Voices
As you've noticed, there are many numbered voices in the script, most of which have not been written yet. That's because I'm saving those for you to write!
The voices are wishes of people all over the world. They are wishes in the largest sense. They don't have to begin with "I wish" or "I hope" but they can. They just need to be requests said to an unknown or unseen (either/or) presence. They can be sad, funny, angry, joyful, boring, true, fictional... the greater the variety the better. Also, if you can write in another language, please do. For my benefit, please also translate your writing into English.
Each wish should be no longer than a paragraph long. It could be as short as a sentence.
As the voices also serve as transitions between story lines in the script, it'd be great if you could also think about your wishes in terms of where they might be placed in the script. Feel free to title your wish with the voice you think that should speak it in the script (ie: wish for VOICE TEN would be placed right before scene 6 -- Waiting for the Stars to Fall).
If you know of other people who might like to write, have them send me their email address so I can add them to the blog and they can post here. I'd like to get as many submissions as possible.
Happy writing!
26 comments:
Aaaah Hey, it's sinead i'm not sure it's working....is it?
well, it appears to be working... i see this comment...
Ok, here's my stab at a wish. It took a couple tries...
I wish had a boat, a sail boat with a galley that's just big enough for a bed, a toilet, and maybe a little oven or something like that. I could travel the world in my little boat. I seriously contemplate doing this sometimes. I could catch fish and get odd jobs in port towns when I need to. Sometimes I ask myself if I could leave everything that I have now for that new life. Sometimes I answer myself that I could. No more than one year ago I would not have traded my life for the world but now things seem to be moving on and the world's starting to look rather enticing. I'd call it the S.S. Farraig Prata.
Thank you Danny! This is fantastic. Really perfect. And great to start these voices coming in because I need them now since there is a reading on May 20th! Hopefully this inspires everyone else to get on it!
merci buckets!
Sometimes, i just want to start over. Like say, scratch that and thats right where im starting from.
You know?. And just redo everything. Get born somewhere else, by someone else. Live a completely different life, thats like, amazing and awesome and completely not like this at all. Because then that life would probably be easier, ya know?. Like, I would have this amazing friend who Ive known since i was born, or i would never move and be the new kid. And it wouldnt be a perfect life, far from it, but it would be a totally different one then the one i have now. And that would be good enough.
fantastique! love it. thank you!
I wish people wouldn't put so much emphasis on things that just aren't important, like grad dresses or christmas presents or their weight or almost anything else that people see as important here. I wish people could see past all that and focus more on helping others or on being a better person. Isn't that what's really important? Isn't that what we should be focusing on? I think so. I wish I wasn't the only one who sees it.
J'espère que demain sera toujours meilleur qu'hier. J'espère que je serai heureux. Maintenant, ceci n'arrive pas. Il semble que ma vie n'ameliora jamais. Peut-être si je parle aux étoiles il changera. J'espère que oui.
I wish the world would stop slinking back the next morning, trailing apology and promise, and proudly holding roses up in front of my black-bruised eyes, saying - so sincerely - "Never again. This time, never again."
God, I wish i knew where the bathroom was.
molly can you translate your french one?.
Translation: I hope that tommorrow will always be better than yesterday. i hope i will always be happy. right now, that's not the case. i seems as though my life never gets better. maybe if i talk to the stars it'll change. i hope so.
it sounds better in french
i hear you molly. things i think in french always sound better un-translated. but thank you for appeasing us. and thank you again for writing two awesome voices!
I wish people wouldn't give me such weird looks when I tell them I'm studying my BA in English at university...
I wish I could hold my liquor...
I wish that my life could turn out like one of those perfect chick flicks where in the end the right guy falls hopelessly in love with the right girl. Where he stands in her doorway with a big bouquet of red roses in his hands and a big cheesy grin on his face. Or where he waits beneath her bedroom window throwing rocks at her window just so he can say goodnight. Where they end up dancing underneath the stars when there is no music playing.And where in the end he runs through the airport catching her just in time to pick her up in his arms and tell her how much he loves her and can't live without her.
I wish I wasn't such a hopeless romantic...
I wish you could see me. Really see me. Look past the façade I put up for the world. How can you love me if you don’t truly know me? I’m not the girl the rest of the world sees, there’s so much that lies behind my shy smile and gentle eyes.
I hope you know that I want to let you in. I want to break down the wall I’ve worked so hard to build. I want to give you my heart but I need to know you won’t break it. I have to know you’re worth the risk.
I wish my booty wasn't so white.
I wish Johnny Depp was 20 years younger...and in love with me =)
I wish people would realize Keanu Reeves can't act and I really wish Kirsten would stop correcting my grammer!
I hope that some weird circumstance comes up and they don't sell my Baba's house because there are so many memories there that I'm not ready to let it go...
hey janis- i don't know if it's too late for a "voice" but here's mine. (this is elizabeth)
I wish I wasn't so afraid of cicadas, that I could just pick them up with my fingers and hold them. And maybe even eat one if someone payed me ten dollars. Better yet, I wish I had cicada eyes- I wish I was a cicada.
Hi Elizabeth! Thanks for the wish! We actually just opened this weekend (and the show is totally awesome!) but I will for sure include your wish in the script for the next production because it's awesome.
Wish you could be here to see the show!!
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