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May I Have This Dance? A Play(list) in 31 Acts
"Love, whose month is ever May", Love Labours Lost, Act 4, Sc 3 Welcome to May I Have This Dance: a whole month of tender, tragic and titillating love songs, nominated by some of your favourite Aussie playwrights, and compiled by guest V.J., playwright Jessica Bellamy. Tune into the Fresh Ink[read more]
A Sense of Place
When I teach playwriting the first thing is to get to know the people I am working with. No embarrassing rhyming name games. Like many teachers, I just ask people to talk about themselves - I am Lachlan Reynault Philpott, I was born in Sydney but then we moved out west.[read more]
What an Irish Nationalist taught me about Love
Pooja Nansi is a teacher and poet who believes in the power that speech and performance can lend to the written word. She lives in Singapore. William Butler Yeats and I have shared an odd relationship through the years. I’ve been reading and writing poetry since I was a little girl[read more]
Reasons To Write
A couple of months ago, I was asked to write something for the Fresh Ink blog. I was told it should be something about inspiration and creativity, and it should be personal. I said “Yes” straight away. After some thought I decided that I wanted to write about my experience[read more]
Playwrights are not writers
Nothing like a provocative title! Now that I’ve got your attention, let me explain. Well, of course you are a writer – you spend your time putting words on paper. You share with poets, short-story writers and novelists other professional aspects, such as working alone in a room for months on end; perhaps[read more]
