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Hold the slings and arrows: stocktaking Queensland theatre (Act 2)

My last post here investigated the first 10 seasons of Queensland Theatre Company between 1970 and 1979.  This post looks at the plays from the past 10 seasons.  I’ve used the same breakdown in assessing the repertoire, i.e., organised my siftings using assigned historical and geographical categories: UK/Ireland; Australian; US; Other.  Plays can find themselves

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Hold the slings and arrows: stocktaking Queensland theatre (Act 1)

If you subscribe to theatre-related blogs, then your feed-reader during the past week or so will be overflowing with posts where the words ‘Outrageous Fortune’ will almost certainly appear.  It’s the title of a new book on the state of American playwrighting, and it’s getting the best kind of publicity on the web – the

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Footnotes to my year in theatre – 2009

The theatre and I have had a love affair for many years now; my Actors Equity membership card notes 13 March 1973 as my joining date, but that is just the marker of when it became a day job for real; the affair began long before then.  During this – my first, official year of

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