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Jane Bodie suggested plays are closer to song and poetry than novels and I think I agree. There’s more rhythm and word play.
Different writers have tried to express the rhythm of their play writing. I’ve come across Suzan Lori-Parks (writer of Top Dog Underdog - great play, worth reading for aspiring writers and others) who […]
Paul Miller came to speak to us at Talawa the other day. One of the points we discussed was dramaturgy. Paul viewed the director-writer relationship as paramount.
I would concur to a large degree. I think as a writer forging relationships with directors can be invaluable. Knowing what you want from a director and the type […]
I’ve received Arts Council funding for my latest full length play. Currently titled Yellow Men, although this will likely have to change as it’s very similar to a recent play called Yellow Man.
I’m supported by Yellow Earth Theatre and I think I’ll have some help from Talawa.
The production is likely to be beginning of 2006. […]
All those years ago, George Devine argued for a theatre, The Royal Court.
His arguments, I believe, still hold very true today, although quite how closely the Court or anyone else follows them is perhaps open for debate.
Part one – the argument
Although the major classics are now well catered for by the Old Vic, the Shakespeare […]
Billington (Guardian) has come out attacking the length of plays that playwrights are currently writing.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1460809,00.html
He says
“the new, slavish obeisance to the 90-minute rule stems, I suspect, from a mixture of fashion and ignorance; in particular, a shocking unawareness of even the recent past when drama moved beyond a single situation or point of crisis to […]
Jane asked
What are the problems, possibilities, concerns that we think shoud be written about?
I think this question as writers we should continually come back to.