{"id":133671,"date":"2024-10-31T05:19:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T05:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/31\/a-note-from-andrea-31-october\/"},"modified":"2024-10-31T05:19:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T05:19:11","slug":"a-note-from-andrea-31-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/31\/a-note-from-andrea-31-october\/","title":{"rendered":"A Note from Andrea, 31 October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t30.10.24\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hello, it\u2019s <strong>Andrea<\/strong> right here, Yorta Yorta\/Gunaikurnai theatremaker and Associate Artistic Director, reporting for responsibility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;ve the most effective jobs on the earth. I\u2019m wing girl to <strong>Declan Greene<\/strong> (one among Australia\u2019s hottest and brightest Artistic Directors on the town) and I get to contribute to the programming of latest Australian Theatre and direct a Griffin play every year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You could have seen {that a} sure King and Queen did however \u201cpass us by\u201d throughout their fleeting (pun supposed) go to to Gadigal Country; and I\u2019m penning this observe because the helicopters hover overhead whereas they go to Redfern.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can also have heard about Djabwurrung\/Gunnai\/Gunidtjmara Senator <strong>Lidia Thorpe<\/strong>\u2019s protest efficiency of kinds at Parliament House\u2014wrapped in a possum pores and skin cloak, gum leaves in hand, loud, projected, unwavering voice\u2014that captured the world\u2019s consideration and compelled us to rethink, but once more, the troubled foundations of our nation\u2026 and it\u2019s received me fascinated by politeness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Disclaimer: I&#8217;ve a bloodline connection to Senator Thorpe by way of my Grandmother).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Imagine if theatre was at all times well mannered\u2014merely a spot to be humbled and entertained? Imagine if we didn\u2019t have a spot to sit down in the dead of night in communion with others to contemplate the massive questions of our nation and the world round us, as Australia continues to grapple with its place on the earth?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Griffin is at the moment sofa browsing whereas our beloved SBW Stables Theatre readies herself for redevelopment and we&#8217;re bunking down with Hayes Theatre Co. for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flat Earthers: The Musical <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">written <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by the blindingly gifted trio, <\/span><b>Jean Tong<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Lou Wall<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>James Gales <\/b>and<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0directed by Declan. I feel Hayes and Griffin are making good housemates and, evidently, Declan has taken to directing musicals like a duck to water.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have to admit, I\u2019m not a giant musical theatre-goer, however I had the good pleasure of donning my \u201cIlluminati chic\u201d and getting on right down to the opening night time; and even this previous woman had a rollicking good time. This present is by no means well mannered and would possibly even be a little bit risqu\u00e9, however boy oh boy (or ought to I say, woman oh woman\/them oh them!) does <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flat Earthers<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have one thing to say concerning the states of thoughts on our planet. If you haven\u2019t skilled this humorous and supremely sensible musical, catch it when you can!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile I\u2019m in pre-production for <\/span><b>Alana Valentine<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nucleus<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that\u2019s first cab off the rank subsequent 12 months and, although I\u2019ve learn the play a gazillion instances, it\u2019s simply not possible for me to not be lowered to a blubbering mess by the sheer great thing about the writing and Alana\u2019s name to arms to save lots of our planet and love one another with all our would possibly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the meantime, our hothouse of resident artists on the Griffin Studio (<\/span><b>Josipa Draisma<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Jorjia Gillis<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Jacob Parker<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) and our inaugural Suzie Miller Award winner (<\/span><b>Mary Rachel Brown<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) are tinkering away at their craft, contemplating the massive questions of the nation and being by no means well mannered.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I pinch myself on the nice privilege I&#8217;ve at Griffin to bear witness to those works in improvement\u2014the fragile, courageous revealing of the soul that comes with talking reality to energy and saying what you actually need to say. Thankfully, Griffin Theatre Company is a secure place for these divergent views to be creatively expressed in all their energy and glory and that you just, our viewers, come alongside for the journey.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See you in a Griffin (sofa browsing) lobby someplace in Sydney quickly to yarn and think about the massive stuff.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Andrea James<br \/><\/b><b>Associate Artistic Director<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] 30.10.24 Hello, it\u2019s Andrea right here, Yorta Yorta\/Gunaikurnai theatremaker and Associate Artistic Director, reporting for responsibility. I&#8217;ve the most effective jobs on the earth. I\u2019m wing girl to Declan Greene (one among Australia\u2019s hottest and brightest Artistic Directors on the town) and I get to contribute to the programming of latest Australian Theatre and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[5313,1733,6310],"class_list":{"0":"post-133671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-drama","8":"tag-andrea","9":"tag-note","10":"tag-october"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}