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Not long now...
Dear Action Transport Writers, At the Writer’s Ball on Saturday 15th of December four ATTs will be reading some of their work. They are the hugely talented Kellie Smith, Janine Atkin, Maisie Linford...
View ArticleAnybody fancy a little time in Aberystwyth? DEADLINE TOMORROW
Writer in Residence Aberystwyth Arts Centre: Writer in Residence Applications are invited for a writer in residence to be located at the Arts Centre from 1st March to 31st May 2013. This is an exciting...
View ArticleWriting Opportunity with NTC
Calling all Playwrights, NTC Touring Theatre Company North East Closes Friday 7 December 2012 Paid (£10k-15k pro rata) Part time Artform: theatre Contact: Gillian Hambleton...
View ArticlePlaywrighting Kickstarters
Calling ATT writers of all shapes and sizes! KICKSTARTING THE WRITING PROCESS - EXERCISES WANTED! I wanted to start a thread about something which is creating an obstacle for me at the moment and I...
View ArticleATT Writer Ged McKenna in new play by graduate of the Everyman and Playhouse...
Try and catch Action Transport Theatre Writer Ged McKenna in 'Held' at the Liverpool Playhouse Studio (until Sat 1 Dec): http://bit.ly/Q84dA3 Some good reviews coming in for it, which you can take a...
View ArticleThe Writers' Ball - Not Long Now!
Our first Writers' Ball is taking place on Saturday 15th December and we'd love to see you there! A few of you have very kindly been supporting our young writers sessions as they develop their ideas...
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Reflections on the final week of 'babes' by Michael Lattin-Rawstrone
It has been an adventure. One week researching, three weeks rehearsals and two weeks of performances are all done! I can't help but think of where we where at the start of rehearsals and it almost...
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What do writers do the day after they hit a deadline
... get up to do the school run as normal... wait for the house to go quiet... take a breath... do whatever you bloody well want to.. !!!!!!!!!! ............................. PS then the phone rings...
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The Waiting Game
"Now we play the waiting game... [Silence] Ah the waiting game sucks, let's play Hungry Hungry Hippos." - Homer Simpson. I quote this every time I submit a script. It's nice to have a routine. If...
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9 days in, 8 days to go - From the Mouths of Babes rehearsals -some...
We're 9 days in, and we're pretty deep in it. The piece so far is exciting and rough but just about to take off. I don't want to say too much, but it involves physical precision, musical genius and...
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My Mother Told Me Not To Stare - in rehearsals
My Mother Told Me Not To Rehearse Blog post by Darren Clark who plays 'The Man' For those of you who know me, which I'm assuming is at least some of you because of the obscure title of my blog, you...
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New Visions New Voices
New Visions/New Voices is a week-long new-writing programme in May at the Kennedy Centre, Washington, USA The programme is for playwrights and theatre organisations to work together to support the...
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From the Mouths of Babes development week - some reflections by Simone Lewis
Boxes, binoculars, and wisdom catching machines; this past week's research and development for Action Transport Theatre's new production, From the Mouth of Babes, has been both an imaginative and...
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Welcome to the ATT Writers Blog
Hello to all our ATT Writers, it's good to see you here.
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Welcome to the ATT Young Writers Blog
Hello, it was great to see so many of you at the writing workshop on Saturday.
View Articlefreedom, bravery, big ideas
This morning I heard 'Start the Week' on Radio Four - an interview between Salman Rushdie and Andrew Marr. A fascinating conversation with a writer. It dips into contemporary politics - and precedes a...
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Boy with ink spot
This video work of boy and ink spot is from visual artist Kate Sweeney which was part of our development for Kevin Dyer's 'Fool On the Hill' (which became 'Angel' produced by Theatre Hullabaloo).......
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ASSITEJ International
ASSITEJ is a world organisation for children's theatre. This is a promotional video for World Day of Theatre for children which is on March 20th every year. The campaign message? 'Take a child to the...
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My Mother Told Me Not to Stare - in rehearsal
Some thoughts from Director Nina.... In some other places in Europe (Germany, Belgium, Denmark…) within the children’s theatre sector, there is generally a much longer development and rehearsal period...
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Sample video for My Mother Told Me Not to Stare
This video taken from Lemony Snickett's 'Series of Unfortunate Events' inspired the projection work for the gothic opera 'My Mother Told Me Not to Stare', designed by Bek Palmer.
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