08.12.22
Dear Grif-friend,
Hello! I’m Khym Scott, and I’m thrilled to be writing to you as the brand new General Manager of Griffin. For those that missed the thrilling information final week, there are a few us in sparkly new appointments—Andrea James strikes into the place of Associate Artistic Director and Leila Enright joins us as Senior Producer. Griffin is also known as a spot of firsts—for performs, artists, audiences. Griffin gave me my first skilled job in theatre in what appears like a lifetime in the past, and now I’m so delighted to be transferring into this new function. I now have a desk! I’m such a eager bean that I even rocked as much as the Stables a day sooner than my official first day by coming alongside to the 2023 Season Briefing—in case you missed it, don’t fear! We’ve taken the freedom of placing collectively a recording of one of many day’s periods with all of the juicy sneak peeks and artistic insights you might need, which you’ll be able to watch proper now.
I hold remembering with some horror that it’s already December and I’m wildly unprepared. I feel I’ve resigned myself to both going to a purchasing centre after-hours on Christmas Eve, re-gifting issues I’ve acquired from varied opening nights or last-minute purchasing on-line. Speaking of last-minute on-line items, in case you’ve obtained a theatre lover in your life, why not head to the Griffin web site and decide up a Gift Certificate for a 2023 subscription? I hear that giving experiences is nice for these individuals who say they ‘don’t need something’ or they ‘don’t know what they need’. Or higher but, plan some date nights and decide up one for your self too! I’m already making the most of the advantages that our great subscribers get—particularly discounted wine from our pals at P&V Merchants. Please observe that the Griffin workplace is closed from 3pm, Friday 23 December and re-opens Monday 9 January 2023—so be sure that to buy your Gift Certificates earlier than then!
My Spotify Wrapped doesn’t actually change yr to yr as a result of I solely hearken to 90s pop music, however I’ve been desirous about all the pieces that’s occurred previously twelve months. This time final yr I used to be in the midst of stage managing the Prima Facie return season on the Seymour Centre (post-Delta, pre-Omicron), and attending some readings of the Griffin Award finalists. And now mockingly, I’m placing all of the items in place for the Prima Facie tour to Melbourne Theatre Company in February, and entries for the Griffin Award 2023 shut in only a few weeks.
While we might have already closed the doorways to the Stables for 2022, we’re definitely conserving busy as a result of we’re properly into planning our first manufacturing for 2023—tickets for Nicholas Brown’s tantalisingly tantric Sex Magick have simply gone on sale from this week (together with tickets for our first Griffin Lookout present of the yr, UFO)! I’ve spent lots of time in our theatre through the years and what I really like about Griffin audiences is their willingness to be shocked by what they discover on the prime of the steps. I can inform you one factor—Sex Magick goes to be B.I.G.
Next yr can also be the final yr of constructing and seeing theatre within the SBW Stables Theatre as we all know and adore it earlier than our renovations begin, so we’re positively going all out and pushing our beloved venue on the hill to its absolute limits. It’s going to be an enormous yr of Australian storytelling subsequent yr and we are able to’t wait to share it with you.
Until then, you’ll discover me watching horrible/wonderful Hallmark Christmas movies and wishing for much less ducking and weaving for us all in 2023. See you within the lobby subsequent yr!
Khym x
Khym Scott
General Manager