Nine scripts.
Nine sets of notes.
Nine email conversations of “What is it about?” and “Why did you choose to end it the way you did?”
Nine writers have four weeks in which to tighten their plotting, better realise their characters, and tweak and pull and twist their scripts so that I will have no choice but to select THEIR script for staging in July.
How hard can it be?
Bummer – we didn’t get funding but never fear we shall overcome. Time to think outside the square. Fundraiser ahoy! TIME for a PARTY!
Banana Boat is proud to announce its selection of short play scripts to be developed for production in late July.
Congratulations to the above writers for making the cut.
Next step for the writers is a whole lot of writing and development.
Banana Boat Creative Clinics submissions open | The Big Idea | Te Aria Nui
Just incase you missed the original posting – Submissions for the Banana Boat Clinics Close 2 June 2010. Email bananaboatnz@gmail.com , You got to be in it to win it.
The next fono is on THURSDAY 27 MAY 2010 from 7pm to 9pm at the funky TOI ORA LIVE ART TRUST STUDIO, 6 PUTIKI STREET, GREY LYNN.
The agenda for the May fono is:
– news to use – including a report on the Producers Workshop held in April, and an update on the Jukebox Season in July;
– and the usual script reading and/or discussion.
Banana Boat Creative Clinics submissions open | The Big Idea | Te Aria Nui
Back by popular demand – Banana Boat Creative Clinics – submit your play today.
Fakaalofa lahi atu
Malo e lelei
Kia orana
Tena koutou
Ni sa bula
Taloha ni
Talofa lava
Welcome to the after-match report.
Present
— were JASON GREENWOOD, CHRIS MOLLOY, CHETAN PATEL, RASHMI PILAPITIYA, MICHAEL REWIRI-THORSEN, JONATHAN RILEY, JOHNNY SAGALA, ERIC SMITH, VENUS STEPHENS, SHONA TARAI, LEILANI UNASA, JAY WILLIAMS and DAVID MAMEA.
Apologies
– were received from REVEREND MUA PUA, JAMES NOKISE, STAN WOLFGRAMM and JENNI HEKA.
News to Use
The Producers Workshop was judged a success, equipping attendees with the knowledge to take their scripts to stage. Feedback included “a good, fantastic workshop”, “maybe it could be a bit more practical”, and “[that there was] so much information it could easily have been three days”. A workshop-crashing JONATHAN was grateful for the good feed put on my the multi-talented Matene Karena. Something to be made available to Banana Boat’s target communities in 2011.
Coming Up
The Jukebox 2010 Season call-out has come and gone.
Anyone who takes their writing seriously are urged to attend the Wellington Matariki Hui which will take place sometime in June – details to follow, probably from JENNI.
To help defray travel costs for the abovementioned Hui, there will be some Fundraising in the throes of organisation by MICHAEL. Beware your Inboxes. Book some wallet- and purse-space.
Banana Boat is taking its Creative Clinics to Manukau on 1-2 July 2010. Watch your email Inboxes and ready your Forward-ing fingers.
Script Reading
— was replaced by dissection and discussion of a couple of two-minute scenes. Questions and answers flowed, including: How much information can you fit into dialogue without boring your audience to tears? More than you think. How much character can you show through action and with no dialogue? You’d be surprised.
DAVID then facilitated a session of spitballing ideas and methods of execution with the opening words, “I’ve got this idea for a project…” Possibly not as satisfying as his January foray because the project under discussion was at a very early conceptual stage. He should stop doing this as there are all sorts of intellectual property issues waiting to ambush him down the track. Unless of course he made the project up on the night and the whole thing was just, like, an exercise.
Next Meeting
— is THURSDAY 27 MAY 2010 at the usual time and place.