It’s been one of those days or will be one of those days if this week is anything to go by. I have spent the last five days working on a new play and it is painfully slow work. One of those days when you wonder why you are doing this to yourself. Avoiding the [...]
Entries from February 2008
February 23, 2008
Wallsend’s Chesil Beach
On Thursday I had dinner with Psyche, we chatted about the latest draft, made some minor changes on script and caught up before rehearsals next week. Psyche’s up from London this week working on Northern Stages, Our Friends In The North. http://www.northernstage.co.uk
I caught the metro from North Shields into town for the meeting. As usual [...]
February 19, 2008
we are family
I am lucky to live in the North East, not only are you never more than 20 yards from a Greggs outlet but there is also a strong community of writers here, fostered in no small part by companies like New Writing North. Newcastle is a good place to be a writer, there [...]
February 17, 2008
Success!
Yippee, the blog has had over 600 hits in nine days! I am delighted by that, it feeds my writer’s narcissistic need for an audience. Being a Luddite I still have no idea about feeds or links or have been able to enlarge and upload a copy of the Pub Quiz poster but still [...]
February 11, 2008
Warm Up, my arse
Rehearsals start in just over two weeks and I will definitely be attending the first few. Which got me thinking about on an approach to the rehearsal process which some directors insist on and I hate, which got me ranting, which got my husband insisting I change names to protect the innocent and cut out [...]
February 10, 2008
Horrid Photos
January 30th:
Had my photos taken today and despite the professionalism and kindness of photographer Simon Veit-Wilson, it was as expected a less than delightful experience. We started off in the Tynemouth Lodge pub which was thankfully almost empty. I thought I could just hide behind a table, couple of quick snaps, job done. Oh no, [...]
February 10, 2008
Casting & Marketing – week of January 21st
Good news, heard that Vicky Elliot, Helen Embleton, Chris Price and Micky Cochrane have accepted the parts of Cathleen, Bethany, John and Pete, closely followed by James Cunningham as Lewis. Psyche is still busy auditioning for Asram and we are waiting on a calll back from a particular actor for Geoff.
I was lucky enough to [...]
February 9, 2008
Who will buy?
As soon as I found out tickets had gone on sale I got the fear. I even had a nightmare about there only being three people in the theatre including me. When I told my dad I was worried about Hexham as it is a small place and a large venue, his answer was, “Don’t [...]
February 9, 2008
a very little world
Eventually I will catch up on myself, so yet another backdated entry. Also apologies for the punctuation, I have no idea what to do with commas.
Jan 16th – The third day of auditions was followed by a production meeting, the lighting and set designers came up from London, the talented Anna and Mila who [...]
February 8, 2008
printer malfunction shock across North East (and Auditions)
Jan14th – 16th
Three days of auditions and it the process was tiring, illuminating and exciting even though I didn’t get to bellow, ‘Next!’ once. Immediate observations of note:
Two actors had limbs in full plaster due to stage injuries from previous shows, pantomime and dancing Dickensian jigs are dangerous pursuits.
Actors are wonderful sources of [...]
