Dear COMMUNITY,
God, am I tired (preface).
I have been interviewing and speaking with people and posting at Fornits and a member of TIMETOCLOSETHEDOORSATELAN for over a year and a half of my LIFE now. This was done to "learn" and it was not an easy process. I won't go through a "hazing" all over again so if that's going to happen, then I can do things outside of this community, as I have been.
I would rather not, but we all have to be near to the same page and of course I have listened, quoted, noted, called, to hell and back people. I have done "my part" of "learning." I wouldn't have written the script until I felt that I had done the time.
I have been through a "learning process" and as I asked people to kindly "write me" at my email and visit my blog to let me know if they have anything very important I don't know to tell me I think that I am sorry that you don't know a little more about me.
I don't think I look like a man?!
I'll take it that you meant that with the best of intentions though as I like North-hampton a lot. I stayed with my friend J.P. who was enrolled (a guy does it matter?) at Amherst I think-- at the time.
Lastly on the matter of scripts:
A script is a "blueprint" it is NOT a "novel" or anything like one. It is meant first and foremost for the Director, and those involved to "perform it."
I cannot release a script that is being "read" by various companies as that is not the way that playwrighting works. This is factual. I CAN promise that if/when it's published I will offer a free copy (god knows, this is gonna cost me, potentially) to those that have some proof they were in TC's are in theater and the arts, or education and press investigating, etc. That goes without saying AND when the production goes up (likely in more than one venue and possibly-- on more than one continent) at that time, the tickets will be "comped" (made available freely).
I will try to have someone (myself If I have to do it, hopefully I will not) document this on VIDEO and release videos to the community for duplication etc.
At this time, I am presenting a "process" which is "ongoing" and as more happens those that are interested, will perhaps become more so.
I am very amenable to "documenting" the "work" that goes on behind the scenes; and to documenting survivor stories with a "film/video" partner-- I would help script THAT as separate to my own endeavor; and a new endeavor to AMPLIFY the atmosphere for Before After Galileo (I am honest and a straight shooter, sorry if some don't understand my good intentions) but ALSO to begin a process towards CLOSING the Elan and other open communities via our larger communities.
It is not a "Short Fix" or a "Band-Aid" strategy or I'd be able to give you my current script (which, in theater is often workshopped, if you'd like I can link you to places in that area to understand the process...) and leave it at that.
Frankly MR. there are people that take strong pieces of work; water them down; go for the short run; sell them to Hollywood and while you are NOT a member of this cadre I have to be protective until I have the covetted writer's "performances" up...the show "going" (video time as with "Saving Grace" only I hope-- a little different...New York has it's benefits or I wouldn't live here as I am NOT native and it's freezing right now...15 degrees chilling my South Florida butt!) .....
If publication comes first; I will make "play editions" available in some way to members of the TC's but likely cannot make a site where the play will be available for free. I WILL dogear a whole BOX of copies at "that time." You'll be able to ask me for a copy then, along with others here. Okay?
You'll probably read about it in "the press" that is so often bashed...first.
I'm not here to be verbed..GM'd, shot down, VR'd etc. Been there, done that at TIMETOCLOSE long ago (flashback, really).
This was/is a labor of love. I have met MANY people and know them intimately who have taught me and told me A LOT about Elan in order to write this.
It's also "Fictionalized." I'd say, think of "Clockwork Orange" and mix. It's stylized, but it shows GMs, it shows abuses, it shows the presumed "relationship" (as I imagine it) between a man like Ricci and a man like Davidson and how that effects the people in the "program" and it has a strong cutting dialogue. It's experimental in certain ways but I hope and believe it's also "commercially viable" enough for any and all transitioning.
I am sorry if I jumped ahead of the gun. I thought there were more people that would be interested in process and I didn't count or think about people wanting the nitty gritty immediately.
If you feel nervous about Before After Galileo the project (which I have asked for help coalescing in the final countdown; to package for shows!!) or if it isn't moving "fast enough"-- write letters to theater companies changing their customs I am so sorry!
I am sorry simply speaking I will just post Blog links and those that want to see the glass half-filled will; and those that want to see it half-empty (if that is a choice) will.
I just wanted to give hope and make contact with "Saving Grace" because if we have "enough" work...then there can be a "festival" which has the benefits of "choice" and of "numbers" and I was hoping people would see the work I am doing and say hmmm...she seems serious and irreverent, maybe she does plan on following this up in some very artistic directions; such as making a site-specific (Parsonfeld would be good) "art conceptual piece" or "documentary piece" that would be packagable in video for POV (PBS), Bravo, and other stations that would like this...as a companion piece, codicil, and way to REALLY push Elan to it's limits frankly...you do not want THIS?
