Quote: Tim Azure @ December 1 2012, 2:30 PM GMTThis apparently dates back to 1971. Okay, it didn't really become a cliché until the 2000s, but it's still not really up to date. #blahcodename may be better, if you want to go down that road...
I don't really. This wouldn't do for the target audience.
Quote: keewik @ December 1 2012, 5:54 PM GMTI don't really. This wouldn't do for the target audience.
Well, I'm sorry but you made the mistake of coming here and asking for an opinion and now you're going to have to live with the consquences.
When are you going to post the story outline so we can start hacking that around too?
Quote: keewik @ December 1 2012, 5:54 PM GMTI don't really. This wouldn't do for the target audience.
You have a target audience? Most of us are just submitting all over the place!
Nothing grand. I've written it for a drama group and I know their kind of audience. It's quite good to get involved with amdram - that way you get your stuff performed and you learn from it.
Codename: Lovies
Actually, though, it does sound like a great thing to do. It must be interesting working with actors. Break a leg, darling!
Quote: evan rubivellian @ December 4 2012, 3:30 PM GMTIt must be interesting working with actors.
All actors traditionally hate the writer (in am-dram anyway)...
Really? But that's like an orchestra traditionally hating the composer!?! Don't they know they depend on us? For their LIVES?
Quote: Tim Azure @ December 4 2012, 4:48 PM GMTAll actors traditionally hate the writer (in am-dram anyway)...
I've never found that. Your name may appear in tiny print but you do get acknowledged. I've just been to a production of a panto I wrote - free tickets (plus the royalties) and great enthusiasm. I also won two prizes in the raffle. 
Wish you great success Keewick, I love my local AmDram theatre really looking forward to 'Hound of the Baskervilles' and the Panto!!
Quote: keewik @ December 5 2012, 12:27 AM GMTI've never found that. Your name may appear in tiny print but you do get acknowledged. I've just been to a production of a panto I wrote - free tickets (plus the royalties) and great enthusiasm. I also won two prizes in the raffle.
I just meant traditionally. And the director changes the script without consulting you.
When it comes to panto, I expect them to change the script and I don't want to be bothered with every detail. For instance, there's a big difference between a fairly anonymous audience in a part of a city and the audience in a village hall. The village clubs will use village in-jokes and sometimes actual local personalities whereas the city clubs will maybe only use s few general local references, place names etc. I say all this, not only from writing experience but from being part of a club and having acted in many a panto.