#28playslater

#28PlaysLater was a Herculian Effort, but mega proud with what I made this time. 28 brand new spanking plays - and I've ranked them all from best to worst. Have a gander!

So another year done, and another 28 new plays typed up. It was a tough one this year, but a necessary challenge and a bit of escapism. With what’s going on outside, I think we all needed some sort of distraction from it all, whether it be a new job, a challenge, or even a new hobby – something to distract, something to keep us going. So February’s challenge is done – a blast from the past, and…

‘โอกาส (Chance)’ – Challenge 3.28

That’s it. I’m done. It’s over. That is 28 brand new spanking plays and technically play foundations all made. It doesn’t feel good yet, I can’t relax yet. There’s a few pieces which I rushed or didn’t finish. This being one of them. Whilst writing ‘โอกาส (Chance)’ (โอกาส  is pronounced as Xokās̄ – or ooh-kaa.) I realised this was slowly becoming a full length play. I had created a main…

‘Elephant In The Room’ – Challenge 3.27

So, for our penultimate brief we had to make a Side B to one of our plays. I chose ‘The Plain’ that has 4 characters, and wanted to make the most of all the actors. So I slapped them into a dinner party and voila! Not much more to say to be honest. Both pieces have legs. Bit more development and I’d have two solid one Act plays to put on for an hour somewhere! And in rep! Voila: 27. Elephant In…

‘Bojo and The Magic Money Seed’ – Challenge 3.26

This is not my best work, and I’m not James Graham, so I haven’t got the characters down to a ‘T’. But, I’ve staged a farce in Westminister, there’s a Magic Money Tree Seed which has been found, in a briefcase, and the Tories and Labour members fight over possession. With a lot more work this is one of those stupid pieces you could see at Edinburgh, but in the meantime, it’s 3 roughly made scenes…

‘Unsaid’ – Challenge 3.23

Artaud. Theatre of Cruelty. I remember doing this back in High School. We got all our classmates and the teachers sat around in a circle (facing outwards) with blind folds on. Whilst we walked in between them with some teenage angst mental monologues. Whilst chucking objects at them and dripping water on them. Actually I remember we positioned someone under the leaky ceiling, they said how…

‘Cocking It Up’ – Challenge 3.22

Well, my pieces are getting shorter. I’m getting sleepier. I’m getting tireder. But we’re on the last week. So it’s the final stretch. Today was a very lovely, simple piece, and I had fun creating a comedy version of it. I’m sure there were many options to go down. But I went for something a little different. The brief was about A pointing a gun at B. And they have to get their way out of…

‘Marooned.’ – Challenge 3.21

Here we are, the final weekend of the challenge and the final challenging challenge (potentially, I wait with baited breath). This one has been about Gender Neutrality, creating neutral characters, neutral stories or exploring any of the themes around it. For this challenge, I’ve not really been writing my characters with genders, most of the time. So to be honest, this one felt like a…