Authors - we need you
Wed, 29 June 2005, 06:31 pmWordart20 posts in thread
Authors - we need you
Wed, 29 June 2005, 06:31 pmWe are only weeks away from the launch of a brand new theatre resource in Australia NZ.
If you are tired of paying overseas rights for overdone plays and want to source Australian written and performed plays FREE of rights or at least inexpensive in comparison then this will be for you.
We are currently seeking MORE performed but UNPUBLISHED plays, monologues pantomimes, any theatre art written in Australia or NZ.
So authors please contact us as soon as possible. The main web site will be operating at the beginning of July with the Official launch of Armpit Plays shortly thereafter.
We will be seeking editors and synopsis writers and Theatre consultants in all areas over the coming months. Please wait until we advertise!
You may visit http://www.armpitplays.com or for a more detailed guide to our resource then phone us on 0423 116 114
If you are tired of paying overseas rights for overdone plays and want to source Australian written and performed plays FREE of rights or at least inexpensive in comparison then this will be for you.
We are currently seeking MORE performed but UNPUBLISHED plays, monologues pantomimes, any theatre art written in Australia or NZ.
So authors please contact us as soon as possible. The main web site will be operating at the beginning of July with the Official launch of Armpit Plays shortly thereafter.
We will be seeking editors and synopsis writers and Theatre consultants in all areas over the coming months. Please wait until we advertise!
You may visit http://www.armpitplays.com or for a more detailed guide to our resource then phone us on 0423 116 114
Re: Under what Author-ity?
Sat, 2 July 2005, 01:36 pmWalter Plinge
Thanks for your public posts and private messages Craig,Na and Rob. Sorry I came across as enraged, but my prick tolerance must be at zero at the moment.
For the benefit of the tape: here is the way our resource will operate.
I have lost count of the amount of enquiies I get for Australian or NZ plays to perform and we all get referred to some UK or US site with nothing suitable on it.
This business concept and practise has been run past MEAA, Copyright Lawyer (ouch - wallet emptying exercise that) and many luminaries in the theatre industry . I am a member of MEAA and support it 100% but more we now have a concept to support Australian Theatre and Theatre practitioners.
Armpit plays, that is myself and my partner have long seen a need for a
range of Australian plays/theatre art available for general performance. Unfortunately up until we commence operations this resource just doesn't exist.
We don't intend to purchase rights, set rights or do anything about rights apart from collect them ON BEHALF of the author. These will be remitted in full to the author.
Copyright will be retained by the author, we only act as an agent for
collection of the fees that the author sets. If the author gets a publisher
and assigns the rights he/she advises us and we remove the play from those available.
The author will sign a declaration and indemnity stating (in simple terms)that they agree to us distributing the performing rights to their work specified, also stating that the work is entirely their own and not
plagiarized, they also sign that they can withdraw the work at any time forany reason providing the rights for performances that we have collected on their behalf and remitted and the paid for performances will be allowed to proceed in good faith. No charges will accrue to the author at all. If they do get a fat contract from say Heinemann then a donation to our champagne and bright light fund would be appreciated.
Authors will be informed of any and every purchase enquiry if they wish. They can in that case refuse certain companies/directors should they choose to do so. It is their work after all.
The site will be run as follows: a GOOD synopsis of the
play/monologue/whatever will be on the website with extracts from 1st and last acts or sample dialogue as well as characters required.
The price and conditions of performance that the author sets as performance rights will be included in the synopsis. Any prior reviews and testimonials will also be available.
Yes I am hoping that MOST authors will not charge Community and Charity performances more than a token amount. After all we are looking for plays that had a run in say Kalamunda or Wauchope or Ettalong Beach or small professional or profit share companies and have not been seen since.
Community and Oceanic Theatre in general theatre is crying out for this resource and we are simply trying to make a place for it and make the playwrights and yes ourselves a bit of beer money. And SAVE Community and professional theatre a bit of money if possible.
