When Story Stops, the Leak Begins is the story of accidental pilgrims on a journey through eerie, uncharted territory, having only each other as foils and resources, while they search for the key to their ultimate destination. Along the way, they meet a grifter, an archetypal character and a spooky digital presence, who might possibly be an ally. In Hollywood parlance, this tale could be described as a spiritual adventure story in which Six Characters in Search of an Author jump headlong with no net into a Canterbury Tales style quest across a dreamscape merging scenography from Waiting for Godot with digital shards of Bladerunner in a rowdy and irreverent Voyage to Arcturus.The key to meaning, style and emotional resonances in When Story Stops, the Leak Begins, is the poemscript, a hybrid form that combines poetic dialogue, a performance script format and a narrator imbedded in what would normally be called stage directions who speculates, comments and reports on feelings and thought processes in each characters head. This storytelling format grew from the authors experiences making nontraditional theatre where speech conveys its usual content but also works as a form of gestural action. A series of routines weave through the poemsscripts and serve as armatures for developing character relationships. These routines also animate the pulse and cadences of the text. The dialogue derives from skaz, a Russian literary technique using singular dialect and speech rhythms to...

Binding: Paperback;122 pages; Publisher: Unsolicited Press; Classification: N/A; Weight: 285.56 g; Dimensions: N/A

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