Watercolour Landscapes of the Yukon
And now, we pause this blog for a commercial announcement. I have a play up at the Canadian Play Outlet. Just a reminder that if you have a ticket from attending a play by a Playwrights Guild of Canada member, you get a 10% discount on script purchases.
The script can be purchased here.
My application form and fee are in for the 2014 Nakai Theatre Homegrown Theatre Festival. This runs from May 6-11 in Whitehorse and looks to promote local theatre developers. Most productions get three runs through the festival.
This year, I am entering the play I started writing last January. It’s presently called And on the second day, although this is its second and fourth title. I started writing it after the Newtown shootings and it deals with school shootings, from the perspective of the shooter.
I’m going to do it as a reading, as things stand now. The play has a large cast, a total of 15 with 10 speaking parts. I’m not sure, given how popular the festival is and how hard it is to get people, if I will get all 10, but I can have some people read more than one part. I looked to try and “cull the herd” bit, but there is no way to tell the story without this many characters.
So, I’m still doing final edits. I’ll probably be looking for readers sometime in March and will put out a call for people then.
Doug Rutherford 