Last year I got approached by Baltimore Centerstage to write a monologue exploring America now. The 50 monologues by 50 different writers were then filmed by indie filmmaker Hal Hartley.
Influenced by the work I did with displaced youth from Chicago who had come to Iowa for my play MAYBERRY.
Hope you enjoy “THE GO”
The past few days our community has needed a vessel to use to talk about the shooting. I wrote this up based off of facebook posts, links and blogs- we’re presenting it here and making it available to anyone who needs a conversation starter.
I think there is a general fear in sharing responses like these. The complication of wanting the response to be genuine and useful to the community without exploiting it. I know with this right now I very much feel that way. We create it and then what to do with it? Post on a blog for people to see or use? Send out? Use ourselves?
These are my struggles. But I imagine other artists have them too.
Below is the entirety of the script we are performing tomorrow in Iowa City. It is based off of facebook messages, links that were uploaded, the plethora of information in the past week and more. The resources include CNN, Fox News, Gawker, Anarchist Mom Blog, Morning Joe, NY Times, Hartford Courant, NPR, New York Review of Books, NRA Website, Facebook (including the Emilie Parker fund page), O Magazine, Huffington post, Slate, New Republic and comments sections of numerous newspapers around the country:
It is called Newtown.