THE UNSPOKEN WORD IS JOE

http://www.mka.org.au

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24/01/2015 22:09
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i went a theatre opening the other night
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24/01/2015 22:09
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what was it?
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24/01/2015 22:09
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A new Australian work
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24/01/2015 22:10
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tell me about it
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24/01/2015 22:10
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called "The Unspoken Word is 'Joe'"
by Melbourne theatre company MKA
do you know them?
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24/01/2015 22:10
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no
what kind of work do they do?
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24/01/2015 22:10
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they are going really strong as an independent company based in Melbourne
they go off the premise of new Australian writing
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24/01/2015 22:11
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what does that involve?
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24/01/2015 22:11
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just new work written by australians
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24/01/2015 22:11
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ah ok
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24/01/2015 22:12
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so I guess the big companies don't take risks with new work
so there's a hard push by people for it in sydney
i mean
australia
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24/01/2015 22:12
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what kind of work is it though? more experimental or traditional theatre?
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24/01/2015 22:12
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umm it's traditional theatre
but it's well written
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24/01/2015 22:12
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that's good
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24/01/2015 22:13
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I mean I guess this one broke the structure of typical writing
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24/01/2015 22:13
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how so?
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24/01/2015 22:13
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it was really well written!
well they kind of structured it as a play reading, and if you're not a regular theatre goer you would be tricked by it (which one heckler was apparently)
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24/01/2015 22:14
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how do you mean a play reading? oh, that the actors were reading the play?
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24/01/2015 22:14
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was written by a young writer called Zoe Dawson
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24/01/2015 22:14
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or they were pretending to
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24/01/2015 22:14
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it was like a staged fake play reading/develpment
but they slipped in and out of it
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24/01/2015 22:15
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ah that's very interesting
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24/01/2015 22:15
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into the characters lives
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24/01/2015 22:15
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what was the 'play' about?
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24/01/2015 22:15
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and sort of stagings of scenes
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24/01/2015 22:15
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kind of reminds me of Pirandello
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24/01/2015 22:15
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i guess the foibles of theatre, and trying to get work up
a satire on plays written by young people about relationships, but it worked as a paradox because ultimately that was what it was about
it was very layered, complicated
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24/01/2015 22:16
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yes
nice, are they only going to be performing in Australia?
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24/01/2015 22:16
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struggles of writing, actors, satires on stage management
yeah so it did Melbourne Fringe, and then Brisbane Festival too
it was set on the bump out of a fictional previous show
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24/01/2015 22:18
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haha
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24/01/2015 22:18
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but not actually of course, that was the design
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24/01/2015 22:18
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I wish I could see it sounds very interesting
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24/01/2015 22:19
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it was really funny
like hilarious
but also spoke of the struggles of young people in theatre
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24/01/2015 22:19
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and funnily enough a little bit similar to what Oscar and I are working on, although you're the only one who knows!
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24/01/2015 22:19
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amazing!
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24/01/2015 22:20
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I mean our work is different...but some things you said reminded me
if it works at all, that is haha
A:
24/01/2015 22:20
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this show was really tight! I am sure it took some time to develop
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24/01/2015 22:21
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does this company have a website?
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24/01/2015 22:21
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it was good it got a good staging at Griffin Theatre
yeah
http://www.mka.org.au
they are really exciting
and cool people i think
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24/01/2015 22:23
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yes it looks cool and new
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24/01/2015 22:23
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totally fresh in all the right ways
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24/01/2015 22:23
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so is it always different people?
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24/01/2015 22:23
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yeah I think so
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24/01/2015 22:23
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because in the list of artists there's like a thousand names
ah ok
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24/01/2015 22:24
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I think they really support artists in general, well thats what I hope
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24/01/2015 22:24
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you've seen other shows by them?