Some of my reguler readers (Bernard Cantanker, Jimmy Munt, Anonymous) will be concerned what I have not written much recently. This is to be understood. My mind has been elsewhere. Vernon has recently told me that my Master of Fine Arts is being terminated as a result of "industry apathy" (his words). This is a pretty state of affairs. Vernon says there is simply no demand for my type of cutting edge drama, and that the Arts Council of Tifton are unlikely to fund to any serious degree my art.
WELL, WHAT IS ARTS FUNDING FOR IF IT ISN'T TO FUND ART?!
I am not swayed by Vernon's comments. Indeed I cannot afford such self-indulgencing. The true artist must forge ahead, friendless and despised. What is which I shall do. I must be strong. I must be vigilent. I must be True To My Muse.
BRIEF CANDLE is not a one-off. My pen itches to create, and having created, create more. If there is no audience, then so be it. I have played to audiences of no-on before. I am happy to do it again.
Watch this space...
(By the way, Mum has booked me for holidays this summer so there will be a hiatus in my blogging.)
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2 comments:
Hope you have a fantastic summer hols, dear friend. As I am chums with a literary associate at The Trinket Box Theatre in Weston-Super-Mare, do let me know if I can forward your latest oeuvre to her. If it's anything like the silent splendour of Brief Candle, I'm sure this will be the start of a fabulous career.
All the best, your (much disputed) old pal,
Bernard Cantanker
The Trinket Box is a much valued space in the universe of damp regional "boxes" (as we in the biz oft refer to them as). Col and I know the artistic directress well (Mallard Jejune, a much misunderstood maverick of the Arts) and she has read most of my oeuf. I will indeed get in touch once I am back from Tifton Head. Thankyou, Bernard, and thankyou too for your kind description of my mute oeuf, Brief Candle (which has yet to find a home - too cutting edge for today's cautious theatre scene, it seems).
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