31 Plays in 31 Days, #16 - "Hanging"

Another moment that's supposed to be kind of a big deal. This one is the third in sequence after Day #9 - "A Ruin" and Day #10 - "Poison". It's really important to me that I keep a sense of forward movement in these plays, that the characters are growing and changing and having a definite journey. It helps them feel real and keeps them from becoming boring through repetition or stagnation. So this a supposed to represent a really large step forward for Nathaniel, one probably long overdue. I hope in context I can make that play.

I realize in the entry for day #10 I forgot it cut off where it did. Actually this later part of the scene is where Nathaniel's reference to "the thing Frost said to him" makes Mrs. Hawking wonder what it is he knows. Everything I said about how I like how it's oblique and yet still pretty understandable still applies, but it actually doesn't show up until this later part.



( Day #16 - Hanging )