Comments for Praxis Theatre http://praxistheatre.com Fri, 18 May 2012 00:53:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Comment on Shaw Festival Directors Project 2012 by Krista Jackson http://praxistheatre.com/2012/05/shaw-festival-directors-project-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-5492 Krista Jackson Fri, 18 May 2012 00:53:48 +0000 http://praxistheatre.com/?p=8936#comment-5492 Liza! So great to hear from you about the project. It is an amazing experience and I'd love to chat with you about your summer here and your production of Barrie's Half an Hour. I have been reading Williams and discovered Inge also wrote some fine one-acts. Barker also wrote some one acts (not sure how many). Vote by Ballot is in Neil's binder and he directed Rococo here as a lunchtime show. I want to find time to read some more full length plays while I'm here and Barker is at the top of that list. Thanks for the suggestions and hope to see you here for a glass of wine this summer! Krista Liza! So great to hear from you about the project. It is an amazing experience and I’d love to chat with you about your summer here and your production of Barrie’s Half an Hour. I have been reading Williams and discovered Inge also wrote some fine one-acts. Barker also wrote some one acts (not sure how many). Vote by Ballot is in Neil’s binder and he directed Rococo here as a lunchtime show. I want to find time to read some more full length plays while I’m here and Barker is at the top of that list.
Thanks for the suggestions and hope to see you here for a glass of wine this summer!
Krista

]]> Comment on 2 Minutes with Greta: Ciara Adams by Michael Wheeler http://praxistheatre.com/2012/05/2-minutes-with-greta-ciara-adams/comment-page-1/#comment-5489 Michael Wheeler Wed, 16 May 2012 21:26:51 +0000 http://praxistheatre.com/?p=9091#comment-5489 Here's a preview clip from City Hall today: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dXMrFoOUBy0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Here’s a preview clip from City Hall today:

]]> Comment on Shaw Festival Directors Project 2012 by Liza Balkan http://praxistheatre.com/2012/05/shaw-festival-directors-project-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-5487 Liza Balkan Tue, 15 May 2012 13:56:33 +0000 http://praxistheatre.com/?p=8936#comment-5487 What a tremendous opportunity - to be reading all of these works!! This was among the many highlights during my own summer at Shaw participating in the Directors' Project. It sounds like you both are covering all the bases. Michael, I had mentioned the Williams short plays to you a few weeks back. Have you read through all of Brecht's short works? One of them continues to simmer on a rounded corner of my brainpan... Ahh if Granville Barker had written short plays... Collaborating with an MD or composer and having music created for both of your shows is a tremendous idea!! I have to say,the gorgeous and evocative score for my show( composed by Ryan De Souza ) totally informed my entrance into the piece. An exciting and inspiring door opened for me, upon hearing it...keep on! What a tremendous opportunity – to be reading all of these works!! This was among the many highlights during my own summer at Shaw participating in the Directors’ Project.

It sounds like you both are covering all the bases. Michael, I had mentioned the Williams short plays to you a few weeks back. Have you read through all of Brecht’s short works? One of them continues to simmer on a rounded corner of my brainpan…
Ahh if Granville Barker had written short plays… Collaborating with an MD or composer and having music created for both of your shows is a tremendous idea!! I have to say,the gorgeous and evocative score for my show( composed by Ryan De Souza ) totally informed my entrance into the piece. An exciting and inspiring door opened for me, upon hearing it…keep on!

]]> Comment on Pushing up Daisey: iChanges in iChina by Review: The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs (Outside the March/Theatre Passe Muraille) | Mooney on Theatre http://praxistheatre.com/2012/04/pushing-up-daisey-ichanges-in-ichina/comment-page-1/#comment-5474 Review: The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs (Outside the March/Theatre Passe Muraille) | Mooney on Theatre Fri, 11 May 2012 04:59:51 +0000 http://praxistheatre.com/?p=8814#comment-5474 [...] hands Ferry cue cards with excerpts from several sources; the This American Life retraction, the Praxis Theatre blog and Daisey’s own website, which he pauses to read to the audience. The experience is like [...] [...] hands Ferry cue cards with excerpts from several sources; the This American Life retraction, the Praxis Theatre blog and Daisey’s own website, which he pauses to read to the audience. The experience is like [...]

]]> Comment on Leadnow, Koyczan and #cullenplan: Canadian progressives go post-partisan by Nathan Cullen – unite for our country » theXpress http://praxistheatre.com/2012/02/leadnow-koyczan-and-cullenplan-canadian-progressives-go-post-partisan/comment-page-1/#comment-5469 Nathan Cullen – unite for our country » theXpress Wed, 09 May 2012 07:02:42 +0000 http://praxistheatre.com/?p=8454#comment-5469 [...] http://praxistheatre.com/2012/02/leadnow-koyczan-and-cullenplan-canadian-progressives-go-post-partis... [...] [...] http://praxistheatre.com/2012/02/leadnow-koyczan-and-cullenplan-canadian-progressives-go-post-partis... [...]

