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Dear Mother: A Perfect Audition Piece For Drama Students

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Mark James – Playwright. Dear Mother: The Perfect Audition Piece. What do you look for in an audition monologue? Do you look for a piece that will engage the director or adjudicators? Something that will give you the chance to really show off your acting range? Do you want to be unique with a piece they have probably not seen before? Or do you want something that is in the current mindset? The award winning Great War play, Dear Mother. Can offer all of these points and more! There was no one checking my ...

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Dear Mother |

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Mark James – Playwright. Thomas James Brook is an ordinary boy at the turn of the 20th Century. His innocence of youth is shown through the letters that he sends his Mother, initially during a holiday with extended family in Weymouth. They reveal how a chance meeting, the sight of a mysterious man and how games he plays, form his perceptions on the future. Has been well researched and uses first-hand accounts and experiences in the narrative. It is performed on a simple stage with minimum set design ...

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The Motivation Behind Dear Mother: from history to respect |

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Mark James – Playwright. The Motivation Behind Dear Mother: from history to respect. Very soon you will be able to pre-order your copy of. Written by me and published by Magic Oxygen. It’s a one act play and follows the journey of a young boy via letters to his mother at the turn of the 20th Century. Over the course of less than a decade, you discover how a man’s world was seen through the eyes of a young boy and find out how it managed to destroy a childhood before it had begun. Over the next week or so...

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Mark James – Playwright. Dear Mother: The Perfect Audition Piece. What do you look for in an audition monologue? Do you look for a piece that will engage the director or adjudicators? Something that will give you the chance to really show off your acting range? Do you want to be unique with a piece they have probably not seen before? Or do you want something that is in the current mindset? The award winning Great War play, Dear Mother. Can offer all of these points and more! Thomas Begins to Write….

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Dear Mother |

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Mark James – Playwright. Why Should We Remember The Great War? Although there is no shortage of history to learn, seldom is there a time in history that you can say that one moment in time, those seconds, minutes, hours, months or years changed the path of the human race for ever and it will never be the same again. The Great War is one of those times. Four years is a long time to remember, and over time there will be a lot of people that will become disillusioned with the meaning of the commemorations&#...

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Dear Mother Launch Day Feelings & Interview by Mark James

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Mark James – Playwright. Dear Mother Launch Day: Feelings & Interviews. In January 2011, as I sat down in my little one bedroom flat above an estate agent in the small village of Tisbury, I started to type away at my computer trying to write a script that I thought would play for a single night in a one act play festival. My only dream at that point was to try not to embarrass myself by writing something boring or that people couldn’t understand. Or purchased the book. Thank you to everyone. Having known...

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Must Try Harder - page 2

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What’s in a Name? As I’ve written before. There are big changes coming in April with how PRUs are managed and run. One change that has come into effect already is a change of job title for me. I am now officially a Headteacher and I can’t deny that there is a part of me that is very pleased about that purely in terms of my own ego. But I feel it has a deeper significance for the status of PRUs. Several years ago now, when I started work at my PRU, everyone (myself included) was. What do you think? How he...

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Mark James – Playwright. Guest Post: A Fabulous Feature in Salisbury Life. Morning Readers, I’m Tracey West, one of the editors at Magic Oxygen Publishing. We were enormously proud to publish Dear Mother. Our first playscript and we suspect, the first of many great pieces by Mark James. This powerful little one act play has caught the eye of the media and last week, the National Operatic and Dramatic Association. Published a smashing piece on their website and in their newsletter. Click to email this to ...

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Lyme Literary Festival in the News! – Lyme Regis Literary Festival

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Advertise On This Site. Lyme Literary Festival in the News! February 5, 2015. February 5, 2015. This week’s View From Lyme had a rather splendid feature about our forthcoming events, paying particular attention to our ‘ Meet the Authors. 8216; extravaganza on Saturday 14th February at The Hub. LYME Regis will host its first literary festival next week, showcasing internationally-established and up-and-coming authors who embrace a multitude of genres, as well as celebrating the town’s literary heritage.