GRIFFIN ARTIST BLOG

Griffin Artist Card membership is an initiative to increase access to our theatre. This program facilitates the coming together of artists across different disciplines and at different stages of their career. It supports and strengthens a vibrant emerging artist community, as well as acknowledging this community as an important part of the Griffin family and the wider theatre world.

How does it work? We want to offer a place where artists can see work, discuss work and make work.

To see work, we will continue to offer heavily discounted $15 tickets, which can be booked in the first fortnight of all Griffin and Griffin Independent shows, Performance Space shows at members' rates and ticket deals and giveaways to other theatre companies.

To discuss work, we are introducing regular Artist Card events where the community can come together for a drink.

And finally, we are supporting emerging artists in their making of new, bold and exciting work. Griffringe will continue to be a great avenue for artist card holders to display their work. We will also be offering (where possible!) free use of our space for readings and developments.

The Artist Card is a community. It is the glitter glue that brings all the cool amazing arty people together and helps them sparkle. So it's almost like glitter glue squared. If you are interested in joining the artist card outfit, please email artist@griffintheatre.com.au or come along to our next shindig….Hope to see you there!

Posts tagged NIDA

Nov 26

NIDA’s hot young things doing their thing.

At NIDA this week are the directors’ productions - they’ve spent all year in a sweltering hot-house of inspiration, so this is probably not one to miss.

Studio Program

Caligula
By Albert Camus
Translated by David Grieg
Directed by Pierce Wilcox
‘I feel a violent need for impossible things.’
The Emperor Caligula returns to Rome after three days and three nights in the wilderness.
He has one desire: to change the world.

The Witches
By Roald Dahl
Directed by Lucas Jervies
‘Witches, with silly black hats and cloaks riding on broomsticks? No. They’re for fairy tales. I’m talking of real witches.’ Roald Dahl.
The Witches - A one man show.

Play House
By Martin Crimp
Directed by Luke Rogers
Sex, work, pregnancy, parents, weird neighbours, cleaning the fridge and dancing: Play House explores a young couple’s attempt to set up a home and build a life together. This new play by Martin Crimp uncovers the fragility and volatility of love and relationships and the unspoken truths behind our every act and word.

Book here.

Space Program

Faust (part one)
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Translated by Robert David MacDonald

Directed by Harriet Gillies
The Gretchen Tragedy according to Goethe’s Faust. A performance that explores what it means to be part of an audience in a theatrical event, following the journey of one of the most iconic female protagonists in dramatic history.

I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
Book and Lyrics by Joe DiPietro
Music by Jimmy Roberts
Directed by Derek Walker
Everything you secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but were too afraid to admit!

The Company of Wolves
Adapted from the novel by Angela Carter
Directed by Phillip Rouse
Ever wanted to stray from the path? Could you make your way in the woods by night? Angela Carter sensuously re-imagines the Red Riding Hood fairytale, exposing the latent urges and needs that fuel Red’s coming of age in a dark wilderness.

Book here.

Oct 24

Current NIDA director-students had to make a Triple J Unearthed music video each. This is from the hands of Harriet Gillies. It’s pretty rad.

Aug 29

Brave New Word is a presentation of original work from NIDA graduating playwrights. Experience six new plays in two programs of moved readings.

On sale now at www.ticketek.com.au

Studio Program

Flutter Kick
By Chris Summers
What happens when good people do bad things?
How do we take responsibility for each other, and ourselves?
In a poetic re-imagining of the thriller genre, Flutter Kick follows four characters over seven years, who come together and drift apart, in the wake of a fatal accident.

Twenty-Five Words Or Less
By Finn O’Branagáin
What you win is what you’re worth.
Deborah is a competition queen and her daughters are next in line. Stephanie has the gift, but doesn’t want it. For Caitlin, good luck is always out of reach. In a family where luck is love and currency, what is left when the winner takes all?

Skip The Third
By Ellana Costa
When temptation comes, can you resist?
Tamara has spent the year struggling to stay sober. When her addictive ex turns up uninvited, Tamara is forced to decide between the temptations of her past, the ghosts of her present and an uncertain future.

Space Program

Fallow Ground
By Julian Larnach
Ancient roots run deep.
One night on a country road, a decade long shadow is cast. Standing in the shade are Jono and Vincent; one seeking redemption, the other revenge.

In Bloom
By Didem Caia
“I told Lily that nature isn’t always deliberate, some things happen by chance”
What is the nature of family and how is it imagined through the eyes of a young girl? In celebration of her new baby brother, Lily sows a seed in her mother’s florist. As her world begins blossoming, she cultivates an environment to house all that her imagination now sees possible.

Replay
By Phillip Kavanagh
The past is what you make it.
John saw his brother Michael die. He seems to have forgotten it, until now.
His brother Peter saw it too, but remembers things differently.
Together, they revisit the past in search of a common truth. But this search has terrifying, unexpected consequences for them both.

May 8

24-HOUR PLAY PROJECT - SATURDAY 16 JUNE

This is it guys. Griffin’s 24-Hour Play Project returns this year as part of the Festival of New Writing. We lob the NIDA playwriting team an idea, lock them in the building overnight, and they have just twelve hours to write a script before passing to the NIDA directors, who need YOU to bring it to life. The thing is, there’ll only be twelve hours to rehearse it in.

From idea to show, everyone’s got but 24 hours to make some theatre. We need actors. Lots of actors. If you’re interested in getting your teeth into some meaty new work and performing on the Griffin stage then contact us at artist@griffintheatre.com.au with your CV. You will need to be available from 10am to 9pm on Saturday 16 June. Go.

Mar 19

NIDA. Intimidating as all hell, right? The high walls and closed gates are slowly being brought down with their creative development and production opportunities, which are being offered this year to the brightest young things of Sydney. (Which is you).

In 2012, NIDA is providing further opportunities for artists and companies - both emerging and established - to extend their theatre practice and develop new work and theatre forms.

Submissions are invited for the following programs:

NIDA Independent Program - four productions will be produced annually in association with Sydney’s most exciting independent artists.

Creative Development Residencies - a number of creative developments will be available throughout the year to support the research and development of artists and their work.

Neither program is restricted to NIDA alumni.

Application due 5pm, Friday 24 March 2012.

To download the applications, go here.

Don’t hesitate to contact NIDA Producer Johanna Mulholland on 9697 7585 or Skye Kunstelj, Assistant Producer, on 9697 7665 to discuss the program or your application.

Feb 21

Kevin Jackson: Open Class

A Masterclass from one of Australia’s leading teachers.

Kevin Jackson will present an Open Class for the general public on Sunday 18 March. You are invited to observe Kevin as he teaches a class of 10 professional actors and to gain an insight into the mystery of the craft of acting. Kevin will also cover the backstage techniques that help the actor prepare for the storytelling responsibility of theatre, film and television work.

Kevin Jackson has been teaching acting for some 40 years and ex-students include: Cate Blanchett, Essie Davies, Andrea Demetriades, Elizabeth Banks, Jessica Marais, Shari Sebbens, Miranda Tapsell, Sam Worthington, Darren Gilshenan, Joshua Lawson, Alex O’Loughlin, Les Chantery, Josh McConville and Meyne Wyatt.

While at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney, the American Conservatory Theatre (ACT) in San Francisco and at many other schools, Kevin developed a much admired method of approach to acting known among his students as ‘The Creative Habit’.

In this Open Class, Kevin will introduce some of the practical outlines to his unique approach and demonstrate their application to the work.

WHEN Sunday 18 March, 2-5pm
WHERE SBW Stables Theatre
COST $10 per ticket

Buy tickets here.