Busybody

So over break, I have been fleshing out my script for the IPP, and I must say that I am quite happy with it. At the moment, I have six pages of material to work with, but I don't even know if that is sufficient enough for a 20 minute performance. Our script for The House of the Spirits was probably a 5-page script and that only ran 12 minutes long. Once again, I am banking on the fact that all the technical effects will help the performance to run longer than what it would seem. I also feel that there needs to be room left open for dramatic pauses to allow the actors to fully develop within the performance. Now that my teacher has looked over the script, I have continued to keep revising and adding more material. Clarity is the main problem I have been struggling with. I have found that living with my script for so long has made me impervious to all the questions that I have yet to answer for my characters. Sometimes I just feel that is too difficult to go back and add in more dialogue when I feel that it may disrupt the flow of the piece. I am truly excited for this project, but the writing process has been extremely difficult and frustrating. I am also a bit lost as I now wonder how I can root my performance in theory. When I was writing the script, I felt as though I was just letting the inspiration come to me. I was not consciously thinking about theory but now I may need to start. Perhaps this will be a way for me to better communicate to my actors the objective of my performance. It's time for some research.