Talking Carrots....

[fajrdrako]

I saw two plays in one tonight, at An Evening of One-Act Plays at the Ottawa Little Theatre. (Check out the website, I spent half the day finishing it and putting it up.)

The fun thing is that both plays are by local artists - usually the OLT does plays by the likes of Neil Simon or Agatha Christie, famous plays. These are plays that won awards in the National One-Act Playwriting Competition a few years ago, and we've made a big display about the competition in the lobby, with pictures of Governors General who sponsored it and big-shots (like Robertson Davies) who entered it or adjudicated it in the past. I'm delighted to see it getting some attention. The media is onto it, too, asking for interviews and the like.

Both plays were insubstantial. I liked the first one best: Gallery. It was a one-joke thing but it was fun: about the relationship between modern art and trash. The other was about a playwright arguing with the fictional characters in his head about his own stories. I like the idea. My characters argue with me, too. (Ever try to argue with Lex Luthor? Exercise in futility. Slippery devil.)