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

See, this is why I asked in the first place: it sounds less like you need a producer, and more like you just need some advice about how to get it all going. (Money being a different thing altogether, it would be impossibly vain to expect someone to volunteer to get money, unless you are asking someone to write a grant proposal. You WILL most likely have to put your own money into it; as that's how every other group is doing it. Again, unless you approach an amateur group) I think you're probably making the right step in doing a rehearsed reading. From there it's not so hard getting your show on stage. If you don't know how, I recommend either shadowing a fringe theatre group, or volunteering for the Melb. Fringe Festival and having a sort of inside look at how these shows work. Otherwise, I'm happy to give some advice. (I can't offer to produce as I have other projects on, but can at least give you some pointers) There are some threads here about producing your own shows too I think. Puppets and patterns at Puppets in Melbourne

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