We’re starting to get the hang of this Zoom deal.
This script-reading brought together 7 actors and a stage manager – no easy feat! Across a few nights, with some availability and bandwidth problems, actors and the stage manager jumped around quite a bit, picking up the lines for different roles. They are so fantastic and I’ll link to their names.
The big take-aways from this reading:
1. Is Helena Jozef’s 1st wife? 2nd? Does she die and he gets married a 3rd time?
2. Abby comes from no where. Need to develop the relationship between Abby & Jodi; they should be more buddies than the script currently shows
What’s working:
“Gold star” goes to the story with Jozef & Helena: Theirs is an epic love story
“Need to see” goes to the story of the prisoners in the Nazi death camp: This story is adventurous, intense, compelling; it’s very visual, so some of the confusion in the reading may be cleared up on stage
“The jury’s still out” goes to the current day story: some love the teenagers/some don’t see enough distinctions between the characters
My concerns:
a. How do I make the current day story as compelling as the prisoner story?
b. How do I weave the 3 stories as one play, showing 3 generations of 1 family?
This is 1 of 3 collage plays I’m developing. I have no blueprint, which makes this writing very exciting. The scenes are not flashbacks. Rather, the past informs the present as it unravels and forges ahead.
Great THANK YOU’s go to Star Banks, Jonathan Berry, Christian Carter, Jasmine Leonard, Tonya Lynn, Faye Miller, Nik Nemec, Shakira Stephens, Shakara Wright
The prisoner story and the love story from “Find the Miracle,” a script in progress.