The Naked Self, Moths
February 2015. The year stretches ahead, everyone is back from holidays (except I’m going to Fiji to rendezvous with my sister!). Crank up 2015. I’ll spend the first week further developing The Naked Self. Tanya and I get to play with the prototype that Steve from PVI Collective has been working on. We’ll also welcome […]
Girls, Malthouse Theatre
I’ll be a member of the Malthouse Theatre’s Besen Family Foundation writers’ workshop for 2014-15, working with Resident Dramaturge Mark Pritchard and Associate Artist Lally Katz. Yay. This starts on Friday, with craft classes for a few weeks before moving into 2015 where we’ll develop a new concept. I’ll be developing Girls in the City. […]
Digital theatre, artists at work, oversharing
Tanya Dickson and I ate at Crumbs. Well, I got her a muffin and a loaf of olive bread to pay her back for dinner. We had afternoon coffee/tea in there too. I declared that the bakery was cheap (for an inner city sourdough making bakery). I wondered about the lack of toilet, the one […]
Moths at rest, The Chair, Hmong Yoofs
The National Playwriting Festival 2014 is over, and I have slumped back to Melbourne. I was all shades of the emotional rainbow – exhausted, angry, exhilarated, excited… what else begins with ‘ex’? Well you get it. I felt a lot of things, which makes sense as leading up to the festival we had a week […]
Moths in the National Playwriting Festival 2014
Moths has been selected for the National Playwriting Festival 2014. Very excited!
Home in Next Wave festival, and other festivals
Next Wave officially launched their program last night so now I can say, with much gooey warm pride, that my dear and talented friend Brienna Macnish has a work in the Next Wave Festival. It’s called Home, and it is absolutely precious. I’ve had the privilege of working on the script with Brie. Book in and […]
Hello… 2014
Not too many big things to announce. Peril, an online magazine dedicated to Asian Australian culture and art, published this review of ‘Banana Girl’. My partners’ mum has bought 10 copies and counting. My housemate said he saw copies displayed at Brunswick Bound. I’m doing a talk, of all places, at Yea library in February […]
Launch!
Banana Girl launched on 7th November. Thanks all around! Thanks to Barry Scott from Transit Lounge for fishing my manuscript out of the slush pile those many years ago and having a read of it, and eventually publishing it (well, a leaner and more edited version). Thanks to Readings in Carlton for hosting the launch. […]
I can haz an AWGIE-burgah + Launch date for the banana book
Will has been very keen about going to the AWGIEs award ceremony. He even got his safari suit dry-cleaned. Not. Aw, but he did borrow a black bow-tie for his suit (the suit has short sleeves and shorts, so the bow-tie added a touch of formality). Will, like I said, has been keen. He has […]
Deniliquin
I have about zero knowledge of Deniliquin, except to vaguely know that it is a country town in New South Wales. From a friend of a Deniliquin ex-pat and from the lazy web-searching of a Wikipedia page I did last night, I have it on good authority that Deniliquin is either the largest exporter of […]