Tag: ART Award

  • 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 #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…