Hello Tim! (Still unable to call you Yam because the name reminds me of purple yams, which I like for dessert.)
Congratulations on completing a brillant and insightful play! TheatreWorks wll certainly give it a staged reading, but if they won't give it a full production and if you have theatre friends in San Francisco, New York, or Melbourne, I urge you to test the waters in those places. Travel by air--and all kinds of human movement involving bureaucracy, for that matter--has become a worldwide nightmare. Your play pushes it over the edge and converts it to a devastating night terror.
I agree that the play takes on different dimensions depending on whether the AIRLINE REP is a man or a woman. The REP, to me anyway, is best played by a man in order to function as a counterfoil to JONES, who is a man. Having said that, the entire play is a director's delight: it can be played by clowns in costume, it can be played by marionettes, and the set could be anything from nothing to black-and-white to a high-tech affair.
Consider "I'm coming home soon" instead of "I'm coming home now" as the penultimate line of the play. It is more intriguing and suggests further unpredictability.
Do a final clean-up before submitting your play to TheatreWorks. Trim it as best you can. Like Nanda's and Danial's plays, your play is LONG, and the sad reality about theatre in the 21st century is that audiences (and producers) are less and less willing to sit through protracted productions. Indeed, gone are the days of the hao-kah, which played from sunset through sunrise.
Congratulations on completing a brillant and insightful play! TheatreWorks wll certainly give it a staged reading, but if they won't give it a full production and if you have theatre friends in San Francisco, New York, or Melbourne, I urge you to test the waters in those places. Travel by air--and all kinds of human movement involving bureaucracy, for that matter--has become a worldwide nightmare. Your play pushes it over the edge and converts it to a devastating night terror.
I agree that the play takes on different dimensions depending on whether the AIRLINE REP is a man or a woman. The REP, to me anyway, is best played by a man in order to function as a counterfoil to JONES, who is a man. Having said that, the entire play is a director's delight: it can be played by clowns in costume, it can be played by marionettes, and the set could be anything from nothing to black-and-white to a high-tech affair.
Consider "I'm coming home soon" instead of "I'm coming home now" as the penultimate line of the play. It is more intriguing and suggests further unpredictability.
Do a final clean-up before submitting your play to TheatreWorks. Trim it as best you can. Like Nanda's and Danial's plays, your play is LONG, and the sad reality about theatre in the 21st century is that audiences (and producers) are less and less willing to sit through protracted productions. Indeed, gone are the days of the hao-kah, which played from sunset through sunrise.
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