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So,
For those of you not in that particular circle, a minor flurry was recently created amongst the theatre writing community in melbourne with an article pubished about Chris Taylor from the Chaser getting writing his first play for STC's Wharf2Load programme.
I say a minnor flurry in hopes that it will conjour the image of a coup of chickens getting the wind up them, feathers literally ruffling, cause that's what these things always seem like to me.
No names of course but there are those of us out there who still put pen to paper or fingertip to keyboard in order to crank out an item the world reluctantly calls art who have taken outraged offence at Dead Ceaser. Not the play itself, cause it's in sydney and we're all here in melbourne. But more the fact that cause he got drunk in a bar with Brendan Cowell and wrote for the chaser he get's to have the first play he's ever written staged at the freakin STC.
And then to say in his interview that he doesn't even like theatre, that it's nine out of ten times a bad night out just makes me wonder what the hell we're all doing here.
Now, Brendan, from the way people role their eyes when they talk about him, seems what australian's call a bit of a wanker. I imagine him as being the arthooligan Hoover from Spaced if anyone other than Viscious and the chef have seen it. So i can understand a bit, but Chris Mead is an inteligent guy by all accounts. What's he doing using STC's development programme to give some guy off the TV a leg up into the industry. If there's that few decent new play writes in sydney there's plenty down here in melbourne that can't get work. Employ one of us. God knows it's not for want of flying up to sydney for the day and "dropping in".
And let's face it, The Chaser was garbage. Painfully undergratuate immitations of The Daily Show. And Danny doesn't much fancy the Daly show either.
So, i said i was gonna review what was going on and that's what's going on.
What do you faithful handful of people think?
I'm danny episode
It's not the heat, it's the humanity.
posted by DannyEpisode @ 1:04 am
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2 Comments:
Well now that is a doozy of a pickle.
Given that the majority of my exposure to the theatre industry is, lets face it essentially you, I can really only view this from an outsiders perspective.
Given that this Chris Taylor whippersnapper has never written for the theatre before and claims to not even like the theatre yet sits himself down and cranks out a play, the merits of which have yet to be explored, and then quicker than you can say Jobs for the boys gets himself staged at STC, does this seem like favoritism? Clearly, but from my perspective until I can see what the play is about it’s difficult to judge whether its solely favoritism or whether the fella really has something to contribute.
Agreed, Chaser does seem some what undergraduate but obviously there is a segment of the market that gets something out of it and it could be argued that there is a certain amount of talent to be demonstrated in appealing to that market. Whether that talent stretches to writing something that I’d want to pay STC ticket prices for is another matter
I mean what are we really getting ruffled over here, the fact that there seems to be a mates club at the STC that lead to Chaser boy getting his first play staged or because there have been people like yourself writing away diligently for 10 years at least who haven’t.
And if it is the later I don’t really see what can be done about it, its one of those things that is rampant across a number of industries, connections and celebrity are used to garner opportunity, the fact that the entire cast of every annual Big Brother series isn't simply cast out on to a passing ice flow is testament to that. They keep turning up like an unsinkable turd and no matter how much you flush they just wont go away. Yes it happens, yes its not fair but at the risk of sounding like Derryn Hinch that’s life. Sometimes people suck.
You wanna boycott chaser boy, I'm there with you, we can go see his little show and rip it apart like Andrew Bolt on Meth but I hazard to think it wont make a great deal of difference to whether or not some other friend of a friend who knows a guy at STC gets his play staged because of who he drinks with.
Jane For Governor!!!!!
i knew brendan cowell when he was at uni, and yes, its true, he is a wanker. so anyone getting pissed with him should be ashamed of themselves
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