Sam Shepard

I was re-reading some of the chapters in the wonderful book 'Writers on Writing' which I was given for Christmas, and noticed that a lot of the featured writers had been or were actors or writing for theatre or recommended reading plays for dramatic structure.

So I rummaged through our fantastically unorganised book shelves and discovered: Sam Shepard! So far I've read 3 plays, including a wonderful experimental one called 'Savage/Love'.

From Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin's collaborative piece 'Savage/Love' (gorgeous and powerful love stuff):

( Lovely swoony extract )

( Angsty extract )

And today I went out to the library (not t'reference library but t'borrowing library) and got out two volumes of Caryl Churchill, two plays by someone called Mark Ravenhill (I was sucked in by the title 'Shopping and Fucking') and a volume of Chekhov.

I never used to like reading plays very much, I thought I needed to see them to flesh them out, but now I'm finding that I love them!

I'm sure it's to do with writing. I read them and imagine the fleshing-out bit and try and figure out how the playwrights manage to say everything in dialogue. (Thank you yet again, ELF, for alerting me to t'power of t'spoken word.)

Hey, any play recs?

Oscar oblivion

Am hopelessly out of touch. Did TTT win anything at the Oscars?

More specifically: did our *Duck* win anything? And are there pics of his beaming geekiness receiving said phalloi?

GIP for epic

I have made an icon for my Karl/Dom epic!

( squees stupidly )

Andy - you're my man