* Standing There featured on Triple J (5.30pm today) ** News from Bundanon Artists' Residency *** Rita's USA Trip **** Stew's timelapse videos ***** And all the wombat news that's fit to print *

*Standing There Radio Profile 5.30pm TODAY

Standing There Productions' Rita Walsh, Stewart Thorn and Lorin Clarke are featured in a story on their artists' residency today on radio station Triple J at 5.30pm. The interview was recorded yesterday at Yvonne and Arthur Boyd's Bundanon property in New South Wales, where Standing There Productions is entering the final week of our residency. The interview was recorded in Arthur Boyd's studio, Standing There Productions' studios, and in the surrounding Australian bush.

You can stream Triple J's Hack programme here.
Or you can listen on the radio. In Melbourne on 107.5 FM. For other areas, go here and enter your postcode on the right hand side.

To hear the slightly ridiculous story behind the interview, go to the Standing There Production Diary.

** News From Bundanon

Standing There Productions is now entering the final week of our artists' residency at Yvonne and Arthur Boyd's Bundanon property on the Shoalhaven river in New South Wales. Yvonne and Arthur Boyd “gifted” this property to the Australian people in 1993 to protect and preserve it and to provide Australians with access to the beautiful grounds. Artists in residence are given working and living quarters, access to Arthur Boyd's studio, to the Boyd's residential estate, and the extensive Boyd art collection.

This is the Standing There Productions Compound (with kangaroos). Lorin and Stewart's studios are in the barn-like building in the foreground.

We have been working on several projects while at Bundanon, some of which were planned and some of which have germinated here. Stewart has been working on timelapse photography such as the video, below. Lorin has written some short video scripts, which we hope to put up on the website soon. Check the diary for updates.

In our final week here, we will be shooting some short videos and getting together to discuss where these projects will go next. The three of us, together, at the same time, in the same location. A Bundanon miracle.

*** Rita's USA Trip

Standing There producer Rita Walsh joined Lorin and Stewart at the Bundanon Artists' Residency on Sunday evening, at the end of the 2nd week of the residency, with one week left.

For those first two weeks, Rita was in the United States, where Hugo, the short film she produced last year with Thaumatrope Productions, screened at the Rhode Island International Film Festival and the Palm Springs International Shortfest. Hugo was a huge success, winning the Grand Prize for Fantasy at Rhode Island, as well as an AWGIE award for writer Rachel Bowen back in Australia. It has also been selected for the Chicago International Children's Festival later this year. Rita met with producers and filmmakers from all over the world in New York, Palm Springs, Rhode Island and LA. She then flew to Melbourne and drove to Bundanon. After Bundanon she is moving to Sydney to continue her Producers' Attachment with producer Jan Chapman. Congratulations Rita and the Hugo team for an amazing US trip.

**** Wombat Video

Lastly, just to prove we're in the middle of the Australian countryside, here is some timelapse photography of the wombat who lives outside out studio. For more of Stew's great timelapse videos and for photos and short videos about our time at Bundanon, go to the Diary page.

Thanks again for your support of Standing There Productions. Please let us know if you have any shows coming up or projects you're working on that you would like mentioned on our website.

All the best,

Standing There Productions

*** FINAL WEEK ** MORE REVIEWS ** ONLINE BOOKING ***     PRAISE FOR THE SHOW:

“The cast is perfect working with a very funny script and showcasing great comic timing.”

“This is a professional, quick-witted, interesting show… If you like your comedy with depth and your politics with laughs then you won’t be disappointed.”

- Caitlin Crowley, The Groggy Squirrel  

“I was completely convinced by the performances of Chris Buchanan, Julia Harari and Miriam Glaser”

“I found the play utterly absorbing and Clarke is definitely one to look out for.”

- Amanda Mulligan, pretendpaper.com  

"This is a beautifully-written, well-directed and professionally performed play, and judging by the level of laughter and applause coming from the Trades Hall audience I wasn't the only one that thought so.”

"Accurate, pointed, and, most importantly for a play at the comedy festival, bloody funny. The actors do a superb job with this torrent, and more besides.”

