Despite everyone's best intentions to have a break-up day of watching movies and gossiping about summertime dreams, we managed to do an incredible amount of work based around the working draft.
Time being against us as we ran towards the end of the week, we went through everything line by line, everyone voicing their opinions on what was overwritten (most of it), didn't make sense yet (some of it) and what worked (getting there).
A long time ago I realised I wasn't a playwright. It came, fortunately, around the same time I realised I didn't want to make plays anymore. The act then of writing for performance, attempting to distill an epic idea into some text the actors can speak onstage, is incredibly difficult. No matter how much comes out of improvisation, or how much you supplant image for text, eventually you will still have to sit down and write some goddamn dialogue. Something I've never been able to embrace.
All that said, the work on the text opened up all the possibilities for where we need to go. We have a show ready for production. This is what we set out to do. And all involved seemed excited to now go and actually stage it for an audience.
Fun fun.
x nic
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