For interested Melburnians -
I love local writers festivals, they're much more fun than the bigtime
marketing shindigs. Anyway, my suburb started one last year, as quite a
number of writers live here, and it's on again this weekend at beautiful
Williamstown. Details are at http://www.willylitfest.org.au/ , although the
site seems to continually crash.
This year I'm directing a couple of playreadings - two monologues, The
Famine by me and Kafka's Dreams by Daniel Keene - with Helen Morse and Dan
Spielman, at 4pm on Saturday May 14, at the Williamstown Town Hall.
Helen and I have a strange sense of unfinished business about The Famine -
she was originally asked to do it when it was produced by the Red Shed in
Adelaide in around 1997, didn't and regretted it, and then we talked about
doing it at La Mama together. It was even programmed twice, but to be
honest, I gutted out. So it will be great, for me anyway, to actually hear
her read it at last. Dan is one of those talents that only come around
every generation or so, and is always worth seeing. Kafka's Dreams is a
new poetic work commissioned by French puppeteer Alexandre Haslé, whose
incredible version of Daniel's monologue The Rain has been touring France
and other places for five years now. (Obviously, the reading will be sans
puppets).
All the best
A
Alison Croggon
Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
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