November 13, 2012
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Prepping American Triage
I’ll you’ll recall I have a reading of American Triage on November 27th (6:30 pm for those of you in NYC and who are interested) at Repertorio Español. It’s the final play to be presented in their 2012 Nuestras Voces National Playwriting Competition Reading Series.
Last night I was trying to get a staged-reading version of the play prepped to send along to my director. What’s a “staged-reading version” of a play? Well, essentially I’m highlighting the stage directions I think should be read aloud. The rest are still in the script to inform performance and direction. I tend to highlight stage directions that set location and begin the scene, important action that they will likely not block or mime. Though I do leave in some action that I figure they may be able to get across in their performances. And of course, it’s all up for discussion once my director sees what I’m sending him.
I was trying to just highlight the script, but realized about 2/3′s way in that I’ll need to do more than that. I’ll have to re-write/adjust some of the stage directions. Which aren’t edits I necessarily want to preserve in my final draft of the script, sooooooo hence having a staged-reading version of the play.
And my deadline is November 15th so I gotta finish this a.s.a.p.
-M
