Hero is complete.  I put the finishing touches on this latest play that will run Dec 10 & 11.  This past week I was tweaking the script, refining dialogue and character motivations and cutting anything that felt superfluous.   The first reading with the cast is September 11 and it will be a great relief to finally share what I have been working on like a mad scientist these last couple months.  

Hero takes place at an Inn on Christmas Day where family bonds are being tested, secret pains are revealed and a child’s comic sheds light on the meaning of hope.    In the coming weeks, I’ll be posting a more detailed synopsis and poster.

My attention now turns to my screenplay Struck which is due September 19 for the Karios Prizes in Screenwriting.  I have been working my way through a draft of this script which I completed back in July.  So much of re-writing is chopping what you have.   Usually in a first draft you overwrite because you’re fresh in the process.  Ideas are free-flowing and there are no filters holding you back.  Once you start to understand what it is you are writing about, it is then when you take a scalpel to your words and the script takes shape.   I’ve also been working on the re-write of Walls (which is now called Tea Time).  Tea Time is the one-act I’ll be entering into the New Ideas Festival at the Alumnae Theatre.

This quote by an author was passed onto me.  As I prepare to send more of my writings out, I thought it was most appropriate and one I can identify with:

“I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.”
– Louise Brown