Here’s the latest video response from XPLANE, stimulated I suspect by a terrific slide show Shift Happens that’s been doing the rounds for a couple of years. In fact, I wrote about here just over a year ago. Want a glimpse into how our lives are changing in this digital age?
Continue reading ...Flloyd Kennedy, actor, director, and voice coach talks up a new ‘Bits’ fringe festival for Brisbane, scheduled “loosely” for late November this year. She enthuses about the kind of wild and woolly “and deeply unreliable” fringe festival that she wants to see in the city, and challenges the group to get organised, and get going.
Continue reading ...And so to the theatre for the sixth time this week – and another opening night. Sasha Janowicz’s The Kursk sailed into home port in Brisbane for a season at La Boite Theatre, and opened to a very full house on Tuesday evening. A disclaimer up front: I trained four of the six actors in
Continue reading ...I stumbled across this one today – one from the TED Talks series and recorded this year. It’s Natasha Tsakos talking briefly about the relationship between theatre and technology, and performing excerpts from her solo multimedia show ‘Upwake.’ Enjoy; it’s terrific and inspiring.
Continue reading ...Suddenly it’s apparent how much performing arts touring is being done throughout Australia. Not that we haven’t always had small and large companies on the road most of the time since white settlement – well, maybe a little after white settlement – but it’s really, really visible right now. For the past few weeks, corporate
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One of my day jobs concerns itself with reading; among other things, I’m a voice actor. I love words, the sound and power of the human voice, and like most people, I love telling stories. From a DVD training video to a commercial, I consider every voice-over job I get as a story-telling challenge.
Continue reading ...I must say I’m missing my northern-summer travels this year. Perhaps it’s the cold westerly wind blowing outside as I sit here writing, while my thoughts turn to long, hot July days in the Mediterranean. This picture is where I was one year ago – Knidos in Turkey. For a few years now I have
Continue reading ...(At time of writing) A disclaimer for context: I am Chairman of the Board of Queensland Theatre Company, so I do move in territory often inhabited by what one blog commenter elsewhere rather unkindly, though I hope with witty intent, called ‘old arts farts.’ Ya gotta laugh. But I also move as an audience member/supporter
Continue reading ...When the first generation iPod came out in 2001, I immediately saw its potential as a tool for learning in Higher Ed, and especially in my field, theatre. I was one of the first, via a loaner from AUC (Apple University Consortium in Australia) to take it for a test drive and report on the
Continue reading ...I’ve been collecting snippets of my life for years. I guess I am a confirmed diarist at heart, although the collection process is random and not nearly as organised as it might be. I’ve had a camera since I was 11 years old – a Box Brownie as I recall – and have been collecting
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