A Micro-Play (responding to COVID-19) #1MPFSaw an opportunity to write and submit a 150 word micro-play responding to current events on Facebook. It's due today at 5pm (EST, I imagine) so coming right up, but you can learn more about that HERE if you want to write/send something fast. Here's the original version, a little longer than what I cut down to send them. I hope everyone is staying safe, healthy and managing okay during this wild time. Much love and goodness to you all.  Photo by Ehud Neuhaus on Unsplash Inside an apartment. ZOE and CAM, any age/race/gender, together in front of their laptops. They’re sort of talking to each other but sort of to themselves.
CAM: It’s the uncertainty more than anything, all the unknowns. ZOE: I know. CAM: How long this will go on, when we can go back to normal… ZOE: I think I’m such an introvert but then this happens and I realize how everything we do depends on being in a room with people. And you, we’ve both lost shows, but all your gigs, your income… CAM: Maybe I’ll play music again but maybe not live? ZOE: I still have a job, but the stress of moving all my classes online is… CAM: Maybe we'll live on Zoom all our lives... ZOE: And what if the internet breaks? CAM: And you’re adjunct so there’s no security. ZOE: There’s no security for anybody. CAM: You’re right…there’s no…anything... Cam gets lost, falls into skin and starts to float away, out of the chair/floor. ZOE: Cam! Don’t float away! CAM: Can’t help it... Zoe reaches up and pulls Cam down with big might, keeping Cam grounded. CAM: Whoa. Thanks Zoe. ZOE: Anytime. Cam struggles to stay on the floor and grips onto Zoe. CAM: What do we do? ZOE: Let’s. Look outside. They do. Cam opens a window as Zoe holds them down. ZOE: Look at that squirrel, what’s he burying? CAM: A walnut? ZOE: A chestnut? CAM (like a dirty teenage): Chest-nut. They both laugh. ZOE: Smells fresh. CAM: Like spring. They hold hands, watching outside. They float away, in a different way, a present way, staying here in this moment but up in the clouds too. END OF PLAY
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CAROL KRAAY
3/20/2020 03:58:19 pm
Squirrels plan ahead, but do they share? Good look at the "us" that we all are right now. Leave a Reply. |
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