Author: breakinglight11
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31 Plays in 31 Days, #26 – “A Small Thing”
A very rough, very unmoored scene coming from imagining for the Adonis sequels. I am very interested in exploring this idea that Pavilla, one of the villain characters, represents the damage caused by entitlement and dehumanizing other people, through giving her an obsession with Aidan. I’m trying to figure out how to create interaction between…
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31 Plays in 31 Days, #25 – “Wedding Toast”
This piece is a little monologue from a point that honestly probably would happen BETWEEN Hawking plays– part six and part seven, I think. It came from the idea that Nathaniel would be asked to give a toast at Mary’s wedding, which happens between those two installments. The idea here is that Mrs. Hawking and…
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31 Plays in 31 Days, #24 – “Grading Circle of Hell”
This scene piece for my Frasier spinoff pilot feels particularly not cohesive. It’s got lots of good ideas and the beginnings of funny jokes, but it doesn’t have the right rhythm or flow yet. It’s designed to set up Freddy a little as a snarky, lonely person who feels a bit trapped in his life,…
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31 Plays in 31 Days, #23 – “Hanging”
And the completion of the scene where David moves into Freddy’s apartment in my Frasier spinoff pilot! This is the last piece, after part one in Day #19 – Lucky Bear and yesterday’s part two, Day #22 – Men of the Ivies. The parts probably could probably be a little more unified, but I like…
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A Theory of Costume Design class
I was thinking this week how much I would enjoy teaching a class about how to design costumes. Not a building or construction sort of class, but one where the focus was on the theory of how to come up with costuming that supports the narrative of whatever medium it is part of. I would…
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Roberts’s theory of lit crit
In teaching literature classes, I can’t help but approach my lesson planning from my personal theory of how to analyze literature. I go by a few guiding principles, which I will try to articulate here: 1. Intent is not everything Generally, I believe in the theory of Death of the Author. This is the idea…
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Murder magnet
As a consumer and producer of adventure and mystery stories, there’s a certain trope that always gets on my nerves. When you’re doing case-based storytelling, when “working a case” provides the climactic structure, there needs to be some mechanism to bring the affair to the detective figure’s attention. There’s a certain way of handling that…
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What I wrote in 2016
I like to look at the pieces I completed over the course of the year and see what work I did. It seems I accomplished more than I realized, at least in the screenplay department. Hood is the only wholly original full-length piece of significance, but it was also important of me to get a…
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What I wrote in 2015
Well, this list ended up a hell of a lot shorter than last year or the year before. My gut reaction is to stress about that, but if I’m being more reasonable, I directed two plays (technically three!) this past year, which took up a lot of the time I would otherwise have devoted to…
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Captain America’s Winter Soldier hair
No, this isn’t me making good on my threat to rhapsodize over each of Chris Evans’s individual attractive features in turn. Okay, there’s a little of that in here, but I swear I have more of a point. This is about costume design. If you’re like me, and you are closely attuned to the tiniest…
Phoebe Roberts 