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By Raymond Gill
We’ve said it before and sadly, we’re still banging on about it. As tax-payer funded arts companies and organisations devote increasing marketing budgets to Google, Facebook and their own marketing websites, arts journalism is still on a life line. Ironically, last May the Confederation of Australian State Theatre Companies (CAST) wrote an open letter to Fairfax Media asking for it to
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By Raymond Gill
Any shock about yesterday’s reports of alleged inappropriate behaviour by actor Geoffrey Rush at Sydney Theatre Company was followed by surprise at how the company has dealt with the claim so far. According to Rush, he was not informed about the complaint that is alleged to have occurred during the STC production of King Lear in
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By Raymond Gill
Earlier this month a group of state theatre companies released a joint statement in the wake of the revelations about sexually predatory behaviour in the arts, most notably by producer Harvey Weinstein and actor Kevin Spacey. Its version of the statement was published on the main page of Sydney Theatre Company’s website under the heading “Sexual Harassment is Unacceptable“. The statement says, “We
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By Raymond Gill
The Queensland Symphony Orchestra told its Human Resources director his position would no longer exist on the day Daily Review revealed details of the company’s high staff turnover in the past 21 months and claims by former staff of a “toxic” workplace culture. QSO chairman, Greg Wanchap, confirmed today that the director would leave QSO in the next three months but said it
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By Raymond Gill
In an article on Wednesday, Daily Review reported on a turnover of 27 administrative and management staff at the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. The unusually high turnover is in little more than 18 months which has seen entire departments resign or sacked is revealed in the QSO’s own publications online. Daily Review approached QSO for comment five weeks ago
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By Raymond Gill
Twenty-seven full-time and part-time staff have left Queensland Symphony Orchestra in just 21 months, an unusually high turnover rate for the company which currently lists 26 people on its staff. Many of its staff employed over the last 18 months have not stayed more than six months. Orchestra insiders claim that morale at the QSO is “toxic” and an external
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By Raymond Gill
Like many others, I tuned in to ABC TV’s new screen panel show Screen Time a month ago. Unlike many others, I continued to watch it, but only because the screen continued to function after I threw the remote at it. Has there been a worse panel show in the history of ABC broadcasting? Well,
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By Raymond Gill
The best known song from Lerner and Loewe’s Brigadoon (the 1947 Broadway musical that is not all that well-known anymore) is Almost Like Falling in Love. This might be confusing to modern audiences. Almost like falling in love? So, it’s not the real deal then? Maybe if the song was called, Like, Almost Falling in Love it would make more
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By Raymond Gill
You have two and a half weeks to wrangle 22 musicians and 30 performers, create their costumes and construct a set that evokes the Scottish Highlands, circa 1717. Who you ‘gonna call? The non-for-profit outfit The Production Company, that’s who. Philanthropist Jeanne Pratt founded the Melbourne-based company in 1999. It’s dedicated to providing work for
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By Raymond Gill
At Daily Review we think so, which is why we are proud to publish the writing of John Kelly whose essays on art and the machinations of the art world saw him nominated for the inaugural Walkley Award for Excellence in Arts Journalism this year. But not everyone agrees. Gareth Sansom, the artist whose work — now showing at
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