Back in the Texas heat for a month as of today, and in a small town where local theatre is not very local and not, in the opinions of some, theatre, after giving two book talks on Right Relationship: Building a Moral Economy, I found myself putting into Celtx a (new and improved, that is to say, revised) version of a play I wrote some time back. Well, I wrote it on the last typewriter we purchased, a manual Smith Corona which now lives, with its extra keys for Spanish, at the cabin in upstate Vermont. Think of it? I wrote this play before we ever owned a computer.
But it's computerized now!
So the play is Elizabetta. "Elizabetta" is also the title of Chapter 13 of John Reed's book, Insurgent Mexico. But the play gives more than just that chapter. I worked to present some of the depth of Reed's experience there, from the whole book; and beyond that, it begins and ends in a prison cell in Russia.
As the movie Reds has it, he didn't actually die in prison, but shortly after being released; but drama is fiction, or so I learned as a cataloger. One can take liberty.
If you'd like to see the play, follow the link to my plays on Celtx, on the right. For a little while, Elizabetta will be on the opening Projects page. Afterwards, you will need to put either SilviCol or Elizabetta in the Search Box.
Celtx is no longer free to those of us who use it for writing or production purposes, but it's still free to the browsing public.
I thought this play might be good for radio and looked up that format. The new Celtx, though, makes an instantaneous adaptation to Audio Format or Screenplay. That's good enough for me for now.
