Vancouver-based freelance writer, professional editor, great listener
I was once a playwright. Without any pragmatism, deliberation, or vanity, this is, apparently, according to my subconscious anyway, the defining phrase of my life to date. It bubbled up after but a moment's idle consideration recently, with no forethought or restrictions, a gut reaction. I don't know why this happened. I had simply begun… Continue reading The Next Half: Writing at the edge of 50
Sally is an award-winning playwright and teacher-director of theatre with, by and for young people and a performer who loves to clown. She is completing a graduate degree in writing at the University of Victoria with master playwright Joan MacLeod. Hers is a strong local voice, and a proud addition to the interview series. 1.… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Sally Stubbs
It's amazing to me how few still-composing A-list playwrights there are out there with work in heavy rotation. The Big Guns - the few that we waggish theatre-types gush about to each other about over the good glassware - seem to move in trend cycles through the Canadian stages and kind of define the period;… Continue reading The Real Thing: Stoppard’s cricket bat incites to write
Amiel Gladstone: Playwright, Director, Blogger (he has one of the best titles for a blog ever), he works all over BC from Victoria (a co-founder of Theatre SKAM) to Vancouver to the Okanagan. His numerous plays include Hippies and Bolsheviks and My Three Sisters, a Chekhov adaptation. Amiel is truly tireless in his efforts to… Continue reading This one goes to eleven: Amiel Gladstone
Simon Ogden 