very tired. slept but slept badly, so woke up feeling stressed already. not a good way to start the day.
might have mentioned before that i'm dramaturging a production of 'peter pan' directed by one of my best friends. we're working from an adaptation that takes the 'original' play by J.M. Barrie (he kept changing it, hence the quotes around original) and the novelization he wrote of it a few years later; what i want to do is add a bit more from the novel. we have permission from the children's hospital Barrie granted the rights of the original play to to add on more stuff from the novel; what we don't have is permission from the authors of the adapted script that we are further adapting (maybe). i haven't asked yet, mostly because i don't yet know how to contact them, but i'm doubting that we'd actually get it.
which pretty much means either we just use the script we have, which vastly oversimplifies the story, or we write a new adaptation of the original. which is definitely doable, but we have already paid for all of the copies of the other script and gotten production rights etc etc.
i probably just need to take a step back from this and relax. it's up to the director what we do, not me, and i have to make sure i keep that in mind even when he pretty much gives me free reign over what we do.
right now i just want to sleep. i will be able to squeeze in a nap in the hour between the end of this shift of work and my next class, which will be followed by another 3 hours of work. oh joy. things are already stressful.
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