The good bit: my play won the audience vote.
The bad bit: the judge said (of 4 of the 5 plays including mine), 'It felt like they were written on the backs of postcards in a lunch-hour, and a short lunch-hour at that.' Ouch!
The other judge was more constructive and I could see his point. He grumbled about the lack of drama - 'that's why it's called drama' - in all the plays. What I had tried to do was take a 12-minute monologue and turn it into a 30 minute play. What works in a monologue - following through one idea - doesn't hold up in a play. So that was quite helpful.
I'm not entirely sure what happens now. I think my play goes on to the Final but the whole future of the Play-offs seems to be in doubt, so we'll see.
P.S. The judge who talks to my cleavage spoke to me before the show and asked about what I was writing these days - and I didn't even mention my play! How noble/stupid was that?!
3 comments:
At least you got the audience's support. I think the judges have been watching too much of the X factor. Sending hugs to you, being criticised is never easy.
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((hugs)) take on board the constructive advice and ignore the rest.
The audience obviously loved you!
Go Liz... ignore the judges they have an ego to stroke and a career to protect... :-)
There is a view that the audience is always right.
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