- Robert Merkel, The View From Benambra   DAYS LEFT TO SEE THE SHOW:   Five (5). Tuesday until Saturday. This week. Seriously. Get in there.   Tickets for the final week are still available HERE.   NUMBER OF PROPS (JELLYBEANS) CONSUMED TO DATE:   Approximately six kilograms. A theatre director in tracksuit pants is helping police with their enquiries.   Thank you to all our supporters who've helped us with the show and to all of you who came along in the first three weeks of Greatness Thrust Upon Them. It has been an excellent season with great audiences and we've enjoyed every second of it.  

- Our show is the only show in the comedy festival with Archduke Ferdinand related material AND a poo joke.

- The show has been extremely well received, plugged on the radio, reviewed (go here, and here), and it all begins again on Tuesday for just two more weeks.

As usual, ticket sales are hotting up as we come into the final stretch of the comedy festival, so we're advising everyone to buy your tickets online now by clicking the tickets link at www.greatnessthrustuponthem.com.au

For photos, more news, idle gossip etc, go to our webiste and to Lorin's diary at www.standingthere.com.au/diary

See you at the show!

Standing There Productions

* BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW *

We're very excited to announce that this week our new play, Greatness Thrust Upon Them, will be premiering at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, at Trades Hall.

Greatness Thrust Upon Them is about insignificant people accidentally changing the world. At a UN environment conference. After a few drinks.

From the driver who took a wrong turn and caused World War I, to the directors of the Vienna Art Gallery who advised Hitler against an artistic career, insignificant people make history all the time.

 This show is about them.

Starring: Chris Buchanan, Miriam Glaser and Julia Harari

Written & directed by: Lorin Clarke

Produced by: Rita Walsh

Production coordination and design by: Stewart Thorn

Comedy @ Trades is a fantastic venue, with two late night bars so we can have a tea/coffee/beer/cocktail/dinner afterwards.

You can download the show flyer by right-clicking save link as here.

Greatness Thrust Upon Them is a carbon neutral show. Tickets are now on sale - book online at www.comedyattrades.com.au.

Finally, get your friends to join this mailing list via the show's website. That way, they have a chance to win a free double pass to see the show, which they might even share with you!

Send them to: www.greatnessthrustuponthem.com.au to sign up.

To find out more about the show, the launch party and all other updates, head to our website and check out Lorin's Diary.

We look forward to seeing you at the show,

Standing There Productions

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Launch Party

We're having a party! Greatness Thrust Upon Them is Standing There Productions' second ever comedy festival show. It opens in March. The Greatness Thrust Upon Them Launch Party is a show launch, an opportunity for a nice drink in our new venue (Trades Hall, Corner of Victoria and Lygon Streets in Carlton), and a chance for you to contribute to our public liability insurance AND the carbon neutralising of our show by contributing $5 at the door.

Highlights may include: DJs Alec M and Silent G, cast and crew, an optional short film screening, a brief but exciting auction, some fairly awesome loot (including a Crumpler bag called The Considerable Embarrassment, which bodes well), and the honour of having carbon neutralised a whole comedy festival show. Better still, the show itself is ABOUT the environment, so basically you'll be just like Al Gore (without the giant cherry picker, the pointy stick and the Nobel prize, but still with the large enthusiastic fan base).

Drinks at 7, ceremonies at 8, party after that. The flyer is attached.

Auditions & Casting

We have now held our final audition. More than 100 people generously gave us their time and auditioned in various sweltering, obscurely located rooms across Melbourne over the last two weeks. 100 people is a lot under any circumstances, but even more so when there are three roles in the show. So, casting was difficult but thanks to the quality of performers we met, it was loads of fun.

Julia Harari is playing the jellybean-wrangling Megan, Chris Buchanan is politics nerd Robin, and Miriam Glaser is Sam, who tolerates no shenanigans. Let the rehearsals begin.

Advance Ticket Sales

For those of you who are very organised, you can already pre-purchase your tickets to the show here.

In the next few weeks, check the website for any updates, and as always the Standing There Productions Diary will continue to inspire you to keep your day job.

See you at the benefit gig,

Standing There Productions