FISSURES WORK JOURNAL

Friday, November 16, 2007


new play: Fissures working journal entries
Category: Writing and Poetry

New play: working journal. entry 1

I decided to keep a journal of my ideas for the new play I'm writing about love and marriage. So far, here is my working title FISSURES.
A fissure vent, also known as a volcanic fissure or simply fissure, is a linear volcanic vent through which lava erupts, usually without any explosive activity.

We all have fissures in our relationships. Don't you think? They keep us from killing each other.

What are your fissures or relase valves in a relationship?


entry 2
Edward Albee wrote a wonderful short play about marriage called Counting the Ways. I'm going to reread this. He is always so damn insightful.

entry 3
The official title of the play:
Fissures: Love Now, Then, Again and Later.

Characters: CLAY and ANNA

Scenes are divided into Now, then , Again and Later.

Research:
"Steeplechase, which had a huge funny face of a man over its entrance leering at the throngs below, was very special. A flat fee bought not only a good number of rides but, for pubescent young men, the joys of voyeurism. Strategically placed air jets sent the flimsy summer skirts of shrieking young women billowing up to reveal glimpses of shocking pink unmentionables. Steeplechase outlasted all of its competitors, but it came to a convulsive end in 1965 after a series of devastating fires and financial setbacks. In 1966 it was sold to Fred Trump—Donald's father—for $2.5 million."

"Afterwards you could sit in the funhouse audience and watch as the folks got off the ride and got shocked. You also got to see the womens skirts getting blown up by hidden air jets. One time a very embarrassed old teacher, (probably was in her 30's which was old to us), was caught with no underwear as her skirt went up to her neck! All we could do was look at each other in utter disbelief..... and of course utter joy."
-Glassman

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Blowhole Theater, Steeplechase Park


Description
A woman's skirt is blown up by the compressed air machines at the Blowhole Theater as onlookers observe.

"The Blowhole Theater, located at the exit of the Steeplechase ride, forced unwitting women to stand above an opening that blasted air up their skirts while the crowd--generally recent victims themselves--looked on with approval. If a woman's escort protested, he often received an electric shock from a clown waiting nearby."
Description sources
The American Experience (PBS) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/coney/peopleevents/pande08.html
Accession number
SK.Photo.107
Collection category
Coney Island History Project Study Collection
Artifact class
Photographs
Work type
Documentary
Overall dimensions (inches)
8 X 10 inches
Date created 1943
Terms
amusement parks, describes the object
black-and-white photographs, describes the object
Related places
Steeplechase Park", HAUTO, VAUTO, FGCLASS, "tooltipInside", BGCLASS, "tooltipOutside");' .."nd();">Steeplechase Park, was creation location of the object
Blowhole Theater, is depicted by the object

note: Google has a quick video of this.

IDEAS FOR FISSURES PLAY





1 LOOK INTO STEEPLE CHASE PARK NEAR CONEY ISLAND.



2 WHAT IF THE CLOWN WITH THE AIR HOSE END FALLS IN LOVE AMD MARRIES ONE OF THE GIRLS , WHO'S SKIRT HE BLEW UP. LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT.



3 IT IS A LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, WHEN HE SEES HER HE PURSUES HER NOT AS A CLOWN, BUT AS A MAN WHO IS A CLOWN OR A CLOWN THAT IS A MAN. CAN HE BE ONE OR THE OTHER



4 HE REVEALS TO HER WHEN THEY'RE IN THEIR GOLDEN YEARS THAT HE WAS THE CLOWN



5 SHE ENJOYED EXHIBITING HER GOODS.



6 CLOWN METAPHOR



7 AIR METAPHOR