A script-reading at The Arch in Brixton
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A script-reading at The Arch in Brixton

Building on the Shaky Isles Workshops season at The Arch in Brixton, we had a couple of hours reading the latest version of My Inner Orc. Instead giving people named parts we did ‘line at a time’ reading where a line is said by one person, the next by the next in the circle and so [...]

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Where in London is…

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Where in London is…

Having a little play around with some ideas for visuals and fun ways to engage people in the My Inner Orc journey. This morning I made four little ‘Where is…’ pictures using some great HDR and tilt-shift photos of London on Flickr. The idea is to show how odd the universe the Lord of the Rings [...]

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Slash and the outer reaches of Fandom

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Slash and the outer reaches of Fandom

What is Slash? Slash is a form of ‘fanfic’ which usually involves the male members of popular franchises in imaginary homosexual couplings. Often with a good does of bondage thrown in. It is almost exclusively written by women. There is miles of this stuff online, here’s a quick glimpse… Some examples of Slash A slash treasure trove - the [...]

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Rehearsal

First Rehearsals…

Posted on 03 September 2010

Last night I sat in on a rehearsal. The very clever publicist Kathryn somehow managed to get a rehearsal room at Theatre Royal Stratford East so it’s a good room to be in – enough light and has mirrors along one wall for that ‘check my physicality’ moment. Or just to check your hair [...] Continue Reading

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Cast finalised… and a Stagger Through

Posted on 02 August 2010

We have a Karl Well we are all go with the cast. It’s the same as the reading with the addition of Aaron. Now I haven’t met Aaron yet but Stella and Emma (Director and Producer) have and they think he’s great so he must be a top guy. He gets to play Karl who is [...] Continue Reading

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Why I wrote this

Posted on 07 June 2010

Having housed several kiwi actors on their way to Lord of the Rings conventions in the UK I became fascinated in the artistic and cultural conditions that these opportunities represent. So I went along to the last ‘Fellowship of the Ring’ at Wembley in 2005 to see what was going on. I saw that most fans [...] Continue Reading

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First up…

Posted on 29 May 2010

Ok, so here we go, a little background on this project and blog… Project I’ve been writing this play for a couple of years now and already have had some help with it from some fine people. As always PlaymarketNZ have been supportive and helped me get a reading together in 2008 with a nice cast and [...] Continue Reading

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'My Inner Orc' is a new play by Allen O'Leary, a London-based NZ playwright. For more about Allen and his previous work please visit his other wesbite.