Review: Trigiani A, “Very Valentine”, Romance, (Simon & Schuster: 2009)
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Thirty-three-year-old Valentine Roncalli is an apprentice shoemaker in her family business, learning to craft beautiful hand-made shoes from her grandmother while enduring the pressure from her Italian-American family to find a man and settle down. Just as she discovers the family business is in seriously financial difficulty, she meets Roman, a successful chef, and the possibility of a relationship with somebody who understands the pressures of her work becomes real. But what does Valentine really want?
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It was slightly surreal, but just as we were reaching peak activity with the Little Wonder Radio Play Competition I won a stage play competition. I’m certain that organising the first helped me with the second, although the two were quite different. Cité 27 wanted a 27-minute-long stage play, to be played in a 27m2 space, to an audience of 27 people, using only 3 actors. One of the organisers got in touch with me about 10 days before the deadline to say “hey, have you seen this, you should think about submitting”, and because I love a) a deadline and b) a brief, I said “sure, great.” The next day my wife went into labour.
The last episode of our 5-part sci-fi comedy Space Station Zeta released yesterday! This is a big deal for us, and I hope you’ll check it out. In this article I’ll talk about how we did it and how you can write your own – how to develop the initial idea, how writing a series is different from a one off, how to record your own series and the pros and cons of a series compared to one off plays.
When we launched a month ago we hoped to achieve a thousand listens to our full cast audio dramas by September 1st. Instead, we have had more than two thousand listens in one month and a day!