Exquisite corpse art game

As my thesis includes two distinct parts, a critical essay and a full-length play, I have included both a creative and a critical writing sample. Creative Writing Sample : This final scene of my one-act play Therapy Spring features Jeffrey Bayne, an obsessive compulsive patient, and his therapist, Dr. Bridgette Jacoby, an obsessive workaholic, carrying out a session on, of all times, New Years Eve. Note: Throughout the scene, a marked transition should occur in Jeffrey: Growing increasingly angry and hostile, he transforms from an eccentric, anxious, but, for the most part, seemingly harmless patient to the menacing character hinted at earlier in his interactions with Marie.

By the time he pulls out the gun, he should be in a state of wild-eyed frenzy. Bridgette: Jeffrey, one of the first steps to letting go of these compulsions, for example, repeatedly dropping and picking up your watch, is to distance yourself from the compulsatory object. As your therapist, I think that—. Jeffrey: instantly angry : You damn therapists and your temporary solutions. This morning some woman calls me up.

Bayne, a very special opportunity. You hear that Doctor? Doctor, she just yap, yap, yap. Stood in my bathrobe like a fucking convalescent and listened to every damn word. Well, enough of temporary solutions Repeats the watch-drop routine. Jeffrey: gets up, walks around, picking up books and papers from the desk Your work, your career. What if someone told you to hand it over? Jeffrey puts it on and goes to sit on desk. As such, he towers over Bridgette who is seated on the little desk chair.

Just look at these books, these diplomas. Especially from your childhood. But as your therapist, it is essential that you and I be on the same wavelength in addressing your concerns.

Jeffrey: Turning away from her, takes a deep breath Yes, how right you are Doctor. The patient-therapist relationship. Nothing more destructive to it than a failure to communicate.

Bridgette: taken aback There is nothing to talk about. Jeffrey, I want to help you but I need you to work with me here. Jeffrey: And vice-versa, I would never attack anyone. Doctor, I only mean to help you. The first step, as you know, is letting go, detaching yourself from the object of compulsion.

I have a feeling this is going to be a very long session. Burst of happy screams outside, sounds escalating. Jeffrey: Calm down? How can one calm down with all that going on? Why, they sound absolutely mad! I, however, deep breath, he is in control now am perfectly calm.

On other end, someone picks up. Party sounds in the background. We do not see David, just hear his voice. David: furious whisper You selfish, heartless little b— You know, I thought once, just once, you could show me some goddamn support. Just show up.

And you know what? Forget it, I fold. You want to be obsessed with your office, your patients, your work, Fine. But if I have to live with the consequences, so do you. David hangs up. Bridgette, in shock, holds the receiver limply in her hand. Jeffrey: seeing her reaction He hung up on you? Oh well, probably for the best anyways. After all, no one understands your problem as well as I do.

No one could really. The thing that gets me though, that really gets me, is that even we are so limited in helping each other. Time setting metronome - tick-tock-tick-tock — it never stops. Male Voice: voice-over, as if reading off a paper Hello. Jacoby, a very special offer. As one of our preferred customers in our GoldVisa Executive Club, you are entitled to a free CityBank checking account with no minimum balance as well as a complementary savings account.

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Bridgette: terrified What the hell are you doing calling my office on New Years Eve? No, what are you doing in the office? Calling me a psycho. I suppose that would make you a psycho as well. Sound of a gun going off outside, New Years noises. This whole millennium thing … making everyone crazy! The sad thing is, come midnight, not a damn thing is going to change.

Fools, waiting for Revelation to come rescue them from their miserable little lives. Starts metronome Temporary solutions to a permanent problem. At this point, a Countdown begins outside and continues through this part. The pace should be fit with the dialogue so that it ends on cue. We can find a solution, we can find an answer. Not everything is temporary. Jeffrey: No, not everything. No matter what happens or how terrifying the world is. Time is permanent, Doctor. The question, is what is the permanent solution?

Bridgette: Jeffrey holds her down, pointing gun at her. I promise, only a couple seconds out of your busy schedule. Gradually fades out. Synopsis This piece will explore how five individuals, brought together in pursuit of creative liberation from the limitations of reality, are drawn into a collective fate. Sandor Cenceinno, 42, Loosely based on the historical father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, Cenceinno is the founder of the Sofolk Surrealist group.

For years he has been heading the small Surrealist discussion group which meets at his office every Thursday to discuss the philosophies of Surrealist giants like Andr6 Breton and Philippe Soupault and practice their own Surrealist writing through the use of automatic writing and other games.

Relatively low-profile, the group is currently comprised of Cenceinno and four others. As a member of the Surrealist group, David, a financial consultant, is on difficult terms with both his wife and somewhat with his son, Garrett.

Natalie Steadman, 25, haunted by terrifying nightmares, Natalie suffers from a mild case of agoraphobia, thus making it difficult for her to interact with society. While she used to be religious, the sudden death of her younger brother William earlier this year has turned her away from the church and towards the liberty promised by surrealism. A talented artist, Natalie makes a habit of chronicling her life in the paintings and sculptures she creates.

Why in the moments of most profound passion, must we always find ourselves in the midst of such despairing solitude? Uses surrealism as her guide — believes in its methods as a means of liberation from herself. Riley Shohmann, 27, very artsy, single, left by his wife a few years earlier.

Works on community theater productions but aspires to much more. Acting as the porte-parole for theater, Shohmnn is constantly doing odd jobs to finance his lifestyle somewhat extravagant by the standards of a middle-class factory town like Sofolk lifestyle. Outspoken atheist. Very Narcissistic. Christian Giaric 19, suffers from schizophrenia i. It is hoped that the audience will continue to read or watch to see how the characters resolve the dilemma.

There are variations on the Exquisite Corpse. The game, adapted visually, is called picture consequences, so that instead of sentences, portions of a person were drawn.

The game has also been played by mailing a drawing or collage, in progressive stages of completion, to players. The Exquisite Corpse has also taken form in multi-arts performances, in film and in music. Chain tales are as much games as they are narratives. A new masterpiece for the ages! Exquisite Corpse The Collaborative Surrealist Drawing Game Exquisite Corpse is a drawing activity game based on the Surrealist parlor exercise that the Surrealist artists invented in How to Play:.

Each page in the book provides a template for illustrations to be collectively drawn by multiple artists, creating an exquisite corpse.