mmmmmmmm

Of my draft article, Performance & Politics, Gary H wrote: "The main things is you don't have an argumentative structure. You need to frame this much more. What is the overall argument you are trying to make? Once you've got that, then that will guide your analysis and the examples you use." AND: "Your argument needs to be driving this, not your life biography. But I don't know what your argument is. If it's about the political possibilities of experimental theatre, then you need to engage with the scholarship on those subjects, and let that structure your analysis - not just restrict your analysis to examples that you have personally experienced."

I guess he's right.

today

It's Sunday - and a very relaxing one too.
I am becoming a human being after just two days of not working.
Rehearsed yesterday for the last time in our house and for the first time with Helen present. Her presence was benevolent and benign - a good thing!
Going round to mum and dad's later to give them H's Hong Kong presents and to pick up a camera to computer connection. My dad warned me that they will be watching Dancing on Ice all night.
Goodnight blog - 6.05pm, 28.3.10

well...

I could be coming out of the most down periods I have had for a while.
That would be great. Work has completely got the better of me - for all sorts of reasons, some of them nothing to do with me whatsoever (incompetence and disorganization) and others to do with my distress patterns.
Here's to my holiday for 10 whole days!
end of starship blog - 26.3.2010

frustration

MMMMmmmm - things are not quite right.
Spending so much time doing crap and so little time doing what I want.
So little time in fact that I forget what is important.
Get caught up with the crap.
Jonathan Richman is helping to remind me - 'The Lovers are here and they are full of sweat.' I can always count on him.
End of 4th blog - 4.55pm, 22.3.2010
p.s. everything to play for.

rehearsal

I'm feeling a lot better. Just had a really good rehearsal with Stephen - some of it in the garden for the first time. It went really well and I re-connected with what is good about our show. I have asked Helen to get involved in the last 3 (ish) rehearsals. She will bring something different - something that we don't have.
I am looking forward to it now - I feel a sense of ownership again and I think that Stephen does too. I will still be nervous though.

A future for Other Things?

End of blog, 4.09pm, 21.3.2010

2nd one

The next day.
In bed - very tense and lack of sleep.
SWFC are haunting me.
20.3.2010

my first blog

My first blog ever.
What to write?
Well, we (Other Things, my new performance group in Sheffield) have a first show - Stephen's Stories at Walkley Community Centre, Fir St, S6, 7.45pm, 3rd April 2010, £3.
Our first ever show of a new performance group. Everything seems to be new.
Just in case you were wondering - PLEASE DON'T confuse me with that other (younger) Paul Allender, the guitarist of the Cradle of Filth - PLEASE, no connection whatsoever.
First blog over - 19.3.2010, 4.55pm