The Corpse Cannot Play (ten minute play) performed in the top ten Gala/Final of Short + Sweet Theatre Festival, Brisbane.

‘A seance.  A glass.  Cut out letters of the alphabet.  A girl’s night in – what could possibly go wrong?’

Michele Cashmore explores why stepping out of one’s comfort zone can be a highlight in your career.

Whether you write novels, short stories, poetry, plays, scripts or songs, do you ever step out of your comfort zone? I don’t mean in the usual way of playing with conflict and throwing your characters into a dilemma that you’ve never used before, or POV shifts or style or even genre. You might be a novelist who has never written a short story or vice versa, and think the idea of writing something you’ve never tackled before is assigned to the ‘too hard basket’. It can be daunting challenging yourself in any form of art. And daunted is exactly how I felt when I signed up for an intensive playwrighting weekend workshop with world renowned playwright, Alex Broun. >>>[READ FULL ARTICLE]