Day 3 part 1
I’m struggling a bit this session because I’m writing dialog back and forth for my father and I, while he works on another section of the script. And after reading it over, I’m feeling that what I just wrote is too melodramatic in nature.
I am striving to create a piece of theater that is experimental and cutting edge, that delves deeply into the issues from our autobiographical story as well as excerpts from others experiences of growing up without a father. I want to completely stay away from melodrama and standard dialog. Writing this blog, of course makes me realize that I already know how to do that, speak in the languages I’m most comfortable with, poetry and movement, constantly taking Crossing away from straight theater.
Ahhhh, this is frustrating, because I know this in my essence, and yet I’m struggling to find the exact words to transform that dialog I just wrote into something more.
Maybe I should metaphorically stand on my head and look at the situation from another angle.
