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Clayton’s Won’t Do!

OK, the rehearsal you’re having when you’re not having a rehearsal … more than a week away from the last rehearsals and I’m getting twitchy. Damn this bug! It gets in your system, you have to keep working away at it. So, yesterday trying to keep in the groove by reading the script, imaging the

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Week 5: How can that be!

There’s a definite sense of autumn in the air which means we are getting mighty close to production time! Last 4-day weekend’s rehearsal period saw our doughty director and the creative team work their way through the mind-numbing exercise known as directing a crowd scene. Perhaps not so much mind numbing as shredding. There were

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Week 4: Slow and Steady and Dorothy Parker

Another weekend of rehearsals, but sporadic for me. It feels a little like shooting a movie; short bursts and a bit out of sequence, as well as disconnected from previous work. It’s a function of how we’re working on the show. The current schedule is Thursdays through Mondays for the creative team heads. However, as

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Week 3: Rehearsals, trust and the feel-goods

photo credit: ghostdad On we go inching our way through the text … another rehearsal another song, another movement routine … not quite dancing. A bit of a relief really. I’ve not been blessed with feet touched by Terpsichore. So you think you can dance? Nope, not this gal. Not fair because I love it

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Hanging Out on the South Bank

There’s a widespread view that not much happens during the summer … culturally speaking … in Brisbane, Queensland’s capital city. Wrong! I’ve just returned from a couple of days spent primarily on the south bank precinct of the Brisbane River. This is home to QPAC (Queensland Performing Arts Centre), the Queensland Museum, the State Library,

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