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Fractal Theatre is Back! Brenna-Lee Cooney (Interview)

by Editor 22 July 2010

Brenna-Lee Cooney is telling me about the plans she has for the revivified Fractal Theatre, now based in Ipswich. After some years of child-raising, teaching, a self-imposed break from theatre-creation and urged, she tells me with a snort, by her now grown-up children to ‘do something with your life,’ she’s energised and ready to tackle [...]

What theatre means to Greenroom: World Theatre Day 2010

by Editor 26 March 2010

In case you don’t know, World Theatre Day (that’s #wtd10 if you want to follow all the conversation on Twitter) is tomorrow, March 27.
You can read all about what’s happening on the blog here and, better still, add to it what you and your group are doing. You can also catch all the action via [...]

Conversation with the audience: Sven Swenson, playwright

by Editor 10 March 2010

Photo: Leesa Connelly

I’ve known Sven Swenson and admired his work since 1996, the year his first play Vertigo and the Virginia workshopped for Queensland Theatre Company. Since then Sven’s completed 15 plays, but he notes there are 33 others “in various stages of disrepair.” His latest work, The Bitterling premieres next week as the opening [...]

Michael Gow to leave Queensland Theatre Company

by Editor 24 February 2010

After more than 10 years at the helm, Michael Gow, the Artistic Director of Queensland Theatre Company has declined a further contract with the Company, and is leaving to pursue freelance writing and directing. The announcement was made jointly today in a media release by Mr Gow and Dr Kate Foy, Chairman of the Board.
Michael [...]

Indie Launch Day … Indie Pride!

by Editor 14 February 2010

Image by Bandido of Oz via Flickr

Today is not only St Valentine’s Day, but also, and perhaps even more importantly for Brisbane’s theatre-lovers, the launch of the La Boite Theatre Indie season, which we’re hoping will be enormously successful for everyone concerned.
A perhaps overused word right now when talking about the wider artistic environment is [...]

40 Years On: Queensland Theatre Company’s Repertoire

by Editor 21 January 2010

This week Groundling blog produced two posts which compared the annual repertoire of the state theatre company’s inaugural decade and the one just past. This fairly simple bit of quantitative research was inspired/prompted by similar research and a current debate in the US following the publication of a new book Outrageous Fortune. The book [...]

Flloyd Kennedy, DIY theatre, and other bits and pieces

by Editor 6 January 2010

Image of Flloyd Kennedy

Brisbane has the right to a healthy layer of DIY theatre – partially supported and encouraged, venue or company based – in professional, independent companies that evolve. People need to be empowered to work outside the prevalent bureaucratic funding model. My passion is theatre where performers do their thing – performers in [...]

Theatre conference? You want to be in Cats or something?

by Editor 28 October 2009

This post was contributed by Xanthe Coward, a COE09 conference delegate. Many thanks also to Xanthe for her live-tweeting during the sessions. You can catchup with all the hashtagged contributions to the Twitter stream by searching for #coe09
Why are doing a theatre conference? Why are you doing theatre? Do you want to be [...]

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