New Play Festival

One of the main projects for my playwriting class this semester has been the writing of a 15-minute play to be produced at the Loyola New Play Festival at the end of the year. My script, "Great Fish," is going through final edits and my director and cast are about to begin their rehersals. The date of the festival, held in the Studio blackbox theater at Loyola, is Saturday, May 6. To give you an idea of what the show is about, here's the first paragraph of my script treatment: "Ever wonder what it would be like to leave behind the normalcy of your life and embark upon a journey into the great unknown? In “Great Fish,” that wonderment transforms into Jodie’s very reality. After a violent storm knocked her husband off the deck of a cruise ship and into the waiting mouth of a Great Fish, Jodie threw all caution to the wind. Driven by her personal horror of being apart from her husband on their anniversary, Jodie said a quick prayer to The Almighty One and leapt overboard into the waiting mouth of the same Great Fish. What awaits Jodie below the surface is a fantastic journey of biblical proportions."