Manhattan Rep, THE WAPSHOT WHATEVER in Playwrights Showcase Dec.15-16

WAPSHOT WHATEVER

 http://manhattanrep.com/playwrights-showcase-series-12/

Manhattan Rep's Playwrights' Showcase
1/2 hour, play cut for format of 3 shows an evening- 20.00

Random Dialler Worm, circuit boards, the inhuman souls of an Off-shore Server & a Rogue Program bundled together.

The secret life of your programs. What happens when you X out? 
Dec. 15 & 16

Vincent Vansant Director

It's going well with gifted cast and director. Director is Vincent Vansant, Sara Minisquero, Nathaniel Taylor-Leach, D. Anisfeld Tay, Chelsea Rodriguez. 1/2 hour, but perhaps an opportunity, to do full script. New interesting work, 3 in one eve is a good time. .

Thanks. SW

Interview on THE WAPSHOT WHATEVER

What was the inspiration for this project?

A. The Internet, where I spend exhaustive hours on a computer. I started to write dialogue that became the thoughts of the Rogue.

What's your creative process like?

A. This play was spontaneous, like poetry. Pent up emotion became a world-weary character then his foil, the lovely server. I went back and shaped the dialogue, visualized the characters and their world inside a computer system. Action developed from their drives for power and union.

What makes this different or special?

A. It's an alternative reality, inside our own, that's a mystery. Yet the emotional logic is humanoid. Like us but qualitatively different.

What did you learn about yourself through this process?

A. That when I outline and draft plays with specific objectives, they often don't have the emotion of felt spontaneous work. Naturalism is a less natural form for me than language or "lingo plays." Found language shaped so form doesn't necessarily follow content allows another kind of understanding.

How does it feel to be a part of something like this?

A. I like older forms of theater, circular plays with elliptical language. It is a lot of fun to see this realized. Plays like this are rarely performed.

What are your ultimate goals for this production and for the future?

A. I would like this short play to be a known curtain-raiser, like The Bald Soprano was once. It would be fun if scripts were full of felt metaphors that were unexplained, even, at first, incomprehensible. I'd like to see the mystery of language teased out by audiences, like we scrutinize visual art for meaning. I have a longer script I am interested in having produced. WAPSHOT is a flag for theater without naturalism. There's enough TV.

What do you think your audiences will enjoy the most?

A. Audiences will most like the surprise of an alien world that is yet strangely familiar. People record how pets act when owners are not around. This is a glimpse of what your programs get up to, when the user is away.

What's next?

A.  Next for us, is doing this without projections, shorter version for Showcase.