The plot thickens 2

I was recently given membership to the ICA by a friend. I’d never been before so I went to check it out. I should have been at home writing the story for the show but I couldn’t be arsed and I think I had writer’s block. So I was having a coffee and rather good slice of banana cake surrounded by lots of photographs of naked men… And suddenly the rest of the show just fell into place…

After the teenage years, and coming back to the festival, we see me, now in my 20s, trying to write songs. I get off with a girl one night after a gig [this will be exciting to do in the show - and I’ll have to think who I could ask to do it… although it’s probably best not to leave that for now if I want to get anything done today]. You’ll see me not getting jobs, being broke and writing songs for people’s weddings. And bumping into Natalie again at the wedding, just like we did in real life. I mean Brigitte of course… I’m going to have to watch that. Then we’ll have an interval. In the 2nd half I get a job as a jazz pianist - which is all true so far, then perhaps come back to the festival for another song before we go back to finding out what happened to me next - and this is the tricky bit - I don’t quite know how to end it. I’ll not worry about that just yet because I’m sure I’ll think of something… I have this idea that Lenny Smallman ends up with everything he has ever wanted - all his dreams come true, which is not what the audience will be expecting, and he is living in an amazing penthouse with all three girls he was in love with - Brigitte, Anja & Charlotte. He sings to the girls while they lounge in a Jacuzzi begging me to get in with them. I dedicate my last song to them all, and jump into the water. The Jacuzzi rises up high above the stage with the 4 of us in it…. The end.

It could be expensive but it should be both funny and ironic, and mean the audience go out on a high. I don’t want it to be a depressing show.

But in the meantime I’m going to look at who we can get to be the 3 girls in the show. This is fantastic. No wonder actors love themselves so much - you get to pretend to have sex with actresses all the time. Now who’s that girl on Eastenders…?