My Next Play

My next play will be about the poet Edna St Vincent Millay. Years ago I took a couple of classes in script writing, and one of the film scripts I wrote I titled 'VINCENT UNBOUND'

I had written a play about the sculptor Louise Nevelson, who grew up in Rockland,so in keeping with the biographical story about a Maine artist, I chose the poet Millay, who was born in Rockland and grew up in Camden, and went on to become one of the most popular American poets of all time. Well, the movie version most probably will never reach the screen, even though biographical movies of artists are not at all uncommon and some, like Lust For Life and Frieda K. among others were big at the box office. But having no contact with the movie industry, and actually preferring stage to screen myself, I think I ought to put all the research I did for the Vincent Unbound script to good use. I am sure that because of the local element in the story I should be able to fill the house when the play is performed in Rockland or Camden.

I have personally related to Edna St Vincent Millay since my high school days. My high school girl friend, Jo Maheu, recited Millay's Renaissance in a state public speaking competition. Years later when for more than a decade I was living in the Midwest, her poems of Maine again spoke to me and were partly responsible for drawing me back to Maine. I had "been too long away from the sea, I had a need of water near."