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Videos

World Theatre Day 2011 … going, going …

by Editor 28 March 2011

As the world turns World Theatre Day 2011 has come and gone from Australia for another year, but it’s still going strong elsewhere as March 27th comes in round the globe.
Someone wrote on the Twitter stream that ‘every day is world theatre day’ and, of course, he’s right for those of us who live and [...]

October already!

by Editor 3 October 2009
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September has been a terrific month for theatre in Queensland.  The biggest story was the Brisbane Festival with a wide array of local, national and international acts in town.  Then there was the Under the Radar Festival of fringe theatre – both put a spring in the step of Queensland in the south-east.  Closer to [...]

SAG Elephant

by Kate Foy 13 February 2009

Given the conflicting points of view on the YouTube commentary on this video, I’m interested to hear the reaction from ‘middle-class’ actors in the US on the implications of the AFTRA ‘deal’ struck with the film industry. As an Australian-based actor I can’t but feel that these issues will arrive onshore pretty darn quickly down [...]

Ben Kingsley in conversation with Charlie Rose: ‘We do our best work when we are happy.’

by Kate Foy 10 January 2009

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I couldn’t resist posting Charlie Rose‘s recent conversation with Ben Kingsley … for a couple of reasons. Firstly Sir Ben talks about the nuts and bolts differerences between stage and screen acting … something we all like to sift through. But in the second part of the conversation, he opens up in quite [...]

Listening to books: Alan Bennett at the BBC

by Editor 8 January 2009

I can thoroughly recommend Alan Bennett at the BBC which is currently available from Audible.com or the iTunes store. I’ve just finished listening to the inimitable Mr Bennett reading what is a miscellany of his work from the past 30 or so years, and all via the BBC. By the way I very much also [...]

Creativity, motivation, and failing well … Twyla Tharp

by Kate Foy 28 November 2008

Please note that this video has been removed by the user … at least this is the message you get when you click the play button – no idea why this has happened.  You might enjoy some of her commentary, interviews and videos here instead.  Thanks to @PrincessJuleski on Twitter for this pointer to the Academy [...]