We're moving along!
In my last entry on the subject of workshops, I mentioned how hard it is to wait on other people. Well, the other day I stopped waiting! For a brief time! Now I get to wait again! The plays (2) I submitted have been distributed to the board of the theatre. They will review them before the next meeting. In the meantime, they requested a more formalized proposal from me. Then, after the next meeting, which is scheduled for the second week in July, they will let me know how things will proceed. This is awesome. It's not a, "YES! Let's do this thing!" sort of response, but I'm not asking for that. I just want some details on when I can expect to hear something else. That way I'm not on tenterhooks, wondering what the hold-up can possibly be. As to the formalized proposal, which I worked up and sent, that was a bit tricky. It was requested that I send the following details: -extent of involvement from the theatre (organizing, participation, etc) -what type of guidelines/rules I request -what I am planning to achieve. Erm. Well. What I am planning to achieve was pretty easy. I mean- I want to get my play workshopped. Pretty obvious, right? I mean, is that really necessary to put down? To extend that goal: I suppose I might want to get feedback on my play so I can revise and make it better, to have a workshop performance so I can see how it works onstage, eventually get it on the docket for an actual performance, then submit it for publishing and get it accepted, have it performed all over the place, make millions of dollars as playwrights do, and TAKE OVER THE WORLD. But I'll settle for feedback first. Gotta start somewhere, right? Extent of involvement from the theatre. Again, well. How much involvement does the theatre care to do? I'm not a mind reader. I'm not even involved with the theater as much as I'd like to be, how do I know how much they'd like to be involved with me? What I'd really like is for them to organize the whole thing so I can sit back and not have to worry about it, but I somehow doubt that's gonna fly. So I went ahead and said I'd take point on pretty much everything so they wouldn't have to do too much. After all, it's my play, my dream, etc. Guess I should probably do at least some of the work toward that, huh? Guidelines/rules: No drinking. No drugs. No getting naked. Seriously, I did put that in the proposal. Although I apologized for the last; after all, everyone has a different way of working. But also seriously, what other guidelines was I supposed to put?? Other than the above, I'm quite stumped. So now I again sit back and wait to hear. But at least this time I've got a time frame. That's seriously fantastic, now I can just sit back and chill. And stare at the calendar. Come on, second week in July... come on...
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