Hello. Some news. My Carmilla play has been produced nine times so far. I wrote another one, this time for radio. Have also written other plays-- After The Lighthouse Fell , and a Victorian bedroom farce titled A House of Seagriffins , and am almost finished with a new adaptation of Dracula .

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I have been gone a long time.
Just letting you know, I did indeed end up directing my version of RICHARD III in Hollywood in Spring, 2019. Good reviews, small audiences alas, but I have since published my edit on Amazon.

True! This kind of thing can fall flat on it face, because the good idea isn't enough. Nowhere near. It needs good execution, not only in terms of the edit but also the cast and directing (although if you get a good enough cast, three quarters of the director's work is done). Honestly the reading we...

Yep! :biggrin: I also lifted the Apothecary scene from Romeo & Juliet to give her a virtual suicide scene. The reading was yesterday, turning out quite well! Had to shuffle around the cast a bit simply because of sickness, a playing gig, and a vet emergency. Happy to say the story in my edit flo...

Honestly I didn't care for the Gibson Hamlet (although Ian Holm was the best Polonius I've ever seen--the hardest part in the play IMHO). My own favorites are the BBC version with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart (in a dual role--Claudius and the Ghost) and the Public Theatre NYC version with Kevin...

Yeah, it is not history, but Richard in the play is an extraordinary portrait of a man who quite literally chose power over love--and got nothing out of the deal (Ring Cycle anyone?)

Most of those lines do survive, yes--but in my version some of them are spoken by the ghost of Lady Anne.

I was searching through YouTube and found footage of some French productions of the play. It was very interesting! In one the whole opening monologue (almost) is done to the court, with Richard laughing about his deformity and efforts to find love along with everyone else! Until he was alone. This R...

Huh. I'm in America and can see it. Odd. This one is about the young man who has a virtually identical case of scoliosis as Richard. They put him through all kinds of paces to see if he could (with a bit of training) do the sorts of actions Richard is reputed to have done. Their conclusion--Richard ...

I'll keep you informed. For what it is worth, Sir Ian McKellan starred in a very good film version of Shakespeare's play that transposed the setting to a Fascist 1930s Britain. Kevin Spacey did a tour of a startling production, and a documentary called Waiting In the Wings of the World Stage capture...

The Elizabethan theatre was officially censored, so portraying the last Yorkist King as anything other than a villain simply was not in the cards. Shakespeare actually did something quite interesting and clever, portraying a crown as a great burden even for the best of men. This shows up time and ag...

Okay this will sound weird. After all Richard III is already a play, right? A pretty damn famous one by that Bill Shakespeare fellow...! But let me explain. First of all Richard III is a very early play of Shakespeare's and it shows. The thing is four hours long! With 36 speaking parts! Most of whom...

I was not planning on posting any of the play here. :P Also I have my doubts about most amateur theatricals (we kinda/sorta call those community theatres here--although some are absolutely first rate) because most deal with less technically challenging works than mine--technically challenging in ter...

[Mods, please feel free to move this thread to somewhere appropriate if you see reason to.] I count myself fortunate (some of that fortune self-made) in that my first play Carmilla has not only been produced three times but has been published. Right now I'm working on the sixth draft of my second p...

I feel strange this morning. On the one hand, I have a new med that is doing wonders for the pain in my leg--gabapentin, for nerve damage caused by diabetes. On the other, I made a terrible mistake recently and fear it has hurt a relationship, possibly becoming the final straw. I hope not. I have to...

I think it was a reaction to the way people were living unauthentic lives--the forced cheerfulness, the strident effort to be "normal," the relentless drive for prosperity in the aftermath of the Holocaust, when the Cold War was in full swing, and social problems were ignored whenever poss...

Here is my review: zahirblue.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-room-review.html.

I've seen the show. Will post my not/review this week.

That's a serious CV of creativity - and much in the area's where I always enjoy having my spine tingled! Let me know if ever they come UK direction. :) Well I'd love to see Carmilla especially staged in the UK. If you have any notion of a theatre group that might like to mount a 75-minute play abou...

They can withdraw permission to perform the play.

Harold Pinter died some years ago. Samuel French Inc. handles his estate and offered the play for production.