
How hard could it be to write a play?**<\/p>\n
* Highlight of my performance: having called out to the audience, “What shall I name my child?”, amongst the calls for Pinocchio was ‘Snoop Dogg’.
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\n** Note to readers who have a vested interest in my workload: these are early early early<\/b><\/i> days. Your script is in the mail.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve started making notes about writing a play. Aside from my role as Geppetto in a pantomime of Pinocchio a few years back*, the only theatrical background I can claim is a childhood littered with tearful Sunday school performances. The seed idea is The Goddess’s, of course. It’s based on a situation in which I’m … <\/p>\n