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The Belfast Workshop Team 2010This blog is for you. Artists, associates and interested parties - spread across the globe. It is here keep you up to date with what was happening on this project: aware of each other's activities. Keep in touch.
Andrea Montgomery, Artistic Director.
Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 06:32PM Sarah Davey-Hull and I are making plans to visit Greenland this summer. The aim would be to connect with Nunatta Isiginnaartitsisarfia - The National Theatre of Greenland, to meet with artistic colleagues, to film, photograph and work on the script of All At Once I Saw A Crowd.
We keep wondering if we can persuade any of the rest of the team to join us?
National Theatre of Greenland in Production
Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 06:19PM 
I've just had early email contact with Jovanni Sy, the AD at the Gateway Theatre in Richmond, Vancouver, British Columbia; about plans to maybe work on All At Once I Saw A Crowd there in April. I'll be getting feedback from Jovanni on the script, and wanting to work out what shape the visit might take in the next few weeks.
Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 03:58PM Some of you have written and asked what is happening to develop the project in 2012-2013, and how you can help....
Sarah Davey & I believe there are four main tasks to focus on right now:
If you can think of any exciting readers - well known actors or writers for instance - let us know.
If you have a relationship with potential festival and venue partners make an introduction - we will be making funding applications in August & November 2012 and March 2013; it will be important to have partners on board.
Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 03:38PM 
In January 2012, I had the opportunity to get right back to the heart of what makes ALL AT ONCE I SAW A CROWD a great project: the script. I spent seven days at Annaghmakerrig artist's retreat in County Monaghan, and was able to complete the entire redrafting of 120 pages.
On the 19th of February, Sarah Davey and I organised a reading of the draft in London - a brilliant opportunity for any writer. Feedback is: one more rewrite will see the play ready for casting. I will be heading back to Annaghmakerrig June 18-25th, 2012 to write the final draft.
For those of you in the know: all your ideas about Adam's death bore fruit, and Benny is a much more interesting character! Jin is fully three-dimensional and living in 2060 - but perhaps Sam still needs work....
If anyone would like to read the current draft, or wants to see the work after June, just get in touch.
Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 03:28PM As many of you know, in summer 2011 Terra Nova Productions was on of four Arts Organisations in the UK shortlisted to apply for a large-scale Welcome Foundation grant. This involved months of preparation, many different steps, and finally a trip by Andrea Montgomery, Board Member Robert McGarry and Frank Kee, Scientist from Queens University to pitch the proposal in London.
The excitement was heady, the sums at stake were huge, and it was challenging to find out in late summer 2011 that we didn't make the final cut. Terra Nova Productions have been encouraged to apply again in the future with other projects, and praised for "our passion and commitment to the project" and for getting so far on our first attempt.
A huge thank you goes out from me, and the Board, to everyone who helped out!