My role in the Empire Theatre Projects’ Company production of Secret Bridesmaids’ Business is a first in one respect. It’s the first on which I’ve gone entirely digital for script markup and lines-learning. I’m using my iPad 1.0. My apps of choice in the process have been Good Reader ($) and Rehearsal 2.0 ($) It’s
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As months go, March was rather special. It marked the ending of a significant period in my life’s adventures. I ended my tenure as Chairman of the Board at Queensland Theatre Company. Despite one or two little pangs, it felt absolutely right to be going now after nearly 8 years in the job and two
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 ...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
Continue reading ...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
Continue reading ...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
Continue reading ...Image by Dramagirl via Flickr 1. My first theatre memory – I believe it was a play, probably a vaudeville show which they used to produce at the old Cremorne Theatre in Brisbane. I must have been about 2 or 3. I recall little but the sound, the lights, laughter and general atmosphere. Apparently I
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 ...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 ...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?
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