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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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What Simon Says…7
TF Box Office team member and emerging playwright, Simon Harvey-Williams, resumes his blog after a relatively quiet month… In the past I’ve started writing diaries with every good intention of filling each page with my inner-most thoughts, alongside over-ambitious plans for the year ahead. I’d normally manage a week of diligent journal writing and then re-discover the diary 3 months… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Wed 15 September 2010 at 1:01 am in News and tagged with new writing - Permalink
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What Simon Says… 6
Two weeks after ‘E’ day, playwright (and TF ticket-wallah) Simon Harvey-Williams is finding time to reflect on one of the summer’s hottest tickets… It’s late… Thursday evening has become Friday morning and around me is very loud and very drunk chatter. Eddie King’s Unforgettable Tour of the Forgotten (officially the last mention… honest) finished its short run earlier in the… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Mon 16 August 2010 at 1:00 am in News and tagged with new writing - Permalink
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What Simon Says… 5
This week playwright-cum-Box Office Assistant Simon Harvey-Williams is feeling rather sorry for himself as this summer’s Eddie King show looms closer and he’s confronted with the realities of Making It Happen… I feel I’ve hit what marathon runners refer to as ‘the wall’; Eddie King’s Unforgettable Tour of the Forgotten is now fast approaching and I’m finding myself waking in… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Thu 22 July 2010 at 1:01 am in Feature and tagged with new writing - Permalink
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New season shows on sale now!
This week we’ve been busy uploading information about brand news shows coming to the Tobacco Factory and Brewery Theatres from the end of August onwards. Our full programme will be announced in just under a month, but before then here’s a taster of what’s on offer. And you can book now for these shows online or by calling our Box… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Wed 14 July 2010 at 1:01 am in News and tagged with comedy, historical, masks, new writing - Permalink
