Produced by Follow That Cat at The Blue Room Theatre, Perth, Australia July 2012
Photo shows Anna Brockway as Acalypha
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Writing retreat
Finding time to write is the perennial quest of writers, but 5 days at The Arvon Foundation’s The Hurst set me up wonderfully. I’ve redrafted the play script Staring at The Sun and worked on one or two other things. Highly recommended set in beautiful countryside.
And if any of you are in London on Sept 13th please come along to a reading of Staring at the Sun – details below.
The reading will take place on Thursday 13th September at 1.30pm at The Tristan Bates Theatre, The Actors Centre, 1A, Tower Street, WC2H 9NP (tel: 020 7240 6283) see also: http://www.tristanbatestheatre.co.uk/Also_on.asp
“Dr Daniel Fredericks’ ambition drives him to work as a cell biologist in the exceptional research facilities provided by Artemis Global. He is trying to achieve the physical immortality of Tanya, a brain-dead cadaver. Daniel’s mother, Brigid, is an expert on The Epic of Gilgamesh, which highlights the futility of Daniel’s quest; Daniel’s father, Connor, is dying from Alzheimer’s disease. When Tanya’s boyfriend, Raf, asks Brigid to help him find out what happened to her, Brigid starts looking into the practices of Artemis. She enlists the help of Sandy, Daniel’s girlfriend and a fellow Artemis employee. When confronted with the truth about Tanya, Daniel is forced to question his own motives and ethics.
Please RSVP to vivienne.glance@gmail.com if you would like to come.
Biography
Vivienne Glance is a playwright, performer and poet from Australia and is the Arts Catalyst’s writer in residence for three weeks from 3– 21 September. Her theatre work has been presented in UK, USA and Australia. Her latest play The Cat in the Box, an “absurd comedy with a dose of quantum mechanics”, recently premiered at the Blue Room Theatre, Perth in August 2012 and was a sell-out!.
The Women Playwrights Int…
The Women Playwrights International Conference 2012 has just wound down in Stockholm Sweden. The conference focussed on playwrights from the Middle East and Africa and we heard from some amazing women working in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, Kurdistan, Israel, South Africa, and Uganda. But there were women from all over the world sharing their working practices and showing their work, including the wonderful Mallika Sarabhai from the Darpana arts academy in India (see picture).
WPIC 2012 gave a wide-ranging and fascinating overview how women create work across the world, but in particular in the Middle East and Africa where there are very specific challenges for women. I was moved by performances from young performers living in Afghanistan, and by the enthusiasm and energy of Nidal Al Achkar from Al Madina Theatre in Beirut.
WPIC in 2015 will take place in Cape Town, South Africa.
“A Simple Rain”
My latest poetry publication is A Simple Rain – a collaborative project with visual artist Perdita Phillips, published by Lethologica Press.
These poems respond to the magnificent landscape and rocks (yes, rocks!) of the Athabasca Glacier in Alberta, Canada.
Not just one for the geologists, this collection – well, perhaps Kevin Gillam and Mark Treddinick say it better than I can …
Photography with an eye for symbolism and hint of narrative, prose filled with visual acuity and flurries and flakes of inventiveness. There is a tangible synergy here between text and image, giving rise to “dissolved aspirations”, depth…past mourning” and the “notes of ages”. ‘A simple rain’ is a book to linger over, a book to savour.
Kevin Gillam (award-winning poet)
Glance’s poetry and Phillips’s images – spiritually intelligent, spacious and honest responses to this austere and shapely northern wilderness, and to each other’s work – teach us how to see again, less simply but more clearly: into our own and each other’s hearts and into the architecture of this world of places.
Mark Tredinnick (author and poet, winner Montreal Poetry Prize)
For a preview of A Simple Rain or to purchase a copy, please visit the Lethologica Press website: http://www.lethologicapress.org/teapot/?page_id=2135
Welcome
Hi, thanks for visiting. This site is the place to see what I’m up to with my poetry and playwriting, plus a sprinkling of news and views about writing and performance in Australia and further afield.
I look forward to sharing my writing and thoughts with you!
Vivienne
Vivienne Glance 