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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 [...]

Theatre here there and … anywhere: Paul Osuch

by Editor 15 July 2010

The ways of social networking can mean that you get to ‘know’ a lot about someone … or at least what is posted about that someone online … long before you meet them. And that meeting can be face to face or via the old-fashioned telephone call.
So it was that I got to know Paul [...]

Clearly and simply: Andrea Moor actor, director, teacher

by Editor 30 June 2010

Andrea Moor has been back in Brisbane for some years now, and she’s loving it – feeling privileged in fact.
‘The political landscape has changed so much since I was last here. It’s a lot like Sydney felt in the early 80s – it’s such a supportive community.
The standard of acting in Brisbane is incredibly high, [...]

The best job in the world … Lewis Jones: Artistic Director EPC

by Editor 28 April 2010

Image of Lewis Jones

Everything’s coming up roses for the Empire Theatre right now. Lewis Jones and I are having lunch at Encores, the very smart little restaurant attached to Toowoomba’s iconic theatre. As is fitting for the Garden City on the Range, we can see gardenias and overflowing beds of gorgeous pink and white roses [...]

Soapbox Theatre: “… work with the Coast culture, not against it”

by Editor 14 April 2010

Jessica Westhead

Sarah McLeod

Where do you go to perform when you don’t have a home? Easy … anywhere that will have you. That’s the message from Soapbox Theatre Productions on Queensland’s Gold Coast, one of the newest indies on the scene. If it’s on the steps of a chapel on a Golf Course … fine; a [...]

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 [...]

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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