Queensland Theatre Company

Happy Birthday Queensland Theatre Company: 40 years on

1 April, 2010
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Posted by Kate Foy

Queensland Theatre Company today marks the 40th anniversary of its being signed into existence … literally … by an Act of Parliament: the Queensland Theatre Company Act (1970). It remains unique in Australia in this regard, and is one of a handful of arts Statutory Authorities in the state. Perhaps this is indicative of the

Alan Edwards, Anna Bligh, Aubrey Mellor, Grant Dodwell, Michael Boddy, Michael Gow, Queensland Theatre Company, Robyn Nevin, Steven Tandy

Magical Performance

18 October, 2009
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Posted by Kate Foy

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.

Joan Didion, Queensland Theatre Company, Robyn Nevin, Tony Award, Year of Magical Thinking

Accent or Dialect?

11 June, 2009
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Actors and Acting, Featured, Voice and Text
Posted by Kate Foy

An interesting blog post on OurBrisbane.com today – it’s a performing arts blog run by Brisbane playwright Katherine Lyall-Watson – caught my attention. It had me reaching for the keyboard; it was about one of my favourite topics, something I’ve been dealing with for years – voice training, specifically dialect and accent work for performance.

accent, Actors and Acting, Add new tag, Christopher Hampton, dialect, God of Carnage, Queensland Theatre Company, speech, spoken English, voice, Yasmina Reza

Young artists at work and play

25 September, 2008
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Posted by Kate Foy

And so to Brisbane again the other night for a playreading of the three writers in this year’s YPP (Young Playwrights’ Program) run by Queensland Theatre Company. The Bille Brown studio on the edges of Brisbane’s South Bank Cultural Precinct was heaving with young’uns plus a few oldies who’d come to cheer on the writers

Asides, Bille Brown, Candide, Queensland Theatre Company, TRW

Words, words, words …

21 September, 2008
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Posted by Kate Foy

Spent an afternoon on Brisbane’s delightful South Bank cultural precinct yesterday. It’s site until today of the annual Brisbane Writers’ Festival. The joint was jumping. Author talks, panels, coffee drinking, book browsing (and buying) and readings have been the stuff of the past 4 days. And if you think that’s boring, think again. And it

Asides, QTC, Queensland Theatre Company

On musicals as social barometers and a publicity call

9 April, 2008
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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

Three Sisters

4 April, 2008
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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

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