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 Posted: Sat Mar 15th, 2008 01:00 am
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Martin H

 

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Mana: 
 Maybe that's the lesson for me in the 'one minute play' I started to write about a woman who works at a Psychic Hot Line which is now roughly half done in first draft at about 45-50 minutes.  At one minute it was a one joke piece, but it had the germ of a much larger work, a tragic farce with horror comedy overtones and a whole lot more character mileage than I'd originally imagined.

Personally there's nothing I like better than an open-ended finish. It's long been my contention that stories never end, they begin in the middle and finish somewhere further along in the middle. It may be harder to meet that standard with a very short play-- ten minutes? sure, I've done that and been reasonably happy with the results, but if you finish a one minute play open endedly, people are much likelier to ask you what happens next than to try to imagine it for themselves.