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GOODBYE MY FELENI: Interlude
Okay, so The Goddess and I snuck down to the capital for some time-in with cafes and restaurants and a wee bit of shopping, and Goodbye My Feleni was awarded the 2013 Adam Award for Best New Pasifika...
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GOODBYE MY FELENI: Trailer
(It’s okay if I count my last post as a Week -2 report, right? Because that week seems to have just phhht-ed by.)
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GOODBYE MY FELENI: Opening Night
(Yes: a post-dated post to opening night. Sorry.) For exciting up-to-the-minute updates, you should really be going to the production’s homepage, its Facebook home or event page, or its Twitter feed.
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GOODBYE MY FELENI: Village People
Yes: it takes a village. I’m sure you’re sick to death of the faces of the production. I’m pretty sure you’ll soon be sick to the back teeth about the principals behind the production. This post is...
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GOODBYE MY FELENI: Afterword
The Goodbye My Feleni team have acknowledged and thanked those who’ve helped make the production a reality. But there’s been a group missing from all our backslapping – the following list is not...
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Monkey Say
Spotted recently on the box: INT. POLICE INTERVIEW ROOM – TIMELESS Our HERO DETECTIVE studies his SCUMBAG PERPETRATOR from across the METAL TABLE. SCUMBAG PERPETRATOR ... Okay. I’ll talk. Our Hero...
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Ongoing
At the end of Frank Miller and David Mazzuchelli’s Daredevil: Born Again, our hero, broken in the first act of the story and now painfully reconstituted as a stronger, more focused, more realistic hero...
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Monkey See
The scene is familiar: our Hero Detective’s supervisor – a lieutenant in an American show or a superintendent in a Commonwealth show – having had his arse chewed out by his superior, seeks out our...
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SKYBLUE: Replay Radio
SKYBLUE, winner of the Best Dramatic Production in the 2013 New Zealand Radio Awards, returns to the airwaves this Sunday 16 June at 3:04pm. Set in a forensic psychiatric unit, the one-hour drama...
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Play It
Ever since I naively put together a soundtrack for my first screenplay, music has been a big part of my world building – sketching in the where, when and how, throwing in some characters, and...
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dfmamea.com: Year Seven
After 2012′s rather ho-hum happy-anniversary, how do I feel this year? Not bad, thanks! Pretty good, actually! It feels like I’m beginning to get the hang of this writing thing!
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GOODBYE MY FELENI: The Next Stage
A gentle heads-up that Goodbye My Feleni will have a rehearsed reading on Thursday 25 July 2013 at 6:30pm at Auckland Theatre Company, Mount Eden War Memorial Hall, Lower Ground Floor, 487 Dominion...
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GOODBYE MY FELENI: Play Reading
Last month, Auckland Theatre Company‘s Literary Manager, Philippa Campbell, invited the Goodbye My Feleni crew to join ATC’s 2013 Making Scenes programme. We accepted, of course. What this means is we...
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About Time –
– writers got some television-love: there’s a new show called The Writers’ Room that’s about – you guessed it – TV shows’ writers’ rooms. Host Jim Rash with the “Breaking Bad” team. Yah, bring it.
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Hee
Alex Wiebe at the ever-reliable The Editing Room has gifted the world with my favouritest ever zombie movie description: INT. APARTMENTS Everyone heads up the STAIRS but then ZOMBIES AIIEEEE STAIRS...
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Meet and Greet
The past few days’ burning question has been: Would I still write this post if I hadn’t been an award recipient? Close behind it has been this Schrodinger follow-up: Would I still be an award...
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Toy Throwing
Saw Man of Steel with The Boy a couple of months back. Besides the decidedly age-based concern about the amount of (inevitable) real estate damage in the final showdown, I couldn’t help thinking about...
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Legacy
Last month I was asked what kind of legacy I wanted to leave behind – that if I had ten years left in my writing career, what would I want to be known for – film? television? theatre? I was stumped in...
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Filler: Elysium
INT. FORTRESS MAMEA – NIGHT WRITER You want to watch the latest “Elysium” trailer with me? GODDESS (over “Horse & Pony” MAGAZINE) Only if it’ll stop your confounding grovelling. Our WRITER joins...
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