Time for a little progress update. I submitted my play, ‘The Fall’, to The National Theatre on 23rd January and I haven’t heard back. Not a dicky bird. Even given the Covid trials, I think it’s quite safe to say that I have been rejected. I expected it to hurt. I was really worried about […]
Madame Arkadina
19 Things Classic Movies Have Taught Me … In Gifs
How to deal with Handsy men Sports! How to be shooketh Diplomacy How to care for someone’s mental health How to Think The correct response to being asked to dance How to get a massage How to use doors How to Wave How to ward off evil spirits The proper way to walk with a […]
Acting Challenges of Lockdown
Acting is a group activity. We train with other people; we audition with others and we spend most of our working lives with others. And then lockdown changed all that. For most people, anyway. I’ve been working on training myself for a while now, and that’s been predominantly alone, but for the majority of actors […]
Shifting Sands
I think I can safely say, it’s been one hell of a first half of the year! Between a global pandemic, a recession (if not depression), murders, the long overdue arrival of anti-racism and mass protests alongside all our own personal shit. I don’t think many of us are unscathed to some degree. But, for […]
Black Lives Matter
I’ve been a little quiet on here since my promise to return full throttle at the end of a hectic Camp NaNoWriMo in April. And, as you can see, I haven’t. With everything blowing up in the world right now, I wanted to take some time to listen, learn and take stock in silence. How […]