Another project!

Wollongong Workshop Theatre, the lovely people who produced "The Salad of Success" last year (dare I add, one of the two groups of lovely people who produced it?), are running a 24-hour theatre weekend in June. The object of the game is, the writer, director, and actors all meet at the theatre on Friday night. They receive the guidelines, including two "red herrings" that must be included in the script (I'm not sure what such a "red herring" might be — perhaps a phrase? Or a prop?). The writer begins writing. Come the dawn, the writer hands scripts to the actors and director. By performance time that very evening, the company is off book, and the performance is entirely rehearsed and polished, including the tech rehearsal.

I want to do this. I'm currently assembling a company (I already have two actors — Houston and Margaret — and I'm working on getting an actor/director; perhaps one more actor after that, but I'm not sure. Aside from that, there's not a whole lot I can do to prepare. No pre-writing is allowed, of course, although one is encouraged to have an idea going in of what one might do. I'm mystified as to how that can happen, personally, and rather than stifle my subconscious (see previous blog entry), I'd rather just rock up with a tabula rasa. Apparently there's some sort of Shakespeare theme — I'm looking forward to that.

There will no doubt be a blog post or two about the process!