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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Re: Are you blurring the ministers already? Wasn't that my point
Thu, 24 Feb 2005, 01:31 pmGreg Ross wrote:
>
> CraigÂ’s sentiments about the past parade of arts ministers
> not really making a difference is probably quite right,
> although I for one, have always thought Sheila McHale an
> excellent, honourable and genuine supporter of the arts.
> However it would do no harm to have an arts minister who is
> also premier. And it must be said, that he has already
> outlined a vision for a new performing arts centre.
> Cheers
> Greg Ross
You're right, Greg, Sheila McHale has been visible and attentive at Arts events around Perth...and I think she has a lot more cred than her predecessor Peter Foss, who left the office hated by the arts industry. But my point remains...what's different in the theatre industry now compared to ten or so years ago?
If you want my opinion (and let's face it, when have I hesitated to give it regardless of the demand), an Arts Minister who is also Premier will actually mean a highly distracted Arts Minister.
And it must also be said, I think that's a typo in your final sentence. You said 'he' not 'she'. Did you mean to refer to Colin Barnett as outlining the vision for the new performing arts centre??? Because no, it has definitely been the CURRENT arts minister, Hon. McHale, who has been overseeing this project over the past three years...but even then, the VISION was outlined by people in the industry (myself included) and has taken a bloody good amount of headbanging to get something even approximating (but we're still not certain we'll actually get it) the way the industry wants it.
I think it was perhaps telling at yesterday's Arts Voice meeting that Colin Barnett was too busy to even attend to answer to the industry, sending Barbara Scott instead, who was reportedly vague. And warning lights started flashing when Sheila McHale spoke about the plans for the new Theatre Complex including other functions rather than theatre (exhibition centre, museum, ...); it sounds like the government wants a building to be all things to everyone (good fence-sitting policy) when the whole point of the ENDLESS negotiations from the industry's standpoint has been that Perth unlike other capitols has NO purpose-built building for theatre.
I'm trying so hard not to be a cynic, but the politicians are so good at helping me to be...
Cheers,
Craig
>
> CraigÂ’s sentiments about the past parade of arts ministers
> not really making a difference is probably quite right,
> although I for one, have always thought Sheila McHale an
> excellent, honourable and genuine supporter of the arts.
> However it would do no harm to have an arts minister who is
> also premier. And it must be said, that he has already
> outlined a vision for a new performing arts centre.
> Cheers
> Greg Ross
You're right, Greg, Sheila McHale has been visible and attentive at Arts events around Perth...and I think she has a lot more cred than her predecessor Peter Foss, who left the office hated by the arts industry. But my point remains...what's different in the theatre industry now compared to ten or so years ago?
If you want my opinion (and let's face it, when have I hesitated to give it regardless of the demand), an Arts Minister who is also Premier will actually mean a highly distracted Arts Minister.
And it must also be said, I think that's a typo in your final sentence. You said 'he' not 'she'. Did you mean to refer to Colin Barnett as outlining the vision for the new performing arts centre??? Because no, it has definitely been the CURRENT arts minister, Hon. McHale, who has been overseeing this project over the past three years...but even then, the VISION was outlined by people in the industry (myself included) and has taken a bloody good amount of headbanging to get something even approximating (but we're still not certain we'll actually get it) the way the industry wants it.
I think it was perhaps telling at yesterday's Arts Voice meeting that Colin Barnett was too busy to even attend to answer to the industry, sending Barbara Scott instead, who was reportedly vague. And warning lights started flashing when Sheila McHale spoke about the plans for the new Theatre Complex including other functions rather than theatre (exhibition centre, museum, ...); it sounds like the government wants a building to be all things to everyone (good fence-sitting policy) when the whole point of the ENDLESS negotiations from the industry's standpoint has been that Perth unlike other capitols has NO purpose-built building for theatre.
I'm trying so hard not to be a cynic, but the politicians are so good at helping me to be...
Cheers,
Craig
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