Carolyn – Armagh Project 2015

The Hewitt Festival: Day 5

Carolyn — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 07:50:15 +0000

The showcase went great and I don’t know what else to say but that I’ll miss seeing you weirdos every day Keep in touch!

The Hewitt Festival: Day 4

Carolyn — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 07:48:57 +0000

Perforce I volunteered to read in the student showcase, since almost nobody else did. I also might’ve bought too many books. T_____T

The Hewitt Festival: Day 3

Carolyn — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 07:47:15 +0000

TWO SORE LEGS WAS AMAZINGGGGG HOLY CRAP

Now that I think about it, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a one-person show, but I’d gladly watch another one (particularly if it’s a rerun of Two Sore Legs). I looked online to see if a printed version was for sale, but there wasn’t any.

The Hewitt Festival: Day 2

Carolyn — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 11:14:13 +0000

THE SHOWCASE WAS AWESOME. That is all. Oh and we wrote some monologues in scriptwriting class.

The Hewitt Festival: Day 1

Carolyn — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 23:35:21 +0000

Today the scriptwriting workshop started off with a discussion of Aristotle and his assertion that all plays contain six basic elements:

Plot
Character
Diction
Thought
Spectacle
Song

We also started creating characters, though we didn’t have enough time to present them all. Jeff said afterwards that my story reminded him of Bioshock. Perhaps I should actually finish that game.

Current Impressions

Carolyn — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 16:10:11 +0000

Initial impression: King Conchobar was a dipwad.

Current impression: King Conchobar is still a dipwad, but I have yet to have a bad experience in Armagh. Despite the paucity of outlets, I like having everything (e.g., grocery stores, bus station, Embers) within walking distance, and I like having the run of the quiet room in the hostel. I like being able to get a 5-piece breakfast for £2.95 at Rumours, and I especially like having a library literally next door. I’m glad we’ve had a month here, because it’s given me time to settle in and adjust to Armagh as a home away from home. It’s a little annoying that almost everything closes early in the evening (excepting the pubs), but that’s a minor detail.

The Rehearsal Process

Carolyn — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 20:51:14 +0000

As both writer and participant, I’ve gotten a better idea of how to convey emotion, both in writing and in performance. While writing Under Stone‘s two monologues, I actually had little to no idea of how I wanted/expected them to be … Continue reading →

Under Stone

Carolyn — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 21:43:42 +0000

For Under Stone, the audience is at once spectator and accomplice: though members do not participate in the play, they are invited into Kalin’s head as she addresses her unseen mother. Through this dual view they are included in both internal and external goings-on, which should then give them better insight into the characters and story.

This is actually fairly unique for me, because I never write for an audience’s convenience: I write to please myself, because even if I don’t get published I’ll at least have produced something that I like.

Prison Pickets

Carolyn — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 15:42:41 +0000

Armagh-Down Observer 1989

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Armagh-Down Observer 1989

While looking through the 1989 Armagh-Down Observers, I somehow found the name Towson:

A prisoners action group staged a picket on the Department of Justice in Dublin on Sunday calling for a release date for Newry man, Liam Towson who was jailed for life in 1977 for the murder of SAS Captain Robert Nairac.

The group, Portlaoise Prisoners’ Relatives Actions Committee claimed that Towson would have got better treatment if he had been sentenced in the North.

I went to Towson for undergrad, so of course I had to pick this one.

The Traveling Demon

Carolyn — Sun, 19 Jul 2015 23:46:33 +0000

I met another traveler in the station while waiting for the bus back to Armagh. Though she appeared as a young woman in her mid-20s to early 30s, she is actually a demon who follows groups of students and subtly feeds off their life force, which she siphons into a coffee cup for slow consumption. The students themselves suffer few undesirable effects, provided they are already sufficiently brain-dead, but may feel the need to nap more than usual, which may or may not cause them to miss their stops. Because of this, the Traveling Demon is widely regarded as the most annoying of all the demons, but is not usually caught in time to be properly exorcised.