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 Open Class

Mar 7
Kevin Jackson. What a guy. I was updating myself on his blog posts and I am came upon a grand throwing-down-the-gauntlet challenge to Australian theatre. Within his review ofBabyteeth(currently showing at Belvoir), which included a small side-note onPygmalion(STC), I found this: “Having been recently inspired by the pleasure and wit and challenge of the writing of George Bernard Shaw’s PYGMALION, the sheer complexity (relative, of course) of the Act Five clash between Eliza and Henry, mesmerizing and cumulatively life enhancing, it seems I want more from our Australian writers than what I am getting. Do we as a culture not have it in us? The persistent voice of the Australian writer and, perhaps appetite of the Australian audience, (or the one our Artistic choosers of plays at the company’s we attend) seems to be content with, is the relative sentimental affirmation of having the world shown to us as it is without much further interrogation. A sense of making us relaxed and comfortable with what is transpiring around us, being moved by our feelings of grateful recognition but not necessarily thoughtfully challenged about the morality of it all. The simple decency of it all. […] These recent new Australian plays are good but mostly an anaesthesia. I would like something more. Maybe these writers are not that kind of writer and we should be grateful for what they can do. But there are others, surely? There are plays, being written, surely, that deal with  Australian culture, history and lifestyle with a seriously discriminating intelligence and offer of balanced controversial debate?” Phwoar. I do not know whether this is a fair assessment of the current Australian theatrical landscape or not but I do know that there is definitely not enough gauntlet-throwing of this scale going on. Read his whole post here. We are lucky enough to be having Kevin hosting an Open Class for the public on Sunday 18 March. This will be your chance to observe as he teaches a class of 10 professional actors and maybe gain an insight into the ‘mystery of the craft of acting’. For more info, check out the Griffin website here. Get on it.

Kevin Jackson.

What a guy.

I was updating myself on his blog posts and I am came upon a grand throwing-down-the-gauntlet challenge to Australian theatre. Within his review ofBabyteeth(currently showing at Belvoir), which included a small side-note onPygmalion(STC), I found this:

“Having been recently inspired by the pleasure and wit and challenge of the writing of George Bernard Shaw’s PYGMALION, the sheer complexity (relative, of course) of the Act Five clash between Eliza and Henry, mesmerizing and cumulatively life enhancing, it seems I want more from our Australian writers than what I am getting. Do we as a culture not have it in us?

The persistent voice of the Australian writer and, perhaps appetite of the Australian audience, (or the one our Artistic choosers of plays at the company’s we attend) seems to be content with, is the relative sentimental affirmation of having the world shown to us as it is without much further interrogation. A sense of making us relaxed and comfortable with what is transpiring around us, being moved by our feelings of grateful recognition but not necessarily thoughtfully challenged about the morality of it all. The simple decency of it all.

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These recent new Australian plays are good but mostly an anaesthesia. I would like something more. Maybe these writers are not that kind of writer and we should be grateful for what they can do. But there are others, surely? There are plays, being written, surely, that deal with  Australian culture, history and lifestyle with a seriously discriminating intelligence and offer of balanced controversial debate?”

Phwoar. I do not know whether this is a fair assessment of the current Australian theatrical landscape or not but I do know that there is definitely not enough gauntlet-throwing of this scale going on. Read his whole post here.

We are lucky enough to be having Kevin hosting an Open Class for the public on Sunday 18 March. This will be your chance to observe as he teaches a class of 10 professional actors and maybe gain an insight into the ‘mystery of the craft of acting’. For more info, check out the Griffin website here. Get on it.
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