I was hoping others would join in trying to research Maine's "historic building" codes (not my forte but I put on the hat of the moment) for the possibility of providing closure in a final "musuem environment."
I am writing OTHER pieces. They are also "not available" for reading until they have reached a) performance b) publication. Think of salmon travelling upstream; but also understand I have faith that I've already ridden the rapids and most of the way there or I'd not start a blog which is going to be used as a touchstone and a place from which to run my pre-publicity. Ignore this if it doesn't have relevance in this form. I said the other day I'd make a notice later when this has an "opening night."
Anyone else interested in the rigamarole of the theater contact me!
PS: I have sent my work to London where I grew up as it is more "amenable" to theatrical work and less "capital oriented." I saw some of the best work of my life; and the MOST challenging productions there and they have government funding to help a play through.
I am in NYC. I am shopping here for a company. If I elect, I can "self-produce" or find "sponsorship" to get "funding" to "co-produce" at any number of Fringe Festivals you can link to at my Blog.
I am also going to post links to relevant pages in the British Theater and the Public Theater in NYC at the Blog.
http://home.earthlink.net/~before_after_galileo/Fringe is a place where people are "pitching" their work to EVERYONE and if I decide to go there (I have until February 14 to decide on Valentine's Day if I want to take on such a task-- if it's worth it, while I have the play being looked at or "waiting for this...") then it means things, it means I give 2 percent of "sold tickets" (up to 25,000 which MOST productions do not ever earn) to NYC forever after; that's without agent fees.
Screenwriting is a whole different matter. Yes, this is transferrable to the screen, undoubtably. There's a film coming out in Spring Syn so you can see that in the next few months; hopefully I may have a first set of dates by then. Sorry if my announcement was premature. I don't think so; I am sure there are theater lovers and those that might like to act onstage; those that MIGHT have talents to offer and being Elan who I would of course consider-- and talk through the walk (of the 8 by 10 glossy etc. ad infinitum).
Let me end with this. Syn, would you drink a wine that required ageing to reach it's nadir before it was vintage? This is really analgous. It's not yet time to "read" this stuff as that isn't professionally acceptable. We all have our jobs in the end.
I respect yours, and am sorry I am at a really "sensitive" and "raw" emotional place after writing down ...in detail, which for me is "living through" what happened to others. In fact, I became so scared of some of my own dialogue I couldn't write without a friend in the room during one scene I will take out if it's simply too hard on others as well (I don't know, I am fried, really, and am seeing double now, so I just don't know...sorry...many appy-polly-loggies (Clockwork Orange)).
Anything adversarial is simply "unacceptable" at this time, for my own emotional stability and Art...and artist is someone that takes those feelings we'd rather not "own" and "owns them" for the purpose of "transformation" (I think) which is not an easy road with this "show."
Syn, I am sorry I keep hearing you wrong (I think?) so I changed and apologized for my own "emotional" post and won't be making any. That was during "discovery" (as they say in court-rooms).
I am as frustrated at the "solitude" imposed by not being able to show my play in many ways, as you are not to be able to see it yet. This is our society and it's the way the "drama game" is necessarily played. But, I realized, we are likely all frustrated by all the delays, the things going on in other places, etc. I hope to pull it all together, and honestly, cannot do that alone. I may find someone to help me if not a director (which I'd like) a "co-director" while shopping this for the time being. Whew. It would be a relief. Did I tell you I met Keanu Reeves the other day while discussing my script? No lie, on the damn subway. Instead of pitching him, I literally shut up and smiled and said hello....I was so tired my mind blanked. He was very open and I am angry with me. That can happen. Pain is a human commonality and so are exhaustion, frustration at waiting and all the rest of that parade.
I may have to stop posting to get back to the rounds here and to calm myself down. As an actress and a writer, I write for my "performers" so they don't have "stupid lines" I would not want to recite myself...I think it's helpful, but I won't ever write another play "like" this one which is a compliment; and a sad testimony to the human's capacity to "absorb" one anothers' pain.
I can tell you there is one scene with a character called "Our Lady of Perpetual Suffering" based on one of the people I spoke to that post here. :silly:
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
-- George Carlin
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[ This Message was edited by: Gal-Ileo on 2004-01-09 14:16 ]