You can go your own way
An awful lot of playwriting is learning to find 1) THE RIGHT MOMENT and 2) THE RIGHT SITUATION for your essential theme or idea.
It is possible to create works of art starting from THE WRITING PROMPT of some inconsequential thing that then has to show up in the finished piece. That is the premise behind the themed playwriting contest and the popular improv form called 14/48, wherein a playwright, director, and set of actors have 48 hours to come up with an entirely new ten-minute play; some have admission tickets of $14 and other productions have 14 plays.
Guy de Maupassant wrote a story based on the idea of a piece of string:
The skill of coming up with the optimal frame for a play is essential for a playwright and, in many ways, constitutes why the theatre community nourishes and develops certain people as theatremakers. It is the essential mindset of the playwright.
An awful lot of David Finnegan’s play Kill Climate Deniers is exactly that — to find the perfect setup for a PLAY about climate change denial.
I am not going to spoil the surprise by laying out the premise. I will simply say, It is worth the evening’s ticket price plus a glass of wine.
Not only that, this particular stretch of 36th street has a lot of intriguing-looking restaurants and bars that I have marked to return to and review, notably Frelard Tamales, for a pre-show nibble:https://match.indeed.com/invitations/feedback/thanks?tk=1iu9ren7gpgb5800&info=AAAAAUuIrPRgFQY60WG4GQV7hRZpL3oAWnpZeDUKaJCMdx_jTIMH0adGLzEMGbYhAp-TC7xwIETfMeARtiaADR0u6DgBhzB_pRYsa6qZAEpLjG81Se7XBnD-1AW77WVUSFDHB9qWjrJx6PpBgIlVHEXN1GWP1LAAXN-AJG7aSLCAV80E-GagJTkW_9lBrf5WlRqZqRlXwo4=&from=i2a-email-feedback
If Blue Hour does decide to produce, it will be a good evening out.
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