Tag: EdFringe18

  • 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…