The production company I'm the Artistic Director of has just been commissioned to create some short scenes to blend with an international theatre festival. Some of them I'll be writing to 'extend' the play the audience has just seen, and I'll be looking for very short pieces that would be performed on the street, getting the audience to the feed back after show party bar.
So, lets find some 45 second plays here, by writing and honing them. Write....rewrite. Try for pieces that aren't skits....really big/small challenge.
Post what you’ve written under a "New Topic” in playwright's gym, so each person has their own thread.
The ones we end up using will be paid royalties....nothing that'll pay off your house...
Paddy
Last edited on Wed Feb 18th, 2009 05:27 pm by Paddy
I like both. We once had an audience stop to watch two police officers arrest a man. After a bit, the police officers were getting a bit rough. They looked to the two warehouse guys who were leading them around, but who had been given the go with the flow law. They raised their eyebrows (is this a play), the guys shook their heads. The audience skulked away.
One play we did.
Mannequin in the window. Audience outside.
A woman sensuously changing the 'lady's top sees the people.
For some reason, I can't post a new topic--the ghost in the machine forbids me. But how about if you have a homeless-looking person with a tin cup, right, but he/she is taking coins out of the cup and handing them to people?
SETTING: The back lawn of an old and elegant estate. We see only a “state of the fashion” lawn chair and a tree. It is a cloudy day as we see by the changes in LIGHTING.
AT RISE: OLD SAINT, private parts covered with a towel, sunbathes in an elegant lawn chair. Fully in the throes of expensive ennui, HE responds to the changing LIGHT. AS the LIGHTS come up, HAG is revealed sitting in the tree. They search each other for possible responses, from history. WHEN HAG is fully revealed, SHE speaks.
HAG: Once upon a time, a dapper, elegant, charming, well-dressed, young man about town stopped at an small cart outside of a fancy theatre to buy a Venetian Ice for a barefoot, stinky, sweaty, street urchin. . . (Directly to OLD SAINT) Thank you.
OLD SAINT: You are welcome.
HAG (Resuming her story.): Then he joined his friends and went on his way. . . . For that one, apparently unguarded, act I will always love him.
THE END
It is here as wonderfully directed by Paddy in Asphalt Jungle Shorts III (It goes by quickly!)
Paddy wrote: The production company I'm the Artistic Director of has just been commissioned to create some short scenes to blend with an international theatre festival. Some of them I'll be writing to 'extend' the play the audience has just seen, and I'll be looking for very short pieces that would be performed on the street, getting the audience to the feed back after show party bar.
So, lets find some 45 second plays here, by writing and honing them. Write....rewrite. Try for pieces that aren't skits....really big/small challenge.
Post what you’ve written under a "New Topic” in playwright's gym, so each person has their own thread.
The ones we end up using will be paid royalties....nothing that'll pay off your house...
Paddy
Well, if you use Kal Bashir's method then this should be quite easy. You start with a weakness, go someplace (New World), are forced to overcome the obstacle and win.
