Category: my pieces
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31 Plays in 31 Days 2017, #31 – “True Gentleman”
I powered through and finished! EARLY too, the earliest I’ve ever finished the 31P31D challenge, but I had the time and I wanted to knock it out. This last one deals with an idea I’m surprised I’ve never noodled with before. One little character bit in the Hawking stories that I enjoy is the fact…
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31 Plays in 31 Days, #30 – “Alone”
Here I go again, banging out important, high-emotion moments from stories that I can’t fully picture in too short a period of time. That is a recipe for wasting them. But I just want to finish 31P31D 2016 at this point, and I’m so close, so I’m just going with any idea I think I…
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31 Plays in 31 Days, #29 – “After Two Years”
A brief moment from the seventh Mrs. Hawking story. It takes place two years after Mrs. Hawking and Mary have a fight that makes them go their separate ways. Here Mary returns to London on a case, and she runs into Mrs. Hawking totally by surprise when she’s working the same case. Their reunion is…
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31 Plays in 31 Days, #28 – “Loyal Servant of the Empire”
I hate how this turned out. It was written too fast and without the planning that it needs. It’s an important scene from Mrs. Hawking part four, but it messes all the important parts up. In the flashback to Mrs. Hawking’s youth in the Asian colonies, I want there to be some injustice happening there…
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31 Plays in 31 Days, #27 – “Grow Up”
Ugh. So here’s the problem with this scene. It’s another for the Fraiser spinoff pilot, but it uses an idea I’m not sure I want to include. I really want to have Freddy believe that David came to him in need, which create a sense of responsibility to his cousin that he latches onto for…
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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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“Have you thought beyond all this?”
Banged out a scene for possible use in one of the Adonis sequels. It’s very rough and not well phrased, but I just wrote it to explore an idea I may want to establish. This would serve as groundwork and foreshadowing. Bernie disagrees with me on this one, but I think I can bring him…
Phoebe Roberts 