13.07.23
Dear Grif-friend,
I really feel very honoured to be writing in the present day’s e-newsletter after experiencing our opening night time of Suzie Miller’s Jailbaby final night time. If you haven’t already been part of our first 5 audiences, we will’t watch for each one in all you to see this highly effective new work. We assume this work is shaping as much as be one other residence run!
As a brand new writing theatre, there’s a totally different sort of thrill in relation to opening a present at Griffin. Our Jailbaby group has labored for a lot of months across the clock and throughout many time zones to get this work up—after years of it dwelling rent-free in Suzie’s mind since her time at Shopfront Youth Legal Centre. If you haven’t bought your tickets but, we have now simply introduced an prolonged season so you possibly can nab the ultimate tickets to any of the performances 14–19 August—you don’t wish to miss this.
As Griffin’s Head of Development, I wished to take a second to gush and thank a few of this present’s supporters. This work would merely not exist with out the Australian Writers’ Guild, who commissioned this work in 2020, and a circle of supporters we so fondly name our Production Partners. Each yr we create a donor syndicate of true believers who rally behind the riskiest, most impactful and most doubtlessly divisive work we program in that season, and I wished to take the chance to thank them for supporting this vital new work. We are buoyed by their help, confidence and generosity, thanks once more to AWG and our Production Partners for letting us take huge swings! (Final baseball reference, I promise!)
Speaking of help, THANK YOU to everybody who donated to our finish of monetary yr marketing campaign. With every little thing happening on the planet, we’re satisfied to have your help—in each sense of the phrase. We are so grateful for the superb neighborhood of loyal donors, subscribers, viewers members, Grif-friends and advocates that help us from a like on Instagram to telling a buddy to see our exhibits; from those that have the means to donate financially to these superb people who give us their experience and time by volunteering for Griffin. And thank YOU for subscribing to our eNewsletter and taking the time to learn this rambly replace!
Last time you heard from me, I had simply began at Griffin and after a giant (virtually full) yr on the firm—so it feels becoming to be celebrating “Another Op’nin, Another Show” (final time it was Whitefella Yella Tree). We are simply over per week from saying our Griffin Award 2023 winner, try our shortlisted playwrights (generously supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund, thanks!). Congrats to every of them (and to the whopping 144 entrants who submitted this yr), we stay up for saying the winner on Sunday 23 July.
Now a glance to the long run, I’m right here to set you some homework… If you haven’t watched the 1995 erotic drama thriller and cult traditional (learn, critically-panned) Showgirls starring Elizabeth Berkley as she shook off the shackles of Saved by the Bell, you’ve till September to look at it earlier than Nakkiah Lui’s sparkly, smart-arsed spoof Blaque Showgirls takes the SBW Stables Theatre. So hunt by that $5 bin at Kmart/Big W/JB HiFi or stream it free of charge on Beamafilm. You too will likely be… so excited, so excited, so scared.
That’s all from me, see you on the Stables.
Affectionately,
Jake
Jake Shavikin
Head of Development