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		<title>Backstage Australia on hold</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darrynking</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I assume the role of Arts Editor at one of my most beloved magazines (and I&#8217;m not just saying that), Time Out Sydney. I replace Nick Dent, who is now Editor of the publication. As such, I will be devoting all my effort and imagination into my new position and leaving the blog to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backstageaustralia.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13869805&#038;post=611&#038;subd=backstageaustralia&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Invisible Artists &#8211; interview with Liam Cavanagh</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darrynking</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mischief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABC Radio National]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[artworks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[liam cavanagh]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the absence of any real policy from the two major parties to talk about this election week, here&#8217;s the transcript of an interview with an artist who specialises in not being seen: Liam Cavanagh of the Invisible Artists collective. Cavanagh spoke to Amanda Smith for ABC Radio National&#8217;s Artworks programme. AMANDA: As we have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backstageaustralia.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13869805&#038;post=608&#038;subd=backstageaustralia&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Friday the 13th</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darrynking</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Historically, theatrical performance and the places in which it occurs have been riddled with superstition and experiences of the supernatural. Although not as prevalent now as they once were, theatrical superstitions act as important guides for performers’ personal conduct within theatres. Indeed, theatrical traditions and superstitions mutually inform one another. Much performance culture is expressed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backstageaustralia.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13869805&#038;post=600&#038;subd=backstageaustralia&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Trial &#8211; further reading</title>
		<link>http://backstageaustralia.wordpress.com/2010/08/12/the-trial-further-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 03:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darrynking</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ewen leslie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ship to shore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the trial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Malthouse Theatre/Sydney Theatre Company/ThinIce co-production, The Trial opens in Melbourne this week and comes to the Wharf 1 theatre in September. It’s an adaptation of Franz Kafka’s novel by playwright Louise Fox (perhaps best known as a writer from classic children’s TV series Round the Twist) starring Ewen Leslie (perhaps best known as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backstageaustralia.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13869805&#038;post=593&#038;subd=backstageaustralia&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quack &#8211; trailer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darrynking</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[griffin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arousing equine poetry and more from our unblinking friend Fanny Dillon. Ian Wilding’s zombie- and cuss-filled new play Quack plays Griffin’s SBW Stables Theatre from Friday 27 August to Saturday 2 October. Book tickets and read more here. Filed under: Video Tagged: griffin, quack<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backstageaustralia.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13869805&#038;post=589&#038;subd=backstageaustralia&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Downstairs Theatre</title>
		<link>http://backstageaustralia.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/the-downstairs-theatre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darrynking</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[b sharp]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nowhere to hide. Sound frightening? It can be. But it can also be profound, moving, hilarious and exhilarating. ‘Nowhere to hide’ is the mantra behind one of the most cherished and important theatre spaces in Sydney, Company B Belvoir’s intimate 80-seat Downstairs Theatre in Surry Hills. As theatre spaces go, it’s about as in-your-face as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backstageaustralia.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13869805&#038;post=574&#038;subd=backstageaustralia&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tusk Tusk &#8211; trailer</title>
		<link>http://backstageaustralia.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/tusk-tusk-trailer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darrynking</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sydney Theatre Company and the Australian Theatre for Young People have joined forces for Tusk, Tusk, the second play from precocious young English playwright Polly Stenham. You can watch the trailer for the production below. Best use of the Nellie the Elephant theme song in a theatre trailer this year so far. Tusk, Tusk plays [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backstageaustralia.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13869805&#038;post=582&#038;subd=backstageaustralia&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Understudying for Godot</title>
		<link>http://backstageaustralia.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/understudying-for-godot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 06:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darrynking</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Theatre Royal Haymarket&#8217;s international tour of Waiting for Godot (reviewed here and spoofed ridiculously here) wraps up next week in Cape Town (with local boys Khathu Khangala and Hisham Ryklief playing &#8216;Boy&#8217;). A while ago I spoke to Colin Haigh, one of two understudies in the production. As an understudy, of course, Haigh has become [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backstageaustralia.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13869805&#038;post=569&#038;subd=backstageaustralia&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Downstairs Theatre &#8211; preview</title>
		<link>http://backstageaustralia.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/the-downstairs-theatre-preview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darrynking</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[b sharp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[company b belvoir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[downstairs theatre]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backstageaustralia.wordpress.com/?p=566</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Next week, a piece on Company B Belvoir’s historic  Downstairs Theatre in Surry Hills. To whet your appetite, a few quotes from my lovely interviewees – whose identities will be revealed later – who know the intimate space, well, intimately. “The moment you enter the space you’re part of the action and that goes for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backstageaustralia.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13869805&#038;post=566&#038;subd=backstageaustralia&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gwen in Purgatory &#8211; bumping in</title>
		<link>http://backstageaustralia.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/gwen-in-purgatory-bumping-in/</link>
		<comments>http://backstageaustralia.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/gwen-in-purgatory-bumping-in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darrynking</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[belvoir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[company b]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excellent time-lapse video of the set building and general bumping-in of the latest Company B production, Gwen in Purgatory. A lot of work happens in that two-and-a-half minutes. Gwen in Purgatory opens tonight, Wednesday 4 August. Book tickets and read more here. Filed under: Video Tagged: belvoir, company b, gwen in purgatory<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backstageaustralia.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13869805&#038;post=555&#038;subd=backstageaustralia&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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