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Bass Guy · 11 September 2006
Let joy be unconfined; I've attended my first rehearsal. I am now feeling officially "part" of the project. I am also feeling officially behind the 8-ball as far as esprit-de-corps goes. The other guy…
Read more →Tari-Xalyr · 6 September 2006
This blog entry links in with > > > http://www.theatre.asn.au/blog/tari_xalyr/solo_productions_and_exams > > > That one! One week until mock practical exams!!! :jawdrop: ARGH!!!!! . . . .okay now with…
Read more →Logos · 6 September 2006
I am sitting here attempting to write simultaneously, a book, a script and a production plan for a childrens literacy project. I have inspiration seeds from bunch of drawings and really short adventur…
Read more →Kirilee · 3 September 2006
I am lucky in so many ways. I am at university getting a degree in something I love - BA of Contemporary Performance, and I've been lucky enough to be involved with heaps of productions in the last tw…
Read more →Bass Guy · 1 September 2006
Well, well. I'm in a PLAY! For the first time in about three years. Wellity, wellity, wellity... but how and why?? What fate befalls this house that two of its inmates should be in plays right after o…
Read more →Logos · 31 August 2006
I have recently been involved in several productions where directors seem to totally ignore the possibilities inherent in good tech. some of these directors are amateur some are professional. Lighting…
Read more →Grant Malcolm · 28 August 2006
... well, I wish. Casting for Cosi is, more accurately, almost complete. Complete enough that I figure I can publish the known cast list and just hope that the last remaining role will be confirmed in…
Read more →Labrug · 28 August 2006
A study into children's literacy by Professor Wendy Schiller from the University of South Australia has shown that live theatre has a noticable and beneficial effect on literary performance. Additiona…
Read more →Logos · 28 August 2006
So as promised here is my thread on seasons. I have spent considerable time in the UK where amateur or local or "little" theatre, rarely seems to run more than a week. Open on Tuesday or Wed…
Read more →Tari-Xalyr · 25 August 2006
Just chatting with some friends today and they were looking for an alter for a show they are doing but they have been unable to find one and have been forced to spend money out their own pockets to ge…
Read more →Peter Clark · 25 August 2006
It’s weird how we are always counting down time. Rushing around to be on time, making sure we are on time, sometimes wishing for less time. And yet when we draw close to our final time, we wish we h…
Read more →Tari-Xalyr · 24 August 2006
Okay so our School's annual Arts Night is fast approaching. This years show is titled "An Arty Affair" (classic title :smile:) Anyhooz. Like I mentioned in my last blog entry the acts are as follows:…
Read more →Grant Malcolm · 21 August 2006
You'd think it would be a director's dream to be swamped with choices after a productive round of auditions but it really is a mixed blessing. I'm coming to the end of a couple of weeks of auditions f…
Read more →Labrug · 21 August 2006
Well, technically that is not true. While the 2006 One Act Season os over for Garrick Theatre, we are still yet to present our efforts to the ITA One Act Festival late September. None the less, there…
Read more →Grant Malcolm · 20 August 2006
It's been genuinely exciting to have to add an extra evening of auditions to accommodate the interest of nearly fifty people looking to audition for Cosi and I can honestly say I've been having a ball…
Read more →Grant Malcolm · 20 August 2006
A week later and it's time for round two of the auditions. Or, at least, the seond group of auditions. Earlier in the week, with the second week of auditions filling fast, we booked Monday 21 August i…
Read more →Logos · 18 August 2006
I am currently involved with a group that has had the incredible luxury of total access to a venue to do 4 plays a year and rehearse on the stage, build their sets weeks before the show opens and so o…
Read more →Tari-Xalyr · 17 August 2006
This is kind of an extension on my last journal entry so bare with me if I repeat anything. Oh like the new name. Thought I'd take a leaf out of Labrugs book and make a name considering I'm actually b…
Read more →Labrug · 17 August 2006
Well, night 1 down and three more to go...... How did it go? Not too bad. Apart from the usual sort of problems (slow sound queues, couple of fluffed lines, you know) it went very well. It is particul…
Read more →Grant Malcolm · 13 August 2006
Morning of the first round of auditions. Woke early and been running through the checklists. Scripts? Check. Photocopies of some extracts? Check. List of today's auuditionees? Check. Mobile charged an…
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