Sustainability

I am a superstitious person. 

This superstition is threaded into the script of Grail Knight. Cross a river without heed, Mordred remembers his mother warning, and you'll find yourself further than the other side. Cross a river without heed, and you may lose everything you have - or find you were mistaken it existed. 

One wrong step, and your life could be altered unchangeable. This sort of caution mixed with fairy-tale logic, these unspoken rules, are one of the things that drew me to Arthurian mythology; I can see my own modes of thinking reflected in them, particularly my own fears.

I've always had trouble talking about things before they're done - before they're sure - before they're over? 

All three of these things are true, in gradations, and often square out to me not talking about processes and projects at all. Part of my goal for Grail Knight: An Immersive Play was to face that reluctance.  It's no longer a script-in-progress, as it was in its last iteration - this time around, I knew I wasn't going to be writing new scenes out of whole cloth.  

So what, exactly, is my role as a playwright, this time around?

So I set the intention to practice writing about an artistic process as it is happening, instead. I wanted to push back against this particular, counter-intuitive fear of the fragility of the things that bring me joy.

Which is to say, all the actors and production team involved in Grail Knight are fucking fantastic. Watching them bring the world of Logres and the words of the play to life - watching them make the world of Logres anew - has been a tremendous joy and honor. There's something indescribably cool about being part of the process as actors take characters you have half-crafted (because playwriting always feels like half-crafting to me- you have to leave space for interpretations, you're creating a mantle that someone else will step into, not a fully-defined end-all and be-all person) and crafting the rest of them, giving them histories and sense memories and little moments of connection as they embody the characters.

I feel tremendously lucky and tremendously grateful.  I hope you will enjoy to world of Grail Knight - we open in just under a week!