FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE people!!!!! When someone posts an audition notice on this page RESPOND TO THEM PERSONALLY!!! This means clicking on their name at the top of their message and sending them an email. Posting back onto this page and telling the whole world you are interested IS POINTLESS and above all ANNOYING.

I know this has been said before (thank you Amanda) but the other readers of this notice board do not need to become involved in audition time negotions and CV swapping. You have a far better chance of getting an audition by emailing the director and asking for one. Not just randomly telling the world you are interested and waiting for the Hollywood movie offers to start flooding in.

OK it's early and some stole my "Have you seen this chicken?" mug, but, grumpy Leah or no, I beleive the point is still a good one.

Quite apart from anything else, I really don't think it's a good idea to type, "Hi, I'm a beautiful, blonde, 18-year old actress who'll try anything, and here's my phone number....." onto the world wide web for all to see.

Not only is it potentially fraught with dire repercussions, but I believe Dean Schulze invented this type of posting and is quite likely to initiate legal proceedings if you infringe upon his copyright.

JB

I support Leah's posting on the above, grumpy or not.
Quite often you have absolutely no idea to which audition they are referring, and , as the lady says it's easy enough to click on the person's name and reply direct. It would save much confusion and frustration all round!

Norma Davis noted:
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*...and , as the lady says it's easy enough to click on the person's name and reply direct. It would save much confusion and frustration all round!

Perhaps, but please have patience with the Luddites out there like me who are perhaps unaware of the discrete charms of the protocols of net-ness.

"A little patience is all I ask...

Give us this day our daily task..."

Eliot

ps: apologies to Stoppard for the woeful paraphrase above, but I'm mired in "R&G" at the mo'.

And I thought you were a full bottle on all things "net"!!


liot

ps: apologies to Stoppard for the woeful paraphrase above, but I'm mired in "R&G" at the mo'.

Thou beslubbering bat-fowling boar-pig!

Pah! Not a bit of it!! I only know the corrupted version of what the truly learned have shown me!!

And that goes for my computer abilities too.... :-p

Eliot

I was giong to press the insult button, but today I am not in the giving vein...

You are too too modest

Thou puny hasty-witted clack-dish!

What's a clack- dish? or shouldn't I ask ask on a family site??

I agree, there is nothing worse than seeing "Actor/actress looking for work" being posted because I just think to myself "join the club". I you are looking for work, start looking, because unless you have conections it rarely comes to you.

Go grumpy Leah

Gilly

>>Norma Davis wrote:
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>>What's a clack- dish? or shouldn't I ask ask on a family site??


Hi Norma

According to Webster's,

clackdish = a dish or moneybox with a moveable lid, formerly carried by beggars, who attracted attention by clacking the lid.


I think, in the context of the insult, "clack" is also read to mean "continual and heedless talk; prattle; chatter".


Cheers

Clack Williams

That insult decribes me POIF-ectly!!! Hee hee hee...

Thought I'd say it and deny others the chance....

Eliot

Hi folks,
One little point.
If you have the postings on this site forwarded to you via e-mail, they do NOT contain the individual's e-mail address at the top.
I would therefore agree that it is advisable to include your e-mail address in the text of your message, as Amanda suggested, if you are fishing for replies.
Cheers,
Jonno.

Thou surly fool-born flap-dragon!

Jonno wrote:
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One little point.
If you have the postings on this site forwarded to you via e-mail, they do NOT contain the individual's e-mail address at the top.
I would therefore agree that it is advisable to include your e-mail address in the text of your message, as Amanda suggested, if you are fishing for replies.



Ah yes. Sounds like a feasible suggestion, but to keep with the fishing metaphor, it's a red herring.

If you get the posting delivered to you via email (as I do), and you wish to reply, you have to click on the weblink that sends you to their posting on the site...and then you're back to where we started - their email link is right there at the top waiting for your reply.
So you can always choose to reply to the individual or to the whole board.

Choose wisely.


Cheers.
Craig


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He's grown a very land-fish, languageless, a monster!

Do you people have anything else to talk about except non stop bitching about little pointless things. This website is turning more into a bitching and GOSSIP page every day, i think if you all get a life and some of the old fart's move on we could make the performing arts in perth amazing!

Dear :)

I think you forgot to note the name of the mesage board at the top GREEN ROOM GOSSIP and if you had any real theatre experience you would know that what is said here is no different from what is said in green rooms, dressing rooms, in the wings, in the dress circle bar and in rehearsal rooms all around the world.

And maybe you could make the perth arts scene amazing by shutting up and letting the professionals get on with it!

Thou lumpish hasty-witted horn-beast!

:) wrote:
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>>Do you people have anything else to talk about except non stop bitching about little pointless things. This website is turning more into a bitching and GOSSIP page every day, i think if you all get a life and some of the old fart's move on we could make the performing arts in perth amazing!



Nice little pointless, bitchy comment. Welcome to the team.


But you also bring up an interesting point. When does one qualify to become an old fart? I remember thinking the same thing when I first started; inject some new blood, get rid of the old school...
Now, some 15 years later, the arts scene keeps evolving, ebbing and flowing, and some of those original "old school" that I wanted to shove on are STILL hanging around, getting work; only now I think "Good on 'em", and aspire to be as talented and productive as they have been in their careers. In fact, I realise that that was my goal all along, to BECOME an "old fart"!

So how do I know when this goal has been achieved? I guess once this year's "new blood" start including ME in the group they want to move on, I qualify...but of course, that's exactly when I'm going to hang around (just like a fart, I guess), to enjoy my newly achieved status.
(I was pleased to note, when we got reviewed for Soap On A Rope, that the reviewer expressed surprise at how "young" I still am...so I guess it's not a function of age, just how long I've been hanging around.)


I think the approach to adopt is not so much to wait for the old farts to blow away and hope that will make things improve (believe me, that's not enough); I think if you consider yourself a "new breath of fresh air" then it's up to you to breeze in and start whipping up a storm!
The arts scene is not going to improve if you just waft around, wishing that someone will move on to create a space for you. You need to blow your own trumpet, start to kick up the dust, and do your best to overtake us...then there WILL be an amazing arts scene in Perth, as the challenges mount and a cross-flow of ideas, energy and experience combine into turbine power.

So blow me!


Cheers,
Craig

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Thou art not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in thy face!

G'day withnail
remember me?
aha....
the director who never needed to tell you what to do?
i'm back and after more.

Actually I just want you (an any one else who fancies a night of fantastic theatre) to come and see Salome at Spare Parts Theatre in Fremantle. If you mention ita you get in for $10.

Fri 8th 8pm
Sat 9th 8pm
Sun 10th (matinee) 2pm

So far we've had small audiences for what has turned out to be a really exciting and polished show so we need MORE PEOPLE TO COME AND SEE IT!!!

Hope to see you there

matt