]]> Comment on Equity “Where’s the Beef?” Cross-Country Tour by Michael Wheeler http://praxistheatre.com/2012/04/equity-wheres-the-beef-cross-country-tour/comment-page-1/#comment-5466 Michael Wheeler Fri, 04 May 2012 17:11:41 +0000 http://praxistheatre.com/?p=8899#comment-5466 Hi Arden, Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment and clarification here. There has been alot of organizing over the past five years including numerous eblasts, Facebook posts and blogging about an ESSENTIAL MEETING TO SAVE INDIE THEATRE. But there always seems to be one more. The people I have talked to about this issue are seriously fatigued, they don't understand why all the votes they cast over the course of 3 AGMs and multiple surveys they have filled out haven't impacted any change. Your comment helps clarify the purpose for many members I expect. That this is a forum to discuss conflicting answers from the ITRC data as well as how a new indie contract will impact existing ones. Thanks again for taking the time to visit this forum and clarify the purpose and motivations to the tour. Hi Arden,

Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment and clarification here.

There has been alot of organizing over the past five years including numerous eblasts, Facebook posts and blogging about an ESSENTIAL MEETING TO SAVE INDIE THEATRE.

But there always seems to be one more. The people I have talked to about this issue are seriously fatigued, they don’t understand why all the votes they cast over the course of 3 AGMs and multiple surveys they have filled out haven’t impacted any change.

Your comment helps clarify the purpose for many members I expect. That this is a forum to discuss conflicting answers from the ITRC data as well as how a new indie contract will impact existing ones.

Thanks again for taking the time to visit this forum and clarify the purpose and motivations to the tour.

]]> Comment on Equity “Where’s the Beef?” Cross-Country Tour by Arden http://praxistheatre.com/2012/04/equity-wheres-the-beef-cross-country-tour/comment-page-1/#comment-5465 Arden Fri, 04 May 2012 16:26:16 +0000 http://praxistheatre.com/?p=8899#comment-5465 Actually Michael, when you pull the survey answers apart you find that there are a significant number of practical things which were not answered. Additionally, there are a certain number of conflicting answers. So the survey doesn't actually contain as much information in some areas as it might seem to someone who isn't quite as familiar with it all as I am. It's not as simple as just throwing something together as the scope and "edges" of each agreement and policy are organized so as not to overlap or infringe on the scope and edges of another agreement or policy. Once you make a change in one area, you have to be aware of the possible impact on other areas. So, I could guess at what the members really want in some areas or I can do what I am doing and get out there and try to ask the questions I need answers to so that I can actually craft something that works. You can rest assured that I have no interest in travelling the country every weekend for five out of the next six weekends if I didn't feel there was some good reason to do so! As well, this is an opportunity to answer any questions the members may have about the changes to the CTA, so I am afraid I must disagree with you about the reasons and the value of these meetings. Actually Michael, when you pull the survey answers apart you find that there are a significant number of practical things which were not answered. Additionally, there are a certain number of conflicting answers. So the survey doesn’t actually contain as much information in some areas as it might seem to someone who isn’t quite as familiar with it all as I am. It’s not as simple as just throwing something together as the scope and “edges” of each agreement and policy are organized so as not to overlap or infringe on the scope and edges of another agreement or policy. Once you make a change in one area, you have to be aware of the possible impact on other areas. So, I could guess at what the members really want in some areas or I can do what I am doing and get out there and try to ask the questions I need answers to so that I can actually craft something that works. You can rest assured that I have no interest in travelling the country every weekend for five out of the next six weekends if I didn’t feel there was some good reason to do so! As well, this is an opportunity to answer any questions the members may have about the changes to the CTA, so I am afraid I must disagree with you about the reasons and the value of these meetings.

]]> Comment on 2 minutes with Greta: Omar Majeed & Ryan Mullins by Jess Foster http://praxistheatre.com/2012/04/2-minutes-with-greta-omar-majeed-ryan-mullins/comment-page-1/#comment-5461 Jess Foster Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:59:32 +0000 http://praxistheatre.com/?p=8919#comment-5461 Loved this interview! Loved this interview!

]]> Comment on Equity AGM Update by Equity “Where’s the Beef?” Cross-Country Tour » Praxis Theatre http://praxistheatre.com/2012/02/equity-agm-update/comment-page-1/#comment-5454 Equity “Where’s the Beef?” Cross-Country Tour » Praxis Theatre Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:47:00 +0000 http://praxistheatre.com/?p=8604#comment-5454 [...] has undergone extensive public consultation ALREADY, forming the basis for not one, or two, but three overwhelming votes by membership at AGMs to reform the way indie theatre is contracted, as well as the great work done by the Independent Theatre Review Committee. But let’s let [...] [...] has undergone extensive public consultation ALREADY, forming the basis for not one, or two, but three overwhelming votes by membership at AGMs to reform the way indie theatre is contracted, as well as the great work done by the Independent Theatre Review Committee. But let’s let [...]

]]> Comment on 2 minutes with Greta: Nina Lee Aquino by Greta Papageorgiu http://praxistheatre.com/2012/04/2-minutes-with-greta-nina-lee-aquino/comment-page-1/#comment-5449 Greta Papageorgiu Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:14:47 +0000 http://praxistheatre.com/?p=8847#comment-5449 Thanks for the suggestion. I think I will do that. Thanks for the suggestion. I think I will do that.

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