Tickets Now On Sale!

Bookings are now open for The Fall of June Bloom (or What You Will), phone (07) 3365 2552 to make sure you get the performance of your choice. The show runs for 4 nights only: 9th to 12th November.

We are also delighted to welcome Sue Smith to our team as our very first Thunder’s Mouth Intern. Sue brings a wealth of professional experience in administration and marketing, and a passion to learn all about the making of professional theatre.

Meanwhile, the creation of our Undiscovered Shakespeare Play continues, slowly but surely, with some lines proving more popular than others… Who would have thought that relatively obscure quote would pop up twice in such a short space of time?

Position Available

Thunder’s Mouth Theatre is now offering an Internship Program. We have a position available for a dedicated theatre-maker willing to offer time and energy to help present and promote our production here in Brisbane, and to assist with organising our 2011 tour. Interns receive pro-rata payment of share of profits, just like everybody else on the team.

Click on the link to download application form, and email to info@thundersmouththeatre.com.

INTERN PROGRAM

CupCake Cabaret Rehearsing

No more peeks at some of our fabulous CupCakers, rehearsing for Thursday’s fund-raiser.  Hope to see you there, we intend to have a Lot Of Fun!

Playing with Music

Rehearsing with music

Today Jeff Turpin, our soundscape composer-musician came to rehearsal for the first time, so Tony and I decided to do a fun read-through of the script, to give him an idea of how we play. Jeff brought several instruments, some familiar to me, some he almost certainly has made himself because they look like the unusual offspring of several different instruments.  I’ll take photos next time.

So we read, and we played, and Jeff played along, switching instruments, wandering around us as we roamed around him, happily interacting with us. At the end he gave me a run down of what he got from the text, and a whole bunch of new possibilities emerged that never occurred to me as I wrote it. I’ll happily take whatever I can get!

And they’re off…

Tony and Flloyd have begun rehearsals, and here is a taste of the warm up on Tuesday.

Therese came in today to shake us up a bit, and we are looking forward to Jeff and Krystal joining us in a day or two.

Meantime, preparations are in hand for the CupCake Cabaret next week. We’ll be rehearsing on Sunday afternoon, getting to know each other in music and probably eating a bunch of cupcakes. Oops. Better get baking…

First Rehearsal

We hit the floor running – metaphorically and literally, and boy did we have fun.  Tony and I sat for a while discussing our ideal rehearsal practices, then we did a full warmup, and got the rafters ringing in a short space of time.

Then it was onto the floor, and playing, playing, playing. Lots of new stuff for me, considering I’ve been working on this script for over two years now, developing and refining it. I thought I knew it pretty well, but Tony surprised me over and over again. This is – FUN!

PHOTOS will follow…

In the meantime, get lively with your favourite Shakespeare Quotes for our Create an Undiscovered Play Project. It’s open to anyone willing to cough up $2 towards our production fund. And there’s more…

“Create an Undiscovered Shakespeare Play” project

At last, the time has come. No more waiting for the scholars to emerge from the dusty backrooms with the sacred texts clutched to their bosoms, desperate to prove that their scholarship alone can validate the veracity of authorship. Now you can help to write a Genuine Shakespeare Play, every word already validated by 400 years of scholarship.

To take part, go to http://www.indiegogo.com/June-Bloom, and for as little as a $2 contribution to our production fund you can submit your favourite quote from Shakespeare, to be part of this Great New Work.  Send us your favourite quote, we’ll add it to the script which you can follow on the special “Undiscovered Shakespeare Play” page on this blog.  Go there now, to see how far we’ve got. (OK, it’s not very far, but  we have to start somewhere!)

If you’d like to contribute more than $2, there are some pretty amazing VIP perks on offer, from autographed copies of the poster to actual participation in the production itself.

Rehearsed Reading 24th June 2008

Well, here it is, the full rehearsed reading with Flloyd and Aole on Tuesday, in front of an invited audience in The Warehouse, Metro Arts, Brisbane.

The Fall of June Bloom (rehearsed reading)

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Rehearsing June Bloom

I’m going to upload short clips of the rehearsal process. Here is the first one, experimenting with movement and text, working with Anna Yen.

rehearsing with scarf

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