04.11.20
Hi! Whoa. It’s November! Our much-loved Superheroes have just exited the Seymour Centre. Being new to the team at Griffin, it is an absolute joy welcoming artists into the company and being receptive to what they need to make great experiences for our audiences. Shari Sebbens’s directorial…
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28.10.20
Mark Rogers is the multi-award-winning playwright behind Superheroes, which finishes its season on Saturday 31 October. To reflect on the play and its premiere production, Mark sat down with the Griffin team and had a yarn, which has been transcribed here…
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21.10.20
Dear Grif-friends, This week I have been enjoying seeing my fellow Sydneysiders really getting to grips with life as we now know it. I was impressed (and slightly mortified) by the gusto of the woman sat out the front of…
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09.10.20
Spring has well and truly arrived in inner Sydney! As I write this, outside my window the sun is a-shining! The birds are a-singing! The congenitally stunted designer dogs are a-wheezing! The buzzsaws on high-rise developments are a-buzzing! We’re certainly…
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22.09.20
Renée Mulder is the incredible designer behind Griffin’s first show back after lockdown, Superheroes. Working within some pretty substantial new restrictions, Renée has allowed her creative vision to flourish amidst a change of venue, a slightly delayed season, and all from…
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18.09.20
Dear Grif-friend, It’s incredible to think that Superheroes by Mark Rogers begins previews in just over a week at the Seymour Centre. I’m working as dramaturg on the play, and though Mark’s script hasn’t had any changes in over a week, I’m still…
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27.08.20
How long has it been since David Williamson’s Family Values was playing at the Stables? Six months? Six weeks? Two minutes? Like everyone else in Australia, we at the Griffin office have been stuck in COVID-time—which feels either excruciatingly slow…
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23.07.20
Dear Grif-friends, Two weeks ago, I was hiking through the snow with my partner Troy. He lives in Melbourne, so in my one week off work I thought it would be fun to plan a little holiday together. We rode our bikes…
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14.05.20
Dear Grif-friends, Tonight would have been the opening night of Matthew Whittet’s beautiful play Kindness. When we made the heavy decision to close the Stables back in March, we’d held out hope that this was the last show for the year…
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It’s with heavy hearts that the Board of Griffin Theatre Company and I are today announcing an extension to the SBW Stables Theatre’s temporary closure, until September of this year. Although Australia’s commitment to social distancing measures has led to…
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