Danger Close

It’s an expression that the US military use to describe when friendly troops are very close to an artillery target. But that’s how I feel about my current play.

I am now roughly 10 pages from completing it. So in 10 pages time, I can print it out and send it to my pre-readers. Once I have their opinions and make the revisions for the typographical errors, the script could well be published by the end of next week.

So what is the play? I believe that I have mentioned it before, but I’m that excited about this work that I’ll cover old ground:

The play is entitled ‘Error of Comedies: Occupations’. It is a collection of 10 short plays associated with people’s job, perceptions of certain occupations and attempts to move up the professional ladder. As you might have guessed with my style of writing, they are all comic plays and each has its own little twist.

It is also a very flexible play as you can use it in many forms dependant on the requirements of your group or theatre. If you are putting on a review, you could use on or two scenes as sketches. If you’re entering a one act festival, you could use 3 or 4 of them. If you want to present a full-length two-act play, you simply stage all 10.

If going for all 10, you’ll find that there is a subtle link between the individual scenes, which is explained in the authors note at the rear of the script.

I can’t wait to get down to some serious writing tonight.