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stinger · 9 November 2006
Unlike the salubrious bars at Melville, Garrick, Marloo and Roleystone Theatres, the one at the Dolphin usually closes post-interval, leaving the after-show hangers-on (usually consisting of cast, cre…
Read more →Tari-Xalyr · 8 November 2006
Please if people are posting Auditions, Productions or anything that applies to one particular state can you chnge the "location" that appears at the top right of your post to suit your specific state…
Read more →Na · 7 November 2006
Please read this! http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com/2006/11/la-mama-funding-and-freedom-of-speech.html All theatre people in Melbourne, please try to find a way to make your voice heard. La Mama is a f…
Read more →Na · 30 October 2006
I usually don't do film reviews, but I just came back from the 3D version of A Nightmare Before Christmas . Now, if you know me, you know I'm a fan of puppetry. This includes anything stop-motion. (Fo…
Read more →Daniel Kershaw · 20 October 2006
What would you say about a man who financed his own play, just so he could put it on? Crazy? Stupid? Really, really stupid? Well, that’s the story of John Grimshaw’s, “The Karaoke Twistâ€, of w…
Read more →stinger · 20 October 2006
My recent first outing as a non-performing director ('The Last Dance of the Plum Sisters' for Phoenix Theatre, Hamilton Hill WA) met with moderate success. Our Tim Prosser won the best character actor…
Read more →Bass Guy · 20 October 2006
The continuation of the previous blog entry as promised; albeit a smidgen behind schedule due to my stint in traction. But I’m much better now. I made that up about the traction… lies are fun… P…
Read more →Kirilee · 7 October 2006
What an end to my crazy 4 characters in 4 weeks massive hike! A highly physical performance as Kiara in Mad World, then Cassandra - the doomed seerer princess in Agamemnon, then a stranded wife by an…
Read more →Tari-Xalyr · 7 October 2006
Linking into this journal > > > http://www.theatre.asn.au/blog/tari_xalyr/exams_and_solo_productions_etc < < < THERE! Okay so my TEE practical drama exam was on Thursday just gone and I think it went…
Read more →Logos · 6 October 2006
A lighting designer and the full stage crew of a touring show were travelling through the desert on a tour bus when there was a dreadfull accident and they were all killed. Off they all went to heaven…
Read more →Bass Guy · 2 October 2006
Before continuing on with the pressing business of this particular blog, let me first say this. It is somewhat astonishing to behold (and a bugger to comprehend) the site of a director directing an ac…
Read more →Bass Guy · 28 September 2006
(I’ll give you all 15 seconds to pick yourselves up off the floor.) No need for panic or alarm (or a lama, either). This is not a Road To Damascus moment, but a frank report of Tuesday’s rehearsal…
Read more →Grant Malcolm · 28 September 2006
For those struggling to plumb the depths of El's more cryptic than usual and most recent blog, I can cast some illumination on the murkier depths of pear-shaped hiccups. :-) I was in the midst of rehe…
Read more →Bass Guy · 25 September 2006
It had to happen. Something had to go pear-shaped. ‘Tis the nature of things. I personally blame Scott Sheridan for blithering on about The Scottish Play …and for this we will have his oily hide 
Read more →Daniel Kershaw · 25 September 2006
I have a big stupid grin on my face that I can't get rid of. The one act play I wrote, 'Awakenings’, took home 4 of the possible 8 awards at the South West drama festival on the weekend. We were awa…
Read more →stinger · 21 September 2006
At last, I have changed my appearance. Not greatly, but at least I now look more like Uncle Fester than Shrek. I did have a portrait taken back in June but the photographic studio wants a couple of gr…
Read more →Tari-Xalyr · 16 September 2006
This blog links in > > > http://www.theatre.asn.au/blog/tari_xalyr/solo_productions_and_exams_contd < < < There. I'm doing these in two blogs to make them easier to handle and smaller in size. lol. So…
Read more →Tari-Xalyr · 16 September 2006
"An Arty Affair" Which links in > > > http://www.theatre.asn.au/production/2006/an_arty_affair SELL OUT!!! WOOT! (We really need a dancing emoticon) We couldn't believe it word had flown around the sc…
Read more →Kirilee · 16 September 2006
Last night I discovered something whilst looking in my diary. For the next four weekends (starting today) I have four different performances. 16th Sep - Kiara in 'Mad World' (MLSHS 50th) 23rd & 24th S…
Read more →Logos · 13 September 2006
This is not strictly a topic relating solely to our industry but rather to the country we live in which is greatly changed from the country I grew up in. It relates to a thread about Sedition and…
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