Had a ‘script surgery’ last night on a play what I wrote (apologies to Morecambe and Wise…) a while ago.
The folk doing the dissecting were three people from a group called the Operating Theatre Company (www.operating-theatre.co.uk), which is based in London. They’re a relatively new troupe who specialise in new writing and they regularly hold rehearsed readings and stage new plays so they’re quite a good bunch to stay in touch with.
The good news was that my play didn’t get too much of a booting and they want to see another draft so it may or may not lead somewhere else. But it's a start.
More importantly, though, it was just quite invigorating to meet a friendly bunch of people who are obviously well into their work and dead enthusiastic about what they are doing. Meeting them even made me feel a little nostalgic to return to the world of fringe and community theatre that I was once part of as I can remember a younger version of myself also having that sort of drive about making something happen.
Sadly that time now has gone for me and that’s probably no bad thing but it’s good to see the type of goals you once cherished now getting scored by younger players*.
* Apologies for the shit analogy…
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