Ten Minute Play Festival

[sorenlundi]

I've already emailed some of you about this, but if you happen to be free this Sunday I'm doing a monologue in the Ten Minute Play Festival. It's actually a multimedia piece, and I've just come back from recording the vocal part (it's an internal monologue). It's based on my short story "The Other Magnus Lundquist

Comments

[sorenlundi]

Great! It would be nice to see you.

[simrob]

It was nice to meet you and your 10 minute play was fun and creepy-evocative-in-a-good-way! I hope this isn't an annoying question to ask, but it definitely made me think of Stieg Larsson - was that an intentional parallel?

[sorenlundi]

Thank you for coming and I'm glad you enjoyed it!

I wasn't thinking of Stieg Larsson (whom I haven't actually read) when I wrote it, though someone in my writer's circle asked the same question. The story was inspired by an off-hand comment in someone's blog that Hans Christian Andersen was much funnier in Danish; the idea of Hans Christian Andersen being funny at all kind of blew my mind. I didn't want the character to be Danish because I didn't want people to think he was Hans Christian Andersen, who is so interesting in his own right. I don't think Magnus's writing would be much like either of them, I envision his books as the sort of middling literary fiction in which nothing particularly exciting ever happens.