I am enjoying the repartee, which serves character development well and also moves the play forward. There is, too, that hint of darkness, of not knowing what's to come, that helps sustain interest. Where you've chosen to break the action for purposes of serialization works.
Thanks, Maureen. It's good to get that feedback. Obviously, you know, I didn't write the play with serialization in mind. I was pleasantly surprised when I set out to determine the serial installments that it was relatively easy to find my break points. With some thought, I think those scene break points come from my study and experience in screenwriting, in which understanding and shaping the dramatic arc of each scene, its entry and exit point, is a vital element.
Jay, I so agree with all that Maureen Doallas as she so well laid out here and on part one. I add that the play seems prescient of today's dilemmas but will have to wait to read the rest. Somehow, you have a way of "knowing" that reaches the depths of our emotions, our fears and our hopes that in today's Presidential administration seem dashed, at best. The play appears to me to be a terrific companions to your outright political essays. Not sure of that, but you may, as politicians say, "confirm or deny."
Thanks so much, Mary. That the play, written long before today's dilemmas, to draw connections to those long before it, now seems prescient of today's, long after, only reinforces a theme. Would that it weren't so.
Politicians also say, "No comment." :) I won't say that. I will say that my great pleasure in playwriting is writing dialogue and getting to fulfill the frustrated actor in me. I am every character in the play, who are all a part of me. It's a great joy to speak in each of their voices and to believe and feel what each of them does, without judgment. Somehow by the end, I hope viewers-readers will live that human drama among them all and draw any meaning they draw from living it with them.
"It may cheer you to know that the end result of all your hard work, the bright light like a city on a hill that you've both been pursuing with such naked ambition, is one day to appear on a television talk show and make pompous asses out of yourselves just like that." This is funny, but also a subtle blade to puncture the vanity of human wishes. Nice.
Jeffrey, it was very much my experience as a grad student that my professors mocked the importance of their work to their students even as their own vanity in it flourished. My mentor in Joyce (who was a wonderful teacher and a generous mentor, even when our approaches departed somewhat), was just as proud of his books on baseball.
I am enjoying the repartee, which serves character development well and also moves the play forward. There is, too, that hint of darkness, of not knowing what's to come, that helps sustain interest. Where you've chosen to break the action for purposes of serialization works.
Thanks, Maureen. It's good to get that feedback. Obviously, you know, I didn't write the play with serialization in mind. I was pleasantly surprised when I set out to determine the serial installments that it was relatively easy to find my break points. With some thought, I think those scene break points come from my study and experience in screenwriting, in which understanding and shaping the dramatic arc of each scene, its entry and exit point, is a vital element.
Jay, I so agree with all that Maureen Doallas as she so well laid out here and on part one. I add that the play seems prescient of today's dilemmas but will have to wait to read the rest. Somehow, you have a way of "knowing" that reaches the depths of our emotions, our fears and our hopes that in today's Presidential administration seem dashed, at best. The play appears to me to be a terrific companions to your outright political essays. Not sure of that, but you may, as politicians say, "confirm or deny."
Thanks so much, Mary. That the play, written long before today's dilemmas, to draw connections to those long before it, now seems prescient of today's, long after, only reinforces a theme. Would that it weren't so.
Politicians also say, "No comment." :) I won't say that. I will say that my great pleasure in playwriting is writing dialogue and getting to fulfill the frustrated actor in me. I am every character in the play, who are all a part of me. It's a great joy to speak in each of their voices and to believe and feel what each of them does, without judgment. Somehow by the end, I hope viewers-readers will live that human drama among them all and draw any meaning they draw from living it with them.
Great dialogue! And I’m intrigued by this contact from out of nowhere after so long. 💕
Compliment the dialogue and turn my head! Intrigue? I'm down with that.
"It may cheer you to know that the end result of all your hard work, the bright light like a city on a hill that you've both been pursuing with such naked ambition, is one day to appear on a television talk show and make pompous asses out of yourselves just like that." This is funny, but also a subtle blade to puncture the vanity of human wishes. Nice.
Jeffrey, it was very much my experience as a grad student that my professors mocked the importance of their work to their students even as their own vanity in it flourished. My mentor in Joyce (who was a wonderful teacher and a generous mentor, even when our approaches departed somewhat), was just as proud of his books on baseball.