Stateline
Elder abuse the issue on last week’s Stateline Tas. This Is Living continues in relevance…
http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/tas/content/2006/s2635661.htm
Critical Acclaim
As part of a Ten Days on the Island program, and on top of his already demanding schedule with Everyone’s A Critic for This Is Living, James Waites led a group of aspiring critics through the review process. Some of these reviews were published online, with links in the post below… the rest are here on the Arts Tasmania website. Worth a read!
A few reviews…
Some mixed and varied responses to the show, all based on the performance at the DEC in Glenorchy. They offer good insight, ask many questions and appreciate the depth and breadth of this process driven work…
Australian Stage - by Sara Wright
Arts Hub - by Lucy Wilson Magnus
The Tasmanian Writers Centre - by Mark Cutler
Spark - by Kylie Eastley
We keep popping up on the net…
Just found this sweet article on Australian Stage about This Is Living… always nice to know when we get a mention!
…on the radio this week
Earlier in the week Dad and i had a long chat with Terry at Hobart FM… all went very well, until Dad started bumbling on about growing old and aching bones!
Meanwhile… Mr Rankin was waxing lyrical with Tim Cox over at the ABC, regaling Tasmania with the news of Big hART’s much deserved, prestigious Sidney Myer Group Award for Performing Arts. He managed to get a little about Junk Theory and This Is Living in there too! Find out more about the Award here…
We finished off our media frnzy with a final stint on Community Radio down in the Geeveston with Rod on Huon FM. That was a family affair with mum and dad spending a full hour and a half chatting away. We certainly did the round on Tassie’s community radion netwroks… great stuff.
The move to Latrobe
It has been eventful. No sooner did we move in there were we suddenly playing to an audience of 235 high school students and nursing home residents! A new venue, a new atomosphere, new cast members young and old…
Check out this ABC package for a detailed report by the lovely Tim Walker from ABC Northern Tas… It has quite the family angle if you’re into that sort of thing!
Radio National
This Is Living featured on ABC Radio National this morning.
The story features skating, music, ageing and issues… with Scott, Lex, Kade, Alwyn & the Dunaways.. on the phone from Peter Dixon’s This Is Living production house!
Radio National is Broadcast on 310 transmitters to a daily audience of 500,000 listeners. Great stuff!
Slideshow on theadvocate.com.au
The Advocate newspaper on Tassie’s North West Coast has been such a strong supporter of This Is Living, with a series of personal stories on people involved, a feature on the Company’s roots on the Coast, a spotlight on the Dunaways and a string of other articles building the momentum toward opening night tonight. the latest update from the Advocate is this intriguing slideshow giving insight behind the scenes of This Is Living rehearsals…
Opening night a sellout!
This Is Living opening night is a SELLOUT! The first big event to open for the 2009 Ten Days on the Island Festival is kicking up a storm in Wynyard, on Tassie’s rugged North West Coast, before heading on tour around the State. After weeks, months, years of preparation, it is nigh time to celebrate. Growing from the grass roots and addressing challenging social issues of ageing and community cohesion, This Is Living is gutsy and gritty.
Critically acclaimed theatre aficionado James Waites will be following the tour and updating his site regularly. Check out his first post here
Read our latest column on Arts Hub
Spread the word throughout your networks, and come along to the show if you’re not already booked! - www.tendaysontheisland.com
Win TV news
tonight we made the news on Win TV. the piece had it all… terry doing the waltz with a hospital light, the dunaways singing 1959, telen talking the philosophy of it all, cleone shedding her wisdom on the intergenerational nature of the project.. and of the course the money shot - lex on his pethadine holiday.
good work team!