Category Archives: Wayward Women

My Hamlet-like inability to let go of this play continues. Dame Anu was the second character created for the show, immediately after her nemesis Dame Grendela. She was initially conceived as a Sir Andrew Aguecheek to Grendela’s Sir Toby Belch, … Continue reading →

Still not (emotionally) done with this show, apparently. Grendela was the first character created for The Wayward Women. Though she has the martial pride of Fluellen and the avuncular debauchery of Falstaff (Aunticular? Tantatious? Materteral?), it is decidedly Sir Toby … Continue reading →

Turns out I’m not ready to say goodbye to this show just yet. Several of the costumes for The Wayward Women were “reveals,” and the fact that Cordelius opened the show with this particular reveal was very… well, revealing. The … Continue reading →

The Duchess, who fights to impose order in her chaotic realm, was ironically the most spontaneously created character. Originally a plot device to orchestrate the conflict between Dames Anu and Grendela, the Duchess’ dialog and especially monologues just kept growing … Continue reading →

As happens with many young male writers (though I’m really not that young anymore), Aquiline began as a commentary on a girl. Rather than self-indulgently writing her as a cliched satellite to a male character, however, I wanted to make … Continue reading →

Aquiline, who at this point in her life has only had sex with “tavern haunches” (serving boys), now bends her eye toward the fair Cordelius. Though of low reputation, he is still a gentleman, so Quill is unsure how to … Continue reading →

Cordelius, so used to doing what he wants when he wants, experiences a sharp reversal of fortune on the matriarchal isle of Amosa, where his reputation as a young man of “looser virtue” places him under the supervision of Dame … Continue reading →

It is my habit, when writing a play, to put my own opinions in the mouths of low-ranking characters whom few people respect. When possible, I also like to make sure those characters are hypocrites and/or undercut at some point. I … Continue reading →

Scene 1.2 was the first scene I wrote for The Wayward Women. It was inspired by one of my earliest and most enjoyable experiences with Unrehearsed Shakespeare: the Gauge scene from Richard II. The mass of noblemen petulantly throwing their … Continue reading →

Julian and Cordelius’ relationship is inspired by a verse play I started ten years ago and never finished, about a cheese thief and a goat thief in central France. The two thieves (Gorbaduc and Androboros) happened upon a slain count … Continue reading →