playwriting – Marie Cooper https://www.mariecooperactor.com Norfolk Actor and Playwright Wed, 20 Nov 2024 13:10:23 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://i0.wp.com/www.mariecooperactor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/cropped-Logo-for-WP.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 playwriting – Marie Cooper https://www.mariecooperactor.com 32 32 149882402 Marie Cooper’s New Play at HighTide Rising 2024 https://www.mariecooperactor.com/news/marie-coopers-new-play-at-hightide-rising-2024/ https://www.mariecooperactor.com/news/marie-coopers-new-play-at-hightide-rising-2024/#respond Wed, 23 Oct 2024 15:59:38 +0000 https://www.mariecooperactor.com/?post_type=news&p=117685 I’m thrilled to announce that an extract from my new play will be performed as one of six rehearsed readings at HighTide Rising on Saturday, November 23rd. About HighTide Rising HighTide Rising is a full day celebrating new playwriting in the East Anglian region. The event kicks off with a morning brunch and concludes with […]

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]]> https://www.mariecooperactor.com/news/marie-coopers-new-play-at-hightide-rising-2024/feed/ 0 117685 East of England Playwrights Selected for HighTide Writers Group https://www.mariecooperactor.com/news/east-of-england-playwrights-selected-for-hightide-writers-group/ https://www.mariecooperactor.com/news/east-of-england-playwrights-selected-for-hightide-writers-group/#respond Wed, 06 Mar 2024 15:08:59 +0000 https://www.mariecooperactor.com/?post_type=news&p=117160 Marie Cooper is one of Six East of England playwrights to have been chosen for the prestigious HighTide Writers Group this year.

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]]> https://www.mariecooperactor.com/news/east-of-england-playwrights-selected-for-hightide-writers-group/feed/ 0 117160 Editing the Script https://www.mariecooperactor.com/editing-the-script/ https://www.mariecooperactor.com/editing-the-script/#respond Thu, 29 Jul 2021 16:33:00 +0000 https://www.mariecooperactor.com/?p=6611 Reading Time: 5 minutesThis week has been all about the edit. I started to adapt a short stage play I wrote into an audio play. Changing one, short line set off a whole cascade of further additions, questions and research rabbit holes.

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]]> https://www.mariecooperactor.com/editing-the-script/feed/ 0 6611 28 Plays Later Zoomthrough https://www.mariecooperactor.com/28-plays-later-zoomthrough-2021/ https://www.mariecooperactor.com/28-plays-later-zoomthrough-2021/#respond Sun, 28 Mar 2021 17:50:26 +0000 https://www.mariecooperactor.com/?p=5532 Reading Time: 2 minutesI was fortunate that one of my plays was chosen from the 28 Plays Later submissions for the Readthroughs, after the challenge. It was the first draft, as the readthroughs had to be the exact, unedited script that we writers had originally submitted during the 28 Plays Later challenge. The full list of all of […]

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]]> https://www.mariecooperactor.com/28-plays-later-zoomthrough-2021/feed/ 0 5532 Reflections on 28 Plays Later, 2021 https://www.mariecooperactor.com/writing-28-plays-in-28-days/ https://www.mariecooperactor.com/writing-28-plays-in-28-days/#respond Mon, 01 Mar 2021 21:36:35 +0000 https://www.mariecooperactor.com/?p=5110 Reading Time: 5 minutesThis was the first time I’d taken on this challenge, to write 28 Plays in the 28 days of February. I knew it wasn’t going to be easy. It wouldn’t be much of a challenge if it was now, would it?. My brain did, at times, try to resist and procrastinate, to make it easier […]

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]]> https://www.mariecooperactor.com/writing-28-plays-in-28-days/feed/ 0 5110 February Playwriting Retreat for 28 Plays Later https://www.mariecooperactor.com/february-playwriting-retreat/ https://www.mariecooperactor.com/february-playwriting-retreat/#respond Sun, 24 Jan 2021 23:28:45 +0000 https://www.mariecooperactor.com/?p=4887 Reading Time: 3 minutesI’m trying to get organised for the month ahead for 28 Plays Later. I’m writing this blog post now because I know what’s coming. Oh, my God! That sounds like something out of a horror novel. My time is short, so I write this to you now. Knowing that soon it will be too late. […]

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]]> https://www.mariecooperactor.com/february-playwriting-retreat/feed/ 0 4887 Playwriting Impostor! https://www.mariecooperactor.com/playwriting-impostor/ https://www.mariecooperactor.com/playwriting-impostor/#respond Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:00:07 +0000 https://www.mariecooperactor.com/?p=4528 Reading Time: 5 minutesPeople tend to put their best selves on the internet. Their positives. Their achievements. All the things that are going well in life. And I am no exception. I do not like to dwell on the negative as a rule. I tend to brush the bad aside as soon as I can and move forwards. […]

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]]> https://www.mariecooperactor.com/playwriting-impostor/feed/ 0 4528 Acting as if Everything is Normal https://www.mariecooperactor.com/acting-as-if-everything-is-normal/ https://www.mariecooperactor.com/acting-as-if-everything-is-normal/#respond Tue, 21 Jul 2020 22:46:50 +0000 https://www.mariecooperactor.com/?p=4120 Reading Time: 4 minutesThe last couple of weeks have felt a bit closer to normal. Well, not 100%, but closer. I had a new script emailed over at the start of the week. The Maddermarket Theatre are running play readings and are reading Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard this Friday evening. I am looking forward to it. I have […]

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]]> https://www.mariecooperactor.com/acting-as-if-everything-is-normal/feed/ 0 4120 Arts Council England Free Reads https://www.mariecooperactor.com/arts-council-england-free-reads/ https://www.mariecooperactor.com/arts-council-england-free-reads/#respond Wed, 24 Apr 2019 01:17:32 +0000 http://www.mariecooperactor.com/?p=1766 Reading Time: 4 minutesI am finally able to announce that I am one of the winners of the 2018-19 TLC Free Reads. It’s a scheme run by Arts Council England for talented writers on low incomes. Update: Sadly, my bio wasn’t included on the winners’  for last year or this year. TLC says I should have been on […]

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]]> https://www.mariecooperactor.com/arts-council-england-free-reads/feed/ 0 1766 Planning a 30 Day Script Writing Schedule https://www.mariecooperactor.com/30-day-script-writing-schedule/ https://www.mariecooperactor.com/30-day-script-writing-schedule/#respond Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:45:19 +0000 http://www.mariecooperactor.com/?p=2228 Reading Time: 3 minutesI decided to put together a 30 day script writing schedule for Play 2. And so it begins…. Well, next week it will. I recognised that I was allowing myself to get sucked into a procrastination trap. All the goals and challenges facing me at the moment, in acting, writing and creating the business, were […]

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