An ambition

[smokingboot]

Some obsessions follow you around. I often wonder if, in a former life, I was some peon working a the Globe when Shakey was strutting his stuff, cos I have always wanted to direct a play, and not just any play. It's always been The Tempest.

I don't know why this play haunts me. It isn't even necessarily his best. But every now and then the old desire to return to the dream comes back, and I want to make it real. I can even think of ways to make that bloody daft masque work at the end. Predictably monomaniacal about the whole thing, I want to stage one version on the Norfolk broads. Then I followed philoko's link to photos of Socotra, and all I could think was 'This is it! This is where I want to film the Tempest!' Well, that and 'Pterodactyls in those mountains, definitely...'

One of our most gifted directors at the studio has told me he'll drop anything he's doing in order to do the camerawork for me bless him. But still, financing it would be very difficult. I may end up writing some book about a crazy woman who travels the world creating different versions of the play, only to be murdered by a frenzied critic who just wants her to get the hell off the subject.

One day one day...

Comments

[caffeine-fairy.livejournal.com]

I love the icon, where's it from?

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

I haven't a clue! It was posted/created by [Bad username or site: la onza @ livejournal.com] who kindly allowed me to use it, But I can't recall the community *shamed face*

[squintywitch.livejournal.com]

Do it!

(I've always wanted to produce lesbian Othello. Go figure...)

Lesbian Othello

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Of course. Shame on you for not filming it - I think you'd have found a devoted following.

I am sitting here staring at an Arts Council Grant Application form telling myself not to be silly.

Congratulations on your Other News! We haven't had a proper catch up for far too long - here's to changing that soon:-)

Re: Lesbian Othello

[squintywitch.livejournal.com]

:)
Thank you - would be great to catch up soon! We are moving house and the other deadline is approaching with terrible imminence - fancy a visit up north sometime late May?

Re: Lesbian Othello

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

I fancy that idea a lot! Will talk to the man re travel arrangments xxx