I posted a peeve tweet this morning, something I do from time to time when the ‘Grrs’ strike. I’m finding that more and more websites are popping up with good, well-written content, but with no RSS feed, so there’s no way for a regular reader or a potential reader to learn when new posts are
Continue reading ...If you’re a regular here, then you’ll know that Groundling loves software, apps, services, and devices that are well designed, and which optimise productivity and simplify communications. If you use a Word Press blog, then you are going to love a really clever plugin which I’ve just installed on a couple of my blogs today.
Continue reading ...You must have been living under a rock if you haven’t been aware of the health reform debate currently playing out in the US. Here’s a terrific example of the way a group of protestors ‘flash-mobbed’ a meeting of health insurers recently, grabbed attention in a playfully serious way, and then got it up and
Continue reading ...This week’s poll is now closed, though the questions or discussion points raised by the results … as well as the original question … will surely continue elsewhere, and perhaps here. Thanks to those who contributed. Results were received from 23 respondents from around the world, so it’s a very limited sampling. More responses might
Continue reading ...Earlier this year I wrote in praise of (Much) Older Women Artists. Yesterday afternoon I saw Robyn Nevin‘s performance in The Year of Magical Thinking, directed by Cate Blanchett for Queensland Theatre Company. Her performance in this play, a monodrama adapted from Joan Didion‘s novel, is as truthful, vulnerable, and as moving as its subject matter.
Continue reading ...Image by sniggy via Flickr Today, October 15 is Blog Action Day around the blogosphere. Those thousands of bloggers who have signed up to write about this year’s theme Climate Change, are sitting down and tapping out individual responses. The idea is simply to spread the word. Maybe it’s preaching to the converted, or singing
Continue reading ...Yesterday’s post about the monetary side of working in the theatre got a lot of hits but no comment. I’ve put together a poll today (great free service complete with plug-in from PollDaddy) to see if it gets more of a response. How were you last remunerated for your work as a theatre artist? (polls)
Continue reading ...I’m often involved in conversations with actors and other artists and creatives about the issue of remuneration for theatre work. I’m not talking here about ‘doing it for the love,’ but for what a good friend of mine calls ‘the foldies’, real money … what you need to pay the rent, to eat, and generally
Continue reading ...It’s a cold, windy night in Hickson Street as the capacity audience spills out from a performance of A Streetcar Named Desire directed by Liv Ullman for Sydney Theatre Company. My friend and I want to find a café and a drink, somewhere to escape the wind, and to debrief the past 3 + hours.
Continue reading ...Image by Dramagirl via Flickr Einstein reckoned it was more important than knowledge. Now here’s Declan Donnellan (Cheek by Jowl) talking about the importance of imagination for the actor. You bet!
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