In 2005 I finally gave in to my dialogic urge and penned the first draft of this play. As usual, it was pretty bad. So I stuffed it into a folder on my computer and let it gestate for a while. Four years later I cracked open the file again and reworked the script from the ground up; preserving the theme but reworking the characters, plot, and dialogue.
That rewrite process became the missing half of the play.
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LOGLINE: The lives of a former chess champion, an aspiring news reporter and a struggling writer intertwine mysteriously over the course of a single day, offering a meditation on structure and the creative process.
(I should note that I owe a good deal of the inspiration for this piece to Dr. Vladimir Chaloupka, whose unmatched passion for Bach’s Art of the Fugue inspired a similar fire in me.)
