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Noisy Words @ Traverse Theatre
In the last few weeks, I also had the joy and frankly, nervous exhaustion (in a good way) as 1 of the 5 writers involved in the experimental and rather wondrous Noisy Words at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. A collaborative event with writers, actors, musicians from the Red Note Ensemble and composers all working…
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EIFF Network
And it’s official (finally!). Really excited to hear earlier in December that a project I’m screenwriting is 1 of the 9 UK features chosen to be developed on the development and mentoring programme, NETWORK (run by EIFF and Script Editor Kate Leys, and supported by the Skillset Film Skills Fund and Creative Scotland). More info…
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Fire. I want you to burn.
Last weekend saw my first residency at the previously mentioned Playwrights Studio Screenwriting Residency, with a glorious couple of jam-packed days high on a hill in a hotel in the west of Scotland. I met the other 8 participants, and we bonded happily over writerly chat, beer and enjoyed some fireworks provided by a party…
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Playwrights Studio Scotland Screenwriting Residency
Lovely to get the good news that I’ve been awarded a Screenwriting Residency with Playwright Studio Scotland/Creative Scotland/Binger FilmLab to work alongside industry mentors over a series of residential workshops to develop my feature screenplay Masterbaker. The residency runs from November through to the 2012 Edinburgh International Film Festival – cannot wait!
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Since the summer
Ah September you’ve been a weird one. On the plus side, I saw Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and thoroughly enjoyed its 70s Gary Oldman goodness. It was wonderfully evocative of the period, and Oldman certainly gives a powerhouse minimalist performance, but I do have issues about the hurried ending, and too-easy tie-up of some of…
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The Kid In The Front Row Film Questionnaire
Fascinating questionnaire from Kid In The Front Row: 1. What film has been sitting on your shelf for six months waiting to be watched? La Vie En Rose 2. What is the one film you know word for word? There are 2 – Black Narcissus and Some Like It Hot 3. What screen character breaks…
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Flung 9/11
I usually post chirpy things, but now and again a subject makes me so angry I find myself typing and typing until something emerges that feels important to me. You might not agree, but be warned, this isn’t chirpy. Millions of us have seen the photos of the so-called ‘jumpers’ (I hate the casualness of…
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Neil Gaiman underlined my ‘you’
And so to the (near) end of the Edinburgh Fringe and Festival. It began inauspiciously with exhaust-gate when my entire long assembly decided it wanted to meet the road – but a few hundred quid lighter and 3 hours in Kwik-Fit, and I was mobile again so I actually managed to get along to a…
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Dummy Jim
Brilliant night at the Speigeltent in the Edinburgh Book Festival to see a live and somewhat experimental performance about Dummy Jim, a feature project by Matt Hulse about James Duthie a profoundly deaf Scotsman who cycled to the Arctic Circle in 1951. Readings from Duthie’s journals, combined with glorious, live music from The One Ensemble…
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A Place In The Sun*
* There’s no Shelley Winters in this post. I’m writing this outside in sunny Scotland, 25C to be exact in an outfit that HAS NO SLEEVES. That’s pretty rare in these parts. Something else rather rare – I’m having a few days off with the intention of doing not very much, but the hope that…
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