The creative writing workshop
Well, the creative writing workshop is over.
I had worked with an American, Dustin, but he was not there for the last two sessions, so it fell to me to read sections of our production and to sing the songs we had included.
For Dustin and I had not taken the subject entirely seriously. It was "Je vous écris d'un pays lointain" (I am writing to you from a far country) and our text developed into the account of a hapless dragon chaser, the "George", and the futile efforts he engaged in to protect his town from the ravages of a dragon - then his funeral - and then the way the next George was chosen. At his funeral a song was sung, and again at the selection of his successor.
So I read. And I sang.
Although there were moments of exmichaelation in the text (e.g. the George's body was fed to the dragon, stuffed with foie gras, garnished with parsley and surrounded with fruits de mer), the lecturer for the creative writing workshop, herself a published and award winning author and poet, said it was formidable and she loved l'humour anglais.
Other people wrote love stories or stuff about sick dogs.
(exmichaelation - the taking of the mickey)
I had worked with an American, Dustin, but he was not there for the last two sessions, so it fell to me to read sections of our production and to sing the songs we had included.
For Dustin and I had not taken the subject entirely seriously. It was "Je vous écris d'un pays lointain" (I am writing to you from a far country) and our text developed into the account of a hapless dragon chaser, the "George", and the futile efforts he engaged in to protect his town from the ravages of a dragon - then his funeral - and then the way the next George was chosen. At his funeral a song was sung, and again at the selection of his successor.
So I read. And I sang.
Although there were moments of exmichaelation in the text (e.g. the George's body was fed to the dragon, stuffed with foie gras, garnished with parsley and surrounded with fruits de mer), the lecturer for the creative writing workshop, herself a published and award winning author and poet, said it was formidable and she loved l'humour anglais.
Other people wrote love stories or stuff about sick dogs.
(exmichaelation - the taking of the mickey)
Comments
In fact, people generally say that I have an odd appearance, and a good face for radio.
The original "Je vous écris d'un pays lointain" has lions that come into the town to eat the people!
Amazing!