Last Friday, I drove down MacArthur Ave along the Hamilton reach of the Brisbane River – past the cruise terminal and Northshore’s tower blocks and residences, past Flipside Circus’s cavernous storage shed on the left there and Flipside’s pop-up circus centre being constructed on the right – to the Northshore…
My Father’s Wars began life as research at State Library of Queensland (SLQ) – Then became the audio doco-drama podcast series of that name – Then became the live read of the adapted podcast scripts – My Father’s Wars, the live read, which the actors and I read at a…
And the dogs are out! Someone let them out – who let the dogs out? (yuuuk…yuk-yuk!) I have been watching the Flipside troupe practice skills – jumping, leaping, rolling, springing, cartwheeling – but these aren’t adequate descriptions of what these performers do… They climb up each other – 2, 3 people…
I am so looking forward to getting back into the room with this ridiculously gifted bunch of young artists… Dogs in the Schoolyard – here we come! Josh McIntosh’s amazing metal schoolyard ‘fig tree’ is up in the Flipside building and the dogs are in the house! Arrroooooo!.. I’ve created a 10…
I’m an effing writer… Why did I ever think I could draw? “Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.”Salvador Dali I can’t draw. But in the last 3 or 4 weeks I have been drawing a lot –…