If that were not enough, she's currently developing a large-scale theatre project and two new feature film ideas.
The Arts Council, which was quite a radical body at the time, started investing in small-scale theatre.
Paper Music by William Kentridge, the Print Room, London W11 The Print Room stages small-scale theatre performances at the Coronet theatre in Notting Hill.
This week sees the kick-off for the Edinburgh Fringe, swinging the national spotlight on thousands of small-scale theatre and comedy events.
The regular practice in large-scale theatre and dance productions is for the labour intensive work on sets and costumes to get under way as early as possible.
Vicky Featherstone, artistic director of the National Theatre of Scotland, said that for her own organisation to thrive, it was essential that smaller-scale theatre companies had the stability of regular funding.
Some nights, we were given the "traditional" product — serious dancers, with Gypsy singers, doing the soleá and the alegrías — and, on other nights, the naïve, cheesy shows that some flamencos have put together in the hope of making full-scale theatre out of the form.
This year, it is Spark herself who is a festival all on her own with two large-scale theatre adaptations of her novels and a book festival event dedicated to a new doorstop biography of the Edinburgh author by Martin Stannard.
Some nights, we were given the "traditional" product serious dancers, with Gypsy singers, doing the soleá and the alegrías and, on other nights, the naïve, cheesy shows that some flamencos have put together in the hope of making full-scale theatre out of the form.
However, despite frequent requests from the community, no plan for a larger-scale theatre or community hall made it past the planning stages.
The new complex had two large-scale theatres: the Metropolitan Opera House and the New York State Theatre.
