18.04.24
Expensive Grif-friend,
As I write this, the countdown to the ultimate efficiency on the SBW Stables Theatre is effectively and really on and the vibes within the Griffin workplace are… unusually peaceable? I can’t inform if it’s the calm earlier than the (celebratory) storm of the ultimate weekend, the same old stoic trudge towards the top of a manufacturing’s season, or each or neither. Possibly all of the Griffin workers are repressing their emotional attachment to our beloved dwelling… or perhaps we’ve processed all the pieces already!
There are simply 4 extra efficiency dates for our season of The Lewis Trilogy, however eight extra performs when you tally all of the performances up. And each single one in all them is bought out! Thanks on your overwhelming response to our remaining epic manufacturing of three of Louis Nowra’s best Australian performs—it has really been so particular to welcome audiences into the Stables for the ultimate time earlier than our redevelopment. I’ve been getting a kick out of studying everybody’s scrawled notes on a few the orange partitions of the theatre lobby, too. All of the recollections remind me that the affect of this place—its historical past—is a lot larger, a lot extra complicated and sprawling, than me, or anybody individual, may ever conceive.
However sufficient real reflective sentiment! Yuck! You positively received’t discover me sobbing into the orange cushions within the nook after Sunday night time’s remaining bows, so don’t trouble wanting! Chapters finish—new ones start. And the way forward for Griffin is wanting f**king thrilling.
There’s our redevelopment, in fact, however the remainder of our compact little 2024 Season is shaping as much as be an actual deal with. One of the stunning performs I’ve learn in latest reminiscence is developing in July at Carriageworks: swim by the lauded poet (and now playwright) Ellen van Neerven. Affiliate Inventive Director Andrea James has been working onerous with Ellen and the artistic workforce to develop the work up on Yugambeh Nation over the previous couple of years and from the sound of issues, the present goes to be a magical, monumental ode to water, dwelling and queer love.
I’ve additionally had the completely ridiculous pleasure of being in a artistic growth forward of our season of Flat Earthers: The Musical by Jean Tong, Lou Wall & James Gales, which premieres as a co-production with our mates down the street at Hayes Theatre Co. A Griffin musical is a uncommon and treasured factor, however I can assure that this manufacturing can have all of the fun-yet-deeply–bizarre risk-taking that Griffin likes to showcase on our levels.
I would catch you on the weekend—and if not, see you someplace that’s NOT the SBW Stables Theatre (😭) quickly.
A lot love,
Declan
Declan Greene
Inventive Director & co-CEO
