Thanks for writing – and of course for turning up to the showing yesterday…

I was really happy that the 7s got to hear/ see a sketch of their work… I didn’t want it to be too over-produced or over staged- just simple and intimate. It is always a pleasure working with 7-On, and a delightful dream cast of generous, brave, bright actors: my job made easy!

Yes, Two Drifters by Vanessa Bates is a very lovely piece of Rom-Com negotiation… I don’t know what it is about love stories and me… The resistent cynical woman, the warm hearted patient man. Friends. Breakfast at Tiffanys – enough to melt a heart and haunt one’s thoughts.

The curation on this occasion was not my doing – but the playwrights – Cuckoo was written by Hilary to be split up as a means of weaving the pieces together – again an experiment (that’s what residencies are for) – I think its also the desire to have the actors playing in cuckoo present on stage the whole time was to raise the stakes… but generally speaking mulit-playwright works are modular… and you can see how powerful curation is.

Thanks again for coming along and for supporting new Australian writing and of course for the feedback, I’m sure I’ll catch you around the traps soon!

These pieces are still with me tonight. Don’t really want to make a list, but I did think that ‘Two Drifters’ was very sweet and kind of beautiful (sucker for romance).

Only thing I wasn’t sure about was splitting ‘Cuckoo’ into two parts with ‘Robinson’ in between. Dunno, these pieces didn’t seem to quite relate to each other. I’d love to hear how you came to this decision. I would have suggested opening with ‘Cuckoo Part 1’, then running all the rest, and closing with ‘Cuckoo Part 2’, using them as bookends.

But minor stuff, it was really very good work from all involved and thanks so much for the invite, I really appreciate it, it is always so good to see new Australian writing!