Everything has been go go go in Traverse Fifty land over the past week. Firstly, we had our deadline for the twenty minute play festival submission and then each had a meeting with one of the Traverse Theatre creative team about our work. My meeting was with the lovely Hamish Pirrie (Traverse Associate Director), who offered some advice and insight so that I could improve on my most recent draft of Cause for Alarm. I am currently rewriting and hoping…
On Sunday 2nd June some of the London members of the Traverse Fifty took on the task of staging rehearsed readings of our work at the Invisible Dot in Camden Stables Market. Thanks mainly to the hard work of our own Iain Mitchell, the day was great fun and a huge success, with six plays being staged by a talented collective of writers, actors and directors. The plays were:
Sixty by NSR Khan
Culling by Iain Mitchell
Para by Deborah Klayman
Natural Break by James Green
Birdwatching by Helen Shutt
Sweetcorn by Emily Jenkins
A massive thank you to the actors who took part, namely: Gerri Farrell, Jessica Martenson, Augustina Seymour, Helen Shutt, Hugh Coleridge, Julius Metson Scott and Paul Kevin-Taylor; and to Sarah Davies and Iain Mitchell, who were our fabulous directors. Thanks too to the other writers who all came along and participated in making the day a success – NSR Khan brought the amazing food, James Green travelled a great distance and came bearing gifts, and Helen and I lent our acting skills to the event.
Also, in case anyone missed them the first time round, the Traverse Fifty Plays for Edinburgh – all originally staged in January of this year – are to be performed again at the Traverse on the 30th and 31st August 2013. My play, The Boundary, will be shown on the first night. Tickets can be purchased here!
As I post this I am also packing to go to the airport, ready for another packed day of workshops at the Traverse tomorrow! Exciting times 🙂