Top Secret?
What are those crazies at New World Doing? They post rambling blogs that don't really make sense. We can only trust that they're not sitting around, slinging insults at each other, playing with scissors, and eating sunflower seeds.
Rest assured. The script is being worked on. Eric has been writing madly--pulling ideas from the Co/Lab as well as the nether regions of his brain. Right now, the script isn't available for public viewing, but I'm prepared to give you all a look into the current process.
Last week, Michelle, Eric, and I (Emily is still stationed in Minnesota and Adria couldn't make the meeting) assembled at the New World space to come up with an outline for the show. Eric had made a list of crucial events (things like "violence and fighting", "!!daisy escapes!!", "a car crash", etc.). We gave ourselves five minutes to tape all of the events onto the wall. After some frenzied taping and near-collisions, we stood back to admire our work. We talked through the plot that we saw developing on the wall, discovering how the story was moving along the way. No one person knew everythign that was going to happen, but everyone could explain some details (like how your relate "a non-violent victory" to the "buckets of blood" card, and how that fit into the larger plot). This sounds crazy, I know, but it was surprisingly easy to find a defined and interesting plot amid the confusion. After looking at the mess, Michelle wrote a series of rules for Eric and sent him to draft the first section of the script.
Today, Eric, Michelle, and I met again to look over what Eric had written and search through the scripts we received for the Co/Lab and cut out pieces--literally, we attacked them with scissors--of the scripts that we wanted to include in our final show. We then pasted some of the bits we liked into different parts of the rough outline we'd created on the wall last week. The outline grew clearer (or more obnoxiously complicated, if you ask Eric--the one who has to piece it all together). Michelle and I wrote another assignment for Eric and sent him to write the next section of the play by Thursday, when we'll repeat today's process and move along.
This all sounds crazy. It is. And I think it might work (boy, isn't that becoming a mantra in at NWA?).