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Category Archives: Flights of fancy
After Leo
In the following scene, which was written last year for a graduate Playwriting class, the direction (BEAT) indicates a brief pause and (SR) means Stage Right. The assignment was to illustrate conflict in a closed environment with two characters. Technically … Continue reading
First Aid on a Winter Night
The following is a dialogue I submitted for my graduate Playwriting class. The script includes stage directions and instructions for the actors such as (BEAT) which means to take a brief pause between lines. As a note to anyone who … Continue reading
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Tagged dialogue, divorce, Parents Without Partners, playwriting
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Center Ground
The Woman found herself alone in her car, driving north, into the mountains. She had to get away. Away from her responsibilities, all begging attention. Away from the crushing burst of family deaths, all gone now. Just a couple of … Continue reading
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Tagged escape, had to get away, middle years, short story
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Existential Cowboys: A conversation between Sigmund Freud and Quentin Tarantino
The following discourse takes place in a late night Green Room. Present is auteur film director Quentin Tarantino, dressed casually in vintage jeans and a stonewashed cotton pullover. Dr. Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis, sits opposite him wearing a three-piece … Continue reading
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Tagged Inglorious Basterds, Nazis, psychoanalysis, Quentin Tarantino, Sigmund Freud, The Bear Jew, The Interpretation of Dreams
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