Well here it is! The final short play, it’s done, I can finally go to sleep on time.
The last challenge was the reverse of the very first (‘1928’ – https://tinyurl.com/zkcrrsj ) so we had to create a play around ‘8291’. I looked at songs, coordinates and dates. But I couldn’t find any inspiration for a story. So I said to myself, look back through your tweets, and your play has to be about something in your 8291st tweet. So I looked and, well, it came up with this picture of Sean Connery eating spaghetti in Rome.
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Which had me laughing, what the hell was I going to write about? I didn’t want to particuarly want to end this journey with a story about Sean Connery eating spaghetti in Rome. So then I thought about the way this picture made me feel, it’s funny, his expression is priceless. Worthy of a meme.
So I created a character who loves memes and pictures of the past, and I came up with Sammy, and Sammy needed a friend, so I made Tai. It’s a sweet play, and a nice one to end on, no explosions, no deaths, no drama. Just awkward dialogue and social ineptness.
Here is my final play, enjoy:
PS: I have attached below the two other photos mentioned.
(Left: Painters on the Eiffel Tower, Right: Soldiers line up in height order; British, United States, Australia, India, Germany, France, Austria Hungary, Italy, & Japan, 1900.)
tale to tale 
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