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It’s the (for uni-goers) last week of exams, classes and performances for the year, and it certainly feels like the end of an uphill climb. Here’s an update of what Applespiel have been up to over the last month (it’s been a while!)

Crack Theatre Festival was a wonderful, turbulent long-weekend away and since then we’ve been working on our Clubhouse event (through Performance Space) ‘Applespiel Are Actors And You Can Be Too Maybe’.

The acting workshop designed for performance artists a-feared of emotion, participants were introduced to The Harrison Method, and then led through a series of exercises to help them understand the actions, colours and emotions.

Once we felt everyone was familiar with the method, we gave them some scenes to work on.

The results were lovely to watch, and we’re proud to have done our bit for those performance artists who were too scared to play actions.

Coming up next: we’re revising Snail Piece, which was previously developed at Underbelly Arts Lab and Festival, for the Peats Ridge Festival over the New Years long weekend. After that – who knows! There’s a Next Wave/Kickstart meeting on Thursday at Carriageworks, Applespieler Nathan Harrison is premiering his honours performance entitled ‘Sixteen Year Old Me Isn’t Sure He Wants To Have This Conversation’, and we’re winding up things from the Sydney Fringe.

Some 2011 engagements are dependent on funding and applications that are due to be announced soon, but watch this space to find out about Applespiel’s 2011 involvement in festivals, labs and other events.

The year isn’t over yet, but on behalf of Applespiel I’d like to thank everyone who has supported us in 2010 – everyone who came to our shows, helped us source materials, read our blog posts, and those that we have worked with – Quarterbred, PACT Centre for Emerging Artists, Underbelly Arts Lab and Festival, The Sydney Fringe, Crack Theatre Festival, Peats Ridge Festival, and Performance Space. We look forward to working with you again.

(all images by Lucy Parakhina)

Big thanks to David Finnigan and Ben Packer for having us up at Crack, we had a great time. Thanks to everyone who came out to the room at 10 in the morning to watch/listen to our show, especially after daylight savings.

This is a project we’re hoping to return to next year, to take what we’ve learnt and turn it into a full performance. We’ll see.

Day three features music from Influenza, Ocean Party, and the hip hop collective of Cranky Mack, Elbow Slug and Ily Turmoil.

Also featuring Hadley to talk about the Year 12 Formal.

Listen to it here

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Or download part 1, part 2 and part 3.

Next up we’ve got Applespiel Are Actors and You Can Be Too Maybe at Performance Space for Clubhouse on October 28. Go here for all the info.

Featuring an interview with Masters of Space and Time, and music from Wollongong bands Inanimate Objects and Order 66.

Listen to them here

Part 1

Part 2

Or you can download part 1 and part 2.

Day three will be up later today or tomorrow.

Crack Theatre Festival was awesome, and we’re very thankful that Ben, Gillian and Dave were able to have us. Thanks for throwing a great Crack!

*My camera is awful and responds to light badly – hence the orange photos. Sorry! There will be better ones up soon.

Getting ready at the desk…

Nathan being a wizard…

Troy…

running order for the first show is on the wall…

Emma Reids: The News (with The Duff)…

Check out the TiNA Flickr page for photos of the entire festival HERE.

Stay tuned for recordings of the Breakfast Radio – and remember, the shows are all made up on the spot, guest speakers and callers include members of the audience who were great sports and played along, and songs from bands we like. Spoons, Rach and The Duff are not based on any real person, alive or deceased, and any relation to living persons is purely incidental.

Featuring music from Ian and Bennie James and the Hesitant Few.

Also special thanks to the awesome Adam Buncher who does this sort of thing (radio) as his job and so helped us out in rehearsal a bit.

Part 1

Part 2

Or download them

Part 1

Part 2

Stay tuned for Saturday and Sunday’s shows.

Applespiel stepped into the sound studio today for a first bash at Applespiel’s Morning Breakfast Commercial Radio Show. Here’s a link to a short (1.30min) teaser of bits of our rehearsal ads, anchoring and callers. All content is created on the fly, including ads, and Nathan was a wizard and put them all together in teaser-form.

Or you can listen to the teaser here:

We’ll be comin’ at you from Crack Theatre’s ‘Lodge of Lounge’ THIS VERY WEEKEND from 10-11am (Fri, Sat, Sun) and for those who can’t make it to Newcastle, we’ll be uploading the entire podcast up here after each show. It’ll be a chunky hour of content, but it will make your breakfast much, much tastier.

Enjoy!
Rachel.

Sorry about the hideous photo quality – my camera has a weird yellow tone and blurs like it’s been wrapped in cling film. Here are some bump in shots!

Setting up…

our foyer music…

duffy and his wingmen.

We are heading up to PACT to do a tech and some rehearsal before we go on at 6:30 tonight. If you haven’t got your tickets, here is the place to get them, but if you’re coming tonight we have some spare room for door tickets. See you there.

We bumped in yesterday, and it’s looking great. Appleloft is easily going to be the most comfortable show to watch in the Fringe. Unfortunately we had to say goodbye to Wall-E, the cutest terrible little projector you’ve ever seen (or not seen the image from), but that’s for the best.

We open in two days, so don’t forget to get your tickets!