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‘Tweet’ by Joanne Reardon Lloyd
Found Plays was part of the Royal Court’s ‘Open Court’ season which ran throughout June and July this year, taking mini plays developed from overheard conversations, images, magazine stories and putting them on the theatre’s website or scattering them all … Continue reading
Andrew Garvin contributes to a new play, ‘The Trackers’
Andrew Garvin has contributed to a performance of the satyric play by Sophocles – entitled The Trackers. He co-operated on the English version of the play, which is contained in the book and programme for this performance. The performance of the play was generated … Continue reading
Ida and Louise – a radio commission for Jane Purcell
I’ve just been commissioned to write a five part Woman’s Hour Drama based on the lives of Ida and Louise Cook. Both were avid opera lovers and during their travels to Europe in the 1930s became aware of the persecution … Continue reading
Writing for Site-Specific Theatre
I’d always wanted to collaborate on a site-specific piece, and when Nutshell’s director Kate Nelson asked me to write a play for her allotment for the Edinburgh Fringe, I jumped. Partly in excitement, partly in terror. Terror because we’d be … Continue reading
Triplet: Michael W. Thomas
My writing and publication record defines me principally as a fiction-writer and poet. In the last couple of years, however, I have become increasingly interested in writing drama. In the context of the OU, this may well have been through … Continue reading
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All-Action Radio Road Movie
The story of Kirkpatrick Macmillan, the inventor of the pedal cycle, is well known in Dumfriesshire, but he doesn’t seem to get due credit elsewhere. Time, I thought, to put the record straight, and give him his own radio play. … Continue reading
Jane Purcell: BBC Radio 4 play commission
The way that BBC Radio 4 works is that you send in an idea, jumping through about 356 hoops while you do so. Then you wait and wait and at some point you might hear that your idea has gotten … Continue reading
Playing with words and music
Write a play with songs, for a cast of four actor-musicians – that was the brief from Penrith’s rural touring company, Quondam. I’d only written one song lyric in my life, and loved it! So I was kicking keen … Continue reading