My second play (the first I wrote) is going to be on stage the end of May and beginning of June, for four performances. In preparation for this, I'm ramping up for rewrites. I had to make some changes to get it down from a 90 minute show with five actors to a one hour show with three. Then that version of the script had a reading on Saturday. I've ( Read more... )

I've spent the last week sick as a dog (with tonsillitis), and it's given me lots of time ... well, to sleep, but in reality it's also given me the time I need to finish my Xmas Carol rewrites, if not the brilliant brain I'd like to make all of my writing coherent ( Read more... )

Had the reading of my 2nd play last night. Man, I have a lot of work to do to make it better, and I may not have it in me to make it really good. But I'm committed now. It was kind of amazing to hear my words spoken by the talented people who were on stage and go, "Oh, I see, now it makes sense, when a person who can read these words says them ( Read more... )

I sat down yesterday and talked with a director about my play Xmas Carol. It was a really emotionally difficult meeting because, well, I was having someone talk to me about my baby and my decisions and questioning one after another choice I had made. But for me it was amazing how, for nearly two hours, I was able to explain why I had made so many ( Read more... )

I'm telling people about my new story and the characters and mandroid dance routines and suddenly it feels like I'm about ready to start writing my next play.

This morning I'm having a meeting of my production team - essentially Jason and Arwen - who are helping me get my playreading together for tomorrow. My housemate, David, the theatrical accompanist, jumped in on it too - enticed in by waffles and bacon, I think ( Read more... )

The playwriting competition I'm submitting Three Brothers for has the deadline of June 5, not October 5 like I (for some reason) thought. So over the next three weekends - er, two and a half - I need to get the new intros for act one and act two melded into what already existed. Act one will be easy, I think, but in Act two I've got a bit of ( Read more... )

The theater reviews carry on - I don't appear to be posting them here very much. I should fix that, maybe later today. I also do a theater review podcast sometimes. It's recorded on Sunday mornings, and it's like getting together for a coffee with a bunch of other theater nuts, only we're all in our own houses ( Read more... )

I'm very full on in my play "The Xmas Carol" right now: in the middle of the final act (given that the end is going to be, "Oh it was all a bad dream" this seems to be to be the real final act, though not the end). I'm finding that one thing my writing retreat did for me is that it seemed to turn writing from something I had to wait until a muse ( Read more... )

So in a week I'm doing a real triathlon - a sprint distance one as opposed to the pint-sized beginners' tri I did last month. I think I'm physically prepared for it, but I have a feeling I'm going to get panicky the day before and have a hard time psyching myself up on the day. The panic, the adrenaline, the anxiety issues are still a problem for ( Read more... )