writing.performance

Tomorrow I head to London to work with director Amy Hodge for a week on Slow Falling Bird. We have a “process week” (sounds so much nicer than “development”!) at the Young Vic supported by the Genesis Directors Project. Basically we’ll be getting to know each other and the play and trying some ideas out as prep. for a forthcoming production. I’m really excited to be doing my first London theatre work of any kind. I’ll post on how it goes.

So, it is finally all over and I am truly rooly a doctor– Now I”m going to sleep for a week. Or at least half of tomorrow. Or maybe it’s time for margaritas and table dancing instead. Already I can feel my brain unclenching, and little tendrils starting to uncurl and want to explore the world outside again… and dreams unhemmed by citation…and writing plays again…

On Monday we have call-backs for Perishable’s casting of Weightless. I’m excited to be heading into rehearsals again soon with the wonderful Vanessa Gilbert, who’ll be directing (she’s Perishable’s AD). There is so much going on right now—last bits of editing and formatting before filing my dissertation; Weightless coming up; my sweetheart just moved in with me (we weave our way through boxes that no-one’s had time to unpack) and next week I’m going to London for a workshop at the Young Vic on Slow Falling Bird. Then I start my new job. I feel kind of dazed, in the middle of many gear-changes. (more…)