I’ve not written much drama, though the only award I’ve ever won was third prize in the Watford Palace Theatre Young Playwrights’ Competition, back in 1991. That script is buried somewhere in a box in the attic, but I’ve always loved theatre, and recently I had a couple of ideas that I felt would work better as plays rather than prose. Script writing is a very different challenge to writing novels or short stories, but as I’ve always enjoyed writing dialogue (and always found writing description hard) it’s been quite a liberating experience.
I’m delighted that Player Playwrights have selected one of my recent plays for a rehearsed reading in the New Year. Player Playwrights run weekly Monday night readings at the North London Tavern in Kilburn. The plays are rehearsed beforehand with professional actors and a director, and it’s a great opportunity to see how words on a page work (or maybe don’t work) when spoken aloud by real people, and to gain some insight into the mechanics of theatre production.
More details to follow!
Ian Critchley 