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Bucking the conventions of our genres
The Mrs. Hawking stories are clearly grounded in several beloved genres. There are elements of the superhero story, the detective story, and certainly the action caper. There’s a lot to like about...
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Process of drafting Base Instruments
At last, all that outlining for Base Instruments is paying off. I worked my ass off, with Bernie’s help, to figure out what would happen in each scene, and while that tactic can be grueling, I find it...
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“What if the Colonel did black ops?”
As I mentioned in the entry on Early Installment Weirdness, it is common for your conception of who a character is and what they’re like to change the more you work with them. While a fair bit of this...
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Finished draft of Base Instruments!
I am pleased to announce that Base Instruments, part three of the Mrs. Hawking series, has a complete draft! I had some friends over to read it, as I love to do when evaluating a play, and the response...
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She walked in the door and brought trouble with her
One of the things Mrs. Hawking borrows from Sherlock Holmes is that her work comes from clients— specific people in need who come to her seeking her help, skills, and advice. All the cases that provide...
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Reading a mystery
One of the fun things about the story of Base Instruments is that it’s a Fair Play Whodunnit. That means it’s a mystery where all the necessary clues are presented to the audience, so they have the...
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Darker before the dawn, part 1
Bernie and I have come to think about the Mrs. Hawking play series in terms of what we call arc-cycles, or a series of trilogies that each complete a full arc within the larger story, each one building...
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Darker before the dawn, part II
Catch part I of this discussion in this blog post here. As I mentioned, we’re conceiving of the Mrs. Hawking series as a set of trilogies, which we’re referring to as “arc-cycles,” or a series of...
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The queerest Hawking story yet
For the most part, the queerness of the Mrs. Hawking story has been fairly low key. All of the journey up to this point has been subtly informed by the fact that our hero is an asexual aromantic, but...
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Debuting our Jack the Ripper story in Mrs. Hawking part VI!
Rehearsals have begun for the next round of Mrs. Hawking production! And that means we’ve begun work on the debut of our brand-new show, Mrs. Hawking VI: Fallen Women! In the lead up to that, I’d...
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