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Finding your voice … Finding a voice …

Finding your voice … Finding a voice …

by Karen | Nov 11, 2020 | Take a Chair––talking theatre and creativity

We read to know we are not alone.Often attributed to CS Lewis, but written by William Nicholson for the screenplay Shadowlands, which was about Lewis; words that resonate. Finding your voice It was one of the hardest things for me to figure out what my voice was. I...
Podcast 4: Chatting with Jeremy Massey, writer of novels and screenplays

Podcast 4: Chatting with Jeremy Massey, writer of novels and screenplays

by Karen | Nov 19, 2020 | Take a Chair––talking theatre and creativity

With twenty-five years experience in the film and writing business, Jeremy Massey gives an oversight of his creative process in working through many screenplays, one novel, published by Penguin US, The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley, an historical novel in writing,...
Podcast 5: Chatting with Ger FitzGibbon, former Head of Theatre and Drama Studies in UCC, director and writer, sometimes actor

Podcast 5: Chatting with Ger FitzGibbon, former Head of Theatre and Drama Studies in UCC, director and writer, sometimes actor

by Karen | Dec 3, 2020 | Take a Chair––talking theatre and creativity

There are many areas in which Ger FitzGibbon has been prominent in theatre in Cork city–-as one of those responsible for setting up and becoming the Head of Department of Theatre and Drama Studies as a director and writer for theatre in Cork. We focus a lot in this...
The embodiment of hearing

The embodiment of hearing

by Karen | Nov 26, 2020 | Take a Chair––talking theatre and creativity

An old chestnut I have an unusual surname, it is not rare, though not common either; It is the spelling and the pronunciation that are rare. Where I grew up everybody was familiar with it and so there was no issue. But since I ventured further afield, I must deal...
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