Playwriting and screenwriting excerpts

In addition to comics, graphic novels, columns and short stories, I have written for the theatre and screen.

 

People and Plants

Stories of people I've loved, told through plants. Written, animated and performed by Sólveig Eva Magnúsdóttir in spring 2024 at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London.

 
Endless arctic summer days
With someone who was my whole world
Picking forget-me-nots
And patting them on each other’s chests to make them stick:

🎶Gleym-mér-ei
Gleym-mér-ei
Gleym-þú-mér-ei🎶

Only to spend years trying to forget each other.
 
 

Donna Juan

Written, directed and performed by Sólveig Eva in 2024. Based on Molière’s Don Juan, exploring what a modern, female version might be like, with his fiscally manipulative traits and hyper-sexuality, while exploring her motives, fears and joys. Written for the stage, I’d been longing to turn it into a filmic performance that would be hybrid between filmic acting, isolated physical theatre and the male gaze. Videography by Jay Sprogell.

If you yourself have never had a clitoral orgasm
I can best describe it as that clear high pitch note on a violin
Or a sweet candy that hits you right here in the jaw as you suck on it and makes you salivate
It’s an angel choir, it’s light, it soars
But a vaginal orgasm
Is like a roaring earthquake
And when the dick hits just right
It’s like the shock cracks open a fissure
Where powerful sensations erupt like lava 
bursting through the ground
just to please me until I am trembling so much that I think I’m gonna die
It’s deep, thunderous, rooted
And combined, sustained, repeated many times in a row
They make the wildest symphony
You fuck me like that
And I shed everything
My skin gives way to release my soul
and I’m soaring in the fucking stratosphere
Free from own identity
Free from any social ties
Free from anything that isn’t THIS sensation
 

Crossing

Section on postpartum depression written, choreographed and performed by Sólveig Eva in collaboration with the devising cohort. Crossing is a devised production created collaboratively under the guidance of Elizabeth de Rosa, at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, September 2024.

Women used to die in childbirth all the time
Now women choose to
Leading cause of maternal deaths is suicide.

But tough shit
Cause
They only gave my husband a two day paternity leave
Can’t lose his job
A baby’s too expensive                     
It’s already cost me my job
Burden
An infant myself needing care
Not a woman
Not a dependable partner
Not a real mother
I’m nothing.
There was one moment, recently
When a stranger caught me                                          
Looking at his gorgeous arms on the train
So he started to tell me about his watch.
And I didn’t know what to do
My brain was too foggy 
I should’ve told him about my half-helpful-husband,
But I just told him about my bracelet.
And so he touched my arm—
Gently
Checking my reaction
Whether it was OK
Whether I liked it…
 
 

For more about my acting work, please see my portfolio website.

For more about my theatre company, please see Spindrift’s portfolio website.

 
 

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