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10 Things I love about the ITA

Tue, 3 Feb 2009, 11:46 am
jmuzz26 posts in thread
I work in finance - an industry which is having the guts kicked out of it at the moment. My day is full of doom and gloom news and frankly, if I didn't have a positive outlook, it'd be razor blades and warm baths (I'm sure some of you wish I'd embraced that path). On top of that you open the newspaper and it's war, depression, teenage drug deaths, and sporting results that have gone the wrong way. Theatre is my escape and the last thing I need is logging onto a website and seeing more doom, gloom, horror and pessimism surrounding the thing I love. So....I think I've let the harbingers of doom and gloom have their say about the ITA. I have entertained their ideas - dismissed most of them because of the emotive way they were promulgated and in some instances thought "Y'know, that's a good point". But I'm sick of negativity for now. Here's your challenge. Let's build a list of 10 things we LIKE about the ITA. Good positive stuff so we can emerge from the morass of depressive comment that has held sway here in recent times. Just 10. Make 'em good, make 'em factual, but above all - make 'em bright. Seeing as I've started the thread I heartily endorse that in the spirit of positivity we moderate ANY negativity out of existence. You wanna do that? Start your own bloody thread!! O.k, I'll kick it off...... 1) I'm grateful that this website exists as an ITA initiative because it keeps me in touch with what's happening in community theatre here in Perth. Over to you guys....

5) INTERACT

Tue, 3 Feb 2009, 05:41 pm

(Yes I know "5" was already taken - but I'm choosing to ignore the "Hot Chicks" bs.)

INTERACT - I remember spending a weekend partaking in interactive lectures and workshops on pretty much all aspects of theatre at the Kalamunda Ag. College.

This was pretty much my introduction to the ITA s an organisation, and boy was I impressed.

Knowing from past experience in the music industry just how much it costs to get "professional" advice or help, (let alone "hands on" assistance), it seemed to me as if the ITA must have outlaid a small fortune to allow me and so many other theatre devotees the opportunity to be advised by some of the best known Stage Managers, Lighting Technicians, Directors, Actors, Dramaturgs and Fight Choreo's Perth had to offer. Coupled with this was the chance to make friends with an amazing array of people from local and country clubs, from complete novices to seasoned veterans. As it happens, they did outlay a small fortune, so much so that it hasn't happened since.

To me it is a shame that "INTERACT" as a weekender has been financially unviable for the ITA for some years now, but suggestions by one of our "outer" clubs may just see it back soon and I for one can't wait!!

"Be nice to your Tech's - or they'll turn out the lights and go home!"

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