Every work of art is a message in a bottle, a hope that whatever it is you were trying to share when you created it makes its way to someone who can use it, ideally to make their lives, if only for a moment, a little bit better, clearer, nobler, happier, or more hopeful or truthful, or at the very least, more fun.
Tag: farce
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Prior to Starting Work on My Still Unproduced Farce
8/7/07 – 5:0? PM
If I do this grudge play it has to be in the spirit of Wilder. It has to seem silly and overly earnest and then cut to the bone and then throw up its hands and say, “Oh, no, no you misunderstand. Forget that last part. I really AM just silly and overly earnest.” It has to ring a bell true and then say, “Who me? What? Ring a bell? Well, yes, I guess I have. But I didn’t mean anything by it. Honest.”
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Put Grudges on your Calendar
Just wanted to give Seattleites advanced warning that there will be a reading of my very latest play, Gossamer Grudges at the Seattle Repertory Theatre* on Tuesday, June 8 at 7 pm in the PONCHO Forum.
For over a hundred years Gossamer Holdings has delivered faithfully on its simple pledge: “We hold grudges, so you don’t have to.” Times, however, have changed, and Horatio Gossamer knows that in this “go big or go home” world, the family firm must grow or die.
Gossamer Grudges is a fast, funny, furious six-actor comedy with its feet firmly planted in classic farce and its head swimming in the intoxicating clouds of instantaneous celebrity, money, and sex.
We will have an amazing cast amazingly directed, and maybe, just maybe the play will be worth hearing. I have been working on the idea for over three years. Farce is easily the most difficult form I have ever attempted. So please come because I’m going to have lots of questions on how to make this bird sing.
This reading series is co-sponsored by the Rep’s New Play Program and Northwest Playwrights Alliance. Special thanks to Jerry Manning, Braden Abraham and Bryan Willis for making this program possible, and letting a pain-in-the-ass like me participate.
*Yes, they’re letting me in the building.