“If you decide to be an actor, stick to your decision. The folks you meet in supposed positions of authority – critics, teachers, casting directors – will, in the main, be your intellectual and moral inferiors. They will lack your imagination, which is why they became bureaucrats rather than artists; and they lack your fortitude, […]
Month: February 2007
Now playing: The Seagull
Please visit Wordsmyth Theatre for more information on this production.
10 questions: The Wrecking Ball
L to R: Ross Manson, Andrew Soren, Lara Azzopardi, David Jansen. 1) What the fuck is going on? That’s the crucial question – the question that as artists we have to ask ourselves every day. Marvin Gaye taught us to ask that question. So in short: the glaciers are melting, the water is rising. The […]
Introducing: theatre cat
10 questions: Greatest hits – Volume I
Tania McCartney 1) What the fuck is going on?Most frequent line used in bad movies about the end of the world. James Murray 2) Do you have any unifying theories when it comes to acting?I don’t mind talking about or trying to theoretically analyze acting on my own time, but it’s way more efficient when […]
Working definitions: optimism
optimism – an inclination to hopefulness and confidence; a tendency to take a favourable view of circumstances or prospects.
10 questions: Dylan Studebaker
1) What the fuck is going on?Well, we are not in a free world or country. It may seem so, but without going on for 10 pages, I’ll just say look at how the world is close to death and ask why. Maybe art and expression can help set it right, but if not – […]
These other theatre blogs rock!
We hope you don’t see this as an invitation to take your theatre blog dollars elsewhere (so to speak), but these other theatre blogs are just too good to keep to ourselves. In no particular order, here are the other theatre blogs we’re currently reading: Theatre IdeasScott Walters is an Associate Professor with the University […]
10 questions: The B-Girlz
BARBIE-Q: Some theatre company wants us to answer some questions about drag queens. KORA: Again? IVANA: I wonder why people keep asking us about drag queens? BARBIE-Q: I know I’ve only ever seen Tootsie once . . . and I didn’t even understand Priscilla Queen of the Desert . . . it was so confusing […]