23.03.23

Pricey Grif-friend,

It’s Julia right here—I’m the Manufacturing Supervisor of the nationwide Prima Facie tour this 12 months, and have been loving my time right here at Griffin Theatre Firm. On a day-to-day foundation, you will discover me wrangling all of the puzzle items that go into the ‘behind the scenes’ of a present—from contracting crew, to sourcing costumes and props, to creating positive manufacturing week runs easily and effectively. I get an actual kick out of constructing every little thing backstage occur like clockwork so that you, the viewers, don’t discover my work!

For the previous few weeks, I’ve been working carefully with stage supervisor Katie Hankin on aiding with the supply of Prima Facie’s newest season down at Melbourne Theatre Firm, and the present has had a sold-out dream run. Being from Melbourne myself, it’s been gratifying to lastly give my fellow hometowners a style of the present that’s taken the world by storm! Prima Facie enjoys its closing evening at Melbourne Theatre Firm this Saturday night (similar to Intercourse Magick up right here on the SBW Stables Theatre). Then it’s off to Geelong and around the nation—we’re hitting the highway, child! In the event you’re in Hobart, Devonport, Warrnambool, Queanbeyan, Wagga Wagga, Wodonga or Toowoomba you then’re in for an absolute deal with, as a result of Prima Facie is coming to you! Some performances are offered out, however should you’re fortunate, you’ll be capable of snag a ticket to see the unimaginable Sheridan Harbridge in motion.

I’d let you know to e-book your last tickets to Intercourse Magick, however the present is completely offered out! A large congrats to the solid and creatives behind this mammoth present. It has been an exquisite, loopy journey of a premiere and all of us at Griffin will probably be nostalgic for it when the solid take their last bows this Saturday night. Properly completed all! (P.S. should you’d wish to strive your luck, you’ll be able to at all times be part of the ever-growing waitlist for the present by calling or emailing the Griffin Field Workplace).

The enjoyable by no means stops in Griffin’s manufacturing division, with UFO by Kirby Medway & Solomon Thomas on the slate subsequent at our beloved theatre on the hill. This present is completely completely different to each Prima Facie and Intercourse Magick—it sees a 1:8 miniature model of a golf course constructed in the course of our kite-shaped stage, with performers working cameras fastened upon tiny fashions of themselves to create a stay cinema expertise for audiences! By no means seen something prefer it? Me neither! Tickets are promoting like hotcakes for this one, and it’s a restricted run of simply two weeks, so I extremely advocate that you just seize your tickets for UFO now.

That’s simply the tip of the iceberg of issues touchdown on my desk proper now at Griffin. See you in a lobby quickly! 

Thanks for studying.

Love,
Julia

Julia Orlando
Manufacturing Supervisor – Prima Facie