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Here's the idea. I'm very interested in tempestuous marriages that inevitably fall apart (call it my distrust of the institution). There are two characters: John and Jane (or whatever. I'll change them). There are quite a few off-stage characters.
There's three acts, two scenes each.
First act's setting: small cramped bedroom in apartment
Second: large bedroom in a house
Third: smallish bedroom in a diff't apartment.
Each act is meant to reflect the couple's economic status.
Every act also has a very specific structure. First scene is before the event and the second scene is after the event:
First act: house party (to reflect their youth).
Second: dinner party (to reflect their "maturity" and "adultness")
Third act: [not quite sure. You'll understand the context in a second]
So essentially the narrative of the play is that they sort of fight in the first scene, then in the second scene have a row. Each act has different things they fight about. The first act they fight about school, jobs, money. The second act they fight about boredom, infidelity, children.
In the third act, they have already divorced (or separated). And the female is staying over at the male's smallish apartment in order to figure out their marriage and try to work through it. Then they do something (not sure what) and in the second scene have a row that encapsulates the entire play. I guess my biggest influence on this play would be Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
So the question to you fine 'lithers, is "Is this idea any good?" and "What can I do to the idea to improve it?" and "What am I going to do about the third act?"
If anybody has read my previous topic in Creation, they know that I have a fondness for dialogue. In fact, that prior story received a comment that it felt like a screenplay. I've written screenplays before, but never a stage play. So here we go. |
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(have acted before, got some decent compliments from actorly people) ) and staging it myself. Any advice on how to accomplish that?