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Monologue exercise: Brandi Nikolas
It has to be Maggie’s idea, because it never changes from year to year, and nobody apparently has the guts to tell her how awful it looks. It’s like this: you get to work at call time, some night in mid-November, and it’s already dark out, of course, and you see the trees. God, the trees ( Read more... ) -
Character study: Lucy Rasmussen monologue
When I was a kid, Dad always took me along to the grocery store, and we always stopped at the candy machines on the way out. I would buy a fistful of Runts candy and eat them in ascending order of preference: I started with the unremarkable banana pieces, and then worked my way up through the cough-syrupy cherries and vague citrus fruits to ( Read more... ) -
Ought to mention
The play I'm writing has bought out this journal, pretty much ( Read more... ) -
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Character sketch exercise: Toby Carnahan
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Preparation always began with the spin of two dials: volume on the radio (tuned permanently to the country oldies station), and the oven temperature knob set to preheat 350. Today, the numbers climbed quickly, and the DJ seemed especially fixated on murder ballads. All that suited Toby just fine. ( Read more... ) -
Plays within the play
MOTHER’S HEROES. Closing show of season; regional debut of a locally-popular musical, chock full of child actors and their attendant narm. Press copy says: heartwarming; magical; uplifting. Di’s typo in the ticket system: “Mother’s Herpes.” (The P is right next to the O; Di is neurotic about sex ( Read more... ) -
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Happy anniversary, hiphorrific! -
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Back in SLC. -
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NEED:
airplane
wine
Atlantic Ocean
STAT.
Just have to hang on a little longer... -
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Dad played an acoustic set of Hendrix tunes by Frisky's grave just a little while ago ( Read more... ) -
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Nobody else die for a while, ok? Elsewise I will kick your ass. Seriously.