Brown in Beirut: Back2Roots – The First Night
Beirut, Middle East, Plays, Theatre, Writing
I’m going to do my best to keep up with blogging daily as a partner piece to the videos I’ll be posting, but the wifi here is slow and I…
Category: Theatre
Gorgonae, Day 8 – Old Vic Workrooms
London, Plays, Theatre, Writing
Hump day has arrived. We dove into two of our five scenes today playing with sound, the mics, movement, and the text to figure out what works best. I have…
Gorgonae, Day 7 – Old Vic Workrooms
London, Plays, Theatre, Writing
I was surprisingly alert and with it given how little sleep I got last night. But, then again, I’m a notorious night owl who has learned to get by on…
For the Sake of Intriguing Opportunities
New York City, Plays, Theatre, Writing
This post is going to piss some people off. I may lose some friends in the process. But this has been eating at me for a while, especially today. And…
Gorgonae, Day 4 – The Old Vic Lab Work Rooms
I thought this image was very appropriate for how I feel today about the work in the room. Pulled, twisted, constricted, and dramatic (complete with fabulous outturned elbow) with people…
Gorgonae, Day 3 – The Old Vic Lab Work Rooms
I’m late posting about our third day because I had to pour some gasoline on the fire to get enough pages written for our fourth day to see what I…
Gorgonae, Day 2 – The Old Vic Lab Work Rooms
Day 2 and I had a proper slept-through-the-alarm-like-a-teenager moment. It goes without saying that I was brain dead for the first hour or so of our discussions in the room, but I…
A New Project / A Semi-New Start
I am writing this much later than I intended, but I’ve spent most of the evening going back to my old Facebook page and re-connecting and merging and reinstating my…
In Defence of Directors
I love directors. But I also hate them. I am not a playwright who is of the mind that he can direct his own work. I have no career designs on ever…
An Awakening
Nahda is an interesting beast in my zoo of plays because it is actually made up of four pre-existing short plays or ‘visions’ (three of which were performed elsewhere and…