JENNIFER MEDWAY:ON BEING A DRAMATURG

04.08.14

Griffin Studio artist Jennifer Medway recently traveled to America to attend  the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas conference in Boston. She takes a moment to reflect on what she learned and tells us why dramaturgs are ‘artists’ in their…

UGLY MUGS: A STORY OF THE STREET

22.07.14

Writer Peta Brady talks to us about real life ‘Ugly Mugs’ and how they’ve informed her new play. Street-based sex work is illegal in Victoria. This anomaly in the law creates barriers between police and street-based sex workers, who are…

UGLY MUGS: A NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR

08.07.14

When actor/writer and safety outreach worker Peta Brady brought the idea of Ugly Mugs to director Marion Potts, she was ‘horrified, moved, confronted by our own ignorance’.  Ugly Mugs began when Peta Brady came to the theatre in early 2012 to tell…

'THE VIOLENT OUTBURSTERS' REFLECT ON THE PAST 4 WEEKS

As we approach the final few performances of the whimsically wonderful The Violent Outburst That Drew Me To You, director Kate Gaul and her cast take some time out to reflect on their journey. Tuesday 8th July – The show closes…

A BURST OF FUN, MISCHIEF & JOY: THE VIOLENT OUTBURST OPENS

30.06.14

Director Kate Gaul reflects on opening week of The Violent Outburst That Drew Me To You and the joy of watching the play connect with young theatre-goers and adults alike. The Violent Outburst That Drew Me to You opened on Friday 20…

INSIDE THE REHEARSAL ROOM: SITTING ON THE CUSP OF ADULTHOOD

10.06.14

Before The Violent Outburst That Drew Me To You bursts onto the Stables stage on 18 June, visiting theatre director Adam Deusien witnesses the assimilation of two new cast members and reflects on his own work with theatre students on…

INSIDE THE REHEARSAL ROOM: THE VIOLENT OUTBURST THAT DREW ME TO YOU

27.05.14

Award-winning playwright, Finegan Kruckemeyer’s The Violent Outburst That Drew Me To You bursts onto the Stables stage from 18 June. Director Kate Gaul takes time out from the rehearsal room to chat to us about what drew her to Finegan’s writing…

DECLAN GREENE: ON PORNOGRAPHY & CENSORSHIP

13.05.14

Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography playwright, Declan Greene, muses on the need for censorship in a world where ‘porn isn’t code for the grimy pastime of perverts anymore’. And, it is 2014 after all. Truth be told: I’ve never been any good…

TALKING POINT by Duncan Graham

08.05.14

There are voices in Australian theatre that debase the idea and value of the script, ‘the play’. They say it’s of no importance as a document, that it’s secondary to the rehearsal room, or the director’s vision, or the need…

EIGHT GIGABYTES OF HARDCORE PORNOGRAPHY: ANDREA GIBBS

23.04.14

Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography star and acclaimed comedian, Andrea Gibbs took time out from the rehearsal room to tell us a little about herself and why she thinks Declan Greene pushes old ladies down stairs… I grew up in Donnybrook, a…