New Play Every Month Challenge: 1/3 Update
- maddiedeejones
- May 1
- 2 min read
Hello world! Here's a little bit of an update about my artist life. I got rid of my social media, which was incredibly supportive for my creativity. It feels like I suddenly have more time to create stories and find supportive collaborations. I did give up social media for little moments as I worked through the first book of, 'The Artists Way,' by Julia Cameron, but completely getting rid of social media now has felt entirely freeing.
As this happened in the new year, I also challenged myself to write a new play each month. So far, I've been successful. As we come to May, I am 1/3rds done for the year, with my dear friends being unable to keep up with the voracity of my work.
Here is a bit of info about my new play-per-month for 2025:
January 2025:
The Fates: A Poetic One-Act: (cast size: 3-4): When one of the sisters of fate passes away to the underworld, the remaining sisters grapple with the final rights and loose ends. Set in a backyard garden for good witches in rural America, this piece has themes of death, sisterhood, and the cycle of life. There are mythical elements to the storytelling. Structurally, dance also comes into play within a dance sequence.
(Image 2: Photographer Unknown, Cabin, Spring House Farm, North Carolina) February 2025:
Death Awakened: A Full Length Play Based on the Final Work of Henrik Ibsen | Mostly Set in Appalachia: (cast size: 6): When writers with different levels of fame go on a writer’s retreat, secrets meant to be left long buried are revealed in the country air of the Appalachian Mountains, where the supernatural is afoot and there is nowhere to hide. Based on the last work of Ibsen’s from 1899, Irene is given a supernatural ending she has longed for, waiting for over a hundred years.
(Image 3: Photographer Unknown, St. Louis Aquarium at St. Louis Union Station, Missouri) March 2025:
Little Fish The Musical: (cast size: 4-10): A little fish falls in love with an aquarium worker and dreams of actually seeing the ocean. When she is turned into a human, she is truly a fish out of water, filled with uncertainty and scared to leave the aquarium. It takes courage, friendship, and her own voice to find the ocean. All fish should be puppeteered. (Still seeking a composer. )
(Image 4: Photographer Unknown, Ghostlight) April 2025:
The Ghostlight Ship: (cast size: 11): After heartache and poor living conditions, Captain Miranda wields the great Ghostlight Ship, a ship of performance artists, performers by trade, but piracy by circumstance. They do what they can to live a life of freedom without scurvy. The need for freedom increases when our dear crew is faced with certain death as King Romulus holds a ransom on their heads. This pirate troupe of traveling artists, charged with theft, plundering, sodomy, and murder, although entirely innocent, is chased by a group of officers, wanting the bounty and targeting them specifically. When captured and placed before King Romulus, they must perform a story to make him weep, for if he does, he will give them pardons and amnesties for their supposed crimes.
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