Is this just local or .....?

Tue, 23 Mar 2010, 11:03 am

Rapunzel15 posts in thread

I have noticed, over the past few months, what might be a local phenomenon. I wonder if it is not just confined to South Australia? I fear for the future... Our theatre companies are in peril. There seem to be fewer and fewer people willing to do the hard work to actually run them. This isn't new but I'm starting to wonder if it's becoming a plague or pandemic. A recent post by a well established and long running company on our SA website is an example, see the link below. http://www.theatreguide.com.au/current_site/notices/classifieds.php Now there will always be people who are very earnest and willing but who shouldn't be let near anything resembling a committee or other organisation because they haven't a clue and wreak unwitting damage. Then there are people who shy away nervously at the thought of joining a committee, it makes them quake with fear. Others flit from company to company "I'm only interested in acting darling". There are others who become excellent apprentices and rapidly become mainstays. There are the tireless workhorses who keep the flipping thing going regardless...and these are the ones who are dying out. Which sometimes means the company will die too. Which means there will be less companies for the "flitters" to perform for, with, whatever... I'm interested, is this a local disease, a theatrical form of H1N1 striking the hard workers of theatre companies, or is it Australia wide?

There is a lot of old farts

Fri, 26 Mar 2010, 01:28 pm

JoeMc

There is a lot of old farts in comeatre, like me who are considered invalid for whatever reason.

Yet there are as many younger ones who tend to stumble along blindly following some mythical rules & policies seemingly set in stone.

No one has any idea or rembers why, "but we always do it this way" - which defies logic for whatever ends.

For the life of me [well not much of that left] there are a few bods still knocking about here who could inpart some theatrical empiral knowledge & staging skills who can still wear the T shirt, before they fall off the perch.

But frankly it's easier just to let them stew in thier own pot, as they seem happy to do,

One wee piece I tend to remember, which may help is;-

To aproach the stanger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force.

Or let the genie out of the bottle is to start a new train of events beyond your control.

TS Eliot 'The Cocktail Party"

Keep an open mind as a closed one can never reconise or accept a creative accident.

Thread (15 posts)

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Is this just local or .....?— Rapunzel23 Mar 2010

Same Old— Walter Plinge23 Mar 2010
Re: Tulipas' reply— jamesgyore23 Mar 2010
competing demands on time— mike raine23 Mar 2010
A few thoughts— Chris Bedding25 Mar 2010
Flog Em!— Skybe25 Mar 2010
I have seen a change over— JoeMc25 Mar 2010
- territory— mike raine25 Mar 2010
Touche— Skybe26 Mar 2010
There is a lot of old farts— JoeMc26 Mar 2010
We have a rule at committee— jeffhansen26 Mar 2010
- We have a rule at committee— Norma26 Mar 2010
No no— jeffhansen26 Mar 2010
The Committee Clique— Walter Plinge27 Mar 2010
Apionted acess commitees— JoeMc29 Mar 2010

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