Intermission
a creative coffee break from writing the play

Act 1 of the new play has been accomplished. During the intermission before Act 2 takes off, I’ve been meditating on my main character. Usually I create a box of some kind, that displays qualities about the character or meaningful aspects of the play. The new play concerns masks, so creating a kind of mask seemed the obvious, logical representation to create. I’ll sit this mask on my desk as I write Act 2.

The mask is not yet finished. Sometime during Act 2, I’ll take a break and finish it up. Or start a whole new one.

Working on these kinds of collages helps me to think about characters and the play, outside my mind, outside the computer, outside the paper, and the pen. If I could pull actors out of a drawer, I probably wouldn’t need to do this.

At the center of the play are two visual artists. Louisville is a great town to explore the visual arts. I’ve been spending a lot of time in person, at the library, at the museums getting to know something about these very different kind of artists from myself. I asked one artist what it was like living here. She talked about how supportive the environment was for artists; how affordable it was to live here.

Act 2 has already begun. Time to get back to writing it out.