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Back to Basics

October 22nd, 2010

At around two or three o’clock in the morning, at one of the quietest parts of the day (and hence some of my favorite time to write), I wrote about six lines…give or take a line or two… Those lines were in addition to a few I had earlier, which were so simple as to be a single syllable.

I thought I’d be writing a grand monologue… it’s what I had psyched myself up to do (so much so, I even wrote about it in yesterday’s post… and much of writing is exactly that, planning and psyching yourself up).

But when it came down to it, I took the opposite tack… Instead of going big, I went basic. More than anything, I just wanted to give the actress and character a chance to just be… be a mother, be a person, with real fears and real vulnerability.

I’m not sure how it will translate, if at all. I think it’s very much a moment I need to hear and see on its feet, but it definitely surprised me, and I think it will surprise audiences too.

–Sue

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