What's in a Name?

I need a title for this play.  

How does one make a title?  Well, I've done an adaptation of Beowulf (though I added the subitle Igniting the Struggle for Joy), so that one was done for me.  And I did an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida, and that one was already done as well.  My Frontera Fest titles came to me very easily, at least if there was a struggle, I've blocked it from my memory.  And Curieosity came to me in a flash and I never questioned it.

The only thing to compare is coming up with the name of a theatre company with Rebecca Robertson.  We knew we wanted it to be about strong, wise women.

She emailed me a bunch of words one day - and within an hour of juggling them around, we found iron belly muses.  Not much struggle there, either.

This time, I ignited a struggle for a title, and it was a long, hard one.  One reason was that the play kept changing significantly, and the title became archaic.

I started with G.O.D. Generation of Diversity.  Then I got rid of all references to this in the script, so this had to go.  I then spent about 6 weeks without a title.

So I emailed a list of random words to my Lids.

Who and what are my Lids, you ask?  They are the things you put on the pot of hot playwriting to make it boil and get done faster.  My lids are Eliot Haynes, Carra Martinez, Caitlin Uzzell and Sarah Saltwick.   

Here are the words:

Title Ideas

The E Word

Playground Diplomacy

The E Word

A Playground Poem

An E Word Poem

The E Word

A Playground Adaptation

The E Word:  An Adaptation

Adapting The E Word

The E Word

A Generation’s Grace

A Generation of Grace

E Word: The Generation of Grace

The E Word

Saying Grace

The E Word

Fighting for Grace

E Word

The Grace of the Garden

Discovering the E Word

In a Playground jungle

Gracing The E Word

In a Child’s Garden

Wrestling with The E Word

Playing with the E Word

The E Word

Suspend Your Belief

E Word

The adaptation of design

The E Word

In a Child’s Garden

The E Word

Road to Grace

The E Word

Controversy in a Child’s Garden

A Crooked Way to Heaven

Saving Grace

Playground Stories

Flock together

A Crooked Way/Road to Grace

The Darndest Questions

A Suspension of Disbelief

A Meditation

A Poem

The E Word

A Playground Poem

E Word:  The Musical

E Word

A Musical Comedy

E Word

Adapting Grace

E Word

Detecting Design

The E Word Controversy

E Word Diplomacy

The E Word

A Sanctuary

The E Word

Random Thoughts

The Darndest Questions

A Willing Suspension

Suspend Your Disbelief

A suspension of finches

A grace of finches

Finches of grace

Smart ass finch

Not friends yet

Speared by cactus when we fell

Where we fell

A grace of finches where we fell.

A fall from grace

The weakness of finches

Disbelief

Everything you need to know…

Poetrees

Irreducibly Complex

Seedling

Idea

The Tree of Lives

The Idea Tree

What’s in your treasure box?

The forest for the trees

The trees for the forest

Unplanned branches

All trees allowed

Wrestling with trees

Branch Darwinians

Trunk

Poetree

Sanctuary

Diplomacy

Deciding for yourself

The weakness of it

The Growing Idea

The Controversy

Generation of Diversity

Diverse Controversy

Idea

Tree

Seedling

Strengths

Weaknesses

Irreducible Controversy

Planting ideas

Planting seedlings

Growing up green

Nurturing controversy

Class warfare

Kindergarten gedanken experimenten

Garden verses

Garden versus Garden

Tree vs. Tree

Intelligent design

Omnipotent design

Designing controversy

Prodigal sons

Forestry

husbandry

Poem of …

Poetry of ….

… Poem

The Seedling

The Poetry of Questions

The most dangerous seedling

This revolution was not televised

The seedling revolution

 

Talking with trees

Climbing trees

Tree poems

Prodigal Trees

Prodigal Garden

Amazing Grace

Gracefully Amazing

Magically Delicious

Sanctuary

The Sand box

Playing god

Playing sand box

Playing in the big sandbox

The big sand box

The big bang

Recess

Playground

Recessed knowledge

Lame duck

Lame finch

In which Darwin’s finches sing amazing grace

Finch you

Why can’t we all just get along

One must eat the other

Eve’s addiction

Kid

Play

Stolen knowledge

Snakes and ladders

Tree-rific

The graceful war

War of grace

War for grace

Figthing for grace

Grace sleeps tonight

Sleeping grace

The grace of children

Sleeping children

Stealing knowledge

Children of grace

Seedling story

Crooked beak of heaven

Crooked way to heaven

Crooked wind

 

Ornithomorphizing

Graceful wings

Children and birds

Children of the birds

Children of a feather

Flock together; right now over me

Grace flock

The grace flock

Flock of grace

Grace of knowledge

Knowledge of grace

 

Saying grace with trees

Saying grace

Time

Time and tortoises

Witness to time

Time’s shepard

The second coming

The rapture

Playground stories

Field Trip

Field of Time

Tortoise

Grace of Tiem

Time of Grace

A time of grace

>>Birds of a feather

Grace together

Playing with time and space

Space cadets

Playground

True believer

Truth

Dream weaver

Learning

Of a feather

Shell game

Intelligent mafia

Seeds

Harvest time

Stupid thoughts

Fully grown trees

Old growth forests

Old growth finches

The big sand box theory

My god can beat up your god

Fish Wars

The noodly appendage

Renewable resources