Well, THAT is a good question! Thank you for asking…
I am in rewrites these days, attempting to cut down the script to possibly live without an intermission. Which means it needs to be an hour and a half (an hour and forty at the tops!). It’s a task, since at the last reading I think it clocked in around 2 hours and 5 minutes or so. But the work we did in the last two readings has made certain cuts very obvious to me.
And the biggest changes have come in re-imagining the multi-media aspects of the play (letting them really represent the progression and development of Minnie as an artist). The drawings, film and photographs represent her internal artist’s story, and the story live on stage is her personal teenage self story. Sometimes those two aspects progress together, and sometimes they are in direct contrast.
The good news is every time I take a week long break from the script, I get back to it and see some new or changed parts of the script that I had forgotten about. And every time I’m thrilled. The script keeps getting better and funnier and more poignant. And that feels great. Sometimes I think I could live and evolve with this script forever. But, I want it to be in production too badly to let that happen.
Well, that’s the news from my brain.
M