Who wants to produce the world's first existential soap (for stage)?

My name is Paul Ransom and I am a freelance writer (and now playwright). Anyway, as chance would have it I have not only written a play but have a possible director on board. He suggested I make cotnact with people in the industry and try and find someone to produce and so ... Just for the record the play is a three act show of approx 85mins called 'An Absent Presence', which I would describe as an existential soap opera, in that it contains a bizarre love quadrangle, drug use, betrayal, gun play, a guilty shrink, scrabble and metaphysical musings on the nature of language, love and madness. It's kinda like 'The Bold & The Abstract.' (Oh yeah, and its got very strong roles for women.) Imagine if Beckett had written a few episodes of 'Neighbours' - or something like that. So, point being, if you are even vaguely interested in perusing the script and/or meeting I would be very keen indeed. If any of this intrigues and/or pricks your curiosity, please let me know and we can either arrange to meet or just email. Paul Ransom 0417 837 231 / ransom.paul@gmail.com

Hey guys, Why yeah I AM new to this game and, yeah, my director insisted that he did not want to produce. (Not his thing, doesn't have time and so on.) Obviously I have considered self producing but then again I am also keen to establish a network in the Melb theatre scene. Here is where a more experienced head would come in handy. I readily confess to knowing not much about the REAL biz of getting a show on and being viable. Sure, I could blow all my savings on some vanity fair but hey ... leave that to the kids and the wannabes. Having said that, my vanity has lured me into doing a rehearsed reading at La Mama later this year regardless. (I have plenty of cast options already on tap. Actors fall out of the sky, as you know.) In conclusion, part of what I'm doing is not just a blind rush to production but a process of learning a few bits and pieces and, ultimately, getting it 'right' (whatever that is). As for the funding heroin, well ... Paul Ransom Writer/actor/director type person

Hey guys, Why yeah I AM new

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