Fast 5 Interview: Yakes Dawriter!
Tell us a little about yourself?!
I'm a musical theatre writer/producer. Studied musical composition at Middlesex Uni whilst writing musicals which played at Theatre 503 & Jermayn Street theatre. Currently EDEM the musical is playing at the Spring in Vauxhall until the 3rd of September. Tell us about your theatre production EDEM is bassed on a mythical kingdom deep in the rainforest where locals say, in the beginning two humans once lived but were banished. The Creator seeing how gracious the trees were decided not to destroy the Earth but to make his trees in his own image, They begged for forgiveness but the Creator declined Adam in anger but took pity on Eve. The Creator offered Eve an alternative, sacrifice her humanity and become one with the world of Edem or follow Adam to eternal exile. Eve chose to re-enter the Kingdom and so became Emem – mother earth. And so the world of Edem was created with Edem being the natural source to life on earth. However this world is in grave danger, as the oils spills are destroying its very infrastructure. The prophecy of the Son of Adam returning to save the kingdom comes to light as Andrew; the son of an oil rig owner get lost in the rainforest and finds his way at Edem's doorstep. As the oils destruction spreads Andrew accepts his calling and has to return to earth and to stop the drilling. What has been your biggest challenge so far? Working with no budget what so ever, having to beg borrow and acquire things from all sorts of places. What help do you need? We could do with a lot more promotion and letting the public know we're showing.
What has been the best part of the experiencs so far?
Seeing the production come to life from me fiddling about on the piano to full chorus numbers is an amazing experience for any writer. Tell us about the others involved in the production? We have a cast of 13 working hard week in week out performing for the audience. behind we have out costume designer who composed all the costumes form recycled materials and bags. Also we have our light and sound designers as well as the PR team working during the week to push the musical and organize events/showcases. What does the story mean to you? The theme of the story is sung in the opening number " there comes a time in our lifes where we must walk alone and leave our footprints in the earth for other to see" and I feel at no matter what age you are there will come that point where every action you chose to take will of course have a consequence and so its about choosing not only what is right for yourself at any one given time; but to also this of others who will be following shortly behind. What else are you doing? I'm also currently directing a web-series called the Unfamous bassed on the online book the Unfamous which had over 87,000 reads. What do you think about Virgin Media Pioneers? VMP is a wonderful network to be apart of but like any thing in life you need know how to use it - and its simple, talk to me people. There's a wealth of knowledge/experience and people who are in the same position waiting to collaborate.