SCARLET WOMAN playwright Matthew Wells has been singled out as a finalist for this year's National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center. He received this recognition for his play BEAUTIFUL DAY. I just read it, its haunting and beautiful and of course makes you chuckle with Matthew's signature wit. I'm so proud to have this talented fella as one of SGP's collaborating artists.
A synopsis of the play: Photographer Jenny Leonard just happens to be at the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, and takes several pictures of people jumping to their deaths from the upper floors of the North Tower. One photograph in particular haunts her--that of a man who looks as if he is flying. Her search to find out this man’s identity brings her face to face with her photographer’s role as a witness to tragedy and loss, with society’s refusal to admit that a man facing death could willingly choose to take his own life, and, in the end, with the victim himself, in a re-imagining of his final moments.
Curiosity piqued? The entire script is available for download here. And you can also peruse work from the other finalists.
Congrats Matthew, we are so lucky to have you play with us!
Later y'all,
Candy
A synopsis of the play: Photographer Jenny Leonard just happens to be at the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, and takes several pictures of people jumping to their deaths from the upper floors of the North Tower. One photograph in particular haunts her--that of a man who looks as if he is flying. Her search to find out this man’s identity brings her face to face with her photographer’s role as a witness to tragedy and loss, with society’s refusal to admit that a man facing death could willingly choose to take his own life, and, in the end, with the victim himself, in a re-imagining of his final moments.
Curiosity piqued? The entire script is available for download here. And you can also peruse work from the other finalists.
Congrats Matthew, we are so lucky to have you play with us!
Later y'all,
Candy
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