Hello!
Anybody browsing this website - and, let's be optimistic, somebody might want to - could conclude that I haven't really done anything in a while. After all, my last listed writing credit as of today is The Wind in the Willows, written and staged in the summer of 2012. I thought I should open my blog with a little message to disavow any notion that I might have given up on the whole thing, and to say what I've been up to since then.
Most obviously, I did my MA at Goldsmiths. I've rammed that down your throat on various pages, partly because I needed to fill that post-2012 gap and didn't want people to think I'd simply died. (After which my ghost presumably came back, bought a Weebly account and created this website.) And, naturally, that MA kept me rather busy. During the course, I did write several short plays and one full-length one: Monster Hunters, the first act of which can be read on this website. However, things being as they are, it's really very tricky getting work staged at the moment. Certainly, it's much harder to do it when you're no longer an active member of your old university theatre group, and when you're also trying to get used to a new city, balance a day job, and write new scripts as well. Added to which, a project is liable to explode into life and then abruptly sputter, wither and die, like a particularly feeble Catherine wheel. A few of those have happened already.
However, I am writing at the moment. Oh yes, oh my. In fact, the project I'm currently working on is coming along rather nicely. I'm adapting Marivaux's The Game of Love and Chance, to be directed by Roxy Cook (currently studying at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts) and staged in a few months. I don't think I'm allowed to say too much on it at the moment but suffice to say it does feel good to be writing another character comedy and to know that I'll have something new to add to my credits soon! I'm also working on another few projects at the moment that I really should keep secret for now but - if there's anybody out there - do please watch this space...
Anybody browsing this website - and, let's be optimistic, somebody might want to - could conclude that I haven't really done anything in a while. After all, my last listed writing credit as of today is The Wind in the Willows, written and staged in the summer of 2012. I thought I should open my blog with a little message to disavow any notion that I might have given up on the whole thing, and to say what I've been up to since then.
Most obviously, I did my MA at Goldsmiths. I've rammed that down your throat on various pages, partly because I needed to fill that post-2012 gap and didn't want people to think I'd simply died. (After which my ghost presumably came back, bought a Weebly account and created this website.) And, naturally, that MA kept me rather busy. During the course, I did write several short plays and one full-length one: Monster Hunters, the first act of which can be read on this website. However, things being as they are, it's really very tricky getting work staged at the moment. Certainly, it's much harder to do it when you're no longer an active member of your old university theatre group, and when you're also trying to get used to a new city, balance a day job, and write new scripts as well. Added to which, a project is liable to explode into life and then abruptly sputter, wither and die, like a particularly feeble Catherine wheel. A few of those have happened already.
However, I am writing at the moment. Oh yes, oh my. In fact, the project I'm currently working on is coming along rather nicely. I'm adapting Marivaux's The Game of Love and Chance, to be directed by Roxy Cook (currently studying at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts) and staged in a few months. I don't think I'm allowed to say too much on it at the moment but suffice to say it does feel good to be writing another character comedy and to know that I'll have something new to add to my credits soon! I'm also working on another few projects at the moment that I really should keep secret for now but - if there's anybody out there - do please watch this space...
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