Not April Fools

[jeriendhal]

So I printed out a copy of "Unexpected Diversions" to give to my mom, along with Peta's illos, which she then handed over to a friend of her's who is a professional editor.

Apparently he liked it. (wOOt!)

He said the dialog was great. (w00t!)

He said I should consider adapting it as a play. (HUH?!)

I've e-mailed the guy to try and open and a dialog and find out WTF was he talking about. I mean, aside from the fact that play is pure fantasy, with an elf and a Beast-Kin, not the sort of dreadful Social Problems stuff or Andrew Lloyd Webber extravanganzas that appear on stage these days, it's got several scenes that are problematical at best. I mean in one Tez spends a great deal of time buck naked, and in the other he's being horsewhipped within an inch of his life. Can't see that happening on stage each night (twice with matinees)...

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[jvowles.livejournal.com]

It would work just fine in any college campus, or in NY, LA, Boston, San Fran, or Washington DC....

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to imagine it being put on stage at good old M/a/c/D/a/n/i/e/l WMC. Mr. Steve would have loved to do the costuming for Maria and Tez ("I'm not sure if your pants are tight enough, let me measure your inseam again." "No!"), and I suppose Ira might have lowered himself to direct it, since it deals superficially with womens issues.

Couldn't possibly be any worse than "Yerma" I suppose... :P

[kd5mdk.livejournal.com]

You know, the play I was at last night Love Off the Shelf had a guy walking around for a scene couple minutes with the seat of his pants bitten out by a tiger. That was considered perfectly ordinary. If you're willing to consider the play daring, I think it would be done in places. The whippings don't sound very extreme these days either. Then again, maybe the cast member would object...

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

You know, the play I was at last night Love Off the Shelf had a guy walking around for a scene couple minutes with the seat of his pants bitten out by a tiger.

Well yes, but I'll bet he was wearing a pair of polka-dotted undershorts underneath. The nude scene involves full "Oh, Calcutta", artist model nudity (though half the time he'd be facing away from the audience, and for most of the first half of the story he's running around with no shirt. Admittedly it has been on the stage before, but not for something that's basically fluffy fantasy.

The whipping scene OTOH probably could be simulated just through clever lighting and stage direction. Darken the lights and just have a lotta screaming...

[kd5mdk.livejournal.com]

No, he was most definately bare assed. The back of the shirt was ripped up too, but that's no matter. Now, frontal is another matter, but I'll bet if you wanted it to be a successful play, you could find a way to make the scene work in one direction or another.