The Ready or Not meeting last night was busy. It was a full night with lots of entertainment — monologues, readings, songs, guitar.
Yesterday’s caffeine buzz bought me a monologue, which was read beautifully (without rehearsal) by Leanne, the chief architect of Ready or Not. And the comments were very helpful. “Dark” was one. And “disturbing”. Unfortunately, it was supposed to be a comic monologue, which is kind of worrisome.
Actually, I had intented it to be a little dark. Recently something I read in another blog started me thinking about how television is desensitizing us to suffering in others. Are cold, detached newscasts and the casualness of violence on tv dramas dissolving people’s empathy? Does the commercial message to focus on self encourages ego-mania on a scale no one has seen before?
Or maybe it’s those video games and rock and roll music. Kids these days.
Maybe I’ll post the scene, once I touch it up a little.