It's like starting a holiday. You spend all this time preparing, sending off paperwork, dreaming of how it will be... you worry about disasters or not having enough money or that your travelling companions will bail. And then, suddenly, you're on the plane. Travelling. In the air. To where...? Who knows.
Yes, the publication of a real live program has meant that we can now announce to the world that the play is coming (kind of like the end of the first trimester of pregnancy... but I'm mixing my metaphors, now.) I've spent the last few days doing a first social media push, and sending out notices to friendly newsletters. Also, scrubbing up this website into some semblance of presentability.
So. May we present one bright, shiny, new play. Halfway formed in the script, glistening in its caul, but through the membranes we can already see the fingers flexing, the mouth opening and closing. It seems like I've been writing funding applications and press releases forever without having enough time to spend on the actual script, but tomorrow I'm meeting up with Hweiling and Theresa for a first readthrough and it's both exciting and terrifying. I feel like I know this baby already - like all of my plays it's been slowly growing within me for years. The stories of my two grandmothers are precious to me. I'm going to have fun sharing them with the world.
Yes, the publication of a real live program has meant that we can now announce to the world that the play is coming (kind of like the end of the first trimester of pregnancy... but I'm mixing my metaphors, now.) I've spent the last few days doing a first social media push, and sending out notices to friendly newsletters. Also, scrubbing up this website into some semblance of presentability.
So. May we present one bright, shiny, new play. Halfway formed in the script, glistening in its caul, but through the membranes we can already see the fingers flexing, the mouth opening and closing. It seems like I've been writing funding applications and press releases forever without having enough time to spend on the actual script, but tomorrow I'm meeting up with Hweiling and Theresa for a first readthrough and it's both exciting and terrifying. I feel like I know this baby already - like all of my plays it's been slowly growing within me for years. The stories of my two grandmothers are precious to me. I'm going to have fun sharing them with the world.
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