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?

Apionted acess commitees

Mon, 29 Mar 2010, 07:07 am

JoeMc

Just before I pulled the pin at the Phoenix Theatre & moved to a less greener t'eatah patch in embleton.

I floated an idea of adding sub commitees to our structure. Each of the three elected executives Offices of President, Secretary & Treasurer. Would chair a sub commitee appionted as \required from the general membership & community at large.

Each sub commitee could meet at any place or time they wished to discuss the aspect of theatre assigned & have thier decissions, proposals p;resented for ratification by the monthly general meeting assembled.

{Example}

President;- Production, logistics & advocacy

Secretary;- Promotion, FOH & social

Tresurer;- Sponsorship, Budgets & finance

{&/or other portfolio areas assigned from time to time}

Each sub commitee can apiont members or co-opt those technicaly experieced individuals at will & as required.

This would allow these commitees to utalise & tap into to the resources of the community & be able to utalise the whole of it's old & new membership.

Also each production season would have an inbuilt conduit to handle the main aspects of theier show & a direct contact to the Exective & general commitees.

I never got the chance to see how this would work with Phoenix, but from experiance it does work in other orginisations.

This also breaks down the ivy tower image of most group commitees & allows new & old member input without the rigid format of a commitee meeting, in fact there is more acomplished over a cuppa than most commitee meetings ever do.

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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