Last night at a Mexican restaurant, I ordered something I've never eaten before, a stew called molcajete. It consisted of chicken and mushrooms in a strong, slightly spicy tomato broth. Very good.
But the bigger news isn't really a one day Something New. I have been working for a long time on a couple of my full length plays-in-progress. Both of them are fairly serious, and I realized I needed a light-hearted break from those, so I decided to write a short play based, for no particular reason, on a fairy tale. I used to write short plays almost exclusively; it's very easy to get them performed because there are so many theaters that produce short plays festivals. The past few years I've been focusing more on finishing some of the full lengths plays I've begun, but it has been really enjoyable lately to work in the short form again. Less to manage, no need for subplots, usually fewer characters.
It was a good challenge to decide on a theme (fairy tale) without already having a play in mind. I don't know what made me think of Snow White, but once it came to me, my imagination started running right away. This little play is about the moment when Prince Charming tells his father the King that he has met the girl he wants to marry. The King isn't terribly happy when he hears that this girl has been living with seven male dwarves and has a vicious witch for a mother. I haven't quite figured out how to end the play, but the body of it is coming along nicely.
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