Pricey Grif-friend,
This week marks a 12 months since I began right here at Griffin as Normal Supervisor.
It additionally marks 53 years because the very first manufacturing on the SBW Stables Theatre passed off (Biggles by Michael Boddy, Ron Blair and Marcus Cooney; directed by John Bell, for Nimrod Theatre Firm). It typically astounds me that the remaining weeks and performances left in our beloved residence are restricted, earlier than our theatre’s redevelopment commences subsequent 12 months.
It’s most likely a bit too early to start out doing the yearly wrap-up as there’s nonetheless an entire month left of 2023, however at Griffin we’ve already began the festivities, with Griff-mas, our end-of-year fundraiser, drumming up spirits this previous week. The unimaginable performer and Griffin Board member Simon Burke AO led a unbelievable group of artists via a magical sleigh journey of performances—it was a beautiful, heart-warming afternoon. Because of all of the artists concerned and everybody who attended on the day!
This month we celebrated a milestone second throughout the pond within the USA, when playwright and Griffin’s Literary Supervisor Dylan Van Den Berg had the pleasure of attending the premiere screenings of his play Whitefella Yella Tree, produced in Griffin’s 2022 Primary Season and captured in partnership with Australian Theatre Dwell. These screenings have been held on the Australian Embassy in Washington D.C. and on the Australian Theatre Pageant in New York. This was not solely an enormous achievement for Dylan however a celebration of the impression of storytelling and First Nations work reaching a lot farther than simply our shores.
We’ve now bought our sights firmly set on 2024 with rehearsals for Jailbaby and The Lewis Trilogy kicking off subsequent week. It’s a wild paradox for us—one is re-rehearsing over a really quick interval, and the opposite is rehearsing for double the period of time as regular. However each are extraordinary works with distinctive groups behind them, working to convey you excellent experiences at our theatre in 2024.
These productions are the coda to 53 years of telling big tales on a tiny stage. I hope you don’t miss your alternative to say goodbye to the Stables as we all know it by seeing not one, however three epic productions (Summer season of the Aliens, Così, and This A lot is True)—carried out as an epic Trilogy by the identical ensemble of actors. It’s going to be fairly superb.
See you within the Stables and past in 2024,
Khym x
Khym Scott
Normal Supervisor
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