comedy

New blog post by Vagabond Heart – discussions in this thread, please --- My paperback version of The Complete Works of Shakespeare was starting to look properly shabby. I’d bent the cover back a lot, and sat cups of tea on it a few too many times. It now looked like a book that got READ, which...

New blog post by Vagabond Heart – discussions in this thread, please --- Much Ado About Nothing left me in a good place, so the thought of another comedy coming up was quite welcome. But would it deliver the goods? 19. The Merry Wives of Windsor If I could change the title it would be...

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything. Marilyn Monroe

New blog post by Vagabond Heart – discussions in this thread, please --- Full of enthusiasm for my lockdown project of reading The Complete Works of Shakespeare, I wandered blindly on to play number 5. Some time later I stumbled back out, wondering if there’s any wriggle-room on those do not...

Title: Dean Spanley Genre: Comedy, Drama Director: Toa Fraser Cast: Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Peter O'Toole, Judy Parfitt, Art Malik, Ramon Tikaram Release: 2008-12-12 Runtime: 100 Plot: Set in Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the...

Hello everyone My name is Chris and I am brand new to Litopia. I am a keen writer, yet to be published or represented - I have worked in the film and TV industry as an Assistant Director for 15 years and although I love my job my burning desire is to focus more on my writing. I have written a...

@Paul Whybrow started a thread last week about comedy in one's writing. This is slightly different. Are there any pure comedy writers here? Has anyone here tried writing pure comedy? This came to mind earlier this week when I was listening to a news programme which was discussing the Irish...

Hi all Been away, now I'm back. (Feel like I'm apologising to my Mum for not having been in touch more often, oh the guilt.) Having written a full MS, I started on the screenplay for it and have found this type of writing to suit me better. So I've also started writing a comedy for TV...