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Marginalia

Poll Results: How were you last remunerated for your work as a theatre artist?

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

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Magical Performance

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.

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BAD09: Green Theatre and other thoughts

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

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