How to tell a story

How to tell a story

Monday, January 4, 2016

How plays get born

In many ways, but seldom born of whole cloth like the recent 6 day wonder.

This idea with two energies: a title, The Dying Beatnik (a woman!); and a set, an image, which tells me it's a play: a split stage, one half Starbucks, the other a 1950s Beat coffee shop, which I may call Genesis Angels after Aram Saroyan's brilliant book of the era.

A plot line: a contemporary woman in her 20s tracks down her grandmother, a forgotten Beat poet.

Off and running, first phase research...