Image via Wikipedia Dad served in the Australian Army in WWII. He was one of what playwright Sumner Locke-Elliott was later to call the Rusty Bugles, in his play of that name. 090296 WILSON. C.S. served in the ranks as a mechanic, working on Army vehicles that were building the highways through the Australian outback,
Continue reading ...Yesterday was hardly typical, and it was memorable for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I had three freelance jobs that took me cross-town a couple of times through pouring rain and crazy traffic; Brisbane doesn’t respond well to the wet. The second was a confirmation (if I needed it) at day’s end that the business
Continue reading ...Image via CrunchBase For the rest of us who couldn’t be at Brisbane’s Matilda Awards tonight at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Twitter came to the rescue. Pete Foley (@iusebiro) and Katherine Lyall-Watson (@arts_tart) live-tweeted the event minute by minute. This is where social media used well is absolutely brilliant! Thanks to them,
Continue reading ...… the fact of the matter is that arts marketers are not in the business of selling cigarettes or cars or toilet paper. We’re in the business of selling art. And, theatre is distinguishable from all other arts because it is the one medium in which there is a direct expression of the human condition.
Continue reading ...Hot on the heels of the free Hollywood Helper: Broadway Buddy, a neat lines-learning app for the iPhone that I wrote about some time ago, here’s Rehearsal from Sotto Voce Film+Works. It’s also iPad ready!
Continue reading ...Some of the best and the worst opinion can be found in commentary on blog posts. The good is always signed by the person with guts enough to back the words, the worst never is. Here’s a good one from Simon Ogden to a blog post titled Boring Theatre. He’s talking about Vancouver, but it
Continue reading ...Queensland Theatre Company today marks the 40th anniversary of its being signed into existence … literally … by an Act of Parliament: the Queensland Theatre Company Act (1970). It remains unique in Australia in this regard, and is one of a handful of arts Statutory Authorities in the state. Perhaps this is indicative of the
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