22.02.24
Expensive Grif-friend,
Ang right here—I’m the Content material Producer at Griffin, which implies I produce a lot of content material, together with taking pictures and modifying movies to pop on our social media channels, copywriting for all the pieces from our season brochure to our web site and placing collectively this very e-newsletter so that you can wrap your peepers round! What can I say… I like me some juicy content material! Particularly when Griffin, my favorite theatre firm in the entire world, is my beloved topic.
I’ve labored right here for six years this month and I’m proud to say I’ve cherished each minute of it! Through the years I’ve seen colleagues come and go, many many wonderful Australian tales on stage and it’s laborious to consider that the top of an period is upon us, with The Lewis Trilogy by Louis Nowra heralding the closure of my second dwelling, the SBW Stables Theatre.
I think about the phrase ‘eras’ has been uttered by Sydneysiders way more than standard this explicit week, with Taylor Swift and lots of of hundreds of followers, myself included, about to courageous the climate at Accor Stadium for the eponymous Australian tour. However there’s one other Eras tour-de-force taking place proper right here on the SBW Stables Theatre, too!
The Lewis Trilogy can also be a tour—a tour via a number of eras of playwright Louis Nowra’s profession and thru a long time of Australian historical past (a 60s Melbourne housing property, the protests in opposition to the Vietnam Battle within the 70s, and the grungy ‘now’ of Kings Cross). Costume designer Melanie Liertz has completely captured the color palettes and contexts of the three performs in her dressing of the ensemble. Louis and Tay-Tay (bear with me right here) are each eager observers of the individuals and conditions round them and draw their poetics from actual life. Each even write about their exes!
I’ve seen The Lewis Trilogy and I can affirm that it is among the finest productions I’ve seen in all my years at Griffin. Whereas Summer time of the Aliens is my private favorite period (clearly as a Swift fan I’m a sucker for a coming-of-age narrative), all three performs will reward you one thing about Australian theatre, about empathy, love, or about your personal life. I do know this sounds tacky or cliché, but it surely’s true!
The Lewis Trilogy opens this weekend after a few weeks of previews and I can’t wait to see how audiences obtain it within the now—in 2024. I’ll treasure this one as a result of to me, it symbolises much more than the work of anyone playwright, anyone director, anyone manufacturing group. It actually is the top of an period for anybody who has ever walked via these Stables doorways.
Perhaps I’ll see you within the lobby—or on the Taylor Swift live performance!
Love from
Ang
Ang Collins
Content material Producer
