#Theatre industry

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Anchuli Felicia King is a Thai-Australian playwright and multidisciplinary artist. (ABC Arts: Teresa Tan)

Playwright Anchuli Felicia King had to leave Australian theatre in order to conquer it.

By Dee Jefferson

ABC Arts - 31 October 2019

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David Koutsouridis is an award-winning Australian comedy writer based in Los Angeles. (Supplied)

Aussie writer on Hollywood picket lines says strike is pivotal for global entertainment industry.

By Mawunyo Gbogbo

ABC News - 7 June 2023

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Our local industry is being shaped and shaken up by the international streamers, including Netflix who produced the reboot of Heartbreak High. (Netflix)

As the US actors' and writers' strike continues, how does the Australian screen industry measure up?

By Hannah Reich for Stop Everything!

ABC Arts - 19 September 2023

[six-costume-refs]

Hey y’all, there’s a good post by Allie Trimm over on Instagram that addresses and gives an example of fatphobia in the industry. Good read for anyone who is wants to better understand how + the industry continues to uphold fatphobia and is alright reading about the topic!

CW for some specifics re lbs and weight loss and specific fatphobic comments.

Here’s the link.

[starlit-mansion]

there's something so poetic about coyote vs acme being the thing that causes wb's 'the producers' ass scheme of shitcanning movies for tax breaks to blow up in their face and cause them to turn to the camera, blink twice, and dissolve into a little pile of ash that their eyes fall down into with a little bounce

[dontbotheraziraphale]

imagine being industry darling david tennant and having been industry darling david tennant for a good few decades and they still manage to misspell your name at the olivier awards - for which - by the way - you've been nominated multiple times now

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[reginalds]

The Australian premiere of The Grinning Man, a tragicomic musical based on Victor Hugo's novel 'The Man Who Laughs'. Book by Carl Grose, music by Tim Phillips, Marc Teitler and lyrics by Carl Grose, Tom Morris, Tim Phillips and Marc Teitler.

Where the original production employed the use of puppets to portray the childhood of the lead characters, Salty Theatre has cast two disabled artists in the roles. Seventeen year old blind musician Lilly Cascun as Young Dea and disability advocate Matthew Hearne as Young Grinpayne.

They are joined by a brilliant ensemble of artists, guided by disability consultants and nurtured by the blossoming Melbourne based independent theatre company that is Salty Theatre.

The Grinning Man is now playing at the Alex Theatre in Melbourne until May 19th. Photography by Ben Fon.

[dinosaursmate]

There has been zero fangirls talk I know nothing pls share

it’s a new musical from Australia that is currently playing in London which is about girl who is a fan of a boyband… whose lead singer is called Harry… they are British and all auditioned for a tv talent show and were put together as a boyband…

anyway so she is 14 and writes self insert fanfiction. She co-writes a fic with a male fan from America called @ saltypringl (the best character in the show) about Harry and the fan going on the run so he can escape his evil management who are working him to death (fan girl says she can see depression in his eyes) (also Salty throws in a mention that management are concealing “multiple queer relationships in the band”)

fan girl kidnaps Harry irl and tries to convince him to go on the run with her but he’s like wtf is wrong with you, you’re disgusting

so she and her friends decide to drug him and throw him in the woods to be found and she will magically not go to jail

he then goes back on tour but halfway through his show realises she was right and leaves the band.

there’s a lot more to the story than this and it is quite mostly played slapstick (as I’m sure you’d hope, reading that synopsis) but it lowkey offended me. The writer was inspired by the reaction when Zayn left 1D and wanted to write something that portrays how strong and valid teenage girls and their feelings are

but imho she fell short of that and the belittling and patronising she did to fandom and fic writers through it undid all the good she might’ve done.

It was written from yes, a sympathetic, but ultimately an outside perspective and offended me as a lifelong fic writer and boyband fan.

I will defend fan fiction strongly and anything that reinforces the idea that all fic is teenagers writing self insert is damaging to our community

[johntorrington]

not really doxxing myself bc if you all don’t know i’m canadian and work in theatre by this point that’s a you problem. but the stage manager i’m working with on my show later this summer has done 40 seasons at the stratford festival. what the fuck.

[brechtian]

oh shit. hm. I had just resigned myself to no theatre for the summer and admittedly I was really hoping for the acting stage management internship but. A foot in the door is a foot in the door and it’s a residency program for interns that provides food, housing & a stipend so.

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Dual strikes by writers and actors brought Hollywood to a standstill this year.

(Photo: Mark Abramson for The New York Times)

Striking Actors and Hollywood Studios Agree to a Deal

The agreement all but ends one of the longest labor crises in the history of the entertainment industry. Union members still have to approve the deal.

By Brooks Barnes, John Koblin and Nicole Sperling

The New York Times - November 8, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/business/media/actors-strike-deal.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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He then went on to be a theatre nerd

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[thealogie]

I don’t know, I took a look and the Twitter-tumblr person in the theater tonight has been hanging out with that crowd for a while, maybe she’s not comfortable agreeing with them on the most unhinged things, but she clearly likes it there.

And to be fair she hasn’t said anything about their demeanor or made any subjective appreciation about anything personal of them. She was excited and thought the situation was sweet, not that DT/GT were being particularly sweet to each other. Kudos to her for being respectful with real life people, unlike others.

Do those people expect these couples to be fighting in public or something? I don’t get it, what are they seeing?

Someone sent me screenshot and they literally word for word said “hate to break it to you but DT and GT were being kinda cute with each other actually.” But yeah I hear you I’m glad they’re respectful and nice. I’m not here to conduct a witch trial on who associates with whom and agrees with whom. I just won’t tolerate sexism and as long as someone is not doing that I don’t care to know who is hanging out in whose comments section lol.

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for all my fellow bitches who are having constant anxiety attacks, or just people who want to support an amazing queer disabled artist, try listening to yannick-robin mirko's discography

[trash-and-trash-accessories]

I work in live events and lately we've had a lot of TikTok comedians doing in person tours and they really struggle to move from highly edited short form videos to live performances. They lack the essential in person charisma. They rely heavily on props and gags. They can't riff it's clearly highly scripted riffs. Not to be a boomer about new types of artists, but it feels like stand up comedy is being ruined. Because people still show up to these godawful shows to see their favorite influencer. The high ticket sales mean this will replace actual good comedians who don't have enormous online followings because they're not short form video artists they're incredible live comedians. It's really sad.

[animatronicdoozer]

part one of me drawing random obscure muppets!hilda!

I feel like her and penny wax man would get along