I did not spend all of our three
months in Cuba recently in idle relaxation on a sandy beach by a turquoise sea.
I fiddled each morning – the musical kind, although some might question that
label – and worked on multiple rewrites of my newest script, then spent hours
learning lines, and more hours pondering how in heck I would ever be able to
mount this production on stage or on screen! So now, despite challenges, I have
spent the past eleven days since our return sequestered in the bathroom –
filming this play, and then the more arduous task of editing it. Yes, it takes
place in a closet, a broom closet … and a water closet.
This is not a flashy, fast
action drama. That is not my style. Neither is it an amusing bedroom farce, nor
a comedy of any kind. There may be some subtle humour here and there. However,
like most monologues that I am aware of, it is a ponderous reflection in the
mind of the character. It is a slow unfolding in the memory bank of an old man.
It does not happen in any particular order. His memory may be flawed. But I
think of it as a jigsaw puzzle being assembled with deliberation, with the
careful study of the shapes and colours of the pieces of his life, and trial
and error in putting them together.
Most Independent Film Festivals
have no suitable category for “no budget” monologues. Indeed, neither do most
of them think to include films made with no money backing them. Indeed, I have
entered this in the “no budget” feature film category at the Cannes Independent
Film Festival (not to be confused with the other Cannes Festival). But I had to
laugh when I realized that that category is for films with a budget of under
25K Euros!!!! My budget was zero! What will be, will be.
My plan is to mount this as a
stage production with a test run this summer while we are at our cabin in
near-northern Ontario.
Here is the YouTube link to the
trailer: https://youtu.be/OYWDrlCeBfc.
If this peeks your interest, then here is the link to the film: https://youtu.be/PVK-kJ_mPl0.
It is 80 minutes long, so settle
in for the viewing if you can.
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