News
The WAC New Play Season was officially launched at The
Lemon Tree on Tuesday 28th October 2008. 13 Plays (including my play Birdhouse),
will be staged at The Lemon Tree between November 2008 and February 2009.
Please go and see them! Birdhouse is being performed on 17th and 18th February.
Spurred on by my involvement with WAC, who meet at His Majesty's Theatre
every Wednesday evening at 7pm (please come along if you're interested in any aspect
of theatre — script writing, acting, stage management, directing...), I've
just got back from London after a short break where I took part in a masterclass
led by Rebecca Lenkiewicz called Finding The Heart Of Your Play.
Rebecca has recently had a production of her play, Her Naked Skin, on at
the National Theatre in London — it was hugely inspiring even sitting in the
same room (I'm not worthy...) and she kept our pens going the whole time with individual
and group exercises. Our group idea consisted of a reworking of Sleeping Beauty
where a hoodie breaks into a museum and falls in love with a Mesopotamian queen
in a glass case... you kind of had to be there....
Anyway... it was a fantastic workshop — the result of which produced the bones
of a new play I'm working on — passion, jealousy, death — it's gonna
have very dark guts but will be great fun to write and hopefully powerful to watch.
Other than playwriting,
I'm planning to extend my short story Cinnamon into a novella which will
keep me busy over the winter (and next...).
On the poetry front, I am working towards a new collection... slowly... did you
catch that family of snails...? I've also submitted a poem called Night Train
for a new anthology being produced by Lemon Tree Writers on the theme of Journeys. My fingers
are crossed....
Look out for news of more Blue
Salt Collective gigs in the near future....
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