![]() ![]() Thank you for your time and for firing me up in the talk-back. Thando Doni directed a staged reading with a group of students. Thank you to the people who read and gave me feedback: Marc Kay (who did win), Jon Minster and Melissa Loudon (who called my hacking scene ‘vaguely plausible’).įrom there the script was adapted and submitted to the African Youth Theatre and Dance Festival hosted by Artscape and Assitej SA. I wrote the first draft in early 2015 for a radio play competition (I didn’t win). Tara, thank you for encouraging me from the beginning. Tara Notcutt announced the award and that was very appropriate – she was the person I first pitched the idea to 4 years ago in Grahamstown. If you had seen them, you would have read one sentence writ large across everything: There are too many people to thank them all. I was told I accepted the award and made a speech, but all I can remember is how hard my legs trembled.įrom reports it seems I stuck close enough to my notes. On the evening of Sunday the 18th of March 2018 The Underground Library won Best Theatre Production for Children and Young People at the annual Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards. ![]() But we still won.Ībove all to my (now) wife Suzanne, thank you. I don’t want to spoil the ending, but that’s what Genital Jousting is about, and I think that’s what life is about. About games, but really about being an empathetic and reflective person. The meetings with Ev, Richard and Robbie where we discussed and shared were sometimes close to therapy… These three men have taught me a lot. It was a process of challenging ourselves and our ideas of masculinity and what it means to have a dick. But it wasn’t getting bigger that made Genital Jousting something to be proud of… It was how much deeper it went. They got me.Īfter that the mission and the team got bigger. I’m not sure why they decided to put in a story (probably a joke or a punk whim) but they did and decided they needed a writer. Evan Greenwood and Richard Pieterse had a weird and super fun game featuring squishy penises with little butt-holes that they called Genital Jousting. How I came to be there is a story that goes back a few years and involves friendship, honesty and dick jokes. This is me at the GDC award show in San Francisco, part of a team nominated for Best Narrative at the Independent Games Festival. ![]()
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