Open Wardrobes

Thanks in large part to the long MLK weekend I was able to finish up draft 2 of Schrödinger's Cat Must Die! last week. I can tell the script is still going to need a couple more drafts, but I feel that I made good progress in the right direction. I did a lot of restructuring of the physics bits with the Professor, rearranging things to put them in a more logical order and clarifying the science to help make it as straightforward as possible. I also started adding in some more character elements to the Professor, although I don't feel that I've gotten enough depth there yet. But sometimes the best thing to do is just play around with ideas, take a step back, and see what works and what doesn't. For some plays the structure and characterizations come out right away and the rewrite process is mostly trimming and polishing, but for other plays (like this one) it's a slow process of chipping away and improving things little by little, draft by draft. Writing Illinois Jane 2 was like that, and it took 6 months of pounding on it to finally hit that breakthrough moment when I figured out how the story needed to work. I'm definitely hoping for that kind of "Aha!" moment here as well! So, for the moment I'm taking a step back, trying to get a few new people to take a look at the script and offer feedback, and I'll go from there. I'm ahead of my goal of finishing draft 2 by the end of January, so a third draft by the end of February may be a realistic goal. I've also started the process of figuring out set and costume pieces, as some may be a little tricky. I've found a hat for one character and over the weekend I transformed my basement into a mini-scene workshop and started building one of the set pieces.


184 days until Fringe.