Today marks the 98th anniversary of the sinking of Titanic, so working on my labour of love (Project Titanic) has a special weight at this time. It's another two years before I plan to stage the play I am writing about Titanic, but I have been researching all aspects of the ship, the sinking, the people connected with it and the legacy of the whole disaster and started to set out the framework of the play. It started as being a one-man piece –with Bruce Ismay as the sole character. Then expanded to three, then to four characters, and now looks like ending up having five characters, one of whom I still have to determine the identity of. Apart from Ismay all the characters perished when the ship went down. The play will also include a sort of prequel that I am quite excited about ..this featuring Captain Smith and another famous captain from history!
So the business at the moment is jotting down ideas and trying out threads of storyline. The most important part of any playwriting is the construction, and the defining of the "shape" of the piece. This is progressing nicely, and I have a good idea now of what I want to say with my play. The rest is to follow.
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