Rupe
- Location
- Espoo, Finland
- Member since
- August 2008
- Member type
- Member
- Message board posts
- 116
Just another ageing wannabe comedy writer.
I live in [that renowned comedy epicentre] Espoo, Finland, but also lurk intermittently in southern Oxfordshire. I've tried my hand at most types of creative writing, including novels, short stories, plays etc, and failed at all of them. So now I'm focusing on trying to write sitcom scripts - just as difficult but more fun. When I'm not doing that (or working, or doing all the other real life stuff that middle-aged gits have to deal with), I sometimes sit in cafes. Eavesdropping.
Here's what I've come up with so far:
'The People's Act of Literature', a short play in which two blokes act out a play in a caff using pepperpots, was a finalist at the 2008 Windsor Fringe Drama Awards.
'Coffin Dodgers', a sitcom set in an old people's home, was performed by Real Deal Theatre at Westminster Reference Library in 2009.
'Anger Management for Dogs', a short play about two dogs who go down the pub to discuss their personal problems and the strange attraction of beanbags, was voted favourite script at the 2009 Pint-Sized Plays script slam and has been revived several times since then. Check it out on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtQ1GJSFnOQ.
'Something off the Menu', a duologue involving a dithering café customer and an increasingly exasperated waiter, was staged by Write On at the ADC Theatre in Cambridge in 2010.
'Having it All', a sitcom about a power-crazed executive at an Oxfordshire builders' merchants, was highly commended / a runner-up in the 2013 Sitcom Mission.
'A Wrong Turn in the North', a film-based mash-up exploring what might happen if some comedy characters wandered into a classic horror film, is due to be staged by Real Deal Theatre at their next Popcorn Saturday. Apparently.
Rupe's recent posts
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Radio script - undertaker
Posted on 23rd March 2015 at 6:08pm
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Radio script - undertaker
Posted on 23rd March 2015 at 1:45pm
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First Sketch
Posted on 23rd March 2015 at 1:34pm
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The Rico Suave
Posted on 10th November 2014 at 12:13pm
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Radio script - second bit
Posted on 10th November 2014 at 12:02pm
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My first five minutes
Posted on 10th November 2014 at 11:58am
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Second chance comedy?
Posted on 30th October 2014 at 3:12pm
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Radio script - second bit
Posted on 30th October 2014 at 1:30pm
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My Old Liffs
Posted on 30th October 2014 at 11:28am
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Mystery Sitcom, circa 1980
Posted on 28th October 2014 at 2:32pm
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Is it still funny?
Posted on 28th October 2014 at 2:29pm
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It's Not A Chicken It's Dave
Posted on 28th October 2014 at 2:24pm
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It's Not A Chicken It's Dave
Posted on 28th October 2014 at 8:28am
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Favourite Father Ted episode
Posted on 27th October 2014 at 3:06pm
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Sitcom Pilot
Posted on 27th October 2014 at 10:40am