I had a great meeting with John Costigan yesterday to talk about the music for the reading. We both think in similar ways about music so it was a great conversation. I just went through the script and looked for sound and music.
The big news is that I'm swallowing my pride (knowing that this will be personally difficult for me) and we will have this as the first reading in our FreshINK series at the end of September. Right now, after thinking of several different ideas, I think I'm going to keep it simple and call it "The Lowell Factory Girls". Clear - not exciting - but clear.
I've added myself into the script at the end as part of a monologue. I'm not sure it works, but I was encouraged to do it. I look forward to making the next round of cuts and changes as I'm finally beginning to see how this will work on stage!
Listening to music was helpful. I had some songs in my head but found a few that are interesting in their connection. I remembered that The Roches did a great version of "The Factory Girl" on their album NURDS. I don't think I can legally post the link to the song (and don't even know if anyone is really reading this) but you can search for it on iTunes. It is an old Irish folksong that applies and it has been performed by many folk artists over the years. This is not, by the way, the Rolling Stones song that will also come up in a search. :)
