Two months to jump-off, I call in the few favours I have remaining in this town. INT. THE PRODUCER’S OFFICE – DAY Our WRITER sits on a KINDERGARTEN STOOL in front of a MASSIVE DESK, behind which sits his PRODUCER. SUPER: “Thursday, 5 April” PRODUCER You what? Our Writer kneads a CLOTH CAP that somehow [...]
I’m going to write a play. Oh, I’ve doodled in the past, I know, I know. But this play’s going up in mid-June. This year. Why theatre? you ask. Because I’ve threatened to do it a couple of times in this blog. And an opportunity arose. … Okay: I rashly – foolishly, even – accepted [...]
Went to a play last year: Albert Belz‘s Raising the Titanics. It’s an homage to the Maori showbands of the 1960s. The Herald summed it up as an enjoyable if slight frolic. Pfft. For me, from the moment the cast opened with song, my right eye teared up. It wept steadily through the remaining hour [...]
Comics The Arrival – Shaun Tan Ball Peen Hammer – Adam Rapp and George O’Connor Berlin Volume 2 – Jason Lutes The Education of Hopey Glass – Jaime Hernandez Ex Machina: Dirty Tricks; Ring Out the Old – Brian K Vaughan & Tony Harris I Kill Giants – Joe Kelly and JM Ken Niimura I [...]
INT. THEATRE – NIGHT People mill about as stagehands begin cleaning up the theatre. A FELLOW CREATIVE chats with a couple of straggling AUDIENCE MEMBERS – we overhear “It was... interesting” – before Fellow Creative joins our WRITER. WRITER (shakes hands with Fellow Creative) Well done on your opening night. FELLOW CREATIVE Thank you. WRITER [...]
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Kinda flat out. PostmodernBarney has an adorable array of uncomfortable plot summaries. There’s an interesting article over the ditch about the journey of multihyphenate Serhat Caradee who, despite having a developed script and a few short films, found he had to shoot ‘pilot scenes’ to attract funding. (Fedora-tip: Lynden Barber.) If, like me, you found [...]
Just over a year ago, I reeled from a Pasifika playwrights forum. This year, I networked at it. Yes: I hate networking. It feels false: INT. A GATHERING – WHENEVER Our WRITER walks up to a STRANGER -- WRITER (extends hand) Hi I’m D F Mamea. STRANGER Hi. Beat. WRITER (drops hand) And your name [...]
The Pasifika Playwrights Forum is TOMORROW, Saturday 2 May from 12:30pm to 7:00pm at the Aotea Centre, Auckland CBD. The Playmarket website has more information – but most exciting to me are presentations of works in progress by Banana Boat writers Victoria Schmidt and Jonathan P Riley. Alu la ‘ia, e.
INT. LOUNGE, HOME – EVENING I lie in the arms of THE GODDESS. ME I haven’t done ANYTHING this year. THE GODDESS Oh rubbish. ME I’m serious. THE GODDESS What were you busy doing at the beginning of the year then? ME ... The short film. THE GODDESS And what have you been doing with [...]
