I’ve realised that I haven’t yet uploaded the painting that originally inspired The Family – and here it is. Painted by Paula Rego, The Family tells the story of a father returning home and being manhandled by the females in his family. The narrative is ambiguous with the viewer unsure if the man is being helped […]
First off – crikey, over a month since my last post?! And back to business… Today was my first opportunity to get ‘The Family’ into a public domain. I was extremely grateful to have a bunch of actors come along to a workshop I held with the intention to explore the play in a bit […]
Quite a few developments this week – I finally completed a full first draft of the script (more on that in a sec), a production page has been created on the Archway Theatre website, and I’ve got the ball rolling on workshop dates and actors. So the full first draft has been done and delivered to a […]
So I’ve had some pretty great news today – the rep committee have agreed that publicity can begin for the play. Just means I need to finish writing the damn thing! As it stands now, Act 1 is six scenes and 29 pages long; Act 2 has three out of four scenes written and is […]
Finished reading ‘The Coma’ by Alex Garland. Very interesting book with some really clever ideas about perception of reality and dream-like states – both of which are themes that ‘The Family’ tries to explore… I’ll read you the blurb from the inside cover: “A young man is brutally assaulted late at night on an Underground train […]