Post 15 of Dream, create and make money in the arts – My Series on becoming a Successful Creative<\/strong>
\nWhats your central message or theme? Does the story move and resolve somehow?
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\nIf you have been following this series from the start you will have a clear event and deadline\u00a0 that you are creating for, if not no worries you can hop on the creative train here.<\/p>\n

Your event, cabaret show, play all need to have a central theme. You can come at this from a few different angles.<\/p>\n

You have to have a through line, a story arc and a sort of resolution, especially if you want great reviews. The critics love a through line. I know this as I have done plenty of shows without a strong through-line and got the attendant bad reviews. Not that we are chasing the press but a through-line and a story end, even if it is not expected leaves the audience with a nice happy feeling of being on a journey too along with the characters.<\/p>\n

Or you can just sing songs or read poems you love or have written as long as you can link them well, again improvising a through-line.<\/p>\n

Is there a group of songs you want to sing, do they have a central message – love, loss , friendship, weather?<\/p>\n

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I did a themed evening once where I did a show, a collection of stories and songs inspired by the brilliant film All About My Mother. I performed half the show, we then showed the film and then I did the second half of the show.
\nIn retrospect I was half asleep after the film so\u00a0 starting to sing I should have showed the film after but it was a really great evening. I did it in conjunction with\u00a0Daniel Sparrow<\/a> who was about to start producing the stage version of the film and we also linked it with Europride, the Gay Pride festival\u00a0 in London so we gave some money from door receipts to the Pride charity.
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