help!
This is a public cry...I need to think up a plot for my one act play by next week.
I have three choices I want to do and I need your help, oh awesome readers of my blog!
okay number 1:
four characters sit around in the Reagan Cafe on the 5th year after september 11th. The main character, Miss America...is trying to explain how it wasn't Osama that did it, but the United States used it to replenish the economy (though that doesn't seem the case now, it's a play) and I would fill it with good time political liberal bullshit...I already started to write it actually. It's pretty good.
Here's a sample:
Narrator: We got drunk that night, the fifth anniversary of September 11th. We weren’t celebrating anything, if anything the bar we were at was celebrating something, with balloons and streamers and some patriotic beer. Everyone was there, well everyone we knew and they were all drinking this dyed beer, sort of like the Irish green beer for St. Patrick’s day. The cocktail napkins had little 11’s on them in the shape of the twin towers. I hadn’t forgotten what the twin towers were or what they looked like, if anything they were more prevalent than ever. It seems that every bar, restaurant, pet shop, deli…everyone had a small framed portrait of the two beautiful twins behind the counter. It reminded me a little of the portraits of Mao around China, a large dictating picture with massive appeal that made you want to weep or fight against something. But there we were…in the Reagan CafĂ©, around a small high table…with a celebration we were confused about.
Choice 2: I call it "A Second Chance"...a woman is still in love with the man she dated a long time ago but all her friends think he's a total asshole. Her job is the make everyone see that she's right by realizing her faults as a person. In the end, I think she's right all along because he's an ass, but I just want people to see that what you say about one person may not be what you want other people to think about them. Yeah, it sounds like a romantic comedy, but it could have some good "Full House" moments, complete with sappy music.
Choice 3: I battle Annie Viller. Emily Sauter, the playwright...goes head to head with her alter ego in an attempt to regain her life from her inner reality. Characters would include: Annie, Annie's newest thing sexy Colonel Haven Havermeyer of the Irishian (don't ask) forces until excommunicated from his troops by the queen. I don't know who would back me up, maybe Johnny Garrison (yeah like he would back me up that fool, I don't want him in my play), Annie does have a lot of dirt on me. The play would be able not being able to kill something that is so apart of you even though technically, Annie isn't real.
So there we are, three play choices that I am considering. Please help me...I have a monologue due in a week.
Thank you,
Emily
Wednesday, February 05, 2003
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