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Now while I'm fully aware that the majority of the Flood has next to no patience and probably won't even read this sentence before hitting reply and filling the text box with hateful things about Halo 4 and its mother, I wanted to make a thread in the hopes that some of those with a somewhat longer attention span would be interested in reading the short play that I submitted today for the theatre festival that happens in my state every year.
At this festival, at both the district and state level (district comes first, and then state if I do well enough), there are various categories that actors and technicians can compete in, from duet acting and solo musicals to set design and costume creation. One of these events is playwriting, and I decided that I should enter.
After a mad four or five hour typing session two Sundays ago, I finished the entire thirty page play (it probably would have been longer, but there was a page limit) and then spent the next week and a half editing and revising. Now that I've finally made an official final draft of this version of the play (I may expand it into a longer play, possibly in two acts, later on.) I'd like to share it with those who might be interested in reading and giving some feedback.
You can read it HERE if you're interested. If you'd like a summary before getting into it, it's a comedy called Veto. The President of the United States of America and all those in line for presidential succession have gone missing as part of an alleged terrorist plot, and now Paul Simon -- the head of the Negligibly Unimportant Agricultural Affairs Agency -- has been forced to fill the president's shoes and pass judgment on the Big Bill, a huge bill that has the potential to change American life forever, and he has no clue what to do. There's also a fame-obsessed assassin and the ghost of Theodore Roosevelt, so good times are to be had.
If you read it, let me know what you think. (Here's the link again.) Otherwise just post the obligatory tl;dr. Also I did edit my name and the other information that I had to include on the title page; my last name is (unfortunately) not actually McSlaughter.
[Edited on 11.29.2012 2:14 PM PST]