Everything started last year, when I had a big project in my
hands. The project was called ILS – I love you… Seriously.
It was an event about love life where some of the YPG member
had to perform a play. So far, so good… I love to watch performances, just like
I love watching movies, but this time I was not only to watch it but also direct
the play. I was supposed to get the script, choose the actors and train them to
perform on the day… to hundreds of youths. Cutting a long story short, the
performance and the whole event was a total success. I was so proud of all the
actors and I was thrilled to have discovered a talent I didn’t know I had.
But the event was so good, that this year my husband decided
that we needed a second one, like a continuation to the first play. When he
told me we would have ‘I Love You Seriously 2’ I jumped with joy and at the
opportunity to direct yet another play. The problem was, this time we didn’t
have a script… meaning we didn’t have a story. We didn’t have a part 2, which
meant someone would have to write it, but the question was, who?
That was when I was informed that the writer would be… me!
At the same time there was another event we were preparing
for, our yearly Godllywood Pledge Night, where we would also have a drama
performance by the YPG. Again, there was no script, no story and again I was
informed that I’d have to write that one too.
Needless to say that I got a little desperate (well, a lot
desperate), since all I have written in my whole life were essays in school and
messages here on my blog. And if you like to read you know that a story has to
have lots of different things, like the characters, their personality; it has
to make sense, it has to have the funny parts, the serious parts and ultimately
it has to tell a message. Now, that’s all well and good when you have the pages
of a whole book to do that, but when you have to create that to be performed in
15 minutes, it’s a whole other story.
Now you can understand when I say that my first reaction was
to think: ‘Me? But I can’t!’
So apart from everything else that was happening in my
life back in March, I had to write two stories, completely different from each
other, hold auditions, choose the actors, rehearse, train them and have
everything ready for the day of the performance. One was to be in June and the
other In July.
I got two YPG/Godllywood members to help me write the two scripts.
That was when I showed you this picture:
Here we were writing a play called ‘Somewhere in Time’, best
known among the actors as SIT.
And what were just ideas and words on a paper, became this:
It was one of the best experiences in my life. It was hard,
right from the beginning, but it was also fun and very, very rewarding at the
end.
To be continued tomorrow…
I remember when you mentioned about writing the ILS2 script... During our first meetings we had a general idea but no ending and then no beginning lol at first it seemed as if we were going nowhere, but everything began to come together; the story, the characters, the message, the songs— who could be who (that was fun)! It was a wonderful and a great opportunity to see it all come together since the beginning.
ReplyDeleteI have to admit I might have said the same thing "Who? Me?? But I can’t…" when I found out I'd be playing Makeda rsrsrs... I'm nothing like the character and it was definitely a challenge for me. A real challenge indeed!