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 Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 9:26 am
are there any playwrights in this guild? If so, what kind of plays do you write? I have ideas for writing some mysteries. I have written some scenes that are autobiographical. I have also edited three short scenes my mother wrote into a longer scene that I think works well together.
Anyone else here a playwright?
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Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 10:47 am
I call myself a playwrite, but nothing's I've done is that good.
I've written about two or three one acts, and a full-length play that kinda in the vein of The Glass Menagerie.
Right now, a musically-inclined friend of mine and I are working on a dark-comedy musical based on two athiests and their quest to find if God really exists.
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Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 8:28 pm
Prouvaire Right now, a musically-inclined friend of mine and I are working on a dark-comedy musical based on two athiests and their quest to find if God really exists. Sounds cool. 3nodding
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 6:03 pm
I acutally just wrote a one-act. It sucks rather mightily, but it was good experience annd very fun to write.
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 7:48 pm
I wouldn't call myself a playwright per se but I am writing a powerful play (that I've been working on for 3 years heh sweatdrop ). It's about gangs and stuff and how this kid turns his life around. I know I know, sounds typical right? That's cuz it's kinda hard to explain. Best way to describe it would be...mix Finding Forrester and Night Hoops (Carl Dreuker...ner I can never spell his last name... thinkthat's right). It's not exactly like that...not even close. But it's the best way I can put it.
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Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 5:36 pm
I'm a very distracted playwright. I'm currently writing an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland where she's older, probably 13 or so, and so she's wiser and so Wonderland isn't as magical. In fact, it's quite dark. Some more adult themes are exposed and every Wonderland character is much less....child-friendly, let's say. For instance the Dormouse is a crackhead and the Mad Hatter is a gothic rock star who is the gay lover of the March Hare.
Things like that.
I've attempted some other things, but not with much success. I have a friend who is an amazing playwright. He's written and finished a full-length HISTORY play in EXCRUCIATING historical accuracy during oh, the past 2 months? I'm going to get some pointers from him when I attempt to write a rock opera with a few musically-inclined friends over the summer.
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High-functioning Werewolf
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Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 12:46 am
i've written 2 full lengths... then decided i don't have the patience for it (deadlines stink)
one was for a class and it was about a couple that goes off to 2 different colleges and what happens...
the other was for a competition... it was basically about how diabetes doesn't suck and it takes place during an Irish wake... it didn't win...
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Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 2:56 pm
I've thought of writing a play, but they usually stay up in my mind. Most of them are satirical plays about high school life or pop culture, but I actually think that the latest play I came up with might turn out pretty good. It's about four people sharing a hospital room and their lives, and such. One despretly needs a heart transplant, one is dying of AIDS, one has a terminal illness, and the last one is paralyzed everywhere under his neck and he wants his wife to premit the doctors to let him die. I want it to get really deep.
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Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 10:02 pm
I've written small scenes and stuff but get mad, rip them up and throw them away cause I'm not happy with them, its that little bit of perfectionist in me.
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 4:55 pm
Klip Fourwinds I've written small scenes and stuff but get mad, rip them up and throw them away cause I'm not happy with them, its that little bit of perfectionist in me. You should never destroy stuff you write. Put them away in an envelope or something and store them. Then, if you have the idea of writing on the same subject, you can return to them. I say this because when I was nine, I wrote thirty pages that were autobiographical and I threw them away because my mother didn't like them. I wish now that i never threw them away, because I would like to have seen what i wrote. It could've helped me with some stuff I've written. Anyway, that's my advice if you have the space to store such stuff.
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 6:20 pm
A friend of mine wrote a play for Thespian District Competition and it got a lot of praise (he even got to attend a workshop at States that only 2 or 3 people at Districts got to attend). It's really good.
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 9:21 pm
Kitsune Ookami I've thought of writing a play, but they usually stay up in my mind. Most of them are satirical plays about high school life or pop culture, but I actually think that the latest play I came up with might turn out pretty good. It's about four people sharing a hospital room and their lives, and such. One despretly needs a heart transplant, one is dying of AIDS, one has a terminal illness, and the last one is paralyzed everywhere under his neck and he wants his wife to premit the doctors to let him die. I want it to get really deep. I look forward to seeing that wink Would love to see the finished product. Sounds awesome.
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 8:19 pm
Well, in a sense I guess I am...my works are more of spoofs that me and my friends will be filming into movies, but I have been working on a couple scripts that I hope will be turned into actual movies. 3nodding
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 8:47 pm
my dad's one it's called lust and rust: the worlds first trailer park musical
you can google it to find out more
we dunno what's gonna happen to it though keepin our fingers crossed 3nodding
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 3:56 am
What I'm working on now is a family-oriented tragicomedy. The main-character, Greg, has just graduated from high and the time is from a few days after graduation until the day he leaves for college in another state. In this time he learns that his friends have changed drastically, and that he, as a writer, has isolated himself from reality in his desire to create the perfect work. In a sense, he hides from the truth in his work.
At the same time, Greg's mother, Christine, is slowly realizing that Greg takes too much after his father, who is long gone. She sees how much he isn't like her side of the family. But that might be a bad thing, as she begins to think that the life of a Knightley is not best for Greg Idle. She wonders if Greg, and at the same time her, will go against the wishes of the family for Greg to stay at home and work to take care of his dying grandmother.
And that's basically the surface, it gets a lot deeper when it gets into Greg and his friends, dealing with AIDS, homosexuality, rape, depression. And even with the family too, such as more homosexuality and atheism.
Hopefully it'll be good... I'm just having a really hard time finding the right mood of the play. It's sometimes a really upbeat play, othertimes it's just so bloody melodramtatic. Oh well, maybe I'll find the right balance.
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