New Poll - Aussie Theatre (New Works)
Mon, 14 Feb 2005, 04:29 pmcrgwllms17 posts in thread
New Poll - Aussie Theatre (New Works)
Mon, 14 Feb 2005, 04:29 pmNew poll topic: Is Australian theatre dying?...How do you feel about producing more Australian work?
Adapted from a reader suggestion. Two items I left off the bottom of the options list, but reproduce here for his benefit...
If someone like Jeremy Constable was going to open a theatre company in Ballarat in 2006 then I would contact him on Jez_Tazdevil_13@hotmail.com and have words that are good, with him.
This is not an advertising poll Jeremy, please refrain from such attempts to make yourself known, even if you do graduate a bachelor of arts next year and exist for comic relief.
The Poll-tergeist
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colin barnett - liberal arts minister!
Wed, 23 Feb 2005, 10:39 pmWalter Plinge
craig,
the kinda thing,what i'm talking about, is the constant affirmation of the theatre communities that somehow they will find a way to keep going. and this is kept alive by the press not educating their local communities of the dire straits most find themselves in. as humans, we have this notion that we will keep on going, forever. sometimes things come to a close, e.g. the romanov family, the dodo, my last show. sometimes you have to fight to save a species and i believe that the time has come in australia. we are at the edge of a very long drop into an abyss and we won't know we've gone over until we look back up as the world drifts further and further from view. i don't want to rely on the chance that someone stores my acting DNA for future generations. you only live once and that better count for something otherwise yer fucked, well and trully. the danger is to be fooled that the end of the world is not nigh. my friend, we are in every sense, fucken biblical at this present time. to paraphrase "the usual suspects" - the greatest thing the devil ever did was make the world think he didn't exist."
don't believe me?
if the liberal party wins the election, colin barnett is the arts minister.
for me, it's reminiscent the way the string quartet on the titanic kept playing as the liner plunged to the bottom. or joey jeremiah thought that somehow stephanie would get off with him eventually! it's time to find a lifeboat, kick the kids out and get rowing. it's time to lose that stupid hat, get a haircut and ask one of the twins to prom instead! hell, even spike will do!
melodramatastic, i will admit. long day. but know that the time to act is now people. what will you say when your kids ask,"what did you do in the war daddy?" at the moment i would suspect, not much.
mick messiah
the kinda thing,what i'm talking about, is the constant affirmation of the theatre communities that somehow they will find a way to keep going. and this is kept alive by the press not educating their local communities of the dire straits most find themselves in. as humans, we have this notion that we will keep on going, forever. sometimes things come to a close, e.g. the romanov family, the dodo, my last show. sometimes you have to fight to save a species and i believe that the time has come in australia. we are at the edge of a very long drop into an abyss and we won't know we've gone over until we look back up as the world drifts further and further from view. i don't want to rely on the chance that someone stores my acting DNA for future generations. you only live once and that better count for something otherwise yer fucked, well and trully. the danger is to be fooled that the end of the world is not nigh. my friend, we are in every sense, fucken biblical at this present time. to paraphrase "the usual suspects" - the greatest thing the devil ever did was make the world think he didn't exist."
don't believe me?
if the liberal party wins the election, colin barnett is the arts minister.
for me, it's reminiscent the way the string quartet on the titanic kept playing as the liner plunged to the bottom. or joey jeremiah thought that somehow stephanie would get off with him eventually! it's time to find a lifeboat, kick the kids out and get rowing. it's time to lose that stupid hat, get a haircut and ask one of the twins to prom instead! hell, even spike will do!
melodramatastic, i will admit. long day. but know that the time to act is now people. what will you say when your kids ask,"what did you do in the war daddy?" at the moment i would suspect, not much.
mick messiah
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