tale to tale

So, I’m out of the rut! Really enjoyed writing today’s piece. I think when I’m given a certain style of theatre or real people I just close up. So it’s nice to be able to write something with a theme, themes I can work with.

This was to incorporate almost a concert feel to your piece, I think a perfect example of this would be Poet In Da Corner, or Kate Tempest or fuck it! Even Mammia Mia.

So I’ve written a sweet piece, influenced by the story of Paul Harvey (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54684038) – I didn’t necessarily want to go down the Dementia route with this piece, I just wanted to look at the characters in a care home – a little like quartet. But I almost want the audience to play the role of the ‘Young Man’ an unsuspecting witness of the events. “No one expected that”.  I’d say the film  ‘Quartet’ also gave some inspiration for this piece.

This is a sweet piece and I’m happy with it:

14. Crescendo