Glad we concur on the experience of working on SF theatre, and I just saw you added me to Twitter, so I shall follow your work too!

And I’m afraid the blog-thing is a massive cheat, I just fiddled around with the blog until it looks almost exactly like the rest of the site, and then linked it in the menu, though you still get the runner across the top. So the answer is tinkering, a basic knowledge of html, and patience. There’s probably a simpler way but that worked for me. Hope that helps!

In the autumn I’m presenting a quartet of short pieces set in various versions of the near future. I hadn’t, I must admit, given the generic implications any thought at all – like your piece, they’re simply about characters in sticky situations. They’re all performed in non-theatre spaces and all to a greater or less extent exhibit dramaturgical eccentricities. It’s called “Quartet for the End of Time”. No-one, as yet, has spotted the reference, but I live in hope.

That “couldn’t this be a film?” criticism particularly exercises me. People tend to level it at pieces that are quite one-room-dialogue-driven, something film can’t sustain half so well as theatre. No, this would be a rubbish film (not your play, which I haven’t read). When theatre actually does import some dramaturgical ideas from film – short snappy scenes, jump cuts, “split screen” – it often starts to look more, not less theatrical.

Having said all that, no-one’s said any of those things about my pieces, not least because they haven’t yet been seen in their finished form.

Anyway, keep up the good work. And how do you get your blog to sit within your website like that?