Saturday, July 26, 2025

Readers Theatre on the Horizon???

 


I haven’t been active in my Casey persona in recent years (as a writer, 

that is!) for two reasons:

 

I have been focussing on my Brigit writings, as Mael Brigde, and this 

has taken a lot of time and energy. (You can find a link to my book, 

blogs, etc. here.)

 

VCon, our annual SF convention here in Vancouver, Canada, has been 

absent for several years. Over the last year or two, volunteers have been 

hosting events in order to rebuild toward VCon, and I’ve enjoyed these 

very much, but as a regular attendee, not as a panelist. In November, 

they are presenting a one day convention called CONnections, and I 

have decided to pitch a readers theatre, as we have done in previous 

years as the Pallahaxi Players Readers Theatre. 

 

I hope this happens. I haven’t volunteered this time around to be on 

panels, and with the very sad and sudden death of Fran Skene, there is 

not likely to be a Turkey Reading (one of the greatest delights of VCons 

past, for me, at least), but I would love to sit down with fellow writers and 

read out something delightful for the audience.

 

We may have something in the can already, but if you have a short, 

stirring or humorous, play that would suit readers theatre*, we would be 

happy to see if your writing would be a fit for us. Or if you know of 

something in the public domain that would work well for an audience of 

SF and fantasy fans, we'd be interested in knowing about that, too.

If you are interested in participating at CONnections, you can pitch your 

idea here:


 

 

https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/connections-program-guest-inquiry

 


* Unlike actors memorising lines and acting with a set, we sit at a table 

together and read out our parts.

 




Image: “Alien Amor” by Laura Molina (Laura Molina/National Museum of Mexican Art) 

[CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

 

 


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