Juggling with Jelly : a meeting with Mike Kenny !

Written by Jasmine M

Mike Kenny visited us on 11th April 2013. He talked to us about writing plays and answered our questions.

I was already excited by the idea of meeting a playwright, but it was even better than I thought it would be !

When Mike Kenny came to visit us he told us about :
 his characters, who were almost all imagined from Auntie Linda. His aunt is Imelda Baglady in "Whose Shoes". He told us that the problem with characters is that you have a hard time finding a name for them. Probably the reason why there are only a few characters in his plays.

 his troubles about writing a play : Once somebody asked him to write a play, so he wrote it but when he was finished, his client wanted something else, so he rewrote it.But the client still didn’t like it. It continued like that for a while, but he finally made it.

 he also told us to NEVER trust somebody who gives you the creeps.

We also asked which play was his favorite and here’s what he told us :

’’ I hate it when people ask me that one. It’s like asking me which one of my kids was my favorite ! "

But nevertheless he told us which of his plays he liked the most. He likes "Walking the Tightrope" and he likes "Stepping Stones" which is a play for kids with disabilities.

-He explained to us the "route and map people" it is about the different types of people in the world :
 map people are the people who make a plan and know exactly what they are going to do.
 route people are people who have an idea, head in a direction, make a mistake, go in another direction, come back to the same place and continue like that until they manage to come to a conclusion.

The visit was fun and it was nice of Mike Kenny to come and visit us so,

Thank you Mike Kenny for coming to visit us !!