Monday, February 27, 2012

One Last Dance

One Last Dance was recently performed as part of Walden Theatre's Annual Young Playwrights Festival. This play has its roots in my desire to write a play about myself and a friend, it grew beyond that when I decided to adapt a conversation JC had with one of his friends. That project and this one ended up merging together, resulting in this piece of which I am immensely proud.

In One Last Dance, Mr. Jackson brings a young man and a young woman to the outside steps of a party where they talk about who they love. It’s clear these two care about each other, trusting each other with their emotions, and there’s a sense that each of them, at different times, could be describing the other as the one they love.  The twist at the end – as to who actually loves whom – was crafted effectively. ~~Kathie Ellis

Friday, February 17, 2012

Returning to Alternate Universes

When I first started writing I wanted to write massive epics like the Lord of Rings series and Star Wars -- the kind of writing Ian's working on right now. I was around six years old when I started and soon realized how difficult it is which is when I switched to playwriting at around eight years old under the false assumption that it was easier than prose.

Friday, February 10, 2012

Two Short Pieces

Bypassed and Park Bench, two short plays that I really have no idea what I want to do with. Ideas?

Echoes Down the Corridor

The year was 2010, I had just finished performing Arthur Miller's The Crucible. I loved that play, and the characters, and was very interested in the "epilogue" provided to us by Mr. Miller. It was one paragraph, and briefly gave the actual known history of what happened afterwards, as well as a legend or two about some of the characters. He titled it Echoes Down the Corridor, from which I drew the title of this play.

Letter to Santa

Along with You, Me. Him, Her. Letter to Santa was submitted to YPF 2010. Both were rejected.  

You, Me. Him, Her.

You, Me. Him, Her.  has an interesting history, and sadly I no longer have the various drafts I wrote as the story developed. I first wrote it as a response to a girl saying 'no' when I asked her out, at one point I intended for it to be a modern Cinderella, I even attempted to flesh it out and make it a full three act play, bits and pieces of which can be seen in my most recently produced play -One Last Dance-.