compendium of mini-works
Last year I had a one minute play performed in a festival in Noo Yawk, so here's a (borrowed) idea: a writers' self-indulgence, sorry - festival, of very short works where the only thing in common from one piece to the next is a limited number of key stroke characters [stage directions and musical annotations included]. The compendium of works would be an extraordinary clash of ideas... A play with 200 characters, anybody?
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Permalink Reply by Peter Cox MBE on
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And another one into the mix...
AESCHYLUS LIVES
2 Generals & a Politician play cards
Enter a Messenger
M Peace is offered
G1 Fold?
P Stick
M White flags fly
G 2 Twist?
M The war is over
P Detain him
Act 2
The Messenger is executed
P War's a Banker. Flesh his gold.
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Permalink Reply by Terry Victor on
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Aeschylus lives @ PKR.com. You, sir, are on a roll. Keep 'em coming.
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Peter
Is this PC gone mad? I am both honoured and flattened.
You should know that the image of me that seems to have kicked off your latest fabulous excursion is but a fraud. Yes, it’s a costume; yet behind the goatee is a goatee (honest!) and, although there does exist a lost portrait of me dressed in a not dissimilar fashion, this art is a digital contrivance.
Take the literal image away from your text and what is left becomes a discussion of truth. Clever stuff.
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This one is serious...
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ZARGANA.doc, 29 KB
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We've been talking about staging some of these short pieces, so last night four of us members of the NTW community came out to play. With a bit of luck the very rough and ready, very very short film we made will upload. It's a ll a bit of an experiment. TVx
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ZARGANAR.mpg, 15.3 MB
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Permalink Reply by Othniel Smith on
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Tidy!
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Permalink Reply by Joe on
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Never written a play before. I am prone to sentimentality and the glib.
Bench. Woman with life in two bags dreams.
Man passes. Smiles.
Week later. She’s hollow. Man passes, concerned.
Week later. She’s broken.
Man: Can I help?
She flees.
Week later. Man and friend.
Man: Gone. Idiot.
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Maybe never before but you should definitely do more. This play, which for reasons of convenience I shall archive as BENCH, has the inevitable logic of a cartoon strip (& I mean that in a good way).It is neither sentimental nor glib.
It is good.
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Permalink Reply by Alexander Vlahos on
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How have I missed out on this superb thing?!
Here's my stab at it:
BANANA
Go on.
I can't. Allergic to latex. Can't even eat banana's.
Really?
At school, sex ed lessons. They used to put the condom on the banana...
That must have been awful, two things you couldn't have!
I know. Slipped on top of eachother.
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This is great!
Here is another:
CHAIR
How does that make you feel?
How does asking me,'how does that make you feel', make you feel?
Are you worried what I'm writing down on this notepad?
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Two fine contributions, Alexander. Don't stint yourself. Bathe in the pleasures of our addiction and write more. TVx
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