The Drafts
Use this page to navigate to the different versions of the piece that existed!
In my first stab at this script, I stuck a lot closer to the source text than I did in any of the other drafts. I tried to play with the haunted/living house trope from Gothic fiction and let Cabeswater be the thing haunting the house. There was a dead Gansey, Ronan and Adam hidden offstage somewhere and the sacrifice happens to bring Gansey back to life. . But the big lesson from this was letting the most important relationship be the one onstage instead of one that exists outside the room. Cabeswater’s line about wanting to live as all things do was central to figuring out Adam.
In this script, I was getting used to know Juana, Adam, Adam-and-Juana. This was a very foundational script for this process and played with a few more horror-comedy elements that moved lower under the surface of the version that was performed.
This was a script I developed after meeting with my advisor. We had a conversation about lessening Adam’s voice even more and finding ways of developing more of the sexual chemistry and history between them. This was the script that led me to the final performance script.
This is what ended up going onstage! I felt that this struck the right notes in regards to balancing the love, the self-hatred, the comedy, and the horror I was trying to shove all into one seven minute script. I was able to cut Adam’s voice up until the very end which, according to the audience, had a horrifying effect.