Hey there, Grif-friend!
It’s JoJo, returned for my sophomore blog-post-slash-eNews-intro! I labored with Griffin as a Literary Assistant for the latter half of final yr alongside the stellar Literary Supervisor Dylan van den Berg and equally stellar Literary Affiliate Julian Larnach. This time, I’m right here as a Advertising Assistant serving to out the small-but-mighty advertising workforce as we ramp as much as the 2025 Season Launch (yeeeew!)
I’m penning this on a ravishing and sunny 25-degree day in Kings Cross whereas Lorde’s Photo voltaic Energy performs over the workplace speaker, and I’m READY for spring. The jasmine is starting to bloom, t-shirts are again, and all of my lingering melancholy has dissolved within the daylight. It’s time for drinks by the water and picnics within the park. Transfer over disappointment, spring is right here!
However what am I trying ahead to most, you ask? Why, it’ll must be Golden Blood 黄金血液 by Merlynn Tong! (Was {that a} good segue?) Golden Blood 黄金血液 is hitting the Sydney Theatre Firm stage in simply a few weeks and I’m completely jazzed to see it once more! The non permanent, dare I say ethereal, nature of theatre implies that these reveals will be with us so fleetingly. Once I noticed Golden Blood 黄金血液 in 2022 I can keep in mind being completely gobsmacked; the writing was so extremely subtle, the performing stellar, the setting each decadent and haunting. I’ve been ready for 2 years now to see it once more and it’s taking place quickly—so should you haven’t grabbed tickets but, what are you doing?!
This yr actually appears to have flown by, however then once more, I really feel that approach yearly, so possibly time simply likes to fly by normally. In 2024 Griffin has seen the return season of Suzie Miller’s Jailbaby, the entire of Louis Nowra’s Lewis Trilogy, and Ellen van Neerven’s swim. Plus, the primary ever Griffin Award Keynote, which was notably particular to me as a playwright myself. And we’re barrelling in direction of one other season launch, regardless that I may’ve sworn that we simply did one!?
Once we come spherical to those milestone occasions in our calendars, it truly is a reminder that, similar to theatre, these pockets of time are fleeting and valuable and may’t be pinned down. I suppose we must always simply attempt to savour them whereas they’re right here, and hope that—if we’re fortunate—they’ll come spherical once more.
See you in a lobby quickly!
Bye lady xoxo
JoJo
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