In beautiful, picturesque, wombat filled Riversdale, there’s not a whole lot to be worried about. That is unless you find yourself in the award-winning architecture, unable to remember whether your need to move the lock on the toilet door to the right or to the left to get out. In this situation, several options always [...]
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“I’ll stake a claim: I am the slowest playwright in the southern hemisphere.”
Peta Murray writes plays and short stories. She is also a dramaturg, director and has taught playwriting at Melbourne University and RMIT. She is currently co-facilitator of The Black Writers Lab for Ilbijerri Theatre, Melbourne and is one of this year’s Fresh Ink National Studio tutors. The Build by Peta Murray I’ll stake a claim: [...]
Meet our National Studio writers (Part 2)!
We are delighted to introduce the final 5 writers for this year’s Fresh Ink National Studio, who will be joining our seven Fresh Ink writers and tutors Ross Mueller, Peta Murray and Caleb Lewis in Riversdale, NSW for five days of all things literary. Read about our other six writers, chosen from our nationwide call [...]
Our National Studio writers! (Part 1)
With a week to go before the annual Fresh Ink National Studio, it’s time to introduce you to some of this year’s participants, who will be joining our seven Fresh Ink writers and tutors Ross Mueller, Peta Murray and Caleb Lewis in Riversdale, NSW for a five days of all things literary. With such a [...]
Life, Death and Everything In Between
PlayWriting Australia and Fresh Ink are bringing together a panel of leading practitioners to talk about life, death and the playwright’s approach to both for a special roundtable event. Moderated by PlayWriting Australia Artistic Director Chris Mead. Follow the discussion on Twitter at #atyp or through FreshInkATYP and PlayWriting Australia. Date and time: Friday, 2nd [...]
Introducing The Voices Project
We are very excited to give you early word of a new program of Fresh Ink called The Voices Project. We are going to be taking two of the monologues from this year’s atyp/Fresh Ink Production Tell It Like It Isn’t and turning them into two short films, that will premiere online in February 2012. [...]
Hugh am I? The Hugh Hughes Project
Since autumn 2004 Shôn Dale-Jones, Artistic Director of the UK theatre company Hoipolloi, has made a variety of work ‘using’ Hugh Hughes. There are three theatre shows, Floating, Story of A Rabbit, 360; there is a radio play of Floating made with the BBC; there is a film called How I Got Here, commissioned by [...]
Something Original is Always Exciting: Talking with Rose Byrne
After leading a masterclass for a group of atyp actors recently at atyp, Rose Byrne sat down with Fresh Ink writer Carolyn Burns to talk about writers and writing: what attracts her to a script, the role of improvisation, and why monologues are hard but good. What sort of features in a script might attract [...]
Masterclass with Rose Byrne. Yes, THAT Rose Byrne.
We were delighted to welcome Rose Byrne to atyp recently, to lead a workshop for young actors on screen techniques. One of Australia’s leading acting talents, starring in recent blockbusters Bridesmaids and X-Men: First Class, Rose’s acting career started out at atyp and so it was great to welcome her back to our boards. Fresh [...]
Ray Lawler and the Doll
Is there a more evocative title in the history of Australian drama than Summer of the Seventeenth Doll? At Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney, there’s a brand new production of this play — about the two Queensland canecutters, Roo and Barney, who head south each year in the lay-off season to be with their barmaid [...]
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