Lilith at the Wedding

Link: LilithAtTheWedding.pdf
Type: Short Screenplay
Status: Unproduced

My regular writing group has a yearly tradition around holiday times.  Each year we decide on a new writing challenge, and we give ourselves the period over the holidays to work on it.  Sometimes we give ourselves inspirations, such as music or photos.  Other times we have to hit certain plot points at certain times.  Sometimes we give ourselves requirements that we have to use.



The 2010 Holiday Project was fairly straightforward.  We had to work on a version of the Lilith myth.  Beyond the inspiration, it was pretty open-ended.  After a few false starts, I settled on imagining Lilith as the wedding guest at the modern wedding of Adam and Eve.  Since she was said to have mated with demons after being cast out from Eden, I gave her a demon "date" who is somehow less disruptive than Lilith herself.  There are some fun hijinks before we get to the conversation between the exes Lilith and Adam that the piece has been leading up to.

Next Step: It'd be pretty hard to film what with the need to stage an entire wedding and have a hideous demon on the screen.  I'm actually thinking of adapting it to a 10-minute play, at least the Lilith and Adam conversation part of it.