Danny Bryck, One Man Play

 I'm creating a documentary play about Occupy Boston entitled "No Room
 for Wishing." It is a one-man show written using only exact words
 culled from roughly 90-100 interviews with people at or involved with
 Occupy Boston in some way, telling the story of the individuals
 involved in the movement, and the sequence of events during the time
 Dewey Square was occupied, through a series of monologues. The piece
 moves more or less forward through time, from a week into the
 occupation, through its various legal battles, encounters with police,
 etc., to a week after its eviction by the city of Boston. The
 narrative bounces around between different people's perspectives, from
 a variety of ages, races, political views and economic backgrounds,
 from a homeless woman to a left-of-center bank employee to an
 anarchist organizer to a protest chaplain. The play attempts to paint
 a complex, multifaceted portrait of this time and place, viewed
 through the lens of one actor interpreting a broad spectrum of real
 characters.

 The interviews include mostly off-the-cuff conversations but also
 public speeches, recordings of general assemblies and other meetings,
 civil disobedience trainings, interviews with news media, performances
 of songs and poems about the movement, and more, providing a wide
 array of angles. Currently I'm in the process of transcribing and
 cutting together the interviews into a script, and discussing
 possibilities for performance with local producers in Boston. I will
 be performing an abridged version of the play with my theatre company,
 Whistler in the Dark, on March 12, with other performances to be
 determined.

 The goal is to bring the play to multiple venues and to perform it in
 conjunction with other performances and pieces of art arising out of
 the Occupy movement, in order to raise awareness and inspire
 connection and dialogue between the activist and artistic communities
 as well as the greater community in the Boston area and beyond.

 I would love to bring the piece to "Wall Street to Main Street."


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