31 Plays in 31 Days, #14 - "Friendless"

I'm planning on being useless for the next couple days, now that I've finished the first draft of Hawking 6. I can use the break before I dive into editing the thing. But still got to do my posting, because I am committed to this by-now-mostly-just-burdensome August challenge.

This scene immediately follows Day #5 - "Dangerous" and is the first part of the gang interviewing the "clients" for this episode. As I've mentioned, that will be the historical figure Mary Jane Kelly (whose middle name I'm including to distinguish her name from our lead Mary's) and an original character, a Whitechapel workhouse nurse I've named Violet Strallan. It's a goal of mine to humanize and give significance to figures who are kind of just thought of as butchered victims of a serial killer, including challenging the biases and prejudices of our heroes. I think I've done it too clumsily in this scene and it will need lots of massaging to make this flow properly, but the ideas are there. At least I know what to edit for.

Somehow Nathaniel being TERRIFIED of prostitutes and having NO IDEA HOW TO TALK TO ONE, but still not wanting to be rude about it, feels really right to me.



( Day #14 - Friendless )