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Moving in to the last week.
Still have a pretty bad cold which is hampering my energy levels amongst other things.
Not getting out to see other shows as I’m always at my show! But it is fascinating to see it grow and develop. I’m already dreaming of a day when it might get restaged, although this […]
Read this piece about a critic getting stuck with a fake swan and his notes ripped up in Germany, witnessed by Michael Billington.
So I’ve been thinking about my reaction to that, and to mostly (though not all) good reviews for Yellow Gentlemen and my uphill (losing) struggle with national press coverage.
Artists will always want the […]
No nationals but Time Out liked it:
Here are excerpts that don’t reveal the play:
“…Two men, one young, one middle-aged, watch over the sickbed of old Tommy Lee in a down-at-heel hospice room. The three of them bicker and jostle for position. There is talk of a stack of money hidden in the cupboard.
[Then] Yeoh’s ingenious […]
Scene from Yellow Gentlemen
I now have a stonking cold. Again.
Still no national press.
However I noticed we got picked up by the Londonist and the feedback has been really positive from general audience and “theatre practioners”. A massive thank you to all those who have and […]
First night. Fear and excitement in alternating measures.
The collective silence, gasps, stillness.
Still can’t persuade the national press to come.
You’re damned if they come, you’re damned if they don’t.
Still amazingly snowed.
Rehearsals coming together. They are the most unique of spaces both emotionally and intellectually.
Seen the recent Lepage. Don’t think it is as empty as Billington or Ravenhill think. More when I have more head space.
Ravenhill also has big rant against globalisation. He disagrees with Saatchi, who says it is like the rain. […]
IF you fancied a go at translating or adapting perhaps the Gate award will inspire you.
Down load form here.
The Gate Translation Award was set up to encourage and reward the vital contribution translators make to both our work and the worldwide exchange of theatrical creativity.
The winner will receive £1,000, their script will be published by […]
I went on a train between Frankfurt and Cologne today.
It reached over 300km per hour and it hardly felt like we were moving at all. Woo.
I’m writing this on a tv in a hotel.
Security at check in was the longest queue I’ve seen for a standard check. Recent riots can’t be helping.
How fast the world. […]
I think it’s always hard for a writer in rehearsal, for many reasons.
Currently, I am surprised that lines are still not learnt 100%, mid way through rehearsals, but that’s the way these things go. Does a nyone have any opinion as to when actors should be off script?
So much is in flux, I don’t think […]
Billington interviews Robert Altman on the Arthur Miller play, Resurrection Blues, due at the Old Vic.
“”The actors have to know the play because they have to memorise the words. The technicians have to know the play because they have to organise the sound and light cues. But I want to keep myself as virginal as […]