03.04.25
Hi Grif-friends!
My identify is Alana. I’m the Acting Ticketing Manager at Griffin for about the subsequent half hour (OK, technically two extra months, however it’ll whiz by, I do know it). As I write this, there’s a deep silence within the workplace, Hayley isn’t glug-glugging water from one receptacle into one other. Erica isn’t hum-singing Lady Gaga (Taylor Swift?) together with her ridiculously stunning voice. Christie isn’t sitting noiselessly within the far nook the place I can’t actually see her (a truth which doesn’t cease me from saying, “Hey Christie, you know that thing blah blah etc.”, and when she doesn’t reply, I’ve to make use of my precise legs to stand up and stroll across the nook and see that she’s at lunch—impolite!).
It’s quiet as a result of proper now, all people is on a employees retreat. They are ideating and brainstorming and hashing issues out and bonding and having pillow fights and different deeply transformative experiences. And I’m right here, penning this comparatively directionless (to date) weblog publish. Hey, they requested me to write down one thing, and that is how I write. OK Christie! CHRISTIE!? Oh, yeah, she’s on the retreat.
OK, the place was I? What to say, what to say… Ah sure, they gave me a template.
Step 1—Introduce your self.
I kind of did that. But to elaborate, I’m a Ticketing Admin Pro (I can say that as a result of it’s true). Previous gigs embody the Biennale of Sydney, Sydney Writers’ Festival, Belvoir St Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company and I’m so glad to lastly be a part of one among Sydney’s most brave theatre firms. I stated it. Courageous.
Step 2—What’s on at Griffin.
Uh, nicely, there’s the um…hmm. OK, look we’re darkish in the intervening time, however you all know why, proper? WE’RE LITERALLY BIRTHING A NEW STAGE PEOPLE. Just give us a minute. This geographic location has been on the nexus of recent Australian theatre making for a lot of many years. It’s a particular second in Griffin historical past and I get a entrance row seat (no, too shut, couple again, centre…iykyk).
Of course, there are issues developing, tickets to the 2025 Griffin Award & Keynote are on sale now, with the Keynote being given by my all-time favorite artistic multi-hyphenate, Leah Purcell. Look, I don’t wish to inform you what to do along with your life, however simply this as soon as, I might need to. Go forward and e book. It’ll be nice. Moving on.
Step 3—Elaborate.
That I can do. I’m a grasp at elaborating. Look at me go. Oh, it seems I can’t. Next.
Step 4—Any different plugs.
Yes. Kettle, HDMI, hair straightener, TV/AV, printer… oh wait. Pluuuuggss. Got it.
Please e book now for these exhibits, they’re going to be so enjoyable and wonderful.
Koreaboo—my mother-in-law noticed Michelle Lim Davidson on The Newsreader, and I lastly I’ve one thing she desires, employees discounted tickets to a cool new play. Let the babysitting/discounted tickets negotiation start.
SISTREN—I noticed author/performer, Iolanthe, in seven strategies of killing kylie jenner, and I used to be rocked. I additionally noticed Janet Anderson in All the Fraudulent Horse Girls, and he or she was totally magnetic. Oh my, that is going to be an absolute deal with.
Birdsong of Tomorrow—that is actually about birds. BIRDS! I like birds (I’m additionally petrified of them as a result of they fly up excessive within the sky, such energy, such majesty—see I can elaborate). Also, author/performer Nathan Harrison is a delicate and intelligent egg, and I can’t wait to see what he hatches.
Whitefella Yella Tree—Dylan Van Den Berg got here into the workplace the opposite day and chatted with me concerning the nature of time. It left me considering how you can exist second to second, as a result of in reality there isn’t any previous or future, solely a perpetually shifting expertise of the now. Thanks for the existential dread, Dylan!
Naturism—excuse me! I’m no prude, however bare individuals on stage! This I’ve to see. Also, it appears to be like humorous as due to the mind of Ang Collins. I can’t wait.
Step 5—Conclusion
Oh, thank God. We made it. We acquired there. And right here it’s, the tip. Thank you for studying. My identify is Alana and I—ah dammit, I simply noticed that there’s another step.
Step 6—Unique Sign-Off
That’s straightforward sufficient, right here we go.
Best fishes,
Alana
Acting Ticketing Manager