FREE: Hamlet @ Green Room
Wed, 27 Mar 2002, 09:51 amGrant Malcolm5 posts in thread
FREE: Hamlet @ Green Room
Wed, 27 Mar 2002, 09:51 amDavid Meadows and I will be fielding questions and joining in discussion of the recent Grads season of Hamlet at the New Fortune Theatre during tonight's Green Room.
The Green Room happens every month at City West Lotteries House, 2 Delhi St, West Perth. Sessions start at 7.30pm and are FREE!
Take a free shot at the director and leading man.
:-)
Cheers
Grant
The Green Room happens every month at City West Lotteries House, 2 Delhi St, West Perth. Sessions start at 7.30pm and are FREE!
Take a free shot at the director and leading man.
:-)
Cheers
Grant
RE: FREE: Hamlet @ Green Room
Wed, 27 Mar 2002, 01:01 pmYou're absolutely right Jarrod.
We have been remiss, but it's indicative of the state of play in our club.
I don't know how it is with you head honchos at Blak Yak, but at GRADS it's pretty lonely at the top. No pressing shortage of people who want to perform in a play, but incredibly few who want to perform any other kind of role in making the club happen.
It's essentially the Grant and Jonno show, trying to do so much between the two of us.
(Incidentally, Grant is now our President and I the Vice, as of Sunday's AGM)
Our energies have been very much focussed on the recently finished production, to the exclusion of all else, and little details like early notification for the "Green Room" are the kind of things that slip away, even if it should be just a matter of a phone call to get someone else onto it. One's "to do" list gets incredibly long, with the items further up it being genuinely urgent.
I know you have a full time job Jarrod, which earns you my respect because you must put just about every leisure moment into Blak Yak or ITA efforts. I don't have a full time job though I have business interests, which have suffered significantly through neglect in recent years. If I had a 9 to 5, GRADS might well be dissolved by now!
Yet we have survived, even prospered in terms of successful productions, and also tried to encourage increased membership.
"The Green Room" series has been an excellent idea, and very well executed in all aspects (other than publicity perhaps). It has had support from both the ITA and CANWA, and has provided monthly sessions, free to all, with the workshops led by personnel highly respected in their individual fields.
"The Green Room" is not only for GRADS members, it is free to all; and of course we have been hoping that it would lead to lots of new members with different skills.
People interested in make-up, or costume, or set design and construction (though the series has contained many actor-oriented topics as well)... maybe we should schedule one on Drama Club Admin, there's obviously huge gaps in my knowledge...
However, numbers attending these evenings have been very disappointingly low, and the funding we allocated to the venture will be exhausted in another 2 or 3 sessions after tonight's. It is unlikely to be renewed if the Committee feel they are flogging a dead horse and throwing good money after bad.
I urge all and sundry to come and join the discussion of Hamlet tonight. It is likely to range widely and unpredictably through many matters both Shakespearean and more current. You can bet your life Grant Malcolm will have some very interesting areas to steer it into, and The Meddoes reputation for original and sometimes provocative thinking is well-known to any who frequent this site.
THE GREEN ROOM
CityWest Lotteries House 7.30 TONIGHT Weds 27 March
2(or is it 5?) Delhi St. the dead-end of Delhi St. Some people think it's hard to find, but if you go down Delhi St as far as you can go and down the ramp you are in the car park; or park in Delhi St and walk down the ramp, first main door on your left.
To be there or not to be there?.......
Jarrod Buttery wrote:
-------------------------------
Great idea! I just wish you'd advertise these things on here with a bit more notice.... :-)
JB
Thou beslubbering clay-brained bugbear!
We have been remiss, but it's indicative of the state of play in our club.
I don't know how it is with you head honchos at Blak Yak, but at GRADS it's pretty lonely at the top. No pressing shortage of people who want to perform in a play, but incredibly few who want to perform any other kind of role in making the club happen.
It's essentially the Grant and Jonno show, trying to do so much between the two of us.
(Incidentally, Grant is now our President and I the Vice, as of Sunday's AGM)
Our energies have been very much focussed on the recently finished production, to the exclusion of all else, and little details like early notification for the "Green Room" are the kind of things that slip away, even if it should be just a matter of a phone call to get someone else onto it. One's "to do" list gets incredibly long, with the items further up it being genuinely urgent.
I know you have a full time job Jarrod, which earns you my respect because you must put just about every leisure moment into Blak Yak or ITA efforts. I don't have a full time job though I have business interests, which have suffered significantly through neglect in recent years. If I had a 9 to 5, GRADS might well be dissolved by now!
Yet we have survived, even prospered in terms of successful productions, and also tried to encourage increased membership.
"The Green Room" series has been an excellent idea, and very well executed in all aspects (other than publicity perhaps). It has had support from both the ITA and CANWA, and has provided monthly sessions, free to all, with the workshops led by personnel highly respected in their individual fields.
"The Green Room" is not only for GRADS members, it is free to all; and of course we have been hoping that it would lead to lots of new members with different skills.
People interested in make-up, or costume, or set design and construction (though the series has contained many actor-oriented topics as well)... maybe we should schedule one on Drama Club Admin, there's obviously huge gaps in my knowledge...
However, numbers attending these evenings have been very disappointingly low, and the funding we allocated to the venture will be exhausted in another 2 or 3 sessions after tonight's. It is unlikely to be renewed if the Committee feel they are flogging a dead horse and throwing good money after bad.
I urge all and sundry to come and join the discussion of Hamlet tonight. It is likely to range widely and unpredictably through many matters both Shakespearean and more current. You can bet your life Grant Malcolm will have some very interesting areas to steer it into, and The Meddoes reputation for original and sometimes provocative thinking is well-known to any who frequent this site.
THE GREEN ROOM
CityWest Lotteries House 7.30 TONIGHT Weds 27 March
2(or is it 5?) Delhi St. the dead-end of Delhi St. Some people think it's hard to find, but if you go down Delhi St as far as you can go and down the ramp you are in the car park; or park in Delhi St and walk down the ramp, first main door on your left.
To be there or not to be there?.......
Jarrod Buttery wrote:
-------------------------------
Great idea! I just wish you'd advertise these things on here with a bit more notice.... :-)
JB
Thou beslubbering clay-brained bugbear!