Jim Jarmusch once told me fast, cheap and good...pick two. If it's fast and cheap it won't be good. If it's cheap and good it won't be fast. If it's fast and good it won't be cheap. Fast, cheap and good...pick two words to live by.
Category: art
Lost in Translation
Charlotte (Scarlet Johansson): So what are you doing here? Bob Harris (Bill Murray): Couple of things. Taking a break from my wife, forgetting my son's birthday and getting paid 2 million dollars to endorse a whiskey when I could be doing a play somewhere. Charlotte: Oh. Bob Harris: But the good news is the whiskey… Continue reading Lost in Translation
Heading for home
The Art of the Business Part 7: Welcome to the Blogosphere
To listen to the interview in its entirety, click here. (27 minutes) If you are reading this, you already have at least a handshake acquaintance with blogging (given that it’s published on a blog and all). This month, I delve into the basics of blogging, with the help of the authors of Blogging for Dummies,… Continue reading The Art of the Business Part 7: Welcome to the Blogosphere
Loving the hate: seeing the benefit in backlash
While we're on the topic of backlash, there's a play that has made the 'best of fest' at the just-wrapped Winnipeg Fringe (click here for reviews) that's got people talking about how we as artists handle negative response to our work. Keir Cutler is a seasoned Fringe writer and performer, whose last work Teaching As… Continue reading Loving the hate: seeing the benefit in backlash
The Art of the Business Part 6: Managing your Flow…
For a downloadable or streaming audio podcast of this article, click here. A bunch of years ago, when Julia Cameron first published her book The Artist’s Way, I, like most other artists I knew, went out and bought a copy, and started working my way through it. I loved it; I was doing my exercises,… Continue reading The Art of the Business Part 6: Managing your Flow…
This One Goes to Eleven: Laura Efron
The key to the success of our industry, in my opinion, is dedicated and impassioned arts administrators. Laura has been a soldier in that cause for years now, and I'm thrilled to welcome her to TOGtE. She has worked with many Vancouver arts orgs, among them See Seven, the Jessie Richardson Awards Society, Pacific Theatre… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Laura Efron
This One Goes to Eleven: Cynnamon Schreinert
Certainly one of the hardest working women in Vancouver show business, Cynnamon is an actor/photographer/writer/publicist, whose boutique PR and communications agency C.L. Schreinert & Associates devotes an enormous amount of their client load to the local theatre scene. In amongst many others, she has handled publicity for Bard on the Beach and the Van Fringe.… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Cynnamon Schreinert
This One Goes to Eleven: Katrina Dunn
If you want an example of absolute commitment to our theatre, look no further than Katrina Dunn, who has been on the front lines of the fight to bring great Canadian theatre to Vancouverites for many years. She's been the Artistic Director of Touchstone Theatre and its all-Canadian mandate since 1997, and was one of… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Katrina Dunn
This One Goes to Eleven: Susan Stevenson
A lot of time is spent on this site and its interview series discussing the many potential ways that the theatre business in Vancouver may be improved. Lest this offer the impression that our theatre has a foot in the grave we present a conversation with Susan Stevenson. Susan is the Executive Director of the… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Susan Stevenson
This One Goes to Eleven: Jessica Van der Veen
Hi. My name is Simon, and I'm a playwright, actor, and working theatre artist. I can claim all of these things to be fact today because of Jess. Hers was the very first acting class I was dragged to, by a doorman at some club I was flipping bottles in at the time, 15 years… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Jessica Van der Veen
Devoted and Disgruntled: A Journey Through “Open Space”.
Ian Mackenzie over at Theatre is Territory will occasionally drop a post entitled What should we talk about now?, a call to discourse that, in my opinion at least, neatly sums up the need we all have as theatre artists to develop a common language towards breaking down the barriers between us and our dream… Continue reading Devoted and Disgruntled: A Journey Through “Open Space”.
Independents the Future of Canadian Theatre?
"The Canadian Stage Company, which has a stated aim to create and produce the best in Canadian theatre, will not produce any Canadian work on its mainstage next season, industry sources say." - From the Toronto Star. Yet another questionable decision by "Canada's largest not-for-profit contemporary theatre company". Not only is there no indication of… Continue reading Independents the Future of Canadian Theatre?
New Feature Alert!
I used to walk around saying that we have to start devoting a full 50% of our efforts into the business side of our productions if we ever hope to reach our goal of a sustainable popular theatre. I no longer believe that to be true. I now think that number is closer to 90%.… Continue reading New Feature Alert!
This One Goes to Eleven: Kirsten Kilburn
I know that there are those of you out there with concerns for the future of our theatre. Rest assured, if it lies in the hands of young artists like Kirsten you have absolutely nothing to worry about. Ms. Kilburn is a Vancouver stage and screen actor. She opens Twenty-Something Theatre's one-woman show The Fever… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Kirsten Kilburn
Simon Ogden 