If you enjoyed Episode Two of PlayChat, and wanted more insight into the original piece by Chatter Emma Cahoon, DRIPPING, explore the revised version of this piece and Emma's thoughts on having your work read aloud attached below. To hear more about DRIPPING and Emma's thoughts on this work, tune into Episode Two: Not Just A One Time Thing.
Hi PlayChatters! Emma here. If you are here, thanks so much for being a patron of PlayChat Pod! We are so grateful for you! Below I have attached for you my scene “DRIPPING,” with minor edits based on hearing it aloud. Plus, something that can’t always be heard when a scene is read aloud is exactly how it is lineated on the page. Lineation and expression through the visual orientation of the words on the page is something I love to play with in my writing, so I thought you might like to see it! Hearing the scene aloud was so informative to me. This scene is very personal to me, so hearing it in others’ voices taught me a lot about what it is like to share my voice in this way, and what it’s like to hear my “natural” voice in others. It made me consider how my vernacular and my speech habits sound in others’ voices and how as a writer I can convey a dialogue that sounds real for the characters speaking it. This scene is based very truthfully on myself and a good friend of mine who have a very particular way of speaking to each other (though I didn’t realize the specificity of our dialogue until I heard it being read in other voices). Now that Sam and Heidi have read it, I almost want to hear it in two completely different voices again to see how it changes. Having the scene read also served as a HUGE acting lesson for me; like we said in our interview with Heidi, experience in other roles in theatre (i.e writer, director, etc) can be major lessons to us as performers. Firstly, it made me consider techniques I have learned of dropping text into my voice and body upon the first read through. This was essentially a cold read, so it would be very interesting to hear how the text changed in Sam and Heidi’s voices as time passed with more rehearsal.
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