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On Saturday night, immediately following the Art Auction, a few Moebius Theatre people will be giving staged readings of scripts submitted to the Writers' Track screenwriting contest. We won't have much in the way of special effects, but we do have choreography.

I have always thought ("always" meaning the last 30 years or so) that a natural function of Moebius at conventions is to present staged readings or (my Northwestern interpretation minor thrills at the thought) readers' theatre -- works by the guests of honor, works created for the writers' track, and so on. As far as I remember, there was exactly one time a convention wanted to try this -- and the script provided by the GOH was ... umm ... well ... let's just say Moebius and the concom agreed not to pursue that idea further.

So I'm happy we're trying this with DucKon. The theory is that it will be helpful for authors to see their scripts performed (god knows a script on paper is nothing like a script alive onstage ... and film is a whole other thing but nobody had the resources for that, yet anyway). It should also get some visibility for the writers' track, which usually seems to operate under the radar.