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 Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 5:22 am
Looking around, I can see that technical workers and actors are well represented in the guild. But what about playwrights? Is there anyone besides me here who has tried their hand at putting the words in other people's mouths? I'm going to feel awfully lonely if no one else is. (I did feel lonely at Florida State Festival when they had no Playwright tee-shirts.)
Also, any frustrations with formats/competitions/etc?
"I'M A PLAYWRIGHT. WITHOUT ME, YOU'D JUST BE STANDING THERE LOOKING FUNNY WITH NOTHING TO SAY."
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Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 7:04 am
I'm a playwrite! Well....sort of...I've tried my hand at it once or twice(Wrote some small scenes and a play which I'm in the middle of revising)
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Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 7:09 am
Awesome! smile I write comedies mostly. It makes me feel immature sometimes. At the Playwright Workshop at FLST Festival everyone else had these serious scripts and was writing these serious scenes for the prompts, and I had a comedy and was writing goofy scenes. Someone had a scene about an abortion and I had a scene that went...
1: You ran over my dog?
2: Well, yes.
1: you ran over my dog?
2: That's what I just said.
1: (laughing)
2: Are you okay?
1: I haven't got a dog.
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Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 7:11 am
nice, then it must have been really funny after all those serious scenes. I usually just write whatever I feel like writing at the moment. Most of it is quirkly little things...which I probably have lying around collecting dust in my computer somewhere...If I find them I'll post them in my journal. 3nodding
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Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 12:14 pm
Yes we're here!
I've written a few things, and recently won a playwriting award out of Circle Theatre in Ft. Worth!
I think we're here we're just hiding under the facade of actors, techies, actors/techies, and techie/actors
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Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 1:46 pm
mmm, thats awesome! I think in theatre though...(especially community theatre) You have to know how to do tons of different random things.
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Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 2:10 pm
I've tried it, I'm still learning. But here's a running joke my brother and I have:
M: pretzels?
B:No.
M: scream Of course these are pretzels you fool! What did you think they were, raisins? scream
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Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 2:45 pm
awesome, I put a few short scenes up in my journal if anyone's interested...I'm also going to incorporate an idea i've had for a play/cirque du soleil type show into an art project of mine. ^^
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Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 2:46 pm
this is a sketch I came up with
Not A Superpower- Person 1 goes to register to become a super hero
P1: Hello, I'm here to register.
P2:we require proof of ID.
P1; my name is person 1, I'm serving as the actor. My supername is awesomeman.
P2 surprised kay awesomeman, for the record I need your super power.
p1: I can predict the end of every law and order episode....(dramatic pause)...I inherited my powers forom my father.
p2: I'm sorry but that's not a super power.
p1: I see dead people.
p2: of course, you work at a funeral home....byt the way you left your name tag on.
p1:well, I speak to dead people.
p2: do tehy talk back?
p1:sure, why not?
p2:lying isn't a super power.
p1:are you some kind of physic?
p2: I review the applications, you're also a horrible liar.
p1: magic tricks!
p2: not a super power.
p1: I can amke milk squirt out of my nose!
p2: not a super power.
p1: walk on water!
p2: calling the vatican.
p1: hold off going to the bathroom fora really longtime.
p2: weird and unnnecasary and not a super power
p1: watch 3 channels at once.
p2:not a super power.
p1; hold on, listen to music while watching tv, and screwing around on the computer!
p2:perpetuating global warming.
p1;I can kinda dance.
p2:well, youn are white, I'll check the list(scrolls down list)can you do that with laser vision?
p1:no.
p2:not a super power.
p1:interperetive dance!
p2:not going there.
p1:I'm not stupid!
p2:cool but not a super power.
p1:darn! well then what is a super power?
p2:just laser vision would work.
p1:I don't have laser vision.
p2:realizing that you don't have super powers?
p1 surprised kay, I don't have super powers! biggrin
p2:cool, you can go now.
p1:darn it!(exits)
p2: by the way, nice cape.
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Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 6:48 pm
Haha. That's cute!
Yeah, I'm a techie/actress/dance chorus member/playwright. I've actually just been referred to as "The Playwright" at drama club.
Sponsor: Oh, talk to The Playwright. She's over there.
Me: Who, me?
Sponsor: Yeah, you.
Me: So, I'm The Playwright? Is this like The Oracle or something from the Matrix? Can I write things and make them come true?
Sponsor: No...
And this wasn't during our student script production. sweatdrop
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 12:36 am
I am, but actually I don't write plays I write movies biggrin gives me just that little more freedom I need biggrin .
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 11:47 am
Freaking I LOVE writing. rofl
You all have such cute ideas! I love your scenes. heart
I'm like a monologue machine. Monologues galore. What I cannot write is a scene longer than five minutes. Any suggestions or books I should read to get past it? It's really becoming a problem for me... sweatdrop I'm currently writing a play about a couple of soldiers in a sort of Samuel Beckett meets "Fight Club" fashion and I can't freaking END THE SUCKER. xp
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High-functioning Werewolf
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 3:32 pm
Try coming up with a snappy resolution to the story, perhaps with cool dialogue.
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Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 9:43 pm
I wrote a 2 act drama (The Unnamed Christmas Drama)
started on a murder mystery that turned really poorly and overly violent (was supposed to be funny) so I just ditched that x.x
I wrote a short story called "A Story to Make You Smile" (which is a drama xD!) and my friends are trying to convince me to make it a play
I've started to write another slightly dramatic play called "Alztehemeir's Eve"
then my friend and I are collaborating on a joke version of "Romeo and Juliet" called "Ro-emo and Jules-iet" (a modern day highschool emo/goths v.s. jocks)
and finally I have some monolouges that aren't all that great....I wrote them when I was moody xD. I wrote a really cool one that was sorotf Anne Frank ish...I loved it...must find it xD.
[Edit] Oh yeah! I also wrote a scene about Starbucks completely running out of coffee for theatre camp
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 12:18 am
I've started a number of plays and one-acts; I worked on one very abstract piece for about half a year, and am probably going to adapt it into something more manageable and moldable. But I just finished my first one-act called What Now?, which may be produced next year either at my school or another school out of state.
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