Collected Plays of Sanjay Jiwane by Sanjay Jiwane

After I did an extremely emotional speech to my cast, I scared everybody in attendance because they misconstrued my fiery words forĪ mental breakdown. I was overly resolved so much so that the school had to respond. Iīegan to rise up a royal stink as it were putting on demonstrations against the injustice of his decision, getting a petition signed (Of which I am rather proud of, 500 names in an 800 studentīody.) and duct taping myself to signify the oppression against freedom of speech and expression. So began my fight! I wasn't taking that answer hands down nobody was going to sabotage my dream that easily, so I began to protest. Inįact he forbid me to put the play on in the school at all. Its content involved a high-school shooting, and to be frank the administration of the day was quite cowardice to tackle heavy themes. To put the icing on the cake the script was controversial. To quote Johnny Depp from 'Pirates of the Caribbean' 'I deserved I replaced her with a girl who at my request albeit slapped me in the faceįor making her wait so long, promising her the part, then choosing another and turning to her only when my other choice went AWOL. Chal' was a Wiccan, and she respectfully resigned. Wasn't the only one to quit on me: the girl I had first cast as 'Mrs. I negotiated negotiated, and negotiated with these insufferable young women, until finally my lead just quit on me. Required to kiss was a sworn enemy of my female lead. Now if this wasn't bad enough the girl he was Now he had a viciously jealous girlfriend at the time, and the script required him to kiss another girl. The problems began with my lead character.

This event literally changed the course of my life! Learning mechanism! Although it was a failure in actuality I consider it a great success in principle. Slapped in the face, later lost all my cast, got rejected by the principal, and my lead contracted lung cancer that this was not going to be an average run of the mill production. I should have known when during casting I was It was a turning point in my life a crossroads which would eventually spiral my journey into years of Manic-depression and Schizo-affective disorder. As soon as I auditioned people the entire show, and my dream began to crumble right before my eyes. The entire venture from the get go was an uncanny disaster. Being a zealous and fervent youth I pursued my passion, and found myself hosting auditionsįor my script 'Yesterday's Dream'. It all began with aĭream a dream to direct a play in high-school something I had yearned to do my entire student career. Here is this play's heart wrenching story.Īt seventeen I learned the truth not the truth that love was meant for beauty queens, but the truth that our world, and my mind was indeed unlike what I had imagined it to be. I was a high-school student in Senior year, and my deep desire was to produce this play.

Collected Plays of Sanjay Jiwane by Sanjay Jiwane