Spoken Word Workshop with Idris Goodwin

So, I mentioned in my last post that we had a workshop involving spoken word. It was with Idris Goodwin, who is an author of both spoken word and play scripts. It was an awesome workshop, and I really got a lot out of it. We were told to bring a "riff" on our name, and that was it. I chose to highlight the fact that I'm the last son with our last name, and my Italian-ness. After we went through that, we were separated into groups and got about 8 minutes to make up a group piece. That was really interesting, throwing some people together, give them a time limit and see what they come up with. The next day, we were given 15 minutes to write something about a niche that was different. I chose gaming.

It must have stuck with me, because when I came home and took a shower I got an idea, jumped out of the shower and starting writing.

I used a past experience involving someone cheating on me while I had a kidney stone. It just kinda wrote itself and I'm very proud at the final product.  I showed it to a few class mates, and decided to read it at an "theater open mic night" called No Shame Theater located at Lincoln Loft. Super cool chill thing. You get like 5~6 minutes to preform anything you like.

So, I went and preformed! Really proud how it turned out. Here it is! Be share to share it if you like it!

Also check out Idris's blog here.
and Lincoln Loft's facebook page.