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The Pillow Book of Director Tasks

Some of the notes I have taken, in no particular order, over the course of the making of Ten Months in a Cold Town. – Stage orientation? – Del soundscape courtyard? 1/2 Day? – Nervous hole rant vs Sam Dale … Continue reading

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Between shame and shamelessness…

Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence. – Salman Rushdie, Shame

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It is hard to make someone bad.

It is hard to make someone bad. Especially in this rehearsal process – we keep gingerly edging towards full-on badness. But things are flowing better now because we’re starting to look at the craft of the words on the page, … Continue reading

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The Worst Things You Could Do

We are trying to think of the worst things you could do, in your position as a spy. In no particular order: – Inform about undercover agents to the bad guys – 2 x sectarian groups – divulging the location … Continue reading

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Ten Months in a Cold Town – Rehearsals

Rehearsals have begun for our new play Ten Months in a Cold Town (possibly to be renamed Spy Play. For it is a play. About spies). Were going down the same development path of what we did for Beginning of … Continue reading

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Inspiration

MUSIC Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros Talking Heads Travelling Wilburys Tom Waits Neil Young Mountains Big Maybelle Avalanches Different Trains Swans Machine Gun Fellatio Mirror in the Bathroom – The English Beat Under Pressure – Queen Getting Away with it … Continue reading

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The Fourth Man

“Blunt seemed to be completely indifferent. In fact, it was only when we got a call from someone in the Navy back in Dover telling us to get out fast that we decided to do so. And then we had … Continue reading

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Back to Warrabah

After the fun and down-the-wire preparation for the short scene of 10 Months in a Cold Town that we showed at Candle Ends 2012, SNAFU has had to do rather a rapid about-face and head back into rehearsals for Murder … Continue reading

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Final Rehearsal – Murder at Warrabah House

We have just had our final rehearsal-space-rehearsal at Under the Hammer, Sam Hill and I firing questions off at each other while a cat curled up against me. Fired questions. We could, should? Have run the play all the way … Continue reading

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Draught One of ‘Ten Months’ complete

May and I have gone through the transcripts from the last rehearsal of Ten Months in a Cold Town to come up with the ten-or-so minute opening scene that we will be showing at Candle Ends Mini Festival 2012. It’s … Continue reading

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