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Evolution

Posted by DCA Theater on August 13, 2010 in July-December 2010 Season, INCUBATOR Series: Thirteen Pocket

by Jeff Phillips, playwright for Bosto script as part of XIII Pocket Incubator

Stephen’s piece has continued to flesh out over the course of this week.  And it’s exciting to see that layered atop a work in progress dating back to 2003.  On of the night’s he had noticed, tucked away inside the sleeve of a tattered paperback novel he had picked up to read on the way in, a faded flyer promoting one of the very first read through’s of Cash back at Roosevelt University.  The common thread and overall picture has been the major focus of the week thus far.  New concepts of how the music plays within the space have emerged, as well as exploring the music’s relationship with time.  Being of vignette nature, there are a handful of characters that could be linked, perhaps not in a concrete fashion, but in fine subtlety.  Grush-town we all joked when it was alluded that the world of these characters could all perhaps exist in one small town, like a darkened Johnny Cash infused homage to an Our Town.  Perhaps several new scenes may emerge in the world of Cash over the course of the workshop.  Began several years in reaction to Johnny Cash’s death, the original draft banged out in a short amount of time, as Heath Cordts pointed out “like a eulogy.”  Naturally, like any reflection on a person’s life and work, Cash continues to evolve and take on new layers.

I am unable to attend the workshop tonight as once a month I co-host a reading series at Matilda Baby-Atlas, centering on the theme of dystopia and apocalypse. For this month, since my mind is personal wrapped up in Bosto and I have no new shorter works ready, I will be reading a section of Bosto to continue to explore some of it’s dystopian themes.