Writing

This here is the second post of this here, my blog

The reason why this blog has come into existence is mainly due to me losing steam whilst writing. As I'm neglecting this writing to write this post at the moment, I thought it only fair to say a little bit about what I'm working on currently...

Firstly, I've been playing around with what is essentially my first wholly original play, 'Ark'. It's going well and is on the fourth draft, I'm probably going to do another one before sending it out to the world and his wife in the hopes that someone is interested in producing it. It's a post-apocalyptic play set in a bunker but that's all I can really say as the main driving force is the stuff you do or don't know so I wouldn't want to spoil anything - this is of course hoping that somewhere wants to put it on and there be something to not be spoiled. I've sent it to a few friends and relatives and the feedback's been quite good - my Nana noted two pages where the 'f-word' was overly used but apart from that they seemed to like it.

Simultaneously I've been working on an adaptation of 'Doctor Faustus' to be performed at the Edinburgh Fringe at some point in some venue I'm not sure of, I don't know when or where it will be but I'm assured it will happen and be directed by Kate Shenton - I'll post full details when I root them out of my overly filled email inbox. It's going well and becoming a meta-theatrical burlesque show run by the seven sins all talking in a hybrid language of modern English and 'thieve's cant' which has been quite fun to play with - let's me say horrendously offensive things that only a few people will decipher. It needs a bit more work though and is one of the things I'm neglecting most by writing this post.

Finally, I'm working on the third version of my adaptation of Moliere's, Le Tartuffe. The first version was produced at the York Universtiy Drama Barn in 2007. The second was highly remixed and plunged into an immersive, audience responsive style for Belt Up's 'The Red Room' at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe. This version is feeding off of last year's version but changing the setting to an abandoned, burnt out attic - it will work from the same meta-theatrical world as the 2008 version (at some point I'll explain Tartuffe and Belt Up's style but it's getting late now) but I'm expecting a lot of the text will be completely revised. This version's very much in its infancy though so I'll no doubt be posting more on it later.

So, basically they are the three things I'm working on currently and should probably get back to...