Somebody's filming my words
Remember how I was stuck for a monologue? Well I wrote one, featuring custard creams, and Slackline Productions are making it week 5 of their fabulous Slackline Cyberstories, next week! They haven't announced yet who will be acting it but I'm so looking forward to seeing what they make of it. This will be a new experience, seeing someone else interpreting my words. Thrilling, but maybe also a bit nail-bitey.
You can watch weeks 1-4 at their YouTube channel, and if you're in the mood for monologues in lockdown, you can also try Coronavirus Theatre Club and Buglight.
I've been adding a few old recordings, mainly stories I've read on the radio, to Chirbit so you can now hear Viv's 64th (a popular one from The Little Book of Northern Women, which started life as an Alan Bennett style monologue for my mum's 64th birthday), Guilt By Association (part of National Flash Fiction Day Flash Flood 2015), Can't Stop the Rock (comic fantasy about reanimating dead rock stars) and The Library of Forgotten Dreams (a short piece of whimsy I wrote for an Ilkley Writers programme on Chapel FM in 2017). There were already a few recordings up there, including another of my monologues which I didn't end up using for the Ilkley Literature Festival Fringe in 2015, as we changed theme.
Enjoy. Stay safe. Check back here next week for a link to the finished film.