The script is a rehearsal draft developed at Banff Centre in February 2026.It is written as a studio session in A and M Studio C, Los Angeles, 1971. The action stays inside the room. The piece runs in real time and is structured in four reels.

The text is written by Graham McLaren. It is based on research across long form interviews, documentaries, and biographies.

It uses Joni Mitchell’s words as source material, but the spoken text is re phrased and shaped for the stage, rather than presented as verbatim quotation.The draft combines three kinds of material:

• Live performance of songs
• Studio talk and working process, including talkback and session notes
• Interior passages, marked through sound treatment rather than changes of location