Pride.In.A.Play

This was possibly one of the most fun, hectic theatre things I have ever done.

If not, then it’s up there.

Not So Nice! Theatre decided to put on a scratch night. They gathered prompts at the local Pride festival and put them together. A group of us playwrights each got some and had to put the random prompts together into a cohesive play about ten minutes long.

In under a week.

Then the actors and directors got the pages, and they had less than a week to work on them and gather any props or costumes together for the performance, which happened yesterday.

The whole thing was a whirlwind of less than two weeks, and the results were AWESOME.

My favourites were written by other people, but I’m still proud of what I wrote.

I had the prompts of two characters - a pansexual mushroom obsessed with cheese and a preacher from the American South. I also had to include a lipstick. It all was to take place in an abandoned swimming pool with the overarching theme of queer joy.

It was insane.

It was wild.

It was so much fun.

It’s amazing how liberating the prompts were.

Because if things went horribly wrong, I could just blame them.

So I could write what I wanted to explore, any weird and random thoughts that popped into my head.

Liberating.

It’s been ages since I allowed myself such freedom and fun in a piece I wrote.

I’m already looking forward to the next event in October.