a little more to go... but it seems like forever

It's been a month and a half since I undertook this write. I was thinking I would crank out the first working draft in a couple of weeks... yet I'm still at it. I have imprisoned myself until I achieve my goal... that oh so elusive first draft.

Creating the video last week did provide me a little boost of confidence. At least it got my juices flowing again. No more videos though until this thing is completed.

In the article last week in Fresno Famous, I touched a bit on why I think this write has been so tough. All good reasons. Though by thinking about those reasons I stumbled upon another. I've been analyzing as I go along. I've never really done that before. In the 50 odd pieces that bear my name I just let it flow. There wasn't thought of technique. There wasn't analysis. There was just write. I was cranking them out too. (My personal record was 9 pieces in one year.)

So where did the analysis come from? One word: teaching. Until early this Summer, I was teaching theatre (including playwriting) ... and teaching it for the last 5 years. Coincidence? When one is teaching, analysis and technique is always present... simply because that's the thrust of the gig. It's in your thoughts when you greet the working day and doesn't leave until you put down the grading pen to fall asleep. So, perhaps it is true that one learns technique to forget it when one is doing it... but it is ever present when one is teaching it.

So, unless I can break from this cycle of thinking about technique and analysis while attempting to create this play... you may just be witnessing the slow disintegration of the playwright within me. Now back to the write.

cheers!
marcel

The First in a Series!

Here is the first video on the creation of this show. As the weeks roll by you'll be privy to all sorts of craziness that goes into this process. Feel free to leave a comment below if you so desire.

Whose Bright Idea Was That?
Uploaded by dathang

Oh, and I just put in an article over at Fresno Famous.

A New Era

Theatre J"Nerique will be developing and producing a brand new play for the 2007 Rogue Performance Festival! The working title for this project is "Ms. White Snows Em".

Stay tuned... you will able to follow the process right here on our brand spankin new blog as this project develops. Then you can see the results for yourself during the Festival that opens March 1st! Then you'll have bragging rights to say "I was there from Page to Stage!"

So, where is the project now? Good question. It's still in the "page" stage. We are only 10 pages away from a first draft. More to come on that in another post.

Come back and read blog posts, excerpts, and watch video as this whole project comes to life.

And the best part? It's interactive... sort of. You can leave comments and questions below and we may just answer them.

You may wonder where the heck we have been... but that is a post for another time.

Stay tuned... come back again soon... the entire site is being redesigned so there will be more to see the next time you visit.