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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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