Thinking back to the good ol’ days when seven world leaders seemed like plenty to kidnap If there’s something I’ve learned from The Fork’s two-decade journey from concept to stage, it’s that sometimes projects wait around for you to be ready. But sometimes they don’t. The trouble started with a movie trailer. Just a harmless,… Continue reading
The cast – an endearing bunch of adventurous souls – took to the material with gusto. There was laughter, a few raised eyebrows, and a surprising amount of passion in trying out accents. At one point, we all watched a brave actor tackle the vocal equivalent of a high-wire act: a French man pretending to be a New Yorker who happens to be a woman. Somewhere, Meryl Streep shuddered.
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I take a breath. I think about the absurdity of musicalizing a story that already feels like an operatic fever dream. Then I say, “Let’s give it a go.”
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I spent a couple of weeks attempting to outline the thing, but how does one outline mayhem? How does one carefully plan for chaos? Eventually, I gave up and returned to the method that had gotten us this far: just start writing and see what happens.
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It’s the 1980s. I’m combing through the course catalog (made of a thing called “paper”) looking for another writing course or two to fulfill my graduation requirements. There is one called something like Scriptwriting for Film and TV that caught my eye. My land-locked school wasn’t exactly famous for being a pipeline to Hollywood, but… Continue reading