Advance aaustralia
Sun, 22 Apr 2007, 07:47 amloandcurly6 posts in thread
Advance aaustralia
Sun, 22 Apr 2007, 07:47 amhello!! Citing the Malthouse in the last post was just that. We still in this country have no theatre company playing "all australian" plays with a focus on new work. Does that matter? Perhaps Black Swan may be the last? The point is yes we have spoken about this with colleagues, peers, friends and artists forever and yes funding is a problem and subsidies and support for new writers etc- however if we are going to be finanically constrained in the arts then how to we move past this to a better cultural future? Does it matter how we chose to express ourselves? - linear or arty plays, any type of visual performance, puppetry, film, radio?. The point is this is our expression for the moment in this country. Thank god for places like La mama who will take a risk and perform a new Oz work regardless of format. So how do all of us together unite and try to support ourselves and advance australia artistically, because obviously we are cultural future.
Why did you start a new
Sun, 22 Apr 2007, 09:34 amWhy did you start a new thread and not continue with the old one. Newtown Honey @ La Mama.
Look, the question in my opinion lays largely with the admin people and pollies who run the Arts Departments of the various states. Knowing nothing practical about theatre they fund ART. Art which the public do not want to see. We go and see it and the chattering classes go and see it but the genaeral public go and see farces and musicals and the occasional mystery.
OK simplistic and I apologise but as a general rule its true.
Write a play about real people in a real situation that doesn't have arty fantasy sequences containing much navel gazing and you won't get a subsidy.
Is that all there is? Well if that's all there is my friend, then let's keep dancing.
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