by Nicola Pearson | May 22, 2021 | Carried by the Current, Uncategorized
At the end of March I received an email from Janna Gage, owner of Seaport Books in La Conner. This bookstore is located on the waterfront in La Conner, adjacent to Gilkey Square, and since Janna was keen to return to author events after a year-long hiatus, she wrote...
by Nicola Pearson | Sep 7, 2020 | Carried by the Current, Uncategorized
Well there we were rolling along quite nicely, gathering momentum and then—well then you know the rest. The last preview we performed was at the lovely Camano Schoolhouse three days before the word came down from the governor’s office—no more group gatherings. I...
by Nicola Pearson | Mar 17, 2020 | Carried by the Current, Uncategorized
We leapt into Women’s History Month this year not just because February gave us an extra day to boost us into March but because of the preview we performed February 27th at Edmonds Bookshop. It crackled with electricity. I had rewritten one of the scenes in the play...
by Nicola Pearson | Oct 10, 2019 | Carried by the Current, Uncategorized
About a month ago, I found myself writing in a journal about the struggle of reaching out to businesses and individuals regarding our preview of Carried by the Current and not being sure if they’d reply. Or say yes if they did reply. And as I wrote, I thought again of...
by Nicola Pearson | Jun 30, 2019 | Carried by the Current
Seattle Bound Blog The Journey of a Play to Production. Step Two: Behind The Scenes As you may have figured out from our last blog post, we’re all actors here at Women’s Work Productions, which means our favorite thing to do is be on stage communing with the audience....
by Nicola Pearson | Mar 17, 2019 | Carried by the Current
Seattle Bound Blog The Journey of a Play to Production. Step One: Letting Go It was Sarah that started the ball rolling. Sarah and Pilar. They got chatting in April 2018 and the conversation wound around to Sarah telling Pilar the premise of my play, Carried by the...
