The Royal If
If I could do anything, it’d probably be one of these things.
Projects Vague
Movie with chairs as characters, in a proscenium view.
Movie with chairs as characters, from their point-of-view.
Play that’s all fight choreography.
Devise a play about lighting instruments.
Write or devise a play with missing scenes, like METROPOLIS.
Commentary / footnote play
Aphorism play (yes, again)
Something with still photography happening live - video ops, except camera, taking pictures and having those pictures appear onstage
Vintage technology
Chorus jam / dance party
One Song, One Hundred Dancers
Live music videos
Podcast / radio drama
Jukebox musical (with a real jukebox)
Projects Particular
AL-MA’ARRI PLAY
ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
AUDEN BALLAD PROJECT
BEOWULF (so long in the making – this is going to be like that Don Quixote movie…)
CAKE’S FASHION NUGGET: THE THARP/TAYMOR RIP-OFF DANCE MUSICAL
CURRENT by Aaron Henne
THE COUNTRY WIFE
THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE
EYE MOUTH GRAFFITI BODYSHOP by Ron Allen (in NOTE’s season, but I’m not going to get to work on it)
FLATLAND (and adapt)
GILGAMESH (Dan and Cindy kind of have a jump on this one)
HAMLET
L’ILLUSION COMIQUE
THE INVESTIGATION
LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (And Jean-Marie Apostolides’ production of this was so amazing - I just love the play so much I’d be ready to go on that journey again…)
THE MISANTHROPE (re-translate)
THE MIKADO
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
OEDIPUS (choral) (All the Greeks, but this one first…I can’t do another Agammemnon for 5 years at least…)
PASSOVER PROJECT
THE PHILANDERER
PIRATES OF PENZANCE
THE REAL THING (for old times’ sake – Eliz, Fran, Gary)
THE SEAGULL (Am I finally growing up into Chekhov?)
TOP GIRLS
WEST SIDE STORY
Things that don’t have a project yet but do have a title:
The Persons (from my mistiping of “The Persians”)
All The World To Nothing
Notes On A Sandal (I could go on and on with the rhyming ones like this)
Things that have a title and a project but are still unborn children:
52 Pickup
The Mark And Michelle Play
What’s Wrong With Theater - okay, I really need to write this.
Ten Out Of Twelve

