In this short clip, Jen introduces Keir MacDonald, the filmmaker who will make a trailer for “Never Fall in Love with a Writer.” If you haven’t met Jen before, this also is your first chance to see her not in character. The raw footage was shot today. I’m looking forward to what he comes up with! […]
May 8, 2013
For me, what I love most about the rehearsal process is the development and evolution of a character from a cold read outline to a full bodied being. It’s an incredible transformation that the audience rarely gets to see. In keeping with my decision to write “Never Fall in Love with a Writer” with my […]
April 30, 2013
The rehearsal process for “Never Fall in Love with a Writer” is well underway. Wayne and Jen made an important discovery last week. Like many discoveries, it started with a mistake. Wayne writes, During this rehearsal, I made a mistake. Trying to unravel some problems between character transitions, I began to give Jen movement instructions. […]
April 23, 2013
Wayne and Jen have started rehearsing “Never Fall in Love with a Writer,” which opens June 20 (10:00 p.m.), as part of the 2013 Ottawa Fringe Festival. In this short video, Wayne outlines the challenge of producing “Never Fall in Love with a Writer” as a one woman show. He also highlights what he and Jen […]
April 22, 2013
NB: EXPLICIT SEXUAL CONTENT I fully understand why captive primates masturbate. When I am my most bored, I am also my most horny, a fact which may also help to explain the sexual turbine that is high school. I am bored now and it doesn’t help that I am marking final exams. I’m trapped by […]
April 15, 2013
The tip of Nadine’s Fluevog narrowly missed Faces’ chin. Had she connected, he was sure, he would have been knocked cold. From the corner of the courtyard, he had seen her clean Jasper’s clock with one kick. Nadine was a superb fighter, but, in a dimly lit courtyard, she was no match against a shadow […]
April 10, 2013
The notion that God-the-son became human — that divinity became flesh — is one of the most important doctrines of the Christian faith. At Sunday school, growing up, I don’t recall having any particular fascination with this mystery, which is sometimes characterized as the “word becoming flesh,” but it is with this mystery that I […]
April 2, 2013
On Wednesday last, Wayne (the director), Jen (the actor), and I (the playwright) met to read through the mostly finished script for “To Be Determined”. It went very well. We all agreed we had a solid script and, with a bit of work, we’d have a decent show. Naturally, as a consequence of this read […]
March 12, 2013
Gone cruising! Well, not yet, of course, but this post will be up for a couple of weeks, so I wil live in the future that’s almost here. Yes, I’m cruising the east Caribbean, starting Sunday the 17th, after two nights in Miami. I expect it to be a hoot. A friend of mine is a performer […]
May 20, 2013
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