Challenge 28 – Due 01/03 at 09:59:59am GMT
Write a surrealist, shit, K-Pop musical saga for your favourite venue, adapted from a famous work about a brave little sporty soldier going on a date, referencing the women’s vote. Give yourself 10 strict rules for the structure (or use the ones I’ve already given you – don’t say I’m being too mean), but do start the play with “Take off the girdle, Gertl, and tell me everything about Onun’s onions, or else little Dicklberg here will get it with this!” and end it with “So there really were 50 of them buying groceries in Panama!”. Work to a strict time restriction, and start with 10 ideas, every time you half your time, also eliminate two of the leastestiest inspiring options. For the dialogue, use verbatim interviews from people about their time as teenagers, and their experiences of maths, emojis and blue whales (pastoral or existential). Name the play, “I will/would/I’d do anything for love (but I won’t do that)” and offend your audience, whilst writing from the point of view of your political enemies (please make sure we sympathise with them). Set the play in your utopia and reference something you observed out your window or on your day to work. Don’t make the play truthful, or naturalistic, or do make it truthful, or whatever the heck truthful even means. Maybe just stop for a moment to ponder about it as you examine your body and see what body part wants a part in your body of work.
And here comes the tricky bit. Don’t finish the play! Instead, put it to one side and re-do the task all over again (with a completely new concept). Only when you finish the second version, pick up the half-completed project and complete it.
I am of course jesting.
We started with a “Brave Little Soldier” so let’s end with a “Coward Big Pacifist”.
Bonus points to anyone who knows how many bonus points they have and incorporate that in the play.
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