It Never Rains But it Pours..
….right? In this business, you can go for months with not a drop of work in sight then, boom, three jobs come along at once. Like buses. Or boyfriends. (Only joking about the boyfriends)
I have just started rehearsals for a New York premiere of a popular Croatian play by Miro Gavran, All About Women, directed by the Serbian director, Sanja Bestic. The play is a lot of fun and was originally written for three actresses to play five roles but Sanja has cast it with nine women each playing two roles. I believe this is the first time I have ever worked with an all-female company of actors.
Here’s the pouring part – in the same week, I was asked about my availability for another production, happening almost simultaneously with this one, and then, I was asked about my availability for yet another production! Not only that, at the same time, a company in Australia – who produced my play Magnolia Day last year – requested three of my short plays for consideration in this year’s festival. Two days later, it was announced that my play, Love Dust, had won a place in their 4 Short Plays Plus Festival, produced in April, in Sydney. This is all in the space of less than a week! I have also been asked to write a short play for The Drilling Company’s upcoming season, and was thrilled to hand in a copy of my new full-length play to my agent, last week.
It never rains but it pours.
Scientists! Explore this phenomenon! You are hot and then you are not. It’s like the second law of thermodynamics, but with work. You have a whole bunch of it, concentrated in one period of time, then it sort of…fizzles….out…
[Pic is of Technical Rehearsals for Military 4Play at The Hangar Theatre]
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