What will my blog be about?
I'm a new playwright, I'm just getting started and I've definitely got a lot to learn. So my blog will be about that journey (cue cheesy moment at the end of a celebrity trip up a mountain).
Now this blog doesn't come in at the very beginning of that 'journey'. I've already been extremely lucky and had my first full length play produced. It all happened a little suddenly and a little by accident, if I'm being honest.
I was asked by two fellow drama school graduates (yes I'm a trained actress darling, though under a different name) if I would write a play for them to put on at The Courtyard, Shoreditch. I had written a few very short (5 minutes) plays at drama school which they had liked, so they trusted me to write a full length two hander!!
At first I didn't think I could do it, 5 minutes is very different to 80 and I thought I lacked the ability to go beyond a couple of pages. I did manage it and I really surprised myself - this is something I want to do more of, lots and lots more of!
The brief I was given was wonderfully loose, only two characters (1M, 1F) and it had to be modern day and relevant.
What are subjects we hear a lot about? Bankers and student debt/unemployment I thought, so I went with that. A banker and a struggling student together in a hotel room equals 'Printed Linen' - my first full length play!
I learnt an awful lot from the experience and I am incredibly grateful to Glass to Wall Productions for staging my first play. They made a lovely poster, here it is:
As the run was only 6 nights, we failed to get a reviewer in, but I did get some great feedback from audience members, so that has given me the confidence to keep writing, and now I've started I can't seem to stop! I love it.
So onwards and upwards (up the mountain). I am currently writing the play 'Lost & Found' which has been commissioned by the Saffron Walden Maze Festival and it will be performed on the town's ancient turf maze! It is being produced by Sheer Drop Theatre who are a fantastic new writing company who have been very supportive to me (their artistic director Tom Latter did the dramaturgy for 'Printed Linen').
Check out Sheer Drop's Facebook Page and give 'em a LIKE because they're lovely!
Sheer Drop Theatre - Facebook Page - me LIKEy!
Also check out 'Lost & Found' on Facebook too, and if you're in Saffron Walden in August, get yourself to that maze!!
Lost & Found - Facebook Event
Write, I shall go now but I'll be back with tales of daring do etc etc etc
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