Brief 28 – Due 01/02 at 09:59:59am GMT
Pick a number, and based on the wedding gift it corresponds to, write an autobiographical, origin, silent panto, inspired by the sea and referencing TLC and Bjork. Make sure it’s written all in Iambic Pentameter stream-of-consciousness (I mean, isn’t everybody’s stream-of-consciousness in Iambic Pents?).
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 “Get your filthy hand off me, JJ, the falafel is burning and after what your ferret did to the doctor, I think you have a lot of explaining to do!” and end it with “If I see your red-tailed donkey in the shopping centre one more time, I’ll send the geese to eat your kids.”
Write about digital clothes on a positive body and set it around Chinese New Year, or any of its themes. Make sure there is no logic in the play, perhaps by creating a fake news/history.
Make sure the play is written for the audience of any of the 6 BBC Radio stations (or maybe all of them), and deal with topics such as cultural appropriation and anything the Guerrilla Girls said in their video, I mean, remember it needs to be a morality play after all, so we need to be clear on good and evil.
For dialogue, you can walk around with a pen and notepad (if anybody still remembers what those are) and write down what other people are saying, preferably idioms, which you can use literally. Oh, yeah… don’t forget to write it all backwards.
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.
Of course I am jesting… this joke never gets old! 🙂
No… we started our journey on a ship at sea, so lets end it with some “Land Ahoy!” Write about the destination… the port, the land, the horizon, the future…
Bonus points to anyone who knows how many bonus points they have and incorporates that in their play.