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Theatre blogs I’ve recently come across

After various travels for work and holiday, I’m back for the foreseeable future.

I whizzed by Milan, Oslo, Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen and stopped for a little more time in Singapore and Malaysia. I don’t recommend whizzing by any of these places, but travelling like this does bring home the vast differences and amazing similarities between humans and cultures. Almost all of these places had a theatre of some sort as well although I didn’t manage to get to any!

Time to catch up on some other blog reading

Alison Croggan keeps an insightful blog on (mainly) Australian theatre, Theatre Notes. By chance, I think I met her once or twice at Cambridge when she was there (via Sophie Levy, a poet worth watching out for) and then completely independently I came across and read her “Books of Pellinor” (or rather only books 1 and 2, as 3 and 4 are not our yet); The Gift and The Riddle – which are fantasy books primarily aimed at younger people, but I have a (not so secret) weakness for children’s books (good story and character led fantasy and other genre). The Gift and the Riddle are very worth reading, a whole league above standard children’s fantasy fare.

Andrew keeps a blog and a London theatre blog here. He left a comment recently suggesting that if playwright’s were given money perhaps there would be less plays “born out of struggle” – for good or bad.

Butts in Seats gives an arts management perspective from the US (the writer is currently in Hawaii, I think, as a theatre manager)

George Hanka’s Superfluities tracks mainly New York theatre but also thoughts on theatre and arts in general. George Hanka is also a playwright.

And last but not least, Parachute of a Playwright by Australian playwright, Ben Ellis. More musings on theatre with an Oz focus.

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One Response to “Theatre blogs I’ve recently come across”

  1. Dorothy on May 14th, 2006

    hi…
    came here via george…
    in case you didn’t know about my blog….
    enjoyed stopping by here. will be reading you in my newsfeed.
    cheers!

    Dorothy.

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    I'm a playwright and investment analyst. I have a broad range of interests: food, gardening, innovation & intellectual property, sustainability, architecture & design, writing and the arts. I sit on the board of Talawa Theatre Company and advise a CIS investment trust on socially responsible investments.

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    Recent plays include, for theatre: Nakamitsu, Yellow Gentlemen, Lost in Peru, Lemon Love. For radio: Places in Between (R4), Patent Breaking Life Saving (WS).

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