exorcism exercise

so i'm about to write a one act play for this festival.  it's a competition to even get into the festival but i guess i'm going to try try try.  but first i better get as many bad ideas out of my system as possible.

bad superhellishlybad play ideas

• two skyscraper window washers see everyone's work life play out through the pigeon stained glass.  the hook is nothing interesting happens to anyone at their jobs and the two window washers never say a word to each other.
• man walks into a bar.  bartender says we don't serve your kind here.  man says but what kind of man are you refusing service to because the kind of man i am has yet to be specified?  bartender says do i really need a reason?  man says no and backs out the door and gets hit by a runaway ice cream truck.  fade to black as ice cream truck music plays.  as people exit the theater they are given half melted half crushed eskimo pies in a powerful metaphor about ice cream truck crashes.
• as the stomach churns - meditations on digestion
• my breast's left breast
• the monologue monologues
• behind the scenes of an entirely computer automated pre-programmed radio station
• little shop of torahs.  this torah from outer space takes over the life of a lowly store helper, growing huge and demanding christian slut sacrifices.  features the tunes "eventually seymour" and "somewhere that's green and jewish".
• jeff stryker: 2089.  a coffin with jeff stryker's (pretend) corpse is rigged with a speaker.  every ten seconds it alternates between saying "yeah, suck that big dead dick, that's right" and "fuck yeah, yeah, oh yeah, oh."
• the laura branigan versus mothra experience (hey wait, this one's not so bad.  dibs!)

Comments

[jason]

Well, I think your top three are:

1.the monologue monologues
2.little shop of torahs.
3.jeff stryker: 2089.

all pretty genius....
though the last one clearly deserves a
"Pepper Dennis" like ummm..."comedy" treatment,
don't you think?

[mel]

Go with number 4.