Tag: theatre
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A Bit of a Song and Dance
Ever feel you’ve got the weight of the universe on your shoulders? You need Dan Dare – or does he need you? One man’s “Potteresque” escape hatch, live on stage and for one night only… A script in hand show – come and see theatre get made! Monday 14 July, 7:30pm, Tobacco Factory Theatres (Brewery)…
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Stage Manager sought
A quick ad from our sponsors. Tobacco Factory Writers’ Forum (Bristol) are seeking a stage manager for 1-night script in hand with lots of “business”, to join a 100% unpaid team. If it still sounds interesting, read on. You’ll need to source lots of props and some costume between now and the show on 14…
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12 hours
I’ve just had an astonishing 12 hours. Overnight, the talentbacker campaign for script development for the quantum script (see previous post) hit and then exceeded its target with 6 days still to go. It’s not like running a race, cheered on by friends. It’s like asking them to run for you, while you keep yelling…
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Raising cash with Upsy-Daisy & the Quantum Suicide Rifle
I made a film! I’m relentlessly asking people for MONEY! And it’s all about that terrier of a play on quantum mechanics (what? you missed me talking about it? Let me help you out: The heartbeat of an onion, Developing this oniony play – in pictures, and Gnash, gobble, splat: the sounds of a new script hitting the genre wall)…
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How do we get people writing (produced work) for theatre when they can’t build a relationship?
You need to be familiar with a range of our work. Spend time at the bar, introduce yourself. If you’ve not seen new writing here in the last few months, I don’t want to hear from you. These are all real words spoken by theatre building peeps, to writers. I can’t argue – and am…
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M-O-N-E-Y and the “emerging writer”
I’m a member of a professional writers’ group for the Bath / Bristol area. Great people, all quite different in style and temperament. Very supportive. I don’t get there often enough (childcare, blah de blah) but without fail, it’s inspiring. So here’s last night. After a session on another writer’s work, we rolled up our…
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Thanks
2012. Not what I thought at all, interestingly. I’m clearing up the office, prepping for an exciting year ahead, and putting old posters, reviews and script notes in their proper place (this only happens once a year). I don’t like the weekend papers at this time of year – that “reviewing” thing, even dressed up…
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Get creative on yo’ ass
The other day, I remembered that 2012 is going to be an exciting year. And then realised we’re 7/12s of the way through. Apart from making me feel like my brain is falling has fallen through a hole in my saggy toddler-mum trews and lies spat on, in a wet puddle alongside the rotted tendrils…
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Devoted & Disgruntled Roadshow: massive
There’s a thing called Devoted & Disgruntled (D&D). It’s for theatre people who love theatre but also get pissed off with it from time to time. It’s a forum, an open space where you gather, raise issues, talk about them, share them. It’s real and online. It’s also on the road. Right now! I spent…
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Black Barn 15-17 June
Black Barn – it’s getting closer….15, 16, 17 June, LOST theatre, London You think it’s just you. That footstep. That scrabble. That…breath? You shouldn’t be scared. You’re all grown-up now. Come on, come with us. Let’s go inside. Look: the door’s open.” As you might have read below, I’m v excited about this project with…
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Away with the Fairies: Alma Tavern Theatre, 20-31 March
“Bath playwright Gill Kirk’s latest play is hitting all the right notes in the arts world: a comedy to cheer us in leaner times, about and starring “older” women, cocking a snook at economics and art worlds alike, and of course, it has the ultimate “must-have” for any modern play: an invisible troll. “At Bristol’s…
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Catching Up
You (I) run fast through autumn and early December to get that time off at Christmas and New Year, trip up (get the lurgy, natch), sleep a lot and fall madly behind. It has, I realise, become a pattern. BUT! Waving a blazing torch of flaming, rejected, double-side printed scripts, I stride with gumption into…
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Going at a Gallop
A gallop of a post: First of all, a humungous “hats off” to Shane Morgan of Roughhouse Productions, and Jill Bennett of Theatre Royal Bath for pulling together an astonishingly good 24Hour Plays on Friday – Saturday nights. What a superb process and outcome, with six completely new short plays growing out of nothing, performed…
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Gladiators, rrrready???
An Anaesthetic for Birthdays goes into rehearsals tomorrow for its rehearsed reading on Wednesday night and I’m very excited. This will be the first time it’s been “stood up” and the rhythms and riffs between the characters will take on a life outside my head / kitchen / early hour baby feeds. Am just reading…
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And Breathe…
Wow. Draft 3 of Anaesthetic for Birthdays has hit the director’s in-box. Water’s Not So Thick has gone into rehearsal (with a superb cast). I’ve left the house, reacquainted myself with the family and email. Not the real, paper-filled in-tray, mind you…..