HeyJaredPreviously Learnt
Are you holding your breath? Waiting for the right moment? I was. Then I let go of perfection and embraced writing and performing for the sheer joy of it. I'll be sharing thoughts and ideas about writing, interviewing and tangential subjects.
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Breakthroughs (opens the original)
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I feel as if I’ve been poking my work-in-progress with a long stick for months. Turning up here on Substack to assert: ‘I am still working on it’. And I have been (working on it): thinking, talking, considering, reading feedback from my readers, reading, watching and listening to all sorts of unrelated works that, at some point, suddenly feel as if they are hyper relevant to my play.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QRYl!,f_auto,q_auto:goo
Can we talk about the patriarchy? (opens the original)
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This month’s newsletter is more of an essay, so I’m skipping my Sidelines section this time around. It’ll be back. I would so love your feedback and thoughts - please feel free to drop any comments below or message me privately.At WOMAD (World of Music and Dance, Neston Park) in July, I was blown away by the female musicians I saw. They were glorious, powerful. They held the stage with their music and their life-affirming presences. At some point in their sets, and in various ways (with varying
Signing up, acting out and festival-ing (opens the original)
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Hello, hello! It’s been a while, but I’m still here and still embarking on madcap projects, creative endeavours and community projects here in beautiful Berwick-upon-Tweed First off, I’ve been out and about with the first few scenes of my new play The Permissive Path. Berwick Literary Festival runs a super event called Cabaret of Words. Usually it’s in Berwick’s very own small events venue: The Strawyard. However, this time, the organisers took the Cabaret on tour to a fab pub just down the road
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