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Logos · 15 July 2010
I am as many of you know a playwright based in Adelaide and associated with the SA Writers Theatre. I have finally decided to set up my catalogue properly and have placed it on my website at http://ww…
Read more →Logos · 12 July 2010
The debate that occurs on this site a lot when bad reviews are posted has of course raised its ugly head again. It is interesting because I have just read a complaint about a review in a local communi…
Read more →Logos · 24 June 2010
Wow: Way to swamp the site. Musically Savage do we really need to know what you did in 2004? Well never mind. Now we're all up to date. Best of luck for all your future endeavours. Keep on going. I no…
Read more →Logos · 13 May 2010
Recently I have had a couple of points brought to my attention. First apparently neither Billy Sing the Anglo-Chinese ANZAC nor his Chinese father are to be played by Asian actors in a film or mini se…
Read more →Logos · 13 April 2010
I have the task of creating footlights for a production of "She Stoops to Conquer". I did this in the UK once and was able to acquire at very reasonable cost vacuum formed plastic sea shell style refl…
Read more →Logos · 23 November 2009
OK I admit it I was the one who posted the last utter rubbish setting on the MBC thread that killed it. Maybe I shouldn't have but frankly it was beginning to completely p*** me off. The very suggesti…
Read more →Logos · 5 November 2009
Aaah, SA the Festival State. Recently Paul Grabowski the Artistic Director of the 2010 Adelaide Festival of Arts (arguably the second biggest Festival of its kind in the world and the biggest in the s…
Read more →Logos · 3 November 2009
I've just got back from a long weekend in Natimuk a small town (527 people) about 25 kilometres from Horsham on the Wimmera Highway. It's about a five hour drive from Adelaide across some really borin…
Read more →Logos · 18 October 2009
I recently sat down and thought about it seriously and realised that I have been involved as an artist in the Adelaide Festival Fringe (now Fringe Festival) since the mid 1970's. I can't remember exac…
Read more →Logos · 3 September 2009
This blog is more or less simply an opportunity to muse a bit and hopefully find out how other people feel. I am finding myself increasingly disinterested in directing older works that have been done…
Read more →Logos · 3 May 2009
I am wondering if I am alone in getting a little irritated with the large number of (mostly) unregistered posters whose immediate reaction to an opportunity posted on this site is to ask if it's paid.…
Read more →Logos · 13 April 2009
I'm having some issue with the SAWT logon so I've put this here under mine. SA Writers Theatre is seeking new writers and readers The SA Writer’s Theatre was established with the intention of assist…
Read more →Logos · 4 February 2009
A few weeks ago on this site an entry was posted asking for submissions to a short theatre festival taking place in New York. Nothing ventured nothing gained. Noticing that scripts had to be submitted…
Read more →Logos · 21 December 2008
It's a funny business this theatre stuff. No matter how good your planning is something always seems to go wrong. So there I was. Script finished, script in hand reading went down really well, sound e…
Read more →Logos · 10 December 2008
Today is the 10th of December 2008 which is the 60th Anniversary of the acceptance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by 48 nations of the United Nations. Many more nations have signed since…
Read more →Logos · 13 November 2008
After starting a discussion on the Boring as Bat shit thread about dramaturgy I thought I'd try to start it up as it's own thread. Without repeating all that has gone before: As a published and perfor…
Read more →Logos · 20 October 2008
Wanted: Front of House Manager - Publicity/Marketing Assistant Spotlight Theatre Company are seeking a Front of House Manager - Publicity/Marketing Assistant for their 2009 Fringe Production, Boiled C…
Read more →Logos · 16 September 2008
Just a short note because I've banged on a lot about this before but new legislation being introduced in Queensland could result in journalists being jailed for refusing to reveal their sources. This…
Read more →Logos · 16 September 2008
A couple of posts on one of the Beauty and The Beast threads have inspired me to write this thread. Both of them relate to directors and their role in the shows we do. First of all the should a Direct…
Read more →Logos · 15 September 2008
Well, it seems that the Adelaide Fringe rolls around again quicker and quicker every year. Here I am only six months after the end of the last fringe already registered for the 2009 Fringe with my cas…
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