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BLOG: Script Space V… FOOTNOTES 1
Welcome to the first Script Space V blog! Make sure you keep logged in over the next few months - every couple of weeks we’ll be asking artists who’ve been involved with Script Space to contribute their words of wisdom, top theatre tips or simply their excitement and intrigue surrounding the process of unearthing great new writing, untold stories and… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Wed 01 February 2012 at 1:01 am in News, Feature and tagged with new writing, playwright, script space, writers forum - Permalink
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BLOG: Script Space… Subtext 7
For the final installment of our Script Space blog, the baton is handed back to Sophie Lomax, the SS co-ordinator. As this goes live, Sophie and her team of readers are ensconced in the TF foyer, making their way through the 50+-strong long list, with the aim of whittling it down to the final few by the end of the… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Fri 04 March 2011 at 1:00 am in Feature and tagged with new writing - Permalink
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BLOG: Script Space… Subtext 6
Actor Shane Morgan reflects on the performer’s role in bringing a script to its feet for the first time. As an actor, I always liken getting a new script to getting a new phone. When you first get it, it is completely alien. It’s brand new. It smells new. You don’t want to mark it; you handle it as if… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Fri 25 February 2011 at 1:01 am in Feature and tagged with new writing - Permalink
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BLOG: Script Space… Subtext 5
This week the Tobacco Factory Theatre’s director, Ali Robertson, writes about the important role Script Space plays in helping us support and promote the best new writers of the future. We produce very few of the shows that play at the Tobacco Factory. We produce a Christmas show every year, but some years that’s it: all the other shows in… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Tue 22 February 2011 at 1:01 am in News, Feature and tagged with new writing - Permalink
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BLOG: Script Space… Subtext 4
A one-woman piece about a near-disastrous dinner party encounter was one of the favourites at last year’s Script Space rehearsed readings. Here the author of ‘The Most Beautiful Man in the World’, Katherine Mitchell, reflects on how the experience developed her belief in her writing and led to other opportunities. Normally, I don’t enter competitions. I always intend to, but… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Fri 11 February 2011 at 1:01 am in Feature and tagged with new writing - Permalink
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BLOG: Script Space… Subtext 3
Morgan Matthews sheds light on what happens when the 300-odd scripts have been whittled down to a rather more manageable 20-odd scripts, and the enthusiams and passions of the dedicated long-list team are roused… My part in the Script Space process doesn’t start until the long-list reading gang gets together in March. It’s something I really look forward to -… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Mon 07 February 2011 at 1:01 am in Feature and tagged with new writing - Permalink
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BLOG: Script Space… Subtext 2
In this the second installment of our Script Space blog, Director Chris Loveless (Normal, The Brewery, 2009) reflects on the Director’s role in putting a new piece of writing on its feet for the first time. I love rehearsed readings. I love them because they’re impossible. Getting a play to a standard worthy of a paying public in a scant… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Fri 28 January 2011 at 1:01 am in Feature and tagged with new writing - Permalink
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BLOG: Script Space… Subtext 1
As the deadline for our annual new writing competition looms ever closer, we launch a brand new blog that looks behind the scenes of the initiative from the varying perspectives of those involved - the producers, directors, actors… and of course the writers themselves. First up, Script Space co-ordinator, Sophie Lomax, digs herself out from under a pile of freshly… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Fri 21 January 2011 at 1:01 am in Feature and tagged with new writing - Permalink
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BLOG: Pinocchio - behind the scenes…7
Assistant Stage Manager Ruth Moore takes a few minutes out of the busy school performance schedule to talk time, trees and life post-Pinocchio. The New Year feels well and truly underway now and with only a week and a bit to go we’re heading into the final stretch now. Like Rachel (stage manager) I am staring to loose all sense… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Fri 07 January 2011 at 1:01 am in Feature and tagged with children, christmas, family - Permalink
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BLOG: Pinocchio - behind the scenes…6
Stage Manager Rachel Isaacs reflects on Christmas time in the Theatre… So we have just come back from the Christmas break and we are all feeling a bit fuzzy. Although I love my job it does mess with your sense of time: coming back and doing the same show everyday can begin to feel a little like groundhog day! Before… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Thu 30 December 2010 at 1:01 am in Feature and tagged with children, christmas, family - Permalink
