ET TU - Sebastian & Petruchio.

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Sebastian - William Sebag-Montefiore
Petruchio - George Turner
Directed by Victorine Pontillon
In Souliloquy is devised and produced by V&T
ET TU: Sebastian & Petruchio is part of a cycle of six dualogues.
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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Written by Tilly Lunken

Music: Porsch Blues Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Special Thanks to Steven M Levy and the Charing Cross Theatre.

Ah this one was a joy to write and also to work with onstage in performance and as a digital piece. It's just super funny - and it totally got to the point where the in jokes were as funny as the actual jokes and we had a little never-ending funny thing happening. These characters were a pleasure to mash together and really fun to write. I hope though that the there is a serious undercurrent that does come through, because after all - we all deserve more.

Writing this was a terrifying experience, but also exhilarating as it was the first 'in form' actual scene I wrote that worked. The rhythms of the language are important, sure - but it isn't about story telling or one voice - the structure of the scene is what informs our understanding rather than them just pouring out their souls directly to an audience. It was a massive brain shift to get those two previously, seemingly disparate writing tools to merge into something that worked. All the more rewarding because interaction/change/drama are kind of key ingredients to good theatre - these characters want all that.