Madame Arkadina

The Facts: Writer. Actress. Creatrix. Classic Movie Lover. The Feels: I'm a cat person who deals in the feels.

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 […]

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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 […]

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Shifting Sands - Arkadina.com

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 […]

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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 […]

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