Category: Edinburgh Fringe

  • 2019

    2019

    What, so I only make end-of-year posts now? Possibly. As a glance at the Gig Archive will show, it has been a busy year. Fortunately it has been a kinder year than 2018, bringing no further losses, and a far more professionally satisfying year. There’s still a lot going on in the headspace, but the…

  • 2018

    I have not liked this year. Professionally it hasn’t been too bad, politically it’s been ridiculous, and personally it has been overshadowed by loss, painful anniversaries, the rekindling of an old trauma and several months of physical pain. My biggest achievement this year is probably that I’m still standing (albeit sometimes with the aid of…

  • Heaven Blogs: Opening Day

    After two days of previews, today was our official opening. The past few days have felt about a month long and about five minutes long simultaneously. Our first preview was a bit of a blur. The joy of the Fringe is that you don’t really find out what your get in/get out will be like…

  • Heaven Blogs: The End of Rehearsals

    This is technically my day off – my last one until September. After two weeks of rehearsal and months of preparation, Heaven Burns is very nearly ready to hit the Fringe! It has been a gloriously enjoyable rehearsal period, thanks to having a brilliant team. When you’re working on something as intense as this, you need people…

  • Heaven Blogs #??: Into the Unknown

    We started our main tranche of rehearsals today. It’s been a long day, or rather the latest in a series of long days, and the words in my head refuse to arrange themselves in an orderly fashion and be typed out. We launched straight in with a very complex scene, the actors pulled out all…

  • Heaven Blogs #4: A post that got away from me somewhat

    I’ve just spent three incredible days in the depths of the Roxy, watching characters who have existed in my head for three years starting to take shape. I can’t pretend that I have even the least amount of chill about this. The process of making theatre blows my mind every single time, and this is…

  • Heaven Blogs #3: Domingues D’Avila’d

    Time to introduce the Heaven Burns team… There they are! From left to right, Kirsty Eila McIntyre (Isobel), Susanna Macdonald-Mulvihill (Christian), Flavia D’Avila (movement director), Daniel Hird (understudy) and Andrew Findlater (John).   I’m so happy that these guys could all be involved. Kirsty, Susanna and Andrew were in the rehearsed reading back in 2015…

  • Heaven Blogs #2: Prima la musica, poi le parole

    Music is vitally important to my writing. The first thing I do when I start work on a new play is figure out the soundtrack – not music that will make it into the script directly (usually), but the sounds that feel like the world of the play. It’s one of my favourite parts of…

  • Heaven Blogs #1: The Origin Story

    I’ve picked up a lot of new followers recently, which I imagine has something to do with the EdFringe entry for Heaven Burns going live… which probably means it’s about time I wrote something about the show!   The short introduction to Heaven Burns is this: I’ve been fascinated by the Scottish witch hunts since…

  • A response to Desire Lines from a grassroots theatremaker. Looooong.

    It’s taken me a while to gather my thoughts and decide how best to write about Desire Lines.   For those of you who, by dint of not being attentive Edinburgh arts folk, have not heard of Desire Lines, it is this: http://www.desirelines.scot. It’s a project started by a handful of people working in the…