Back home from Nebraska - still pretty exhausted. It was a fantastic time but being “on” for that length of time is tiring! Looks like we’ll be doing five more conferences in the fall travelling from New York State to New Orleans.
It hasn’t been much of a writing month, nor should it have been. [...]
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I’m in Lincoln Nebraska this week (It’s hot. Very hot. And the buildings are air conditioned to the hilt so that it’s almost too cold. And you have to go outside to warm up. Where it’s too hot.) for the International Thespians Festival. Over 3000 students and teachers going to plays all day long, doing [...]
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Nothing feels better than having an vivid idea about how a play is supposed to look and sound and then being right. Of course the opposite can also be true. I worked on a short play last year - we have a number of vignette plays which are plays based on a theme made up [...]
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Been a busy week getting ready to go to the International Thespian Festival in Nebraska next week. We’ll have an exhibitor table for Theatrefolk and I’m going to be doing workshops during the week as well. The festival is quite an experience – I went for the first time in 1996 and the first show [...]
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The American Theatre Web is one of my favourite websites - it’s a one-stop shop for newspaper articles about theatre; news, reviews, releases on theatre company seasons, interviews with actors, playwrights and so on.
I read an interesting article on Alan Ayckbourn today who talked about his new play, but also about where he [...]
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Cool word of the day - Mendacity which means lying, untruthful. Divide the word in two and you have Menda City, which could refer to a whole lying community. There’s a play in there somewhere…
Finished off my last POW (playwriting online workshop) class today. I teach an online course that takes students from the idea [...]
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I think the best stage of a play is the research stage. Well, maybe not the best stage; finishing a play and seeing it published is pretty great. But it’s certainly the most enjoyable. In this stage all I have is a notebook and a pen and all I do is write notes. [...]
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