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KILLING THE CAPTAIN (London Barbe-play meet, Monday March 17th)

 
 
Whisky Priestess
14:15 / 12.03.03
(also posted in the Gathering - I just want people to see it ASAP)

My play "Killing the Captain" is going to be given a rehearsed reading (where actors use scripts and there's no sets or costumes) in London. To give you an idea, the play was runner-up in a playwriting competition and is about cheery things like death, war and responsibility. Here's the blurb:

KILLING THE CAPTAIN
"An anonymous war, an embattled and embittered platoon, and a commanding officer who is either crazy, suicidal, or both.
In the midst of confusion and suspicion three soldiers confront their enemies, both without and within.
When they fight for power, will good men still try to do what's right
- even if it happens to be murder?"

The venue is upstairs at the Horse and Groom pub, Great Portland Street, (7mins walk from Gt Portland St [Metropolitan, Circle, Hammersmith & City lines] and Oxford Circus [Victoria and Bakerloo lines] tubes)

The time and date is 7.30 for 8pm on Monday 17th March (over by 9.30)

The price is £1.50 - a measly trifle! (doesn't go to me by the way - goes to the company reading it)

So if anyone fancies seeing me and as many friends as I can dig out of the woodwork there, I would be up for a drink both before and after the performance. No need to reserve seats, just turn up.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
14:46 / 12.03.03
Haus, Flyboy, And/Orr, Kit-Cat et al, I'm looking at you ...
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
15:21 / 12.03.03
But Whisky, I'm broke... I would if I could though.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
15:33 / 12.03.03
Are you? Sorry, didn't know, didn't mena to pressure, was just thinking of the barbepeople I know IRL. Brokeness won't be an excuse for Orr though, I trust, as I can lend him a fiver tomorrow...
 
 
Tezcatlipoca
15:58 / 12.03.03
Damnit. If this was a weekend I could definitely grace(?) the event with my presence. Will have to sit this one out.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
16:19 / 12.03.03
< Tries to sneak out of the room before WP notices >
 
 
Rev. Orr
18:27 / 12.03.03
Hang on, my crap excuses are being pre-empted even before I can make them now are they? I'll drag my capacious arse down there 'cos my flatmate says that it's quite good. Even if he is a strange little fellow I can at least beat him senseless if it's apalling. Plus there are comment cards and I can never resist an anonymous slagging off.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
19:48 / 12.03.03
Oooh ... you'll love it. It's all doomy and tortured. Actually I had you pencilled in for a part if one of the guys couldn't do it. I'll be overjoyed to see you there as long as you don't stand up at the end and tell everyone to mark it down because I'm an evil Mafia don ...

You can tell Henry it's substantially different from the early version too - it's been redrafted three times(!) now and I think it's got a lot better.

No pressure on anyone, honestly (except those who know their asses are grass if they don't come) - but I respect the opinions of the lovely folks on this board and I'd be really intersted to hear what people think of the play, good or bad.
 
 
Brigade du jour
20:38 / 12.03.03
Sounds great. I finish work that morning and hopefully I'll be able to stay up until that incredibly late hour and come on down. I'll try and talk Stoatie into it, he's in the same career boat as me. Thanks for the invite Whisky!
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
21:21 / 12.03.03
If you pitch it to the Sydney Biennale and get in, I'll come see it. I'll bring my flatmate, too.

G'wan. You know you want to.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
09:21 / 13.03.03
I'll be there, and I'll be very glad that Paltrow isn't in it, the moaning minny.
 
 
angel
09:43 / 13.03.03
I'll be there too, universe willing.
 
 
angel
09:15 / 17.03.03
**Bump**

Come along and support Whiskey's industrious labours. It takes mucho effort to not only get a play out of your head and onto paper, but to get it put on in one form or another.

Come along and support her endevours if you can!
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
09:20 / 17.03.03
I'm feeling a bit rough, but will vertainly try my utmost to be there. although I'm afraid I probably won't have enough time to get new batteries for my reviewer's glowy pen beforehand, so response may be limited to "I liked the cussin'" and "the boy playin' the sergeant was real purty...."
 
 
Whisky Priestess
13:26 / 17.03.03
Cool! Do come along, Haus, it'll be lovely to see you and I could use your considered criticism.

And btw, the boy playin' the Lieutenant is real purty. And I'm not above pimping my actors. Oh no.
 
 
angel
10:11 / 18.03.03
Hey Whiskey! Thanks for an enjoyable time last night.

I thought you play was very interesting and at points during the night I was completely absorbed in action, character interaction and its issues. Well done!
 
 
Whisky Priestess
11:43 / 18.03.03
Thanks, angel. It's a shame that all this nasty real-war business has rather put my soldiers in the shade, though.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
14:18 / 18.03.03
So is this gonna get put on anywhere proper like, or is the whole point of last night the fact that it won't?
 
  
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