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Slowly but surely

Posted by DCA Theater on December 17, 2008 in July-December 2008 Season, INCUBATOR Series: The Plagiarists

Slowly But Surely, A Pattern Emerges…

by Gregory Peters, Plagiarist, writer & project facilitator

Our theory turns out to work. By articulating what scenes, moments, outside elements, and information we want to see in the play, and then expanding on what those might look like, a shape for the play emerges. We discussed a number of styles, approaches, and works it might resemble, everything from Tectonic Theatre’s Laramie Project & Gross Indecency to The Wire to Sunday In The Park With George, but nothing seemed to fit all the elements we were looking to include. Finally we decided that our structure should follow ideas and characters rather than chronology and not hold to a single style of performance. Sort of collage meets Arabian Nights meets Charles Mee. Looking back now it seems inevitable – in fact we did discuss it briefly – but we needed to see how the demands of the story made it necessary. I am continually amazed at how this group comes to consensus with so little effort on the part of the facilitators. For today, everyone’s going to bring in an exploded scene. I can’t wait….

In the meantime, Gaper’s Block did a story on us, written by the amazing Laura Pearson. Check it out here.