Got such a busy time ahead of me - tonight is the only night I've had off for a while. This weekend I'm in Nottingham with the mole-folks and tomorrow I'm meeting Helena - an old matey who has moved to Norwich. Friday eve I've penciled in Angela and Nick as I never get chance to see her anymore - and I need the Angie fix!
Tonight I've mostly been compiling rotas and emailing and sorting out my hardrive and typing up mins and ignoring the mole move shit about his new room. It's a bit like when you get a new cat and you have to open them up into one room for a bit and then annother and then annother... quite sweet really!
Well - nothing has been done on "Starchild" for what it seems I've hit the wall and don't know what to do nexxt. Luckily I have annother Stephen Lowe session next Tuesday and I do tend to leave them rahter inspired - tired but inspired!
"Mermaids" is too weird for Momentum. It's not offial yet - but Its coming, I can tell - Sarah is avoiding my calls and emails. Declan Keens play is headlining it and, lets face it, we will never be on the same bill if conventional theatre has anyhting to go by. "Mermaids" was just too odd and bizarre and abstract (allthough the Hoff did do a fantastic parody of it!) to be put on stage - its the type of thing that should be rotting somewhere as i lay on the kitchen floor with my body protruding from the gas oven...
Other writing news - "Daddy was like the autumn" s coming allong fucking brilliantly! I've had so many ups and downs with this project that its nice to find something that I can be pleased for it. Here we go...
Regression is my main theme - and like in McEwans early fiction it need to be just as stifiling as it is liberating - simple - subplot.
I put lots of characters who slowly go bonkers in different ways into the story. this is just a reflection of life, really, or at least the life that ive seen. i nned to get a scene where things go sinister in fun and that is my key.
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"Samuel's Head on my Table" (Dec's first play for Momentum) was very weird and out there, so I don't think it's just that. Think TWP are avoiding everyone. Maybe no new plays are being put on from Momentum this year, and all the resources (apart from Dec and Laura) are going towards playwrights from Toga, Tobago, Timbukto, etc. instead...?
that is true, which make me think why bother with the resources and money spent on our classess / reading our scripts etc?
waste of money if you ask me!
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