Category: drama
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What’s different about writing drama? (Coming Soon! My new show!)
I love writing novels. I wish I could do it full time for a living. But for pure enjoyment, what I do with drama probably tops novel-writing. Most likely it is the case because with drama I get to take my work and put it into production right away. Plus I get to collaborate with…
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The Necessity of Bad Rehearsals
There is no such thing as a bad rehearsal if progress was made. My drama group had a three hour practice this morning, gearing up for our show less than three weeks away. Unfortunately, due to a variety of circumstances, we worked on our last two pieces for the FIRST time today. Not ideal at…
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RLT – The Little Group Near to My Heart
I’ve teaching, directing, and writing drama for a number of years now. I guess it’s been seven and a half years. I’ve learned so much – mostly that I don’t know much about acting or directing. (On the writing part I think I’m okay.) I get to work with young high school actors – some…
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Gearing Up: Final Weeks before my Next Show
I’ve been on break this past week and what a gift it has been. I’ve had substantial time to write, enabling me to get a fair chunk of novel five written in my Scrivener. I also wrote a short play and dabbled in a few other projects I’m working on. But as my precious break…
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My Play Heading to Sydney, Australia!
I was super excited to find out yesterday that my short play, “A Pinch of Fate, A Shot of Destiny”, was chosen by a director to be produced as part of the Short & Sweet Theatre Festival Sydney 2015. It’s billed as the largest short-play festival in the world. This is very exciting for me…
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Is Fictional Storytelling being Diminished in Theatre?
I enjoyed reading THIS opinion piece on fictional storytelling and verbatim theatre. Honestly, I know very little about verbatim theatre and have not had an opportunity to see any verbatim shows up to this point. What is ‘verbatim theatre’ you might ask? It’s theatre which uses the real words of people who have been interviewed. Actors…
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“A Woman at War” at Gala/Finals Night! A Thank You to Everyone
My mini-musical “A Woman at War”, I found out late last night, made it to the gala/finals night at Short & Sweet Musical KL this evening, Oct 5, at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre. As this post goes live, the show will just be starting. Break a leg, everyone! I had very little to…
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“If we could only do the arts everyday and forget about things like science.”
I had a delightfully long drama rehearsal with two young actors this afternoon. We put in a good hour and a half on a nine minute sketch we are working on. As we finished, one of the actors commented how she has to go home and wade through a 13 page biology study guide for…
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“A Woman at War” Musical Lyrics
In yesterday’s post, I mentioned how my musical “A Woman at War” is being performed this week in Kuala Lumpur Wed-Sat as part of the Short & Sweet Musical Festival. I’ll be heading down tomorrow to take part in the festivities. But in the meantime, I thought I’d post the lyrics. “Dedicated to all the…
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