June/ July. Ideas process. Look at the stories by and biographies of Chandler, revisit the movies. Also check into Christopher Marlowe, re-read the plays and biographies, conspiracy theories concerning his death and of Shakespeare authorship, relationship with Edward Alleyn. Asked for further information form Dulwich College concerning Alleyn. Turns out they were unable to correspond due to their server security settings unable to overcome the "forbidden site" blocking of the word "naked".
August. First act completed.
September. Last scene completed.
October. First draft completed.
Hi Tommy
Your cause looks a worthy one. I am involved in my union's Writers against Gun Crime, and guess that the same rules of education and breaking the circle of violence apply to the issues you are tackling.
Here's the script on a read-only basis. I have worked with excellent community acting club groups (people with real potential and fantastic enthusiasm but no Equity card) and made up gaps in the casting by reaching out to "resting" professional actors. It may well be that the wide age-range of my characters will permit you to find people who had previously not considered joining your group.
Let me know if you wish to confirm intention for performance and I will draw up a relatively painless "...the party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the party of the first part...".
We'll leave it at one script for the moment, but no problem here in principle to keeping further options open.
Happy reading
Jim
This is me letting you know we want to confirm intention to perform. We are interested in doing 'THE OPPOSITE OF SHOW BUSINESS' in Feb/March and doing three performances in three different locations in our county to maximize fundraising possibilities...is this possible? Remember, this is our inaugural performance and with the proceeds going to our chosen charity, our funding is limited, but we will make every effort to put together what it takes to do this show.
Tommy
...........(it sort of fizzled out - casting problems.
December 2005:
Meeting with Dr
Valerie Lucas, who is interested in directing play.
Contact with The White Bear Theatre for July/August performances.
Jan/Feb: Rewrite.
April: Casting for Script Tank reading.
May:
Confirmation of The White Bear Theatre booking (26th July)
Reading at Script
Tank.
Rewrite, taking comments from Script
Tank into consideration.
Contact with reading cast.
June:
Recast, with some difficulty. Some of the actors I have used before, who have
become an occasional repertory company, were unavailable, as
were most of the Script
Tank readers. Cast Ned Alleyn and Cissy from Script
Tank (including one of the original readers) and Memphis from my
my band of rep. players, augmenting with a team of equally excellent new
people.
PICTURES
IN YOUR DREAMS
BOOKS
UNWRITTEN - REVIEWS PUBLISHED
HOME