The Playhouse Bibles

Abstract

The Playhouse Bibles is a hybrid collection concerned with - and eventually obsessed with - its own creation, fabrication, and assembly. My goal in compiling this version of this metafictional thesis was to say something about how I write now, to indulge in the rare and glorious opportunity to explore the process of writing beyond genre and product, to honor chaos and magic when it occurs on the page, and it certainly did occur in these pages, quite unexpectedly, as part of a mandatory assignment to complete a degree in fiction. These stories, musings, poems, lists, spells, and instructions were written as if the author was on fire. In fact, I was. What I learned in the course of generating, accumulating, and selecting these works is that writing is both an act of play and an act of service. The purpose of The Playhouse Bibles is to prove it.