Sorry for my negligence of late, it's been a frantic, crazy, hectic, and unbelievably exciting time for me. Just a quick recap.....
I'm now officially registered to perform in the Vibraphonic Poetry Slam on 7th March at the Exeter Phoenix. I'm absolutely terrified, but I've got an ever mounting spectrum of word wizardry creeping into the folds of my notebook. I'm not a poetry performer and aside from the youtube videos I've been watching of other slams, I am walking into this completely blind. I'm hoping my performing experience and my love of poetry will help me, but if my words aren't sharp, arousing and thump with a vibrant beat - I'm dead in the water! My tactic is to write the different pieces in a style of chapters from the book of my life. I promise it will be more interesting than it sounds!
I've also been working on some new comedy sketches. I won't be adding them to the Barefaced Cheek repetoir just yet, but hopefully I can find enough gems to submit to the 7on7 sketch competition currently running on the BBC writersroom website. The prize is use of your sketches on a new BBC Radio 7 show and also a writing masterclass with David Mitchell of Mitchell and Webb (Peep Show) fame. If I won, I would have to try terribly hard NOT to wet myself or else I might be the subject of one of HIS sketches. I'm sure the competition will be tight and I know of a few other South West comedy writers entering this competition so we shall see what happens!
Other news - I'll post individual updates for Temple of Nothing (first performance of Transparent Masks in April) and Barefaced Cheek tour of This Show Shall Remain Nameless... soon.
New project - I'm currently writing a one act play examining a mother/daughter relationship and written in my usual tongue-in-cheek fashion. The working title is Peach Fuzz and this play is very special as I'm developing it on the basis that it will be performed by myself and my daughter (the inspiration for my own foray into acting) upon our return to Halifax, Canada. I'm hoping to schedule it into the Atlantic Fringe Festival this coming summer and other venues in Nova Scotia.
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