Tag: PenangPAC
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#2 & #3 – Previewing “Tales of Wonder”
I’d like to take a closer look at my upcoming show I’m real excited about. It’s the first Christmas show I’ve ever written, so I naturally think it’s going to be awesome. It consists of 10 separate dramatic pieces all centered around the most wonderful time of the year. Here’s two of the pieces: This…
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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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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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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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Tales of Wonder: Tickets on Sale Now!
My drama group’s new show – RLT Players Christmas: Tales of Wonder – is quickly approaching. Only 54 days out! This is brand new, all original show, and for the first time ever completely themed around Christmas. I’m so excited about it. Here’s the Facebook event page: Facebook I wrote this show during the summer –…
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A Mini-Tour for our Award-Winning Play
On the heels of sweeping five awards in the Short and Sweet Theatre festival recently for my short play “Words to Say at the End of the World,” we’re beginning to see that this play isn’t yet ready for retirement. I’ve been asked to have my two amazing actors perform it in three different venues…
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