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On the Occasion of Mr Shakespeare’s Birthday – or – Me and Will

by Editor 23 April 2012

“To me, fair friend, you never can be old.” (Sonnet 104)
We go back a bit, Will and I. It’s his 448th birthday today but my knowledge of him only goes back about 50 of those years.
I first met him as a child in the Queensland Primary School Readers. Little extracts or quotes from the plays [...]

Where’s a young triple-threat to go?

by Kate Foy 6 April 2012

A few weeks back I found myself in front of a lot of the Harvest Rain interns at one of their regular Friday Behind the Red Curtain seminar sessions. On the panel (chaired by Artistic Director of HR, Tim O’Connor) were three other actors: Steven Tandy, Bryan Probets, and Cameron Hurry. As you’d expect, the [...]

World Theatre Day 2012

by Editor 27 March 2012

About an hour ago I got a tweet from a far-distant theatre mate, Travis Bedard in Austin, Texas. The 50th annual celebration of World Theatre Day is rolling round the globe as I tap away, and the North Americans and the Brits are starting to celebrate. Australia and New Zealand have marked the day in [...]

The Matilda Awards: the next day and an idea …

by Editor 13 March 2012

Update the day after the next day: Here’s an example of the kind of generosity that this community engenders. A few hours after the post was published yesterday, Greenroom received this from the talented guys at Markwell Presents.I passed on the news this morning to Rosemary Walker, the Matilda Awards’ publicist. She was delighted to hear [...]

Guest Post: Directing Theatre with Young People – Matthew Church

by Editor 2 March 2012

Matthew Church notes the limitations that many young people face when working in a rehearsal environment. In particular, he notes their seeming inability to ‘trust their instincts’ and places the blame squarely on the lack of attention paid to this part of their learning in the current drama curriculum. What do you think? Drama teachers, [...]

Working in the Industry: survey

by Editor 15 February 2012

Greenroom would really love it if you would complete our survey: Working in the Industry. It should take you about 10 minutes with maybe a little bit of thinking time for one or two of the questions. Check our earlier post for the rationale behind this new bit of data gathering which we will share [...]

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