Every year, I get involved in the Gap Arts Festival. It’s a vibrant community-driven festival with a busy agenda of events and workshops. This year, I secured a place in the Writing for Theatre workshop with Garrett Keogh. Over the course of 6 weekly Zoom meetings and some 1-2-1 tutorials, I came up with this…
I’ve given myself an extension to Monday’s midnight deadline because I’ve been busy uploading your work for the past few months that I haven’t had much time for my own reflections. Don’t get me wrong, it was a privilege to read and share your work. I want to say a sincere thank you for all…
‘What do you miss most?’ I hear people ask. Families towns, counties, and countries away; Loved ones in hospitals and nursing homes without visitors since March; hugging a grieving friend or waking our dead; livelihoods lost overnight and the pressure to reinvent oneself online. Each as valid and heartbreaking as the next. I must have…
It’s a little like Christmas because It’s nearly lunchtime and I’m still not dressed I’m mindlessly eating chocolate before breakfast Getting dressed involves exchanging indoor slouch pants for hiking trousers I’m not going to bed before 2 am It’s like Christmas but The smell of smoked ham, cloved red cabbage and gingerbread isn’t filling…
Business as usual you say? Usual SLAs still stand I presume? Oh right. Meanwhile ….. We tune in for regular State of the Nation addresses We tear up and are proud of our leaders’ Together Apart rhetoric Even if Leo borrows some lines from the Terminator movies Meanwhile ….. There is an invisible serial killer…
I’ve designed a WhatsApp quiz A virtual table quiz And before you say it I know there are fancier tools like Teams, Hangouts and Zoom to see each other’s faces and more importantly to check nobody is cheating But my sister lives in Cuba, her internet is poor so we’re going semi analog. It’s all…
It’s bright when I wake, sometime after 7. The Fitbit app tells me I’ve slept 4 hr 7 min but it’s feels a lot less. I should go back to sleep, it’s going to be a long day but instead decide to get up and out. Hard enough to get a space in Lidl carpark…
So I’m back in one piece from the opening weekend of the Dublin International Film Festival. My sister had lured me up to the capital for Women Make Film, a 14-hour documentary in five sittings written and directed by Mark Cousins. Cousins was there to introduce the first two installments and share his passion for…
While in Madrid last weekend with my son visiting my older son who now lives there, I made the mistake of visiting the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía with them. T, the twentyone-year-old was hungover, had had very little sleep and appeared to be powered entirely by the fumes from his armpits. T‘s…
Korean director Bong Joon Ho made history at the 92nd Academy Awards when his movie “Parasite” won the Best Picture Oscar, the first foreign-language film ever to win. While the film’s title suggests it might belong to the horror or end of days genre, Parasite is a universal story of rich vs poor. The…
