Just found out that the director of the play and I have full creative control over the play adaptation. This means we can actually have a plot, some conflict, and a resolution.
We are going to meet up soon and to take the script apart line by line and build it back up.
This is going to be fun. And long. Though we don’t have much time to do it. We’re going to have to have it done within, I going to say, the next two weeks, tops, so that we can stay on schedule to have the play up in September.
Let the chaos unfold….
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Good news about the table reading; I didn’t get whacked. It looked like a bunch of good fellas when we were hanging outside of the office. With the loud voices and cursing, I swear I as in Little Italy in the 70s.
The reading itself, not so good. But at least we got an idea of what works and what doesn’t. A lot of the dialogue isn’t flowing. It seems to get jumbled in the mouths of the readers. And, as I’ve said many times, too many repetitions of lines and ideas.
Before the reading, the producer said to me that he finally read the ‘revised script’ and it needs work. I told him that I left the script as it was from the last time the writer sent it to me. He then told me that he is going to give the director and me more control over the story and script. This is what we’ve been waiting to hear since this little thing started. And he’s going to keep the writer out of it as much as possible. So the plan is for the director and me to go line by line, tearing the script down and building it back up. Hopefully, if we get it right, we’ll have a really good script to work from.
And we need a finalized version soon because the play is supposed to go up in three months. Otherwise, we can fuhgeddaboudit.
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Have to go to the table reading for the play tonight. Not really looking forward to it since I (and the director) don’t feel that the script is up to par. But maybe this way the writer will finally realize that he needs to stop changing all the elements that make the play work and let me and the director do our jobs.
Plus, at 3.15 this morning, the producer e-mailed me asking if I had any actors that could do the reading. Well, besides the obvious fact that I don’t own any actors, none that I do know would want to do this anyway. Plus, none are white with an Italian background. Which means that we are probably going to be short an actor or two tonight.
Wasn’t this the reason we had to reschedule this reading? Twice?
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Updated the 100 words with a story of an army of flowers titled, “an army of mum”. Not exactly what I had in mind, but I couldn’t not use the line, ‘Your flower children are in full attention’, from my previous writer’s piece, which was about hippies in the sixties.
Puns galore in the piece. Sorry.
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Just got the script I’ve been waiting for. Well, actually, I’ve had it for sometime now. Apparently, it was not only sent to an e-mail I rarely check, it went straight into the spam folder, which I check even less rarely.
My bad.
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I’m still waiting for the script from the writer. Since Wednesday of last. I don’t know what is going on here, maybe I got my dates mixed up? Maybe I’ve been given the heave-ho?
I mean, I haven’t even heard from the director…I was supposed to have sent the (almost) final version to him by the end of Friday for the table reading next Monday. I really am at a loss. My two options are, a: wait for him to send it to me on his own, and b: e-mail him asking where the hell it is.
Option a is looking like the winner right now because I’m really losing interest in this project because of the way I’ve been treated. If I was getting paid, I wouldn’t mind so much. But doing this for free, putting so much of my time into it, naw…I’m as good as done.
I’ll give him until Wednesday, then I’ll start asking questions.
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Nothing new is happening right now. I’m waiting to get the play back from the writer so that I can make any changes needed. Next week is the table reading. That is not going to be fun, especially since I am the one that has to ‘read the action’. Not looking forward to it at all. Not big on reading out loud. I tend to make mistakes.
Other than that, I got nothing….
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