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This Week in Queensland Theatre: February 1-7

February today, and that means the 2010 theatre season is getting serious, especially with previews of Hamlet, the first production for La Boite Theatre by its AD David Berthold, and the start of WTF (World Theatre Festival) at the Powerhouse and various other locations.  The local interwebs discussion on the nature of Residencies at QPAC continues on various blogs (Performing Arts Blog and XS Entertainment) and via Facebook commentary.

For dates and times check company websites

In Preview and Opening:

WTF – World Theatre Festival at the Powerhouse and various locations (Tuesday)

Hamlet directed by David Berthold – La Boite Theatre at the Roundhouse (Saturday)

Continuing:

Chasing the Lollyman Debase Theatre at !MetroArts

Other:

Talking Shop at the Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Arts, The Valley.  (Wednesday 5.30-7pm)  This month Sue Rider will facilitate a conversation about theatre direction.  How can we find ways to develop our theatre directors?  How do we give and receive feedback?  How can we engage with each other’s work?  What mentoring models exist?

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40 Years On: Queensland Theatre Company’s Repertoire

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 claims the US institutional theatre is, by and large, not producing new works by American playwrights. 

Queensland Theatre Company celebrates its 40th birthday in 2010, so a stocktake seemed appropriate.  Rather than look over the Company’s 40 seasons Groundling took the bookend repertoires and did a breakdown of the historical and geographical origin of the plays selected for the decade of the 1970s and that of the 2000s.

You can read both posts here:

And the outcome in chart form shows how this company has always had the production of contemporary and brand new plays top of its repertoire.

Chart of Comparative Repertoire QTC 1970s & 2000s

Groundling has suggested that other Queensland companies might care to do the same stocktake of their work to provide a fuller picture of the kinds of theatre we think we are producing in the state.

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