During my stint as a film & theater writer for an alt-weekly in Texas, my editor asked me to write a segment for a "fantasy theater" feature she was planning.
The assignment was basically this: Write 300 words elaborating on your ideal production of your favorite play. Cast it with local actors and use area directors.
I did that, under the assumption that the article-accompanying photographs would be of said local actors in the midst of a faux scene from the play I had chosen, Sam Shepard's Fool for Love.
Wrong. Down to the wire time-wise, my editor decided to have me recreate a scene by myself.
Super.
I pinpointed an appropriate backdrop, and spent the entire morning before the shoot combing my favorite thrift store, trying to find the perfect, iconic, 80s-ish red dress for the main female character, May. In the end, I had to settle for a spiritual cousin to the full skirt she's supposed to be wearing around the nouse in the beginning of the play.
1.5 years later, it's still my favorite thrift-store find.
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