Marginalia – Page 11

Week 4 – the gears are clicking

24 January, 2016
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Actors and Acting, Productions
Posted by Kate Foy

Waking early today into the light in the sky. It’s high summer and my diurnal rhythms seem to be in sync with the bigger picture. Eyes open, into awareness, and the low-level adrenaline that’s come to be part of my life, kicks into play. I’m grateful for a day off for the light domestic duties, a spot of gardening, and

Andrea Moor, Lisa Gasteen, qtcQuartet, rehearsals

Brisbane: Wanted – a cultural reality check

17 January, 2016
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Business and the Arts, Featured
Posted by Kate Foy

I heard a great interview this morning on ABC612 Brisbane with Sam Strong, the ‘newish’ (since last November) Artistic Director of Queensland Theatre Company. Among other things, Sam sketched out some of his ideas to make QTC a national theatre leader. Anyway, it was exciting and refreshing to hear Sam hint at his plans and talk up his

Brisbane, cultural cringe, Sam Strong, The Regent, theatre

Week 3: the play’s the thing!

16 January, 2016
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Actors and Acting
Posted by Kate Foy

This post is a reflection on my own sense of the ‘job’ as actor this week. The clarity of purpose behind our weekly and daily schedules keeps us all focussed and humming forward together – kudos to our director Andrea Moor and Stage Manager Peter Sutherland. For those of us inside Rehearsal Room One, the days seem fuelled by performance adrenaline; it’s probably why I’m so

Andrea Moor, Catarina Hebbard, Peter Sutherland, rehearsals, Ronald Harwood