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Pregnant from Kissing: In the recently (2014) released book, "Vagenda" by Holly Baxter and Lucy Cosslet, the authors describe coming of age as a female in the 1990's in England. One of the chapters is on the disinformation that filled their world. One piece of disinformation is that a girl will get pregnant if she kisses a boy when she's having her period. Everyone eventually figures out that this is disinformation, but it's death by a thousand cuts trying to figure out what is true and what isn't. Disinformation is a cruel response to children, who are just asking for information about how the world works. Most of us arrive in adulthood with our heads still filled with disinformation, about being male and female.
This was my first video shot with a P&S camera on a tripod, rather than a cell phone. Such is progress..
This was my first logically complicated piece; I needed several steps to show the depth of disinformation in Cindy's world.
DSI didn't want this piece either. This, from DSI's artist director, was the politest reply I got.
The game of the scene is "disinformation," so maybe try rewriting to focus on that instead of the "period"? It could play like a game of telephone where a teacher says something really academic up top and the students repeat it in childish slang that mars the meaning of it.
All she saw was a game of telephone. By then I'd abandonned any hope that DSI had anything for me. I realised that I'd wasted a year and $2000 in class fees on them.
This was also my first piece where I needed a large cast. I asked quite a few people at DSI, people I'd known for a year, sending them the script by e-mail. None of them replied and when I next saw them, they pretended that I hadn't sent them the e-mail. I got the idea that they wouldn't touch this piece. It wasn't obscene or in poor taste. It did address a real problem. After I left DSI and joined No Shame, and started taking Improv classes with Tree Brod, I asked those people too. Nope; they didn't want to be in it either ("it isn't the material" I was told - so it is the material then). It took over a month to find people who wanted to be in it. I had expected that everyone in the Improv classes would jump at the chance to be on stage in a sketch. I found that people are quite skittish about being on stage. Possibly I'm associating with the wrong people.
Players in order of appearance: Joe and Lisa, Danielle, Dave and Jocelyn, Guy.
script and video (C) Joseph Mack, 2014, released under GPL v3.
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