Carol sits centre stage in a wheel chair. Apart from that she is the picture of health. Plump, well dressed and her hair has recently been coloured and set. CAROL: Oh, hello. That was quick. I wasn’t expecting you so soon. Would you like a cup of tea and a biscuit? It’s through there. Biscuit…
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#28PlaysLater2019: Day One | Dark Lake
On a dark lake, surrounded by mist, is a black rowboat. There is little light from the moon. The action mainly takes place in silhouette with the ferryman and his passenger outlines in the light and the mist. The sounds of the water and the oars in the water are uncanny in the otherwise quiet….
#28PlaysLater: Day 25 – “Feeling Flushed”
Today’s Challenge: Write something you’ve started and had kicking around for a while, but never finished before. Dave is on stage in a spotlight. He wears a yellow hazmat suit with the mask / hood down. Dave: Not a lot of people think about this, but under so many cities around the world there…
#28PlaysLater – #29PlaysLater Rediscovered!
Just looking through my Google drive and found all of my work from 2016’s #29PlaysLater! Some of it is pretty hilarious. Well, if anyone is bored you can find it here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B73gQRcyhewPN2huTjQ5Y0k2Wm8
#28PlaysLater #NSFW: Day 21 – “Weapons of Mass Destruction”
Hmmmm… so I have “ummed ‘n’ ahhhhh’d” about whether to put this on line or not, but I am nothing if not completist. Which is sort of the point of #28PlaysLater. However what I will say is that nothing in the play is my personal point of view, expresses thoughts and feelings of my own…
#28Plays Later: Day 15 – “Saga Cruises”
Today’s Challenge: Write a saga. The BIGGER and MORE EPIC, the better. And use as few words (aka dialogue) as possible. Cast: Many, many monkeys Odin Freya Valkyrie Grendal Snorri Sturluson Njord Yngvi-Frey Fjölnir Sveigder Vanlade Visburr Domalde Domarr Dyggve Dag the Wise/Dagr Spaka Agne Erik Alrik Yngvi Alf Hugleik Haki Jorund Aun Ongentheow Ottar…
#28DaysLater: Day 14 – “Funny Bones”
Note to self… I think there may actually be something in the ‘bare bones’ lolol (you will get this more when you read the challenge) of this story. I don’t have the time or the energy to develop this more for the purposes of the challenge but maybe something in it once this is all…
#28PlaysLater 2018: Day 7 – “My Big Beautiful Mistake”
NOTE: Should be retitled what happens when you try to write really quickly off the top of your head while battling fatigue and dylexia. lolol Challenge 7 – Due 08/02 at 09:59:59am GMT How about writing some shite? Like, proper total crap. “My Big Beautiful Mistake” aka “Dyslexia in Action?” Cbast: Sian Scene: Sian sites…
#28PlaysLater 2018: Day 6 – “The Bad Feminist”
Challenge 6 – Due 07/02 at 09:59:59am GMT Hi All So today’s prompt is: ‘Still Not Equal.’ And to reflect modern times, write it in the style of a farce. Bonus points if you drop in surprise celebrity appearances from the following feminists: Emily Pankhurst, Simone De Beauvoir, Germaine Greer, and Oprah Winfrey. “The Bad…
#28PlaysLater 2018: Day 5 – “Ai-iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Challenge 5 – Due 06/02 at 09:59:59am GMT Today I’ll give you the opening line: “Take off the girdle, Gertl, and tell me everything about Onun’s onions, or else little Dicklberg here will get it with this!” Bonus points if you end the play with the following line: “So there really were 50 of them…