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Out & About: Have you seen Ivy Davies?

Posted on April 1, 2017 by lucyaverywrites

As soon as she mentioned the glow-in-the-dark star stickers she had me. I was transported back to being about 12 and sticking my own glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling of my bedroom because I was afraid of the dark. Ivy … Continue reading →

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Are all stories really the same? And does a female character have to be likeable? #NewYearNewPlay #WritingTips

Posted on January 5, 2016 by lucyaverywrites

Are you kick starting your year with a new creative project? I’m starting 2016 with rewriting. I’m taking a shorter project and making it longer, with the help of a director to make sure I’m making sense (and with the … Continue reading →

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‘A play is a backward explosion’, That Face by Polly Stenham, December’s playwright #12newplaywrightsin12months

Posted on December 16, 2015 by lucyaverywrites

Part of the Royal Court Young Writers Group, Stenham was 18 when she wrote That Face, the play she submitted at the end of the course that went on to be produced at the Royal Court and the West End. … Continue reading →

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‘My first play, Foxfinder, was read, liked, but not produced by basically the theatres that accept scripts’ Dawn King, November’s playwright #12newplaywrightsin12months

Posted on December 5, 2015 by lucyaverywrites

‘My first play, Foxfinder, was read, liked, but not produced by basically the theatres that accept scripts – and not just in London. I’d had lots of meetings with people who said they liked it, but that it was a … Continue reading →

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Stef Smith looks at the ‘chaotic ways in which we continue’ in Swallow, October’s playwright #12newplaywrightsin12months

Posted on November 22, 2015 by lucyaverywrites

A friend of mine saw Stef Smith’s new play Swallow at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year and said I just had to read it! Smith wasn’t a writer I’d heard of and when I discovered she’d won an Olivier … Continue reading →

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Who is Daisy Scarlet? Update #triptychchallenge

Posted on June 28, 2015 by lucyaverywrites

It took us all a little longer than we’d hoped but we have all written a scene or collection of scenes in response to our stimulus and eerily there are some connections between the work other than our restrictions (see … Continue reading →

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‘In the olden days they used to think of writing as more like witchcraft and there’s something in that.’ -Marina Carr, May’s Playwright #12newplaywrightsin12months

Posted on June 24, 2015 by lucyaverywrites

This quote is from an interview with one of Ireland’s most prominent playwrights Marina Carr whose 2 brilliant plays Portia Coughlan and By The Bog of Cats I read this month. There’s definitely something magical about these pieces and if I didn’t need to move … Continue reading →

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Who is Daisy Scarlet?

Posted on January 20, 2015 by lucyaverywrites

…and can 3 playwrights successfully write a play together? Groups of writers seem to write for TV but there are only a handful of examples I can think of where more than one writer has written a successful play (and that … Continue reading →

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To be given the space and time to create is sacred

Posted on July 13, 2014 by lucyaverywrites

This is a beach hut I saw on Tankerton beach yesterday. Isn’t it great?! It looks exactly how I feel: it’s up in the clouds having some time out, giving itself space to breathe. Who knows what’s going on behind … Continue reading →

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