When one door closes another door opens…
Sometimes when you receive news that you didn’t want to hear you really hope you get some good news to make things feel a whole lot better. Well, this morning, I received some news I wasn’t really ready to hear, but knew was coming (I just thought that I’d be the one taking the reigns on it all)! Oh well…
Today Playwriting Australia held an intimate play reading of extracts from the two plays being workshopped in the first of four sessions across the year in their National Script Workshop to an invited group of industry professionals. It was lovely hearing the actors (Maggie Dence, Vanessa Downing and Russell Smith reading Scowl by Angus Cerini and Lucy Bell and Matthew Zemeres reading The Bull, the Moon and the Coronet of Stars by Van Badhan) reading the most recent drafts for an audience. It was a great chance for me too, to watch the actors read and listen to the quality and musicality of their incrediblly powerful voices and digest the meaning and richness of each word and phrase, rather than simply following along on the page as I have so far in the sessions. I think both plays were receieved well – they are both quite different in their content and style: Cerini’s is a darkly witty dialogue between two sisters trying to unearth an old mystery that has been weighing on them throughout their lives and Van’s is a humourous inner-monologue between a woman and two lovers referencing some tragic Greek myths. I’m learning a lot from this process and look forward to applying it to my own script development, particularly for my upcoming Sydney Fringe Festival work. I am also very enthusiastic about speaking with the AD Chris Mead on my play and getting into a good stead with the work!
Then, this afternoon, while researching agents in the city (special thanks once again for the continuous generosity and kindness of my past acting mentor) and looking for day jobs within the arts world, I was made aware of a blog post by Augusta Supple, Working with Playwrights Write Here Write Now which quoted an earlier post of mine [http://ildikosusany.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/day-sixty-two-of-366/] regarding Augusta’s Write Here, Write Now playwriting sessions. I thanked Augusta for recommending my blog to her followers and that is when she tweeted this: “Well from where I’m sitting Ildiko Susany you are one of the hardest working artists in the business, you are definitely worth watching!” It was such a lovely comment to read and it is very nourishing and uplifting to feel as though I am working hard and to hear that some people are actually noticing my work! I hope that it keeps on coming!
Hey, I’m happy! When one door closes…
Hard work and persistence pays off! Ildi 1, 255 days to go!
Hard work and persistence pays off. Ildi 1, 255 days to go!