Theater news!

Well, and it seems Your Humble Blogger has written a play.

It’s about Abraham and Isaac, which will surprise Gentle Readers not at all, I imagine. It’s called Bound, and it’s going to have a public reading on the first of February.

I’m extremely excited about this. I wrote it last year (some of you may remember my plea for assistance at the time), and having written it, came very quickly to the point where I could not improve it without hearing it. Well, that’s not strictly speaking true. I have had a handful of readers make a handful of suggestions, including one last week, that have resulted in small improvements, but I really need to hear the thing in voices that are not mine, interpreted by other people who are good at that sort of thing, to find out what the thing will sound like.

And it is finally going to happen. My Dear Director has agreed to direct the thing and recruit the necessary actors. Two of the actors have already signed on, and the rest will be approached this weekend. Copies of the script have been made and dispatched, the rehearsals are scheduled (more or less), and I am working on a poster (good Lord!). And any of y’all that will (for some inexplicable reason) be in Western Connecticut on the first day of February should come and listen.

This note is just an announcement, because I am giddy and pleased and want to tell people. I haven’t figured out how to blog this thing, as it happens. I suppose I’ll post a sort of synopsis of the play, and then I’ll describe the actors as we get them settled. I’ll be meeting with my Dear Director at the end of this month, and I’ll presumably have something to say about that. Once they rehearse, and I can listen to them, I’ll note differences between my idea of the characters and their ideas, as they read the thing. And I’ll let y’all know how it goes, in the event.

Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,
-Vardibidian.