Challenge 16 – Due 17/02 at 09:59:59am GMT
Choose your favourite venue in the whole wide world – it can be a theatre you love, or another space, or somewhere (real or imaginary) that you would love your next play to be staged at.
Now write a play for that space.
Make sure it fits the stage size.
Make sure it fits the artistic remit of the venue.
Make sure it suits the audience that goes there…
in fact, write a play that you could then submit to them. Maybe almost do a pastiche of their seminal production.
For bonus points, seeing as yesterday was all snappy, let’s linger today. Take your time to express things. Long thoughts… Perhaps start sentences that take a lot longer than expected to end and that have, I wouldn’t be surprised, lots of clauses, and sub-clauses, and, sub-sub-clauses, and other things, a little bit like Victor Hugo or Kant or Kleist, and let sentences go and drift away and perhaps even end them in places that are not really connected to where they started, because people who are so deep in thought, and talk as if… well, as if they are moving in one breath from one thought to a different thought and being distracted by the trees which are growing outside and are really lovely this time of year, because it’s just before spring and somehow there is a comfortable atmosphere in the air, not too dissimilar to the ones I had when I was away in the Himalayas in a… a dream I once had which was odd, because I never dream and it wasn’t a full moon or anything and I didn’t eat any cheese, which I don’t like so much, except for Brie, because it’s French and it goes really well with wine, which I simply adore, not as much as Whiskey, mind, particularly nice 15 year old single malts from Scotland, and… uhm… sorry. I’ll stop!
And I leave you with this quote from Grayson Perry:
“If you want to be successful in the art world you’ve got to look to the art world; you don’t make it for the bloke next door and then hope the art world is going to look at it. That’s one of the big mistakes people make.”
Now, whether you agree with it or not (spoiler alert: I don’t) let ‘er rip!
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