Stage Play

 So, back in August of 2023 my mom and I were making our second trip to New York. We go there from time-to-time to see Broadway shows, see the touristy sites and eat some good food.

I would say the main attraction that brought us back so soon after our initial trip (in March 2023) was a horror play called The Grey House by Levi Holloway.

However, the play closed before we got there.

I guess attendance wasn't great.

Which really brought me down, as it was playing at an old gothic-looking theater is literally across the street (about 40 steps) from the hotel where we usually stay (The Millennium).

I bring this up because I am currently reading this play (the next best thing before someone decided to revive it... hopefully in St. Louis or Chicago) and just remembered that Final Draft (the software I use to write screenplays) allows writers to use templates for all kinds of other writing (teleplays, stage plays, etc.).

I am thinking I need to expand my repertoire into stage play writing.

Now I just need an idea.

On the one hand, I want to do a David Kemp stage play.

A simply comedy/drama.

A bit of transgressive (realistic) escapism that only a Kemp story can provide.

Another part of me wants to write a horror stage play.

In fact, I'm heavily leaning in that direction.

Well, I am going to rack my brain.

I'm sure an idea will descend upon me... probably while I'm at the gym.

We shall see.

It's just exciting to be exploring a new genre of writing.

A week or so ago I was watching the special features on the 4K steelbook of The Dark Crystal (a Jim Henson movie that traumatized me as a kid). In it, someone (I think it might have been Henson's daughter, Lisa) said that once Jim Henson had mastered one type of puppetry, that he was anxious to move on to master something else... something that challenged him.

That was inspiring.

And as Jim Henson is one of my many role models (and certainly one of my foundational role models, having been raised a PBS kid), I feel like I need to take a page from his approach to creativity and the workmanship it entails.

So here I go...