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2 men for one act play urgently required

Tue, 24 June 2003, 01:10 pm
JULIA7 posts in thread
I urgently need 2 fairly attractive men! - one aged 30ish and one 50 something for a one act play at Stirling Theatre in August. If you think you might fit the bill, please call on 0412 670 449 or email me. Would love to hear from you.

Re: 2 men for one act play urgently required

Wed, 2 July 2003, 12:18 am
Walter Plinge
Dear J Bartley

In the time it took you to write your email you could have picked up the phone and spoken to Julia about the issue which would have been far more courageous. Instead you decided to attempt to humiliate someone on a site viewed Australia-wide. Surely this is a personal issue between you and Julia or did you have some sort of an agenda?

You said -

"I had actually thought earlier this week, to write a letter of complaint about the audition process on June 8, to Carryn Maddocks at Stirling, but have changed my mind about this now"

Well maybe you should have. It would have been the appropriate thing to do. So why did you change your mind? You then said that you would take it up with Julia herself (and, as it turned out, the many others who frequent this site!!) but instead you decided to write a note in the classifieds. Aren't you now being a tad hypocitical.

Having directed a couple of times before and auditioned more times than I can remember I feel that we are all different in our approach to directing and its process and that's life. Whether someone phones, emails or writes a letter is totally up them. Just like it was your decision to audition.

My opinion, for all it's worth, is that you yourself could have handled this situation a lot better.

Regards

Alex McLennan

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