Like my mum always used to say to me, “If you want a job doing right, do it yourself”
Though, It’s not always about doing it right in some cases. Just doing it at all, would be an achievement. If you suffer from an active, overthinking and creative monkey mind, such as I do, it can be hard to pin your time and efforts down on to just one project and complete it. My mental ‘to-do’ list is as long as a Costa coffee queue and just as frustrating.
But at times, us creative folks concur, don’t we and something magical happens! We create something and rejoice in a big fat tick, it’s done!
I enjoy being creative in so many ways but I have an internal struggle with what I actually want to be in life. Well that’s I lie, I actually just want to be a ‘Housewife of Beverley Hills’ but I can’t tell that to people can I. So one of the things I do and I enjoy is writing.
I’m the co-founder of a comedy troupe called Scarlet Lights and we have been together for nine years and still going… well, we’re still going! That’s the important thing here. We’ve been up and down the country performing in fringe festivals, competitions and other wonderful comedy events. By ‘eck we’ve been caught up in some very strange tomfoolery from time to time. But all that will be in our book next year. Scarlet Lights – A Decade of Tomfoolery.
Ah damn it, another thing on my ‘to-do’ list!
So I write and I’m in a comedy group, what shall one do? I know I’m going to write a funny play for me and the rest of the six strong, Scarlet players. So I did, I wrote a play about an amateur dramatics society based in a sleepy village called Swanland who take the local drama scene by storm and I profoundly called it The Drama Group. I’ve always been very good with words.
The Drama Group was indeed meant for stage and it was performed and received extremely well, if I do say so myself, by the paying public. Twice. As the Scarlet Lights we have also always made content for the Internet, extremely poor content, but we gave it a good bash all the same. Now, with no messing around, we got ourselves a proper cameraman and everything and we turned ‘The Drama Group from a stage production into a webisode comedy series for YouTube. Tar-dar!
Quite trendy eh? For a bunch of 30-plusses and even some mums in the group.
It’s a way to show that if you have it in you, you’re passionate and a nice and friendly dedicated bunch with some good contacts with grown-ups, you can make stuff yourself. Like so many have done before us, just got together and started creating, made it and put it out there for the world to see. You can too!
Come on girls! Go guerrilla and show the t’interweb what we’re made of, funny stuff!
You can see it here! Scarlet Lights pilot webisode of The Drama Group.
