This week on The Adelaide Show 167 we investigated a live, streaming theatre project called YOU WANNA BITA THIS NOW?, by Michael Allen Productions’ at Tanglewood Studios in Blackwood.
- Michael makes his home-based studio available to a career performance professional each month, who is wanting to experiment with something new
- People around the world then pay $10 to watch a live performance on that Saturday night. There are people doing this around Australia, Canada, the USA and Europe.
- Michael’s set up began life as a dance studio but now has quite the fit out – possibly more productive for the world than just having a pool table and a TV in it
- Our performer last week was Tim Rodgers, formerly of the Australian Ballet, and he did quite an avant-garde piece in which he was a drummer in a dark mask, had a TV screen with a guitarist and he also used some props for some vignettes. IT was called Waiting For The Mother Ship
- It was performance art.
- We discussed the challenge of performing in front of live people AND television
- The power of a mask on a performer
- The behaviour of audiences
In the musical pilgrimage, we heard Stay Silent by Recreator from Mount Gambier (finalists in the 2016 SAM Awards). They’ve just been signed by a Canadian label and they’re up for an award at the SA Music Awards this Friday night.
IS IT NEWS
Inquiry into radio ban on play about TB
News 1948
A Governmental inquiry will be held into the broadcast ban on a play about TB. The Director-General of Health (Dr. Metcalfe) stopped the ABC from broadcasting Maxwell Dunn’s “The Secret Assassin.” It was to have been aired last night. Apart from the TB theme, the play hits at bureaucracy. Mr. Boyer said the Director-General of Health’s authority under a section of the Broadcasting Act was quite explicit and unconditional. Mr. Dunn said his play was controversial, but had nothing offensive in it. ”Perhaps it has upset them politically. he commented.
Moving Pictures Immorality
Southern Cross July 1935
The wonders of the modern age can bring great enlightenment and knowledge to man, however, they also have their immoral side. In a recent article from the Border Post it was reported by the editor that certain moving pictures or talkies of an immoral nature had been shown in a local hall in Kapunda. Some of the menfolk were much enthralled by such showing of flesh however it was reported that the pictures were quickly closed down by the local police. It is not known if charges will be pressed. This is typical of the temptations this journal and church has repeatedly warned against. These new moving pictures, some even with sound allow such immoral behaviour to be widely distributed. We call upon the government to ensure the restriction and outright banning of this material as it will soon rot the foundations of our fine society.
Travel without travelling
Evening Journal 1910
It is not given to everyone to travel— to see the world. Some haven’t the time, others haven’t the
money. Some have neither the time nor the money. For them, there is only one way to travel, and that is by seeing things by reflection. In other days there weren’t many facilities for travelling, and fewer for seeing much on the way. In these days the facilities are great, but there are facilities too for “travelling” without travelling, and that is by study and the moving picture show. We do not need a portmanteau to “travel” per medium of the moving picture, which travels for us, so that we may see by reflection the sights of the globe and yet never leave our seats. The picture show is considered a place of amusement, but we shall yet be cured of that. It is, in fact, a place of instruction, and it is just because it is, that the idea is thrown out if the public education authorities should not consider the question of adding such a feature to the best schools. We are not above providing a magic lantern show for the edification of the young, but what is a still life picture to one which has arrested the action of the original for exact repetition? The modern trend is to make the education of our children as perfect as possible. We teach them history, and we give them books .
with illustrations, thereby confessing the value of pictures. Suppose there were a moving picture lesson?, and that a brief running lecture was given with them by the schoolmaster?