This year has been a fast and furious one, with no time to do my usual workshops in “The Playpen”, the name I call our workplace where I live. Many years ago, when our fourth child was born, we created an area that we called The Playpen, where children could play and not be threatened […]
Category Archives: Theatre in Brisbane
“COMING HOME”
Sunday, November 15, 2015
“Coming Home”, a performance that was described as beautiful, heart aching, whimsical and lighthearted has come to an end. Simon Tate, the head drama teacher at Queensland Academies of Creative Industries, where we were artists in residence, described it like this in his facebook post: I’m just going to come out and say it – […]
And so we are entering our week of performances and…
Monday, November 9, 2015
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 […]
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 […]
a life lived with all windows and doors open…
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Its Tuesday. I’ve been back from Greece two days. I am still thinking about the transformative time there and how i can retain this sense of expansion. How can I walk with expansion here in my home town? And I turn to some of my books. I have been collecting books since I was 14. […]