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On musicals as social barometers and a publicity call

9 April, 2008
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Actors and Acting, Productions
Posted by Kate Foy

Image via Wikipedia I did a radio interview this morning, part of the groundswell of publicity for Cabaret as we count down to the season’s opening next week. It was quite a relaxed 10 minutes or so in the late morning and on the national broadcaster ABC, but pitched to a more local, regional audience.

Asides, Broadway theatre, Cabaret, Empire Theatre, Musical theatre, Queensland Theatre Company

Photo shoot, make-up and corsets!

8 April, 2008
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Actors and Acting, Productions
Posted by Kate Foy

photo credit: fluzwup A night off from rehearsals but valuable nonetheless; the cast were called for the program photo shoot. It was a chance for us to see one another for the first time in costume, and to realise how powerful a role the element of body adornment plays in visual story-telling. Body-masking is the

Acting Notes, Asides, body-masking, Cabaret, Costume, rehearsal

The State of e-learning in Early 08

8 April, 2008
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Collaborative Learning
Posted by Kate Foy

Image from WikipediaOne of my favourite sites is The Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies which contains a link to Jane Hart’s blog. Jane keeps a finger on the pulse of e-learning and she’s doing some great longitudinal research into who is using what tools and where. I’ve been signed up via her blog this

blogs, Collaborative Learning, del.icio.us, e-learning, great tools, Jane Hart, research, survey, tools, Web 2.0

Auf wiedersehen Sitzprobe

7 April, 2008
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Actors and Acting, Productions
Posted by Kate Foy

And with 10 days to go it’s sounding and feeling good! Tonight’s sitzprobe finished up the play. So we’ve been through all of the songs, interludes and dance numbers with the orchestra. It was not as daunting as I had expected; thrilling, yes! One or two intervals … picking your note from a great concatenation

Cabaret, sitzprobe

Moving Postcards

7 April, 2008
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Blogging, Technology and Creativity
Posted by Kate Foy

photo credit: Leo Reynolds

I’m on holiday, so I’ve been playing with Animoto again today. I produced a short animated postcard on life around my place, here on a ridge in southern Queensland. It’s called Yarrawonga, which in the language of the indigenous people means ‘place of trees.’ I took the shots from the Project 366 set I’ve created on Flickr.

Animoto, Art and Creativity, Coolpix L16, Flickr, great tools, holiday, imagination, iPhone, Nikon, Nikon D40, photography, Project 366, Videos and Sound Files, YouTube

Production Week: Run #4 and Sitzprobe

6 April, 2008
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Actors and Acting, Productions
Posted by Kate Foy

photo credit: fr1zz It’s 11 days till opening and 10am on Sunday morning. Other people are out there having the requisite leisurely brunch and reading the papers at any one of the many coffee shops in the city. We’re in the rehearsal studio warming up bodies to Kylie Minogue dance music. It’s then over to

Acting Notes, Cabaret, music director, orchestra, sitzprobe, warmup

Week 10: Production Week Begins

5 April, 2008
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Actors and Acting, Productions
Posted by Kate Foy

Gird the loins for production week. Here we go. Day 1 for the acting company in the rehearsal studio, and it’s another run. This is what I want and need right now. I’ve written before here about losing momentum in an extended rehearsal period, and we’ve arrived at the time to get the arc of

Acting Notes, Asides, Cabaret

Three Sisters

4 April, 2008
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Actors and Acting
Posted by Kate Foy

photo credit: Thomas Hawk I got to thinking during the drive home last night that there’s an awful lot of drama about three women, often sisters … not sure why three rather than two or four. Now these couplings are inevitably memorable. A few that spring to mind include the (in)famous sisters Lear (Regan, Goneril

Edward Albee, Hannie Rayson, Neil Simon, Queensland Theatre Company, Reviews, Sisters Rosensweig, Three Tall Women, Wendy Wasserstein

When the creative juices dry up …

2 April, 2008
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Technology and Creativity
Posted by Kate Foy

photo credit: gl0ri And they do! This morning a few little tips to unblock the dries came in an e-letter that I subscribe to. It was addressing photography specifically, but hey … creativity is creativity. Tip # 5 resonated for me. It’s one of my own tactics when prepping for a show. Music especially seems

Asides, creativity, iPod, movies, music, poetry

The Broken Link Blues

1 April, 2008
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Blogging
Posted by Kate Foy

photo credit: Dalantech

Well it had to happen sometime. I was alerted yesterday morning on my Dashboard that someone had provided a bit of link love to one of my posts from September last year. The link cited a small vodcast I had produced. At this time I was working on the Blogger platform; since then I have gone across to Wordpress.org.

Now I thought all permalinks and post content were … well, permanent. Not so. When in a misguided sweep-up after a few months on the new platform I deleted the old blog … bang went the post’s internal links. The end result is that the link provided yesterday turns up the post, but the link from there to the media file is dead, kaput, out of service, Error 404 etc. How many more are there I wonder!

Blogger, Blogging, e-learning, link, Wordpress

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Marginalia: a blog

On musicals as social barometers and a publicity call

Photo shoot, make-up and corsets!

The State of e-learning in Early 08

Auf wiedersehen Sitzprobe

Moving Postcards

Production Week: Run #4 and Sitzprobe

Week 10: Production Week Begins

Three Sisters

When the creative juices dry up …

The Broken Link Blues

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