OK I admit it I was the one who posted the last utter rubbish setting on the MBC thread that killed it.
Maybe I shouldn't have but frankly it was beginning to completely p*** me off.
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Aaah, SA the Festival State.
Recently Paul Grabowski the Artistic Director of the 2010 Adelaide Festival of Arts (arguably the second biggest Festival of its kind in the world and the biggest in the southern Hemisphere) pointed out that our theatre spaces are getting smaller and out of date. The bigger spaces are closing, the University of Adelaide have decided to bulldoze Union Hall to build a new lab complex (science earns Uni's more than Arts) and also to convert the Scott Theatre into a Lecture theatre and remove it from regular use as a performance space. The Festival Centre(originally built in 1974/5) has recently been upgraded to a degree, the Dunstan Playhouse has had a real facelift, the asbestos problem in the Space Theatre has been sorted and some cosmetic work has been done in the main hall. Her Majesty's is getting old and clunky, the Arts Theatre needs a huge injection of cash to be renovated and the Royalty belongs to the Callisthenics Association and is only available for theatre during the Fringe and the Festival. There's a nice theatre in the Adelaide College of the Arts but it's used all year round (quite correctly) by the college.

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I've just got back from a long weekend in Natimuk a small town (527 people) about 25 kilometres from Horsham on the Wimmera Highway. It's about a five hour drive from Adelaide across some really boring territory.

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I recently sat down and thought about it seriously and realised that I have been involved as an artist in the Adelaide Festival Fringe (now Fringe Festival) since the mid 1970's. I can't remember exactly which was my first fringe and doubt that records still exist anywhere but I do know that I have been directly involved as actor writer presenter or technician in every Adelaide Festival Fringe since 1984 except for the three that happened while I lived in England. 12000 miles is a long way to come. That actually, although I didn't notice it at the time, means that 2009 was my 25th anniversary, now that's scary.

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This blog is more or less simply an opportunity to muse a bit and hopefully find out how other people feel. I am finding myself increasingly disinterested in directing older works that have been done before even the classics. I've directed Shakespeare (with mixed success) and Checkhov (sp?) and I've even gone down the Greek and Roman route on the odd occasion.

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