I have had a very satisfying 5 weeks working with Year 10’s at Queensland Academies of Creative Industries (QACI), located at Kelvin Grove next to Queensland University of Technology (QUT). I was invited to work with Simon Tate and Stephen Matthais’ classes and create a scripted performance piece. I chose The Belonging Trilogy, a compilation […]
Category Archives: philosophy of theatre making
PLAY IS THE THING, NOT SO MUCH ‘THE PLAY’, a reflection on theatre making and risk taking
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Since early 2000’s Leah Mercer, based in Western Australia and I have been collaborators, working on show after show, writing, performing, producing, learning from each other. This last week she has been involved in The Directors Lab in Melbourne, including 9 directors from Western Australia and 0 directors based in Queensland. I would have dearly […]
HOME is over for a wee while
Sunday, July 26, 2015
It’s that Sunday morning. You know the one. The show has been bumped out ten hours before and you are sitting on the couch with coffee-in-hand wondering what has happened. Those of you who are not theatre makers, I will explain and you will see it is also something that happens in everyone’s life at […]
Reflection, something we are not so good at, and when we do….
Sunday, August 31, 2014
Those of us who create know what happens when a show comes to an end…there is a sense of “What will I do now?” So many many hours focused on one play, a group of actors, writers and producers, stage managers, designers, assistants. When it is a new group of artists together for the first […]
reflecting on Chekov while performing in Wizard of Oz at La Boîte
Friday, September 13, 2013
Wizard of Oz at La Boite Brisbane Australia Whenever I am in a show I use the mornings to re-read the classics. Something I read this morning sat close so I thought I would share it here: Today’s classic is Michael Chekov’s To the Actor: “We must overcome our fear of the theatre theatrical when […]