Satie et cocteau

“…a truly excellent piece of theatre which deals convincingly and imaginatively with one of the most fraught love-hate relationships in modern French art. It has real depth and excellent dramatic pacing and is a work of art in itself.” Robert Orledge, Composer and Satie scholar.

May I present to you my play Satie et Cocteau: A Rehearsal of a Play of a Composer by a Poet, now available in print and for purchase through Amazon.

As I continue to develop the screenplay and begin work on getting a film version made, I didn’t want the script to just be a thing that was. The play has had two full productions, in Calgary and Chicago, and reading in Berlin to maybe 400 audience members in total. Is that all there is? I didn’t work on this for years to have it end there. So, now the play can be searched for and found by artists outside of my limited circle of existence.

I also wanted to do this as a message to all artists to not abandon your old work. Playwriting can be cruel, and after maybe 1 or 2 productions, where does that work go? Is it forgotten? Musicians bring old songs back and keep playing them, painters can keep exhibiting, even films can be remade, why should theatre be any different? Celebrate and keep that old work alive! Most theatre, even in a digital age, is still completely regional, and if you don’t share the work, it will be lost.

Finally, we have to ignore the gatekeepers and the waiting to be discovered. The history books are filled with artists who were dismissed by the institutions and the elites only to be discovered and legitimized years later. Champion your work, get it out there, give it a chance to be revealed, don’t settle for the judgment of a few, and prove them all wrong!

Thanks for reading – This is Satie et Cocteau – Available now on Amazon.
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