Here in Austin there’s a little annual theatre event called MUSES. In it, the Vestige Group takes over a house for a unique kind of performance. They take pictures of every room in the house and send those out to playwrights, who then write and submit a 5-7 minute scene or monologue to take place in one of the rooms. 10-15 scenes are chosen, then casting and rehearsals take place very quickly, and roughly a month later theatre-goers can share in this very interesting live performance experience. The limited-size audience is broken up into smaller groups, and go room to room to witness and sometimes participate in these scenes.

This year, the Vestige Group decided to use only Austin playwrights and writers. I heard about all this through the Austin Writers Meetup and decided to try my hand at stage writing. Below you’ll find a PDF of the short script I wrote (a monologue) as well as the pictures from the house that inspired this scene. Scenes were only due on the 23rd, so we’re still waiting to hear which scenes will be chosen for actual production. Fingers crossed.

Picture 1 | Picture 2 | Scene: Negative Space

**UPDATE: My scene was sadly not selected for production out of the 50+ submitted. Ah well. I still consider it a good writing exercise.