Before the beginning of the semester, I was handed a copy of "The Pavilion," by Craig Wright. My intentions, at the time, were to solely find a strong monologue, but I would soon come to find that this play had the potential to be my final directing project.
The Pavilion is a powerful story about two former high school sweethearts, Peter and Kari, who reunite for the first time in twenty years at their high school reunion. However, this is not a love story. After graduation, Peter told his father that Kari was pregnant, leading his father to immediately send Peter to college. At the reunion, they battle the scars of their past and discover where fate has brought them in the present.
I was inspired to choose this piece of work because destiny and fate are ideas that have challenged us as humans and as artists since we could think. Do our actions in the past define our path in the future? To quote The Pavilion, “Are we trapped in a net of what we’ve done forever?” Craig Wright has created a world in which we can begin to dissect the intricacies of these otherworldly ideas. I want to use The Pavilion to challenge an audience to question their own destinies.
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