Budgets
Na · 26 April 2007
There's been a lot of talk about the am/pro productions and budgets. I just wanted to share my experience, and perhaps add to the debate: My current show is a premiere. This means that I have to fully…
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The first Matinee!
Sean B · 26 April 2007
Well today we launched into the first performance of our production of Disney's High School Musical. AND IT WAS FANTASTIC! It was a matinee performance for the students of our school- grades4,5,6,7,8,…
Read more →Back again treading the boards!
Sean B · 23 April 2007
Well today we bumped into the George Jenkins theatre and it felt good! It's been a very long time since I'm bumped into a theatre outside of our school hall (just under two years to be exact)so it was…
Read more →City Head closes this weekend!
Na · 23 April 2007
If you haven't come to see City Head, then you'll have your last chance this weekend (Sat 28th April and Sun 29th at 4.45pm both days). The show has been very successful, and we even got three reviews…
Read more →Pre Show Jitters!
Sean B · 22 April 2007
Well it's time to kick off my first blog- and what an exciting time to do so. This week of course is show week for FCCC's "High School Musical" in which I am Ryan and also the assistant director. It's…
Read more →Sedition Acts and the artist
Logos · 13 April 2007
Once again I am back banging my old drum. Today or tomorrow new legislation comes into effect barring from sale and presumably from library shelves any material which "advocates a terrorist act." Wond…
Read more →Could this be the last word on JCS?
Johnny Grim · 12 April 2007
I have been following the comments and reviews of Peter Clarks's JCS production with some interest.My my we are a bitchy lot. To take on a production of this magnitude qualifies the man for a big pat…
Read more →City Head opens to great success!
Na · 10 April 2007
Planning on seeing a show during the Comedy Festival? Don't have a lot of money or time? Come see City Head! Our opening night went wonderfully, as did our second show! Practically sell-out audiencesi…
Read more →Do you have City Head?
Na · 27 March 2007
You’re getting headaches. You go to the doctor. It turns out you have a fairly advanced society living in, and off, your brain. You suffer from City Head... now what? Presented by emerging theatre c…
Read more →Harry Power and the Boy Bushranger
stinger · 22 March 2007
Hello folks, This is to tell you about my latest theatrical enterprise. It is a one-man narrative play entitled "Harry Power and the Boy Bushranger". Set in the wilds of north-eastern Victoria in 1870…
Read more →The Art of the Board Operator.
Logos · 16 March 2007
OK, I am currently working as one of the board op's at a venue in Adelaide for the Fringe Festival. The venue is hostig a number of shows from interstate and overseas and we have (there are two of us)…
Read more →Treading the Boards
Na · 2 March 2007
I've been reading a lot of web comics lately - part research, part fun - and thought I'd create my own... They're all about theatre and theatre-related topics. Lots of stick-figures doing lots of sill…
Read more →Ballet Battle
Labrug · 27 February 2007
The WA Ballet is facing a battle for better pay. And why not, when over half of the dancers earn less than $40 000/year. With current inflation rates and rising costs across the board, it is surprisin…
Read more →Politics and the Arts
Logos · 19 February 2007
The other day during a conversation with my partner about a posting on this site she said (approximately) "but that's politics, this site is about theatre." I also remember Molly Meldrum once saying.…
Read more →Director of Quality - Back in Oz
Labrug · 13 February 2007
After an extended break in the land of Blighty, I have returned to prepare for my next big project, "Quality Street." My one regret with regards to my holiday was that fact that I was not pr…
Read more →I've got City Head
Na · 12 February 2007
You’re getting headaches. You go to the doctor. It turns out you have a fairly advanced society living in, and off, your brain. You suffer from City Head... now what? You make some puppets... an…
Read more →FULLY SYC - One Night Only - 23/02/07
stinger · 9 February 2007
Hello everyone, I have to let you know about my latest directorial venture - it's an original comedy cabaret or theatre restaurant or dinner-and-show or something - I'm not quite sure what exactly. I…
Read more →Quotes
Tari-Xalyr · 8 February 2007
This blog sort of links into one a posted a while back called "Stuff Ups, Ad Libs and Saying goodbye" (http://www.theatre.asn.au/blog/tari_xalyr/stuff_ups_ad_libs_and_saying_goodbye) I was flicking th…
Read more →Pantos not the same
Labrug · 28 January 2007
I have been in England for the past month and we have managed to compress a huge amount of sight seeing in that time. We still managed to get out and see a panto however. These things are absolutely l…
Read more →Buskers
Tari-Xalyr · 22 January 2007
I am curious. What do people think of buskers? My friend and I busk once a week in town - Sunday - for a few hours and make about $40 a week between us. We play music and do short skits and monologues…
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