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#7- "Shapes" DUE Nov 8th at 8am
Okay let's get funky with
process
ooooh... yeah....
Take a piece of paper and
draw some shapes. Some conventional. Some "inspired".
NICE good work
DO NOT DRAW SQUIGGLY LINES
Okay, draw at least one
squiggly line.
Now draw some more shapes-
you'll want about 12.
CROSS OFF THE ONES YOU
DON'T LIKE.
Now...
Left to write and top to
bottom, look at the relationships and qualities of each shape.
Assign them names.
Put them in a time and
place that seems right.
Let them fall in love, or
fight, or whatever seems right.
Consider getting the
exiled shapes involved. Assign them super powers. Or don't. That's stupid.
DON'T DO THAT
Consider- Shapes with
pointy parts can puncture but they may regret it/wish that they were smooth and
round.... round parts can feel fat or static or not valued- as if their entire
function were to encircle something else and not to just exist on their own.
"Why doesn't anyone
love me?" said the square.
I do, said the amorphous
shape falling off the bottom of the page
"I
don't want your love" said the Square, losing all sympathy to the reader.
(A
friend of mine recently wrote such a funny, inventive play anthropomorphizing
shapes - a meeting between a circle who was a recovering drug addict who'd had
a square's baby out of wedlock, a triangle was their waitress - that I can't
seem to shake that out of my head. Not
wanting to copy her, I'm gonna crank out another bus play instead for today.)
BUS
PLAY #3
The bus on the ice.
ONE and TWO sit side
by side.
ONE
Where
are you headed?
TWO
I
have no idea.
ONE
Oh.
TWO
Where
are you headed?
ONE
Home.
TWO
Where's
home?
ONE
I'll
know when I get there.
TWO
So
you have options.
ONE
There's
always hope.
TWO
Hope
would be nice.
ONE
Well,
you're on a bus. You're headed
somewhere.
TWO
Yeah.
Somewhere.
ONE
Or
is it more that you're leaving somewhere?
TWO
We're
always leaving something behind.
ONE
But
are you generally OK with?
TWO
Generally.
ONE
Would
you rather not?
TWO
Would
I rather stay in one place, given the option?
ONE
Yeah.
TWO
Sure. But I'm not sure it's up to me.
ONE
So
you keep moving.
TWO
For
now.
ONE
I
have to admit, I'm kind of excited.
TWO
That's
a good thing to be.
I
tend not to be.
ONE
Think
it'll change?
TWO
Depends
on where we end up.
Hard
to know.
ONE
I
suppose so.
TWO
Don't
let me bring you down.
ONE
No.
TWO
It's
just the uncertainty.
ONE
At
least someone else is doing the driving.
TWO
Yeah. If it were up to me -
ONE
Might
not get going at all.
TWO
Exactly.
Hard
enough just convincing myself to get on the bus.
ONE
Forward
motion.
TWO
But
now I can stop thinking about it.
ONE
Just
let the bus take you.
TWO
Plus
I'm not alone.
ONE
Yeah...
TWO
Relax. I didn't mean you specifically.
ONE
Nothing
wrong with that.
TWO
If
I wanted to sit alone, I would.
ONE
If
you had the option.
TWO
There's
always an option.
ONE
Didn't
see the need to be antisocial.
TWO
If
you want solitude, you don't take the bus.
ONE
You're
never alone on a bus.
TWO
If
you are, you're either the driver, or you're not getting anywhere very soon.
Pause.
ONE
What
do you suppose is taking so long?
TWO
Well,
we're out on the middle of a frozen lake.
ONE
So
we might be a while.
TWO
Yes. Getting to a road would probably be helpful.
ONE
Cold.
TWO
Yes.
ONE
Pretty,
though.
TWO
Can
be.
ONE
Travel.
TWO
Yup.
ONE
Movement.
TWO
Forward.
ONE
Can't
go backward.
TWO
Not
without a more skilled driver, no.
ONE
That'd
be a way to get someplace, huh?
TWO
Backward?
ONE
Yeah.
TWO
Least
you wouldn't have to worry so much about where you were headed.
ONE
And
you'd never lose sight of where you came from.
TWO
Still,
you can't go backwards through life.
ONE
No.
TWO
Kinda
silly.
ONE
Yeah.
TWO
When
do you suppose we'll get there?
ONE
Hard
to say.
TWO
Oh
well. Nothing to be done.
ONE
We'll
see when we get there.
TWO
Yup.
They sit quietly.
Together.
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