Wales script is go!

A working version of the Wales script is now completed and should be winging its way around the world this weekend. Some work still needs to be done on the last scene, but otherwise I think it's looking pretty good. Well done to everyone who helped create it and especially to Peter and Cadi who supplied all the missing bits and pieces.

We went about the script this way: a lot of initial improvisation and discussion of ideas led to me suggesting a basic outline. During our intensive week we began collectively writing, mainly through small groups tackling individual scenes then performing their scripts. As part of this process we looked at parts of Under Milk Wood, newspaper articles from 1926, the BBC docusoap Coalface, and other research material. Some scenes were also improvised, the results recorded, and transcripts made.

For most scenes we now had at least two scripts, and I meshed together the best parts of these. I then looked at the play as a whole and identified which parts still needed work - it's not so hard to write an individual scene, much more difficult to keep in mind the needs of the play as a whole. Cadi and Peter then wrote in the missing parts, I edited these bits, and we arrived at a script which has basically been entirely written by the Wales team, with my editorial help.

I'm now really looking forward to seeing the other scripts.