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The Green Light Says Go: Green Theatre Nights in Bristol
(Bordeaux Quay: Green Venue Awaits Green Theatre) The innovative writer-led company Inkling Productions in the South West is launching a new...
REVIEW: Raymondo by Annie Siddons
Bristol Old Vic, Wednesday 30th September The audacious journey of Raymondo and his brother Sparky is going to live with me for some time. Too often...
REVIEW: Living Quarters by Brian Friel (Tobacco Factory Theatres and Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory)
I’m a sucker for stories within stories, plays within plays, doubtful narrators – chuck in a bit of structural adventurousness and I’m usually quite...
Why Dramaturgs Aren’t Scammers: Paying for Play Development
(an image from my workshop on Playwriting and Politics: paid for by aspiring writers) This blog was originally published in Autumn 2015. On the...
Writing and Technology: Dramaturgy in The Stick House
'Technology can help drive the narrative, develop character, build audience emotion and act as a push/pull system for moving an audience around a...
How Many Drafts Really Make a Play? Writing as Architecture
This blog was originally published in Summer 2015. I'm now two-thirds through my Arts Council and Peggy Ramsay Foundation-funded Protected Time to...
Post-Reading: Facing Hard Truths (ACE Blog 8)
I'm approaching the closing stages of my Arts Council and Peggy Ramsay Foundation-funded Protected Time to Write project. This is blog 8 in a series...
The Play You Wished You’d Written: Use It (ACE Blog 6)
I'm now halfway through my Arts Council and Peggy Ramsay Foundation-funded Protected Time to Write project. This is blog 6 in a series of 10...
Writing Treatments: Knowledge and Magic (ACE Blog 5)
I'm now halfway through my Arts Council and Peggy Ramsay Foundation-funded Protected Time to Write project. This is blog 5 in a series of 10...
Why We Need a New Green Story
Earthed: The Trees’ Tale is a proposed giant piece of green storytelling by Part Exchange Co and a project that has grown over nearly two years via...
The Magnitude of Story – Part 3
I’ve recently spent time on three different projects, all of which – in different ways – tell a story about stories. One is a project I spent...
The Magnitude of Story – Part 2
I’ve recently spent time on three different projects, all of which – in different ways – tell a story about stories. One is a project I spent...
The Magnitude of Story – Part 1
I’ve recently spent time on three different projects, all of which – in different ways – tell a story about stories. One is a project I spent...
Paralysed by Process: Writing off the Grid (ACE Blog 4)
The first three weeks from seven, and my first mentor meeting on process has now elapsed in my Arts Council and Peggy Ramsay...
What Happens After Playwriting Research? (ACE Blog 3)
The first fortnight from seven weeks – and my first dramaturgy meeting – has now elapsed in my Arts Council and Peggy Ramsay...
Lane’s List
Information, training and opportunities for UK playwrights
Lane’s List is totally brilliant. An invaluable resource. I wish that it had existed when I was just starting out when getting yourself involved in anything and everything is so important to getting your foot on the ladder.