WRITING AND PERFORMING A PLAY IN 24 HOURS.

WRITING AND PERFORMING A PLAY IN 24 HOURS. Mary Jane had the opportunity to participate in the Fast Forward festival in Stratford last week. She was introduced to her actors and her director and got her assigned topic at seven thirty on Friday evening. She wrote her play and e mailed it to the actors and director by four the next morning, went to a first reading at seven thirty in the morning and went home to sleep. Five plays about ten minutes long were performed that night, with full productions and lines learned. Mary Jane was thrilled by how much the performance was better than what she could possibly have expected when she wrote the play. All the plays were polished. Michael Folie, one of the other playwrights, wrote a play with eight characters, each of whom was essential to the story.