Where's our money come from?..well we tell only our contributing authors that NOT LOL oh LOL ...duh...we charge for the scripts, nicely bound and with space for notes. That's copyright advice as you would be aware. We don't charge much but as me and de missus are doing them...we don't need to charge much.
We will also deliver FREE one script copy of each play sold to the relevant State library as a resource for the future.
That's it! There is another side to the business that will we hope provide work for actors like meself and partner, but that's for another day...and yes its been run past MEAA and everyone already including the Govt grant people who may grudgingly give us some money to support us while we bloody well try.
So, if you havent please submit an enquiry either thru the above email address or from the website.
Again thanx to the many positive enquirers and jeez Craig your a pedant but LOL. And yes, in response to two enquirers It is me in the story that Jay tells about the feral cat.
Thou spleeny plume-plucked barnacle!
For the benefit of the tape: here is the way our resource will operate.
I have lost count of the amount of enquiies I get for Australian or NZ plays to perform and we all get referred to some UK or US site with nothing suitable on it.
This business concept and practise has been run past MEAA, Copyright Lawyer (ouch - wallet emptying exercise that) and many luminaries in the theatre industry . I am a member of MEAA and support it 100% but more we now have a concept to support Australian Theatre and Theatre practitioners.
Armpit plays, that is myself and my partner have long seen a need for a
range of Australian plays/theatre art available for general performance. Unfortunately up until we commence operations this resource just doesn't exist.
We don't intend to purchase rights, set rights or do anything about rights apart from collect them ON BEHALF of the author. These will be remitted in full to the author.
Copyright will be retained by the author, we only act as an agent for
collection of the fees that the author sets. If the author gets a publisher
and assigns the rights he/she advises us and we remove the play from those available.
The author will sign a declaration and indemnity stating (in simple terms)that they agree to us distributing the performing rights to their work specified, also stating that the work is entirely their own and not
plagiarized, they also sign that they can withdraw the work at any time forany reason providing the rights for performances that we have collected on their behalf and remitted and the paid for performances will be allowed to proceed in good faith. No charges will accrue to the author at all. If they do get a fat contract from say Heinemann then a donation to our champagne and bright light fund would be appreciated.
Authors will be informed of any and every purchase enquiry if they wish. They can in that case refuse certain companies/directors should they choose to do so. It is their work after all.
The site will be run as follows: a GOOD synopsis of the
play/monologue/whatever will be on the website with extracts from 1st and last acts or sample dialogue as well as characters required.
The price and conditions of performance that the author sets as performance rights will be included in the synopsis. Any prior reviews and testimonials will also be available.
Yes I am hoping that MOST authors will not charge Community and Charity performances more than a token amount. After all we are looking for plays that had a run in say Kalamunda or Wauchope or Ettalong Beach or small professional or profit share companies and have not been seen since.
Community and Oceanic Theatre in general theatre is crying out for this resource and we are simply trying to make a place for it and make the playwrights and yes ourselves a bit of beer money. And SAVE Community and professional theatre a bit of money if possible.
Where's our money come from?..well we tell only our contributing authors that NOT LOL oh LOL ...duh...we charge for the scripts, nicely bound and with space for notes. That's copyright advice as you would be aware. We don't charge much but as me and de missus are doing them...we don't need to charge much.
We will also deliver FREE one script copy of each play sold to the relevant State library as a resource for the future.
That's it! There is another side to the business that will we hope provide work for actors like meself and partner, but that's for another day...and yes its been run past MEAA and everyone already including the Govt grant people who may grudgingly give us some money to support us while we bloody well try.
So, if you havent please submit an enquiry either thru the above email address or from the website.
Again thanx to the many positive enquirers and jeez Craig your a pedant but LOL. And yes, in response to two enquirers It is me in the story that Jay tells about the feral cat.
Thou spleeny plume-plucked barnacle!
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