[Virtual Performance Edition] Begin Anywhere, Little One; Spin the Lonely World, and Where You Land is Where You Start by Briandaniel Oglesby

Seven short plays about transformation are knitted together by a ring that's passed from a major character to a minor character. You can begin this play on any piece and eventually you will return to it.

After a lonely woodcarver makes a puppet, who then carves more puppets to deal with her loneliness.
An old woman encounters a rose that offers infinite life and instant death....
Seven short plays about transformation are knitted together by a ring that's passed from a major character to a minor character. You can begin this play on any piece and eventually you will return to it.

After a lonely woodcarver makes a puppet, who then carves more puppets to deal with her loneliness.
An old woman encounters a rose that offers infinite life and instant death.
An artist is shipwrecked on a magic island with his greatest foe.
A young girl deals with the grief of losing her parents by hunting death.
An apothecary deals with three obnoxious sorcerers.
Forbidden lovers meet on an icy bridge, and one is taken by a waterfall spirit and turned to stone.
A crow trades her plumage for shiny things, becoming human.

Originally written immediately before the pandemic, this draft has been annotated to be produced as a virtual performance.

This play has opportunities for eleven actors to have leading roles. Although it was originally written for an ensemble of middle school actors, it is also appropriate for older actors.

It borrows from the La Ronde/ring structure.
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[Virtual Performance Edition] Begin Anywhere, Little One; Spin the Lonely World, and Where You Land is Where You Start

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  • Nick Malakhow:
    28 Jul. 2020
    “ A beautiful theatrical fable that would work well both as an unconventional and exciting virtual production and could potentially be a transcendent, movement-based, magical piece in person! The stories straddle this amazing mythic/colloquial voice that makes them accessible, offbeat, and universally relevant. The tales run the gamut from silly to unsettling to poignant, and characters of all sizes are vividly realized. There is much room for cast expansion and condensation as needed, so teachers and directors of young folks would do themselves a favor by reading this piece and considering it for their next season! ”