Reliving Old Times & starting New Times One Step at a Time. (& Lego Dinos)

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of re-meeting a playwright I first met and worked with over 10 years ago; all with the power of Zoom. They were across the other side of the world, but we chatted about plays, film making, books, politics, life and their current plans for a play. Yes, I hope in the future to tell you more about their play, but for now the background work is continuing.

I know “contractually” I’m meant to constantly do the PR / Marketing of my career- it’s the bright and shiny demands of being in the Arts, but realistically that not always possible. The truth is a lot of what I do is in the shadows and can only be brought to the light when it’s entirely ready. So yes, I’m currently in post production of a short film directed in November of 2025, I’m sweating buckets as I write pitches for shows that may or may not happen and missing making live theatre badly. I’m obviously not a natural blogger but when I have something to show, I promise to share.

On a completely unrelated note, Reading had Lego Dino Trail over the summer and it made me very happy. So here’s a few photos of it.

I made a SCI-FI FlLM called CONTROL!

Control is my very first Sci-fi in any form. Theatre rarely uses Sci-fi- yep, no idea why not. But in film….

I was intrigued by approaching a new form. We made it unusually (for me) with the images in mind before we even got to the script. The filming is fairly functional because of how we made it (remotely filmed), but the style was deliberately chosen. I knew it was always going to be Black and White with 2 colours in the fonts but that’s it. This was partly practical and more importantly a choice so acting and story would the main highlights. Enjoy!

Dr. Amerson is celebrating 2 years of the project.🎉

Teaser: Two years after its inception the base on Proxima-b suddenly stopped responding. What’s happened? (Subtitles are available) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8J3rEa7JCpk

Control…not just something I’m trying to gain but also a film

I said on my last blog, that I started making films and now, I’m about to start my forth short film- Control. This one isn’t a theatre piece reimagined. It’s just a film. A Sci-Fi film at that and our Table read is today – in less than 2 hours time. I always enjoy the first time the cast gets together and we hear the words out loud and I start to properly imagine the world I’m creating. This time it’s in SPACE!

It’ll be available from April 16th 2021. Nope- I’m not telling you more- you’ll just have to watch it when it’s out.