Friday 28 September 2012

Fingers crossed!

I might have found a potential choreographer... Will know next week, but in the meantime let's cross anything that can be crossed, please!!!

I also want to start a campaign to save the English T: is there anyone ou' there tha' can suppor' me?  ;)

Wednesday 26 September 2012

I have added today another interesting blog, although not my thing but could be useful to viewers, especially if You are in the UK!

As expected, soon after releasing this idea for the play into the world, my hands have started producing more and more creative ideas: words just flow right through my fingers on to the keyboard, I have no idea where exactly I stored so many!

I also have no clue why I write with stage and/or camera in mind... Wouldn't it just be easier to write books? I guess, though, this might be linked with my background, and what I've been involved with in the past.

Looking at other blogs, I've also realised that this blog it's not about politics, religion, science or society in general as we might see it: it's simply about recording the birth of creative ideas and see them grow into a performance.  This journey is more a discovery than anything else and, although it's pretty personal, I feel it links me with many other people around the World who have had, or are about to have, a creative burst where their creativity could no longer be contained inside them - either in their brain or heart, or both!  Therefore the only way is to express it!

So I won't write about Nick Clegg and the raising university fees or the Math teacher that disappeared with a 15 year old student. In fact, my mission, if I dare calling it that way, is to write about stories that will never make the news!

That's what this play is all about: it's about stories that very few people have noticed, stories that may happen behind close doors but that could change a person's view on what life is at a certain age.  

Not by chance, the subtitle of A Day In The Medical Room reads "Any reference to people or facts isn't fictitious at all!"

I hope to bring good news from my co-director and a new choreographer next time I write here with more details about them!  :) 

Sunday 23 September 2012

No comment...

... Apparently I've lost the choreographer!  :(((

Anyone out there who's interested in taking up this post?

Sunday 16 September 2012

Postcards

No chance to upload the postcards yet... Guess??? Yep, technology again! They're on an Adobe format, so I have to ask Stella to change them into another format... Ahahah, it seems as if we need to wait!  :)

The entire process of this project is organised in order for it to proceed as slowly as possible.  This is a huge challenge for me for, more often than not, I find myself acting as a control freak and cannot deal with frustration because things just don't go they way I want them.

I have realised (finally!) that the more I try to control things, the less they work and take the direction I want them to take.  In fact, quite recently, I realised that when we let go of things and stop controlling everything, things just happen, we get into that flow through which life JUST HAPPENS.

It's good to have plans, but it's better not to be driven by them - try and sit back and see what happens.  By this, I don't mean that we should go on automatic pilot mode, but simply that events unfold without us making much effort and without getting all worked up by them!  It's a new concept for me and, believe me, it still sounds strange to me, too! But I have a feeling it's a great step forward! 

This take-it=easy attitude has also been inspired by a famous writer, Kostantinos Petrou Kavafis: some Christmas ago, I received a mug from my old best friend Marina.  The mug has a quote from Ithaka, one of the most popular poems Kavafis has shared with the world; the poem is enclosed below with the bold part highlighting the quote on the mug.  

The mug has been sitting on my desk at work since that Christmas, reminding me every day how and why I should take it easy while keeping in mind the direction that my creativity is taking.  Happy reading!


Ithaka by Kostantinos Petrou Kavafis (1863 - 1933)

As you set out for Ithaka
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
angry Poseidon-don't be afraid of them:
you'll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
wild Poseidon-you won't encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.

Hope your road is a long one.
May there be many summer mornings when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you enter harbors you're seeing for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind-
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to learn and go on learning from their scholars.

Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you're destined for.
But don't hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you're old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you've gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.
Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you wouldn't have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.

And if you find her poor, Ithaka won't have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you'll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean. 

Tuesday 11 September 2012

In Limbo...

I haven't forgotten my duties, People... Just waiting to hear from the choreographer I contacted, my next artist, unless he decides to drop out... :$

Whatever he comes up with, the hunt for sponsors started last week after receiving postcards from www.alocalprinter.com! I must mention them because the finished piece is absolutely outstanding and I'm really happy!

I'll post the postcards' front & back soon... :)