Category: drama
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Six Hour Rehearsal – The End in Sight
Today, my drama crew and I spent 6+ hours together working out the kinks of our new show. Many kinks remain, but it was great to see everything begin to come together. The first 2.5 hours was working on our mini-musical: “The Last Shepherd.” This is a poignant piece which ends our first Christmas show…
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“Words to Say”: Encore Performance in KL
There we are – writer/director with Lexi and Ysabel hanging out at the pre-show meeting last night. We’ve been riding our script for quite a while now. Our short play, “Words to Say at the End of the World” won 5 awards at the festival in August, and it just keeps living on. We had…
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When a Writer doesn’t Recognize his Script
I was at a theatre festival last night where one of my plays was being performed. I was not in any way connected to the production, so I’m always a little apprehensive when I go and see one of my pieces, not knowing what it might ultimately look like. I’ve had a variety of experiences…
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Two New Sketches
I want to highlight some of the new sketches which will be part of our first Christmas show. First up: “Christmas in the Trenches, 1914.” This sketch is based on a real event during WWI when, on Christmas Eve, a spontaneous truce broke out between the Germans and British as a Christmas carol wafted in…
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You have a good show. Now make it great.
I’ve been working real hard with my drama group, getting ready for our Christmas show coming up the first week of December. We’ve spent a lot of hours working the 10 different scripts we’ll be performing that night, and I’ve been really happy with how they are coming together. It’s going to be an enjoyable…
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Big Weekend Ahead
Lots of fun drama activities this weekend at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre! It’s the final weekend of the Short & Sweet Theatre Festival, and one of my new plays entitled “A Writer’s Satire” is being performed by a group of Malaysian actors. Here’s the one sentence synopsis: A writer is summoned to appear…
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Thank (or hug) a Drama Director
If you’ve ever enjoyed a theatrical production, take a minute and thank a drama director today. Now I’m not saying this so someone will thank me, but there is a tremendous amount of work that goes into a show, 99% of it is never seen. But the laughter you enjoy, the poignant moments that send…
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My Afternoon Poster
I was supposed to finish my novel this afternoon, but I just received some photos from our drama photo shoot, so I couldn’t resist putting together my new show’s first poster. I’m no photoshop expert, but I’m learning, and it is quite fun. I hate fonts, and need to learn about them. But I was…
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Thoughts on my first script workshop reading.
I held a small script-reading workshop in my house the other day. It was the first time that I attempted to get feedback from actors before finalizing a script. I know, I should be doing that all the time, but time and other circumstances often prevent such grandiose ideas. But this went great. I have…
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