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Tue, 2 Feb 2010, 09:27 am
evaporatingsun33 posts in thread
Evaporating Sun previously put on Patrick Marber’s ‘Closer’ which sold out in its final week and Caryl Churchill’s ‘A Number’ at Forty Five Downstairs which garnered great reviews (**** in the Age). Evaporating Sun are putting on a co-op production of an original play called ‘Equilibrium’ in late April at the Northcote Town hall. The play is a dialogue driven piece about relationships and sexual politics and the themes are loss of innocence, hope and curiosity. An independent dramaturge report about the play notes that: “This is an accomplished, ambitious, and formally inventive piece of playwriting… this is a very effective work that should be realised in a production sooner rather than later”. At this stage we are looking for a director who would be interested in directing this work. Because it is the first time that this play will be performed it is important that the writers intent is the driving force behind the work. If you are interested please send a note about your work and approach to evaporatingsun@gmail.com . If you know of someone that may be interested please let them know about this.

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Mon, 22 Feb 2010, 09:27 pm
1. Don't know why you've got such a bee in your bonnet re my distinguishing Perth posters as being somehow free from error, separatist or elitist. I am an equal opportunity critic. I think that posters of auditions and productions from all States should make use of the State filter. 2. THE POINT: Since you are either being deliberately obstinate or really are so stupid as to not have gotten it as yet; (and by the by I do not believe it is stupidity, having worked in a room with you). There are literally dozens of productions and auditions around the country every month that get posted here. And with little exception on this site the work is voluntary and unpaid. Presumably for that reason, in their wisdom, the site owners decided it would be an extremely useful thing to be able to view them State by State. Despite your little arrogant rant about my "limited vision", let's just come back to planet earth a moment shall we; where 99.9% of people are not going to leave their home States, jobs and families for months at a time, costing them goodness knows how many thousands of dollars to participate in an unpaid piece of theatre in another State. Nor will they be making any plane trips to go a watch a piece of community theatre in another State, unless it coincides with a necessary trip. So for the vast majority of the users here, the thing they are viewing primarily and often solely is the auditions and productions in their own State. This is not due to their limited vision or sense of separatism. It's due to their real lives. Hell, I regularly see fantastic opportunities in the headlines here that I would just love to be part of or just see. But unless you've tapped into an unlimited money supply and a way to suspend time that you're keeping to yourself, the rest of us poor schmos have to keep raising our kids and paying our bills. "Budding", full bloom, whatever we've got to offer, that's the reality. Obviously the site owners get this. Why you find it so difficult to fathom or accept is anyone's guess. For those who want to browse other States, they are obviously easily able to. And even better; thanks to that same filter, they can see everything for any particular State in one convenient list. So everyone wins. For those of us not fortunate enough to have the luxury of such wealth that we can traipse about the country whenever it takes our fancy to be involved in unpaid work (ie. the majority of the members here), we have the extremely helpful tool that allows us to first view that which we can actually access, alongside that which might take our fancy for purposes of research, keeping in touch with what is going on elsewhere or that which we might be able to access if it coincides with other travel plans. And for those who can pick up sticks and go to wherever and whatever takes their fancy, they still have complete and easy access to all the events posted across the country. Seems like a win win to me. So Craig, you can take your condescending and arrogant "apology" (which you have no right to make on anyone else's behalf; how extraordinarily arrogant to think you do); and ..........(you're a great improviser; I'm sure you can work that out). I have embarrassed no one. Least of all myself. It is not belligerence. It is logic. It is simple. It is extremely helpful and convenient for most of us. If that pisses you off, so be it.

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