Vagina Dentata
Christopher Hayes came up to me and told me that he had the Eureka Theatre for four weeks in late June and early July, and asked if I'd like to do a show here. He was going to be renting it out to several different shows so that we could all share the rent on the (normally quite expensive) space.I hesitated only for a moment. I was still recovering from "Manumission" and was already planning on doing a show for the Fringe Festival in September. I hadn't heard yet if "Get it? Got it. Good!" had been accepted, though, and how often do you get a performance venue dropped in your lap?
I went home and looked through my address book and wrote down all the actors I knew that I wanted to work with that I hadn't done anything with in a while and who I wasn't planning on casting in the Fringe show. I couldn't help but notice that they were mostly women.
I decided to write a play with an all female cast, and plucked a few names out of my list and began to think of the characters I'd like to see them play. Most of these actors ended up being available and are playing the roles written for them.
I wrote the entire thing in three weeks. After a private reading and feedback from some trusted sources I rewrote one of the scenes and made some significant tweaks and excisions. It will be performed at the Eureka for three weeks, beginning at the end of June. If all goes remotely well, I'll re-mount it in 2007 someplace where I'm not sharing space/set/lighting with another show.
The play can be found here. As always, if you want to produce this script, please contact me first so we can work out the rights.
posted by Dan Wilson @ 4:38 PM
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