I WILL do it!!

I saw this image a couple weeks ago and thought I just had to add it to my blog! 

This is a perfect summary of my journey with SVG Productions. Some of you may think playwriting is something I’ve just started. Truth is I wrote and produced my first play at the age of seventeen (so yes, a mere few years ago J).

The journey has been a struggle. People I expected to support wouldn’t. Things I expected to happen didn’t. So, like the little person on the bottom step I thought, ‘this vision is too big I won’t do it.’ Why? Because ‘I can’t do it.’ After all I’m only one, little person. But then I dared to verbalise what I was really thinking, ‘I want to do it’ and that led me to an important question, ‘how do I do it?’

Well, once I asked the question that was it. I began researching, looking at practical ways of getting one of my scripts on a ‘proper’ theatre stage. And then I made a little pack with God. I said God, ‘I will try and do it. But I’m only one tiny person so where I fall short, you need to pick up the slack.’ So I took a deep breath and made one little step. And I realised something – God was right there by my side! It was amazing, there I was doing the little I could and there He was holding my hand and compelling me on. And that gave me the courage to declare I CAN DO IT. So I did a little more, and God did a lot more and I did some more and God did even more and now I know without a shadow of a doubt that I WILL DO IT.

Now, I’m not quite at the ‘Yes, I did it’ part yet.  I’ve seen a few of my plays on the big stage and in September they’ll be another one (Life Begins, hence the reason for this blog). But it doesn’t stop there folks, there’s so much more to come. So read this and be encouraged that you too can accomplish whatever it is you set out to achieve.

Keep watching this space and more importantly – purchase your ticket for Life Begins… It’s going to be a fantastic play and if you purchase your ticket before 17^th Aug, you only have to pay £10 for it. Forget bargain – it’s an outright steal! www.svgproductions.co.uk

Fun & Games

Rehearsals have begun in earnest for Life Begins and we are having way too much fun for it to class as ‘work’.

During our first session, Lady Shay Productions www.ladyshayproductions.com turned up to do some promotional filming. You should have seen the look on her face as she heard random excerpts from the script (illustrating the point as to how hearing things out of context can be very dangerous). I'm not sure what impression she got about the type of play we were producing but she’ll be in the audience on opening night for sure! Anyway, there was so much chatting, laughing and cast members rolling around the floor in hysterics that I have no idea what the finished promo will look like.

Then Tolu and I were rehearsing yesterday. I’m using random spaces at the minute as the bill for rehearsal space spiraled out of control on my last production. So we met at a nice little outdoor spot in Canary Wharf which would have been perfect – if not for the British summer. After an hour of battling the wind, we took it inside and sneakily sat outside a small restaurant. It just so happened that one of the waiters, Sean, heard Tolu as she quoted a line of scripture from the script. ‘Oh, I’m a Christian too!’ Sean piped up. He then proceeded to tell us about his church, the services they have, their single events  etc. etc. and took a wad of flyers from us for distribution promising he’d be at the show. Hmm, maybe we should have our next rehearsal on Oxford Street, around 5.30pm on a week day….

Rehearsals continue from tomorrow and I’ll be doing no less than three rehearsals every week up until the show… pray for our strength guys… and keep watching this space for more updates on the making of a great stage production!  


Life Begins runs from 18th - 23rd September each evening at 7.30pm with additional 2.30pm matinees on the Saturday and Sunday. For more information and to book tickets visit www.svgproductions.co.uk  
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