Thank you for reading my play! (If you haven't, and you'd like to, go back to the blog entry from October 10th.) I've had the problem that all the people I've asked to read it have known the guy it's based on, so all I got were comments about how accurately I portrayed him. That's wasn't enough to know if there was anything good in here. If anyone out there really DIDN'T like it, please tell me.
So, WHY I wrote it:
I don't write very frequently. I need to be throughly struck by an image, thought, moment, what have you, for the creative juices to force their way out. I become compelled to write: play, poem, story. Upon later reflection, what I write never seems to match the depth of the experience, so it gets pretty frustrating. And so, I don't write often.
In any case, this play was based on a moment. I was with my friend Aaron, an Orthodox Jewish actor, in the big theatre at our school. We had recently graduated and were back begging a favor for the production we were both involved with in the city. I was off doing loads of work, and I saw him wander onto the stage. He stood there and stared out. That's when it hit me. I saw that Aaron was a man who served two gods. Suddenly so much of him made sense to me.
For the next few weeks, I bullied him to write the play about his two gods, but he couldn't do it. He thought he'd have to write a play where God was a character, and that was taboo beyond measure.
And so, he didn't write it. He did however, say that I could. And so, I did.
I'm so glad I did.
A little (a lot) about the source material:
So, WHY I wrote it:
I don't write very frequently. I need to be throughly struck by an image, thought, moment, what have you, for the creative juices to force their way out. I become compelled to write: play, poem, story. Upon later reflection, what I write never seems to match the depth of the experience, so it gets pretty frustrating. And so, I don't write often.
In any case, this play was based on a moment. I was with my friend Aaron, an Orthodox Jewish actor, in the big theatre at our school. We had recently graduated and were back begging a favor for the production we were both involved with in the city. I was off doing loads of work, and I saw him wander onto the stage. He stood there and stared out. That's when it hit me. I saw that Aaron was a man who served two gods. Suddenly so much of him made sense to me.
For the next few weeks, I bullied him to write the play about his two gods, but he couldn't do it. He thought he'd have to write a play where God was a character, and that was taboo beyond measure.
And so, he didn't write it. He did however, say that I could. And so, I did.
I'm so glad I did.
A little (a lot) about the source material:
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Yes, we should definitely go somewhere else. Thanks for being such a sweetheart. I absolutely adore you
lets hope it gets a second chance!