Thursday, June 2, 2011

The Old Script

So I thought I'd describe what the old project looks like.  If anyone is interested in seeing it, please email me and I'd be happy to send it to you.  There are 10 characters in this piece, reason number one to revise.  The stage is set with seven small cafe tables.  There are five women and three men in this piece.  The characters or interviewees were based on the interviews that were taken.  Lights up on our  our characters.  Tabitha, the Janine-Garafalo type gal, an RN with a pack a day habit, comes off tough bur her revelations gives us a softer and often painful insight into her toughness.  Irene is a type A lesbian who is looking for love in all the wrong personality traits, including hers.  Jennifer is a naive sweet thing, with a good heart and bad ideas.  Briana is your night-club hoping thirty something that needs to figure herself out before she ventures any further.  Sally rounds out the girls, no longer a girl herself but approaching her later adult years with a insiders knowledge of "professional dating."  Ken, a sort of Dwight Shrute without the arrogance, is not so bright of a bulb in the relationship department.  Joe is the married subject, wilder days behind him but with that wisdom he knows how to be a good husband and father.  And then we come to Andrew, the Stage Managerish presence that oversees the whole thing and guides the story along.  They all know they're being interviewed.  They all know what the subject is.  And what they reveal is telling, funny, poignant and sometimes just uncomfortable.  There are a male and female character that emerge and do some re-telling of stories.  And it's just way to long.  And way too difficult to stage, although I have already done it.  If you're interesting in reading it, hit me up. :)

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