Keeping up

Despite the fact that I haven't posted for a while there is a ton going on. I have two new plays in various stages of disrepair, and there's work of course. The year that started so amazingly busy with Old Hickory and Sack of Potatoes back to back followed by the reading of Letter of Resignation, is going to heat up again soon. This summer Bette and I are going to do Wallace Norman's new play together at the Woodstock Fringe Festival in August. Shoud be fun! Then in the fall it's back to Old Hickory with performances at Arts on the Lake and (I hope) in the United Solo festival in the city . . . but I have to be accepted in that one first and I should know in mid-June. Of nearly equal importance is the fact that we went to see some new plays this past Saturday: a matinee performance of Other Desert Cities and that evening Clybourne Park. ODC was ok, but I had some problems with the script. CP was stunning. The script was outstanding and the ensemble was perfect. I'm just glad we saw them in the order that we did, if we had seen CP first we would have not wanted to follow it up with anything!

The new piece

Working on a new play. Basically going back to the third installment of my miner's trilogy to see what I can make of that. I'm at the stage right now where I'm having fun finding the characters and their interactions. Kind of loose undisciplined stage where anything goes. Toughest part is sitting down and doing it! I do have a first draft from a long time ago, which I may have to print and see how it fits with what I'm doing now. The basic idea is bringing the whole thing home with the closing of Beulah's, a bar that has been mentioned in both previous plays. I haven't gone back to that earlier version yet, but I probably should before too long!