or
Hearts Like Fists
What do you think?
Jan 5, 2008
Jan 4, 2008
isaac pointed this out
New American plays in Lort Theaters from Scott Walters
http://theatreideas.blogspot.com/2008/01/fear-of-new-plays.html
Jan 2, 2008
I just realized
of the first 15 one act and full lengths I wrote (out of what is now 25), I only show two of them to anyone anymore. One of them is published and has been produced a few times. The other one has had a few readings. It makes me see that a lot of the plays I wrote were actually me learning how to write plays. Of the last 10 I've written, there is only one I don't show to people. So I guess I figured some stuff out.
Of course maybe 10 plays from now I will stop showing some of those around too.
Hey
What do you think of these titles?
Who A Heart Beats For
or
Why A Heart Beats
or
Open Heart
or
Heartstopper
in 2007
I had 4 productions and 1 workshop production of my long plays and 10 public readings. 2 plays were published by DPS and one also published in the New York Theater Review. I had 7 productions of short plays. I was inducted into the MCC Playwrights Coalition and became a member of Ars Nova Playgroup . I graduated from Juilliard. Jon Bon Jovi was in a reading of a ten minute play I wrote. I won the Lecomte du Nouy. I was a finalist for the Bay Area, semifinalist for Page 73 and nominated for Cherry Lane.
and I got engaged.
So what am I complaining about? Let's have a drink and I'll tell you. After the hives go away.
new scene, first draft as always
17
(NURSE 1 is eating doughnuts. NURSE 2 and 3 watch.)
NURSE 2
You’ve been eating lots of doughnuts.
NURSE 1
Not really.
NURSE 3
Yes, really.
NURSE 1
I know but I have good reasons.
NURSE 2
What’s a good reason to eat so many doughnuts.
NURSE 1
You know why I do it. It’s him.
NURSE 3
You’re eating too many. It’s not good for you. that many doughnuts takes a toll on your heart. I know you think you can hurt your heart, get your arteries clogged, have a heart attack so he’ll operate on you, but that’s not the way. That way will lead you to nowhere but pain.
NURSE 2
You need to let up on the doughnuts. We’ve all noticed. It’s become too much. We’re concerned.
NURSE 1
You’re concerned?
NURSE 2
This is an intervention.
NURSE 1
It is?
NURSE 3
Miriam wanted to come but she’s in surgery.
NURSE 1
With a doctor.
NURSE 2
Yes.
NURSE 1
That you for your intervention. I’m touched. I’m warmed. My heart . . . But I don’t know how to fill myself if I stop eating doughnuts. I’m afraid I will cease to exist if I stop eating even for a minute.
NURSE 2
We’re here to help you.
NURSE 3
Tell us what you want us to do.
NURSE 2
We can go out for a healthy lunch. Together. Would you like that?
NURSE 1
OK.
(Enter PETER, ecstatic)
PETER
It works! The heart works!
(PETER hugs the NURSES, jumps up and down in celebration.)
PETER
The heartbeat is so strong, much stronger than I thought it would be.
NURSE 1
That’s great!
PETER
I have to go tell Lisa!
(PETER exits running.)
(NURSE 1 breaks down and sobs. NURSE 2 offers her a doughnut.)
NURSE 3
OK. It’s OK. We can have the intervention tomorrow.
Dec 26, 2007
check out #4
A nice mention in LA Weekly on Theater of Note's Food For Fish
http://www.laweekly.com/stage/theater/2007-in-the-rearview-mirror/17951/
Dec 23, 2007
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