The Electric Bed
Tue, 31 Oct 2000, 09:17 amWalter Plinge1 post in thread
The Electric Bed
Tue, 31 Oct 2000, 09:17 amThe Electric Bed was written by Michael Griffith and produced in tandem with Rebecca Coleman.
It is an extremely controversial play, written for mature actors.
Despite no one wishing to sponsor us, we recevied national press coverage, not once, but four times.
The Today show, Channel Nine
Radio National, ABC Radio
Life Matters, ABC Radio
And Australian Consoildated Press
We also managed to aquire ample local media interest.
The Play's subject and how it deals with it is what attacts all the attention. It also means that you do not require name actors, to draw an audince, just good ones.
Its first season, in the Melbourne Theatre 'Chapel Off Chapel,' cost less than $2000.00. And could have been cheaper still.
We are advertising the play , because it is cheaper for everyone involved if the play travels rather than the cast.
It is only an hour long. Can be rehearsed easily in six weeks.
Cast size depends on you, you can simply keep it at its basic three, with some double ups. Or extend it to five.
Below is an extract from an Article published in the
'Australian Nurses Journal'
The Electric Bed
Your Mother's ill. Lingering unreachable somewhere between here and death. She will not get better, but she could endure. Sadly its time for a nursing home, or is it?
Could the alternative honestly be considered an alternative? We don't know. This play doesn't tackle this issue. You do.
At the end of act two, after listening to, and watching the Crane family thrash it out to a stalemate, you, the audience, are called upon to vote. Will you place her in a nursing home, or will you kill your own Mother, tonight, to save her from this fate?
Just to make the voting uncomfortably more difficult, the play doesn't manipulate you either way. Its honesty may make you feel like you're listening to an argument over your neighbour's fence, or the fourth, mute member of the family and not sitting in the audience.
Michael Griffith
Dio@primus.com.au
It is an extremely controversial play, written for mature actors.
Despite no one wishing to sponsor us, we recevied national press coverage, not once, but four times.
The Today show, Channel Nine
Radio National, ABC Radio
Life Matters, ABC Radio
And Australian Consoildated Press
We also managed to aquire ample local media interest.
The Play's subject and how it deals with it is what attacts all the attention. It also means that you do not require name actors, to draw an audince, just good ones.
Its first season, in the Melbourne Theatre 'Chapel Off Chapel,' cost less than $2000.00. And could have been cheaper still.
We are advertising the play , because it is cheaper for everyone involved if the play travels rather than the cast.
It is only an hour long. Can be rehearsed easily in six weeks.
Cast size depends on you, you can simply keep it at its basic three, with some double ups. Or extend it to five.
Below is an extract from an Article published in the
'Australian Nurses Journal'
The Electric Bed
Your Mother's ill. Lingering unreachable somewhere between here and death. She will not get better, but she could endure. Sadly its time for a nursing home, or is it?
Could the alternative honestly be considered an alternative? We don't know. This play doesn't tackle this issue. You do.
At the end of act two, after listening to, and watching the Crane family thrash it out to a stalemate, you, the audience, are called upon to vote. Will you place her in a nursing home, or will you kill your own Mother, tonight, to save her from this fate?
Just to make the voting uncomfortably more difficult, the play doesn't manipulate you either way. Its honesty may make you feel like you're listening to an argument over your neighbour's fence, or the fourth, mute member of the family and not sitting in the audience.
Michael Griffith
Dio@primus.com.au
Walter PlingeTue, 31 Oct 2000, 09:17 am
The Electric Bed was written by Michael Griffith and produced in tandem with Rebecca Coleman.
It is an extremely controversial play, written for mature actors.
Despite no one wishing to sponsor us, we recevied national press coverage, not once, but four times.
The Today show, Channel Nine
Radio National, ABC Radio
Life Matters, ABC Radio
And Australian Consoildated Press
We also managed to aquire ample local media interest.
The Play's subject and how it deals with it is what attacts all the attention. It also means that you do not require name actors, to draw an audince, just good ones.
Its first season, in the Melbourne Theatre 'Chapel Off Chapel,' cost less than $2000.00. And could have been cheaper still.
We are advertising the play , because it is cheaper for everyone involved if the play travels rather than the cast.
It is only an hour long. Can be rehearsed easily in six weeks.
Cast size depends on you, you can simply keep it at its basic three, with some double ups. Or extend it to five.
Below is an extract from an Article published in the
'Australian Nurses Journal'
The Electric Bed
Your Mother's ill. Lingering unreachable somewhere between here and death. She will not get better, but she could endure. Sadly its time for a nursing home, or is it?
Could the alternative honestly be considered an alternative? We don't know. This play doesn't tackle this issue. You do.
At the end of act two, after listening to, and watching the Crane family thrash it out to a stalemate, you, the audience, are called upon to vote. Will you place her in a nursing home, or will you kill your own Mother, tonight, to save her from this fate?
Just to make the voting uncomfortably more difficult, the play doesn't manipulate you either way. Its honesty may make you feel like you're listening to an argument over your neighbour's fence, or the fourth, mute member of the family and not sitting in the audience.
Michael Griffith
Dio@primus.com.au
It is an extremely controversial play, written for mature actors.
Despite no one wishing to sponsor us, we recevied national press coverage, not once, but four times.
The Today show, Channel Nine
Radio National, ABC Radio
Life Matters, ABC Radio
And Australian Consoildated Press
We also managed to aquire ample local media interest.
The Play's subject and how it deals with it is what attacts all the attention. It also means that you do not require name actors, to draw an audince, just good ones.
Its first season, in the Melbourne Theatre 'Chapel Off Chapel,' cost less than $2000.00. And could have been cheaper still.
We are advertising the play , because it is cheaper for everyone involved if the play travels rather than the cast.
It is only an hour long. Can be rehearsed easily in six weeks.
Cast size depends on you, you can simply keep it at its basic three, with some double ups. Or extend it to five.
Below is an extract from an Article published in the
'Australian Nurses Journal'
The Electric Bed
Your Mother's ill. Lingering unreachable somewhere between here and death. She will not get better, but she could endure. Sadly its time for a nursing home, or is it?
Could the alternative honestly be considered an alternative? We don't know. This play doesn't tackle this issue. You do.
At the end of act two, after listening to, and watching the Crane family thrash it out to a stalemate, you, the audience, are called upon to vote. Will you place her in a nursing home, or will you kill your own Mother, tonight, to save her from this fate?
Just to make the voting uncomfortably more difficult, the play doesn't manipulate you either way. Its honesty may make you feel like you're listening to an argument over your neighbour's fence, or the fourth, mute member of the family and not sitting in the audience.
Michael Griffith
Dio@primus.com.au