Brief 5- Due by 6 Feb at 10:00am UK time
Today we’re going to look at petrified trees.Petrification is a sort of fossilisation process that happens to dead plants underground when there is no oxygen to allow for the decomposition of the material, and as a result, instead of disappearing, it completely transforms and becomes a mineral… ending up being a stone that is the exact carbon copy (or rather mineral copy) of the tree.
There are some places in the world where you can walk through an entire forest that has been petrified… oooh… spooky!
Therefore, for today, lets find inspiration from this incredible process, the idea that every part of you changes from vegetable to mineral, from a living thing to a stone. Although personally, I just like the image of all these trees shivering with fear.
For the final bonus points of the week – if yesterday we had lots of characters, today maybe focus on just the one – doesn’t need to be a monologue, but perhaps all the other characters revolve around one main character. In fact, this play might work with the whole ‘person lost in the woods’ trope…