I am currently desperately bashing down the script for our new Edinburgh show "21 Girlfriends". This is involving me getting up unreasaonably early in the morning to try to find some extra hours in the day. It is a bit like the process of squeezing an apparently empty toothpaste tube to eke out every last precious globule of minty whiteness.
It is utterly weird and fascinating procees. We've spent a long time putting together character histories and improvising fragments of stroylines. But now I'm having to try to distill it into a script that will work onstage in Edinburgh in about 7 weeks. I think there are laughs there, but the show has quite an abstract format, which is unusual for me - I'm normally more interested in stories that run in quite a formal way. The challenge is to make something that is enteretaining and comprehensible. And also to reduce the number of scraps of paper that are lying all over my desk.
Nightcap
15 years ago
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