Firstly I would like to extend my deepest apologies for having disappeared for so long. I won't bore you with the details but will simply say that I have had my heart torn out, taught myself to play guitar, been to Paris, found my heart again, been...
Topics: Acting, Life

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I’m back from my holiday and trying to get back up to working speed. Unfortunately, after just one week in England and back at work and I’ve decided I need another holiday. So I’m heading off to go snowboarding in the Alps mid March time. South...

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One of my old mentors told me that you should never be self-indulgent when you perform and that the tension and emotion that you perform should be about sharing with the audience. This is all well and good. But what if the audience doesn’t want what...
Topics: Arts, Audience, Market, Theatre

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The Singing Librarian (Really worth taking a look at SL’s blog) got me thinking about this. On the previous post Art Versus Business, SL commented on how we should seek to find a good balance between the two, pointing out that Reality TV showed the...
Topics: Business, Change, marketing, Radiohead, Theatre

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Around 300 AD it is said there was a man named Genesius who was part of a group of actors who performed in Rome. One day he decided to perform a comedic piece about Christianity for Emperor Deocletian. While on stage, he changed his mind about...
Topics: ACE, patrons, Theatre

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