Go west young playwright!

So it's happened - a play has been accepted in America - Nay, let's get this right - Noah's promised to do two plays - So I've cracked the States. Well, not actually cracked - more like a small tiny scratch has been made - but made none the less.
I got an email the other day from Spokane Radio Theatre. From a guy named Noah who has heard of my play The Granny Case  (I may have mentioned it a few times during these blogs.) and wants to do it in Spokane on the radio. That's Spokane, Washington State - and here's the real irony of the whole thing - Natalie (my wife) and I are planning an American trip next year - and one of the places that we will be passing through is Spokane! Albeit at about 3am in the morning on the Empire Builder Amtrak train! But there is a connection there - but I have feeling I shall not be getting up at the time especially to wave to Spokane as we go through. But I do look forward to listening to a recording of the play - as well as The Pail Of Water Case - which Noah is also planning to do. So The Granny Case will be now going to America in the fall - and there's a chance of it being done at Christmas in Bognor Regis!

My other news this month is that A Mess of Beans or The Case of Beans - which was its original title has been short listed as a finalist for Pint Sized Plays 2011. This means that I've had at least one play in the finals each year for the past four years - which is very pleasing. Oh, why was there a change of title? - well, I was getting into a rut with my cases (all of which are Nursery Rhyme Crimes) and as the competition is supposed to be anonymous - I thought I'd better not give anyone a clue as to who wrote it! Oh it's about Jack and the beanstalk if you hadn't guessed and comes as a kind of prequel to No Rhyme Nor Reason the play I won 2nd prize with at Bognor Last year.
It's all so complicated, I think I'll leave it now and go and have a lie down until next month.
Doc
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