Category: Theater

A while ago I posted the first scene of my play, Little Daylight, about an irreverent princess who is taking her fate into her own hands.I think it's time I share scene two!

CAMILA resists the urge to crawl her way backstage and decompose.

I had a dream the other day. You’d think with a sleeping curse I’d remember my dreams more often but this one was weirdly vivid. I was on a stage, right in the center (LITTLE DAYLIGHT stands center stage, close to the audience), staring out. (she stares out)

Little Daylight is a fairytale conceived by George MacDonald, mentor to Lewis Carroll. Hey, if Disney can take old fairytales and adapt them into new stories, why can't I?

Here's an except of a play I've written of the same name. The important bit is this: so much of what I'm reading and watching and surrounded with is dark and pessimistic and miserable. I recognize and appreciate the value of airing our trauma and unhappiness into a creative space, but when I sat down to write this play I had one goal: I want to write something happy.