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onegoodirector · 23 November 2009
I am looking for actors to make a 3 ½ minute short film for TROPFEST 2010. The following actors are required: • 2 x males 20 – 30 years old • 1 x female 20 – 30 years old • 1 x boy 8 – 16…
Read more →Logos · 23 November 2009
OK I admit it I was the one who posted the last utter rubbish setting on the MBC thread that killed it. Maybe I shouldn't have but frankly it was beginning to completely p*** me off. The very suggesti…
Read more →Garreth · 23 November 2009
You can't help but feeling an amazing power high when you step out in front of a crowd at the Woodlake amphitheatre. At least 100 pairs of eyes all on you, watching every movement, every gesture, ever…
Read more →Ruby_QSE · 23 November 2009
Applications for the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble 2010 Core Ensemble and Apprentice Program close this Friday 27th November, 5pm. We have a number of positions available for both emerging and exper…
Read more →Noel Christian · 21 November 2009
Galahs are the unacknowledged legislators of Australia. They can smell a microphone from kilometers away. This is one of the many lessons I have learned as I have shaken down my plein-air rig. Galahs…
Read more →Freddie Badgery · 20 November 2009
In a little over 6 hours Upstart will be opening its second-ever production. The strangest thing for me is that I won't be acting in it. Due to my commitments with Cry Havoc (which has since become on…
Read more →jeffhansen · 19 November 2009
I first became aware of The Return, by Reg Cribb, when my brother was involved in a production of it in June of last year. From memory, it was directed by Karen Francis under the banner of Stray Cats…
Read more →grantwatson · 19 November 2009
I've recently finished up with Cry Havoc , my two-act political thriller in The Blue Room Theatre. One of my friends came and saw the show, and while loving it a great deal she asked if for my next pl…
Read more →Screenwise Australia · 18 November 2009
From E-Street to David Lynch to Shakespeare... Marcus Graham Master Intensive "CONNECTIONS" Marcus Graham is one of Australia's hottest Film & Theatre actors. Marcus shot to fame in E Street playing '…
Read more →adifferentcorner · 17 November 2009
What better way to celebrate the spirit of Christmas than to re-tell the stories of the bible...only abridged! In the beginning there was chaos! And God said ‘let there be light†and behold the Go…
Read more →Noel Christian · 15 November 2009
When performers talk about what we do we are full of vagaries and suppositions. This is as it should be. Ours is an art of guesswork, not a bureaucracy. When a performance starts to go wrong, when it…
Read more →Noel Christian · 14 November 2009
The Weather is nice. The winds are light. There are flies everywhere. I am recovering more slowly than I would like from the procedure with the big needle. Walking is still a struggle in the latter pa…
Read more →Garreth · 12 November 2009
Why does he do what he does? Is it jealousy? Lust? Anger? Revenge? Because he can? Love of the moor? Love of money? Is it a class based struggle? Is he what he is or is he what he is not? Iago is 28,…
Read more →Noel Christian · 10 November 2009
A doctor with a great big round machine lay me on my guts and stuck a needle in my spine. It still hurts. This will be a serious post. For the first half of my career, I wanted theatre in a box: forma…
Read more →Actors Studio Australia · 9 November 2009
AUDITION NOW for courses in 2010 The Actors Studio Australia is Sydney's leading independent acting school for truth-based performance training. Our unique, powerful acting courses draw together techn…
Read more →Actors Studio Australia · 9 November 2009
AUDITIONS FOR 2010 COURSES in SYDNEY @ THE ACTORS STUDIO AUSTRALIA The Actors Studio Australia is Sydney's leading independent acting school for truth-based performance training. Our vocational course…
Read more →Noel Christian · 6 November 2009
It’s not so much that pride goeth before a fall as that a fall succeedeth pride. Out on the Central Tablelands not much is supposed to happen. Certainly not weather. This should make it perfect…
Read more →Logos · 5 November 2009
Aaah, SA the Festival State. Recently Paul Grabowski the Artistic Director of the 2010 Adelaide Festival of Arts (arguably the second biggest Festival of its kind in the world and the biggest in the s…
Read more →Noel Christian · 5 November 2009
Theatre is a place where you can sometimes meet yourself coming the other way. I have been re-rehearsing Genesis to prepare it for recording. This show last saw the stage a year and a half ago, and ha…
Read more →David Spicer · 4 November 2009
Don't miss the November December issue of Stage Whispers Magazine Buy copies and sample past issues at www.stagewhispers.com.au/subscribe In this issue: • Geoffrey Rush – Exclusive Interview: film…
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