The
2009 Green Room nominations were announced today. You can peruse the nominations - in music theatre, main stage theatre, independent, alternative and hybrid, opera, dance and cabaret - at your leisure on the
Green Room website. Congratulations to all those nominated, and to the hard-working panels (of which I am no longer a member - over-commitment forced me to resign at the beginning of last year). Most of all, congratulations to Melbourne theatre, for serving up such a diverse feast of performing art.
Yes. Thank us all for the feast of live art. Though some questions while I contemplate my name up there in the list...
ReplyDeleteCompany? Judging panel? Who/what/why/how?
I would have to rate the Green Room Awards as up there with the Helpmann's. Though you pay to be considered for the Helpmann's but you just have to get seen by the 'right' people to get a nom in the green rooms.
Okay, next year. Publish the list of every show seen, and judges judging. List also number of judging judges judging and percentage of shows in listed shows that judges judging actually saw.
Ah, think I need to go take a big dump. Have fun at the ceremony'all, I think on that day I might instead go and barbeque my shame. Served up with a side order of I AM SUCH A PACK OF HAND ON IT.
I bet you didnt get a nomination or ever win one that you did get, so you're just a sore loser. Get over it.
ReplyDeletePlease show me the judges.
ReplyDeletePlease also list the shows they didn't see.
Please also list the number of shows they saw, but that not all of them.
Thus, please make a list of those shows that would NEVER have been nominated at all in the first place.
Good. Then I will get where you are coming from.
Oh, that dump is coming on big now. Oh, I think I need to, yes, I think I really need to...
ReplyDeleteAlison, get rid of this awful person.
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to eat my porridge.
What a fantastic toys out of pram tantrum that seems to be above.
ReplyDeleteIt would be interesting to know how many shows the judges get around to see though. There's a few notable absentees from the list in terms of independent shows. Hoy Polloy, for instance, seem to have disappeared despite having what I thought was a great year.
Golly. Take your eye off the blog for a moment and what happens? Take a letter, Dr Freud.
ReplyDeleteBut then again, award nominations are magnets for disaffection.
As awards go, I think the Green Rooms are credible, and they work hard at it. They have all the drawbacks of committees, and there are nominations I personally would take issue with. But that's democracy at work, eh? I for one wouldn't be on the independent theatre panel for anything. I think it works out to around 300 shows a year. Given panelising is voluntary, ie, unpaid, how else would you organise it? Just wondering.
I think you could probably be open about your criteria for admission to avoid spaz-outs like the above, but other than that I think they do, as you say, a credible job.
ReplyDelete(Not my criteria for admission - I'm no longer part of the Green Rooms.) However, looking at their website, I think all you have to do is to register your company and production with the Green Room people.
ReplyDeleteI thought the website used publish the names of panel members?
ReplyDeleteThey did. I went looking and couldn't find them either.
ReplyDeleteSorry didn't mean to imply your, was speaking more generally.
ReplyDeleteNo need for an apology, Paul. Just wanted to be clear.
ReplyDeleteHello all,
ReplyDeleteFor Paul K's (thanks for the rap) info Hoy Polloy was deemed by the Green Room folk as part of the companies section. An interesting choice for an unfunded independent, however, we take it as a compliment.
Cheers
Wayne for HP
Wow some need to realise that they are peer assessed all year round, every single show. The awards are just a nice recognition. Also, really, do people do shows for the awards or the art of theatre...
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