I DO: A ONE
ACT PLAY
Introduction
Journal Entries
Appendix 1-
Original Play
Appendix 2-
Original Idea Pitch
Appendix 3-
Original Scenario,
In the Beginning
Appendix 4-
Selection in Various
Stages
WRITINGS |
Processes in Playwriting: How
a Play is Born
An Honors Thesis by Christy Melson
April 15, 1999
Advisor: Dr. Ralf Remshardt |
APPENDIX 2 - ORIGINAL PITCH IDEA
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| The night before a wedding, a bachelor
party is thrown for “Frank” by his friends. After the main party, “Frank”
is left alone with the stripper. She is a psychology student working as
a stripper to pay for her Ph.D. In the hotel room all of “Frank’s” doubts
about this marriage being right for him come out, and it turns into a pseudo-session.
“Frank” falls in love with the stripper, true love, but knows that it is
‘right’ for him to keep his promise to marry, besides, she doesn’t love
him. In the end “Frank” does decide to go through the ceremony, but will
always know in his heart he loves another
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