e-baby

18/06/2022

As we celebrate the most representative and diverse Australian Parliament to date, it's worth recalling the women who paved the way....

https://janecafarella.com.au/2022/06/18/free-audition-monologues-for-women-over-40/

Have you entered a writing competition lately? Don't forget to check the results, even if you're not notified directly. You may be surprised.

05/06/2022

Google yourself and discover awards! I'm thrilled to discover that my play d-baby was a competition finalist - in 2019. Better late than never. Note to self: always check competition results - even if you're not notified directly.

https://janecafarella.com.au/2022/06/05/google-yourself-and-discover-awards/

Have you entered a writing competition lately? Don't forget to check the results, even if you're not notified directly. You may be surprised.

23/05/2022

Are you a writer struggling with your plot? Test it on your readers. At the recent Bendigo Writers' Festival author Anna Ciddor tells how this worked for her.

https://janecafarella.com.au/2022/05/23/the-value-of-testing-your-writing-on-readers/

Author Anna Ciddor tells how testing her work on her readers, helped improve the plot of her recent book The Boy Who Stepped Through Time.

27/04/2021

Small independent theatre - the keeper of dreams

The sum was 314 pounds – 314 pounds of hope. That was the modest distribution sum I received this quarter from publishing and licensing agent David Waters at Stagescripts in London, which licences my play e-baby for productions in Europe and the USA....
https://janecafarella.com.au/2021/04/27/small-independent-theatre-the-keeper-of-dreams/

Below: Carolyn Bock as Catherine, in the 2015 premiere of e-baby at Chapel Off Chapel, Melbourne, with direction and dramaturgy by Anna McCrossin-Owen.

A shout out to small independent theatre companies and publishing houses, who are keeping dreams alive for independent playwrights during Covid19.

19/04/2021

e-baby coming to Missouri and Spain - eventually...

2020 was both an exciting and disappointing year for e-baby. I was thrilled when Talking Horse Productions, a small independent theatre company in Columbia, Missouri, optioned the rights for a production of the play, along with Les Antonietes Theatre Company, in Barcelona, Spain, who plan to translate it into Catalan and tour Catalonia (and if all goes well, also tour Spain). Sadly, Covid 19 has put a stop to all that for now.
I've provided background and promotional material for Talking Horse, and kept in contact with Talking Horse Artistic Director Adam Brietzke. I've also adapted the script for translation into Catalan for Les Antonietes', working with producer Raul Perales Haro, but now it's just a waiting game for us all.
It's especially sad and difficult for small production companies at present, who don't always have government support, and usually depend on the passion and dedication of a few to keep things going. As a playwright, I'm always so grateful to these groups, who give playwrights a voice and an audience. I hope that they can manage to survive until Europe and the USA can get Covid under control.
Until Covid, e-baby was continuing its tradition of a production every year somewhere in the world since its Melbourne premiere in 2015 - which has been humbling and amazing.
Meanwhile, if anyone is interested in a radio play adaptation of e-baby please let me know. I've always loved radio plays (I'm working on one right now on another topic). In the absence of physical theatre, this just might be the way forward.
Here's Gabrielle Scawthorn as Nellie, in the Sydney production in 2016 directed by Nadia Tass at The Ensemble Theatre. This is one of my favourite photos as it encapsulates Nellie's character beautifully.