As dyed-in-the-previously-worn-by-other-actors
wool as we theater folks can be, we ALL OF US amass buttloads of scripts,
sometimes in multiple quantities. And
still, we want more.
So why don’t you bring your extra copies of
something and I bring my extra copies of something and, uh, swap ‘em?
I know – it’s just crazy enough to work. That’s I got baseball cards of athletes who
weren’t fortunate enough to arrive at random with my bubble gum purchase, and
gosh-darn-it, why can’t we do that with scripts? Because this extra copy of The Sisters Rosenzweig I got is not
gonna suddenly become a two-person production with puppets and shadow
voices. Right? And I’m sure that three of those things you
really really meant to send back to
MTI are just burning a hole in your metaphorical pockets.
So let’s get together, around the WSCTA table on
Friday March 1st, from 2pm ‘til we get bored socializing and
swapping, and see what kinda new libraries we can build.
Some simple guidelines, since swapping is sorta
below “rules”:
- Don’t bring more books than you can carry. That’s how many you’re leaving with,
remember?
- Single editions for single editions; anthologies
for anthologies. “An anthology equals
five scripts” is the kind of math that starts haggling, and let’s not be those people, all right?
- No money – just swapping. And no judgments either. Sure, Tams-Witmark probably wanted that piano
score to No No Nannette returned thrity years ago, but that fine has been paid,
and as long as you’re not selling it . . . let’s just say what happens at
Script Swap goes home with someone who can keep a secret.
- Nobody has to take your Friedrich Hebbel plays
(although Maria Magdalena rocks! . .
. jes’ sayin’ . . .), so if you go home with what you already had, that’s fine,
dig?
- Bring stuff to share, not just get rid of. If you were in a totally amazing play you
have three copies of, share THAT, not the extra copy of Timon of Athens your aunt got you cuz “yer so dramatic.” If we all bring enough cool stuff, we get cool
stuff when we trade. Now maybe you won’t be there on Friday afternoon. Who knows, maybe it’s only me at the WSCTA table swapping stories to passing strangers about all the great scripts nobody brought. Well, during the festival, while I’m at the WSCTA table, I’ll always have my box of scripts. So check in and maybe some Friday night or Saturday-between-show-swapping will happen.
Either way, Rana said we could, we’re doin’ it on
Friday at 2 pm in the lobby of the Bremerton Community Theater around the WSCTA
table. It’ll be nice to see y’all, and
your scripts, and hang for a bit.
Unky Sean Walbeck
2/20/2013
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