If you've forgotten your Kant and DesCartes, Paul Moulton's "Glenlivet" is a ten-minute re-fresher course in philosophy, as it relates to graduate school roommates, best friends and lovers.
Set in a stage that is zoned between characters and a "neutral" zone, Moulton's script was a great one to workshop. We could put ourselves in the audience's seats and found that no one in the workshop (save Moulton) remembered their philosophy enough to feel fully in step with the characters. Jake Wilson even suggested "dumbing it down" to allow us to get the refresher philosophy lesson we wanted, so we could feel smart when we walked out of the theater!
By workshops' end, we had worked and re-worked the tension and shifting love affair, and only Paul will know which, if any, of the suggestions will work with his final piece. The session was almost raucous, and a lot of fun. Again, I found the openness and maturity of the author contributing most to the level of workshopping that feels right. Bravo! My thanks to Paul for his script, and to Jake and Yuki for doing the workshop!
We had a reverb issue again tonight during the introductions, and again we took the time to all don headsets to fix it. The audio recording of the session is in two parts: