Following on from a debate on the Theatre Sound Mailing List on unions after a recent Fox News broadcast, I’m posting an article written by Professor Gregor Gall, Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Hertfordshire, on behalf of the Centre for Research in Employment Studies. This was in turn sent to me by [...]

My attention was brought to the following article – and it’s one I want to share. It’s a short read but one that will resonance with those above a certain age – and those below that age may get an inkling of what some of the more esoteric sounds are they hear. http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/the-fading-sounds-of-analog-technology/

Regular viewers will have noted the irregular posting schedules over the last nine months or so. That pretty much equates to the age of the lil terror – she may be lovely but it is full-time looking after her and you don’t get to go home after 40 hours It’s not all attributual to her [...]

Since the move, it’s been relatively quiet workwise. Since the American dance company, we seem to have had a season of return visits of a range of shows, most of which I’ve either covered before or else have talked about something that technically would be very similar. I’d like to say that the lull in [...]

Straight after the footwear asssault was a piece of American dance heritage – a company with a strong African-American founding who portrayed several works that ranged from the classic Americana to contemporary dance via the modern (the problem with assigning labels like modern, classic and contemporary is that at some point the meaning is going [...]

heels as far as the eye can see – not all of them high and some of them not what you’d normally consider for heels. But then this show isn’t what we’d normally consider. We’ve been undergoing a slow transition from solely a receiving house to incorporating an touring and production aspect over the last [...]

The year was starting to go by and with the little monster now firmly ensconsed in our hearts as she demonstrates the power of a smile, our thoughts begin to turn to how on Earth we’ll ever get a holiday again. “That’s easy,” says Mr Ben whom was getting distracted by us inner monologing out [...]

It’s the return of my favourite Israeli choreographer – not a choreographers cut this time but a new piece (on our stage) that has something of the rock gig about it. Actually a lot of the rock gig about it. [shop talk] Meyer MSL4 stacked to each side of stage on top of 700HP subs [...]

Made a mistake in my last post – I mentioned flamenco and it was like summoning the genie from the bottle … Flamenco shows for me always seem to start with a month long (or more!)battle to pin down the sound requirements followed by a day of hefting floor. This one was no different – [...]

June marked the point when I started going back to working on shows – though this was more to do with the vagarities of the schedule than an easing of the administrative workload. We started the month with one of Japan’s finest Kabuki shows that all but one review loved (that one review seemed upset [...]