Image by See-ming Lee ??? SML via Flickr I’ve been a fan for a long time of the blog/website as the hub of an individual’s or a group’s digital world. Couple a blog with various outlier social networking applications like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and so on, and you expand your outreach. Not everyone uses social
Continue reading ...When you spend as much time on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to as many theatre focussed blogs as I do, then you take notice of themes that won’t lie down. There’s been a bit of a stir in the social networking streams over the past couple of weeks, and it’s been about the current
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 ...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 ...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 ...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 in its ninth year according to Short+Sweet’s website, but I hadn’t heard of this competitive festival of 10 minute plays until relatively recently. Short+Sweet arrived in Brisbane this year, and played at Brisbane’s Powerhouse just prior to the start of the Brisbane Festival – a kind of outlier or ‘fringe up front’ to the
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.
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