I’ve been up in Kilcreggan… Glasgow… Ardpeaton… Gourock… All these places for the last week. Finally starting the new play idea that I’ve restricted myself to not do any work on until I got here. At the moment I’m sitting in the main centre (only place you get Internets) and listening to the rain pelt the skylights. It’s been a tough old week as I battle through decisions and fill in application forms and have a major scare with my laptop innards. But all in all it’s been productive.
So The White Room’s run is over. We’re not sure what’s next, let alone me. I’m tired and emotional for allsorts of reasons to do with production. I felt physically sick for the most of it and nervous when familiar faces turned up. The more I saw it the more I wanted to tweak and edit. The things I were worried about I needn’t have and the things I thought were fine needed work. But this is the game – trial by fire and do it again. I’m so tired so don’t want to dwell on this chapter too much as there’s still life in the project but it’s a waiting game at present. I can’t reveal too much because there’s not anything solid to reveal yet. I’ve already started the inklings of the next idea which wasn’t intended to be the next idea but hey the emails have been sent now. Again, I wait. And Glasgow is next week for The Fielding Programme where I start the initial workload for the next play (the planned one, the reason I’m going.)
I’ll leave you with a few odds and sods from The White Room and I probably won’t be around these parts for a while as I prepare mentally and pack a bag for Glasgow. I’m thinking of starting my video blog side of things once I’m there, seeing as I started it up there the first time round….
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It’s coming up very soon. So here are the details if you so wish to come and see it. It would be nice to see your face there, I may even stroke it. In all seriousness there’s a Q&A with myself, the director and the two actors involved after the final evening performance on the Sunday.
There’s a Facebook event page as well like most modern things have so if you want you can have a looksy there: (this here is a link to the Facebook event page I just mentioned)
But if that doesn’t take you fancy here are the details in a wordy format. Fantastic!
Commissioned by Theatrix Theatre Company, Katie McCullough has adapted the short story ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’. Radically modernised for a 21st century audience McCullough aims to carry through the horror first depicted by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the original.
SYNOPSIS
With Liam spending more time at work and the pressures of motherhood bearing down on Helen the couple bicker with each other to devastating and revealing results. She thinks he’s having an affair and he can’t seem to inject their life with the warmth he’s so ready to give while battling with money issues. After wading through their fears and differences the couple reconcile only for the past to be dug back up. With newborn Isabel palmed off to the mother-in-law for the night Helen talks about that fateful incident that cruelly took their previous child.
CAST
Helen – Suzy Duxbury
Liam – Alex Bell
DIRECTOR
Rosemarie Partridge
PLAYWRIGHT
Katie McCullough
The performances will take place:
* 5pm and 8pm Saturday 17th April
* 5pm and 8pm Sunday 18th April
After the last performance on Sunday there will be the opportunity to talk to the cast and crew in an informal Q&A session.
40mins (approx), 2 actors, 1 room and in real time.
(Limited seating per performance.)
*****TICKET INFORMATION*****
Tickets are £7 (£5 concessions)
Please phone 01727 860217 to book. Or you can email Dennis O’Connell Baker on admin@theatrix.co.uk to reserve your tickets for collection/payment on the door. Please be aware that we are unable to process credit card payments. Cash or cheque only.
So there we are. It’s all happening and very soon. As I say it would be absolutely Lovely to see you there. Come up and say hallo if you do, I’ll be the one clutching the Gin and Tonic hugging the wall and probably doing this:
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