I can’t explain why I have a problem writing exposition without sounding like a jerk, but that doesn’t mean I’m not going to try.
So I noticed that for a show I love particularly for its female characters, this list has a large proportion of men. Huh. I do love main characters like Diane and Kalinda and newbies like Robyn and judges like the “in my opinion judge” and the military judge and antagonists…
Third entry in my process notes on developing a murder-mystery weekend! If you missed it, you can also check out the second installment. When I first started planning this hunt, I wanted to solve what seemed to me to be the main problem with all the murder mysteries I’d played in…
… onstage at Soulpepper? Tom Stoppard’s plays are something of a paradox for me. I enjoy reading them; on that basis, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is one of my favourite plays. It’s also really fun to perform: my friends Dave and Diana and I included a scene from it in…
Second entry in my process notes on developing a murder-mystery weekend! At one friend’s murder mystery party, players could kill each other using in-game weapons. I thought this was a lot of fun, so I wanted to include a similar mechanic in my murder mystery weekend. (Besides, it would help…