I’m trying to write a book. Actually, I’m trying to write the synopsis for a book, which will probably become the introduction to that book. To be more accurate, I’m trying to write a begging letter – please publish this book! – and a extended, elaborate promise – you can trust me to write this …
Working with my performance writing students this morning, I set them the task of quickly inventing a game to be played before, during, after or as a piece of performance. I asked them to determine a playing space, one or more tasks to be completed and a relationship between the players. Here are three of …
Not quite sure what to make of Andrew Haydon’s mildly tongue-in-cheek list of cliches of visual theatre that should be banned: some items on the list are specific images or props – battered suitcases, falling feathers, umbrellas-as-birds, people climbing out of furniture1 – but elsewhere there’s the demand that we get rid of entire forms …
An occasional kind of post in which I am enthusiastic about ideas I’m not working on right now: the Having-A-Good-Day RPG: you found your keys! you’re early to work! Chair gives +10 sitting. you’re holding a glass of wine at a fancy reception: you’ll need the iPhone app that claps for you when you shake …