Theatrical presentation

  As you may know "I Am Alpha & Omega" has become a theatrical stage presentation. It started out as a script for cinema, but after numerous rewrites and my development as a theatrical designer, technical director, and ultimately a producer for projects in numerous formats, the project moved from being cinematic to becoming theatrical in nature. Of course, it can return to cinema in the end, but it will need to get there by way of a live stage presentation.

    There was a developing Hemispherical Theatre presentation  that may come into play in the future. That type of presentation would be a blending of technical theatre and cinema, but for the time being the focus will be on conventional legit theatre. Theatre in the round may be an interesting variation on the theme, but that too would require design specific to the venue.

   So, after a panicked search for the script notes, I actually found my journal for the new Act Three. I have been looking for my copy of Apocalypse Revealed by Emanuel Swedenborg, in which I made extensive notes about the sections in the Book of Revelations that I have chosen to highlight in Act Three. I believe I took the book with me to read in-between shows while I was doing the June 19th pageant in Bryn Athyn and I seem to have lost it. I can tell you, I have been very frustrated by that. But now, I have located my journal, where I actually transposed those notes over to a poetic structure intended for the stage. I am uncertain if what I found is sufficient for the entire third Act, but since I have determined that the form of Act Three will be Operatic, then whatever expansion that needs to take place can be musical. I've yet to thoroughly review the material I found, but I should be able to draw up a conclusion, if it isn't already there. I will be transferring those notes over to a Word document so I can published the Libretto.

   I have some concerns over a few hard disc failures that have occurred. I am uncertain as to whether or not my work on the script has been lost because of that, but I think my work in this regard was done mostly on older systems and may be preserved on Zip Drives. I will need to go back and set up those older G4 & G5 Macs so I can explore my older files.  I guess I will need to pay to recover the hard drives that failed.

    In any event, I do have a full hard copy of the script that was made, right about the time I broke off the Third Act, to make into a separate play titled "Nunc Licet" Check out The Nunc Licet Archive.

   So, I will be transferring my notes over to my laptop and, if I have to, I can retype the script copy I have into a Word document. My intention is to publish the Libretto (without technical notes) and after that is done, we can start to craft the music. Since I do have an EWI, I can lay down some tracks and print them out with Quick scribe. That will be the beginning of developing the score for the piece. I am talking to someone about composing the music, so, we'll see how that goes.

   Getting this piece published will become the priority after "The Gnomes of New Hope; Zach and Zebby's Grand Adventure" is published and distribution of that Collection of Illustrated Storybooks is on play.

.           The Seven Headed Dragon 

                         Refered to in

               The Book of Revelations