The Radical Storytelling Crew

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The Radical Storytelling Crew is an Anarchist Theatre Collective. We are interested in telling stories with materials and space that do not require us to ask permission. We want to be accountable only to the land and our grassroots communities. This is our place for discussion and knowledge-sharing. We haven't yet made any decisions about what permissions non-members should be granted on this Lemmy community.

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Writing Prompt: The Worst Anarchist Play Ever (slrpnk.net)

submitted 8 months ago by jugularmalloy to c/thersc

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Hello,

So if any writers want a writing prompt, please take this one for our ice breaker exercise. The point of this exercise is to get us relaxed and playful and comfortable with each other by deliberately trying to make something as bad as possible.

If you post your writing here, it should be easy for the performers to read it on their devices while we're in the session, but bear in mind this is a public forum.

I am quite overwhelmed right now trying to get things set up so not in a creative mindset but I have one line to contribute:

Pete the Punk: PUSH OVER THE QUEEN!!!!

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[–] AstroMancer5G 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ooh, this is a good one!

I imagine something really corny and on the nose. Something that shows stereotypes about anarchists and absurdly bad, unrealistic anarchist praxis "working".

Like, Biden sitting in the oval office, moving a pen through the air over a blank piece of paper ("signing" it), and he says in a posh English accent, "I hereby sign this bill to make all food and water illegal.". A big mob of rowdy anarchists with spiky mohawks, piercings, and grommeted leather jackets with circle-A's spray painted in red on the back shows up out of nowhere and starts clamoring outside the White House. One of them says, "We need food!" Biden shouts "No!" out the window. They shout back, "Then we'll eat the rich!" Biden says, "Oh, no, but I'm rich! Let them in!" They all come in and give Biden a kindergarten-style lesson on the work of Proudhon, Kropotkin and Bakunin. That lasts two hours of the play. Then, at the end, Biden says, "Wow, you're right! I guess I'm not going to make food and water illegal after all." and walks out the door.

I admit I felt kinda guilty just writing that.

[–] jugularmalloy 1 points 8 months ago

lol that's great. I love it that threatening to eat him works just like that.

If you're a member of the London crew then we started sharing our writing on a private riseup pad instead because formatting here was a nightmare. The link for that is in the new Signal group.

If you're just an internet person then hello and thank you! I think we're gonna use this community to just share resources now and maybe have some open discussions about relevant topics. xx