MY WHOCKETY! This is a full-on week for 7-ON.
Firstly, Verity Laughton and
Vanessa Bates have both been nominated for the NSW Premier’s Literary Award! YAY!
Verity’s play The Sweetest Thing (directed by Sarah Goodes for Arts Radar and Belvoir B-Sharp)
and Vanessa’s play Porn.Cake
(directed by Pamela Rabe for Malthouse Theatre) are amongst a great field of
playwriting peers and buddies. Check out the Sydney Morning Herald link here.
BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE!! 7-ON are doing a development week at
NIDA with director Augusta Supple and these wonderful actors: Jeremy Waters,
Stephen Wilkinson, Madeleine Jones, Lynden Jones, Maggie Blinco, Tracy Mann, Wendy
Strehlow, Shondelle Pratt, Helen O’Leary.
The idea is to develop a group show (called PLATONIC) and
this week is a valuable chance to try some new material, hear the creaks and
clunks in the scripts, sharpen our thoughts and words and enjoy being in a
rehearsal room again with so many creative people. The individual 7-ON scripts
are listed below (in no particular order) and they all dig, delve and drill
down into the title theme of “Platonic”
Ollie
Melody
By Verity Laughton
Stella
Started It
By Donna Abela
Robinson
Gary
By Noelle Janaczewska
A
Rose By Any Other Name
By Ned Manning
It’s
Platonic Baby
By Catherine Zimdahl
Cuckoo
By Hilary Bell
Todd
Prefers Red
Two
Drifters
By Vanessa Bates
Many thanks and much Platonic feeling to the
actors, Augusta and to NIDA!
*PS The picture is my vegie garden. I thought this was a nice sort of analogy for things growing and developing. Even though the broccoli's done now and I've just put in some buk choi. Also we've planted these poppies that are taking off like triffids...
Vanessa
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