Another day spent writing, and after a few interruptions I was able to get to roughly half way through the script. I am finding the process rather interesting. In essence, the plot is already written, so my process is teaching me more about the rewriting process. Were I writing a play from scratch, I would not necessarily have the plot outlined to the same degree of detail, so this would mean that I would be concentrating more on that than the dialogue for example. Writing this feels like I am a passenger rather than a driver. The driver might be aware of the beautiful scenery as he hurtles along the road, but his major focus is the road. As a passenger on this, I am able to spend more time with the characters, and enjoy the view. My major concern so far is that I may have been a little too gimmicky with some of the techniques I have employed. I have stolen one idea from a play we saw a while back called "In the Red and Brown Water" by Tarell Alvin McCraney. The production took place in a large "Water Tank" in the Young Vic. The actors spent the whole production ankle deep in water to varying degrees of success I will admit. However, one of the techniques that was used, was the main characters reading out their stage directions, which I found to be really entertaining. So I have borrowed this idea (Mainly as I feel the water tank idea might be beyond my budget). I just hope that it does not dominate the play too much, so I am not sure if I will stick to it all the way through. If I do, I will then also have the decision about whether to include that as a specific instruction within the script. It is certainly the best thing I have written so far, and as a result, i think my publisher will want to pick it up, but I will be interested to see their thoughts on this. I suspect that the decision to do this in he production we saw was made by the director rather than the playwright's instruction.
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