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Tin Tent · 5 May 2013
Blog #8: Audits and new adventures Overview of week’s activities: 1) audit compliance requirements 2) avenues for exploration open up This week has been reserved for catching up on all those tasks t…
Read more →Tin Tent · 29 April 2013
Blog #7: Major milestone reached 1) acceptances & RSVPs 2) program snub 3) no shows & an unexpected arrival 4) overview of project to date The week leading up to the public reading was full of promisi…
Read more →Tin Tent · 21 April 2013
Blog #6: Working, reworking and not working The second to last workshop. Things are becoming clearer and the work is piling up. Here’s this week's overview: 1) A revelation...The director focusses h…
Read more →Tin Tent · 8 April 2013
Blog #5: The Workshop: Some lessons learned. Edited Highlights: 1) my partner ‘producer’ dropped off the radar 2) actors exiting stage left and right 3) lessons learned 4) many considerations It w…
Read more →Tin Tent · 1 April 2013
Blog #4 Reading Phase Finalised Edited highlights 1) 4th playreading session went smoothly 2) evaluations done 3) plays selected for workshop phase 4) gathering of interested souls In contrast to the…
Read more →Tin Tent · 25 March 2013
Dear Readers, Edited highlights: 1) second reading disaster, nearly 2) funding approved 3) venue change 4) actors appeared 5) positive script evaluations at third reading The setting was set. Tea, bik…
Read more →Tin Tent · 17 March 2013
Unbelievable! Utterly unbelievable! What a fortnight! In brief, this is the fortnight's highlights: 1) a professional director 2) funding application submitted 3) session one of phase one completed 4)…
Read more →Tin Tent · 24 February 2013
Blog #1: Backstory. Hello Fellow Theatre Enthusiasts, this blog marks the first in a journey that will lead me into what is anticipated to be the very long and harrowing process I'm calling "from page…
Read more →Tin Tent · 8 May 2012
Amateur (n.) Fr. “lover ofâ€. Orig. from L. amatorem (nom. amator) “loverâ€, agentive noun from amatus, pp. of amare “to loveâ€. Its meaning as a “dabbler†as opposed to serious professio…
Read more →Tin Tent · 16 June 2011
can anyone help with a query about script assessment protocol? is it ok to provide some sort of explanation of a script - other than a synopsis? or to ask for a specific aspect of the work to be looke…
Read more →Tin Tent · 16 April 2011
Redrafted the drafts of drafts, brain-dead, knuckles on the ground, $2500+ lighter in the wallet (man, dramaturgs are a hungry lot), what's the next step? I got a stack of scripts. I look at them, the…
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