Register now for Brisbane's 2011 Anywhere Theatre Festival

Spring has sprung and that means that registrations officially opened today 1^st September for the 2011 Anywhere Theatre Festival (5-14 May 2011). Registrations are open to companies world-wide who want to take part in the festival happening in Brisbane, Australia.

Link to online registration form is here.

The Anywhere Theatre Festival is the first theatre festival to only allow productions that don’t use traditional theatre venues. Productions can be anywhere – a park, a backyard, a bedroom, an elevator, even Second Life or via web stream. Anywhere except a traditional theatre venue. 

“The festival is open to anyone to participate,” said Paul Osuch, Artistic Director of Anywhere Theatre Festival. “It will combine everything from Shakespeare in the park to short plays performed in garages to site specific performances on trains, on top of high rise buildings and everything in between. It’s theatre. Anywhere”, said Paul Osuch of Anywhere Theatre Festival.

In this and many ways, the festival is completely unique.

“The festival is also unique in that performances can happen anywhere in the world, as long as audiences in the Greater Brisbane Region have a way of accessing it… and it isn’t in a traditional theatre. By giving interstate and international companies this option we give locals access to a wider range of acts to Brisbane and include acts that might not be able to tour to Brisbane.”

Companies and individuals can register online between now and the 31^st of October 2010.

“As a big incentive, companies can register now and don’t pay until the registration deadline. In between registering and the deadline, we will work with you to help fill in the gaps of the application and coordinate your show details with you.”

The aim of the festival is to propel a world wide trend for exciting, engaging, passionate theatre outside of traditional theatre spaces. Story telling began as something we did around camp fires and over time it has evolved into high art ghettoised within theatre venues. A lot of it's amazing stuff, we don’t deny that, but the Anywhere Theatre Festival is a brazen attempt to strip away the artifice of “going to the theatre” to reconnect audiences with theatre and with story telling anywhere we like and have a damn good time doing so.

Online registration form broken - stay tuned

The online registration form for producers wanting to register a show is currently not working. As we haven't gone live with it just yet we hope it hasn't affected to many people, but...

We thought we broke it but it is actually a problem with the form IT provider's server or somesuch. It is being looked at now and we hope they will have it resolved prior to tomorrow.

Keep an eye out here for updates to confirm it is up and running. In the meantime, we are looking for an alternative just in case our provider doesn't come through with a solution by tomorrow.

Only two days until registrations open...

... pop back here on 1st September for the link to the online registration form.

We said what?

Read what Paul Osuch said about Anywhere Theatre Festival in the newly published Greenroom interview and his discussion with Darren Lerigo about the festival earlier this month.

UPDATE - Thanks to Katherine Lyall-Watson for the piece in ourbrisbane

Update to the Introduction Pack for Producers

Thank you for all the calls and emails about the Introduction Pack for Producers (click here for pdf, for the word version or can be viewed on issuu.com).

From feedback it seems we got the bulk of the information in there that you need to start thinking about your involvement in the Anywhere Theatre Festival.

Except for one point.

Box office. Although a centralised box office is in planning, the box office returns go to each production. We are still far too early to confirm the exact box office arrangements and any potential charges either to the customer or to the production on a ticket by ticket basis, however, we can state unequivocally that the proceeds go to you.

Anyhow, we've updated the Introduction Pack for Producers so answers to those questions have been included in there along with a couple of other FAQs, or as we like to call them "Yeah, but..." questions.

Anywhere Theatre Festival Information for Producers now available

Anywhere Theatre Festival Introduction Pack for Producers is now available on google docs right here or can be viewed on issuu.com.

It contains everything you are going to need to get thinking about your involvement in the Anywhere Theatre Festival, May 5th - 14th, 2011

Once you've had a read, get in contact with us to get the ball rolling.

Thank you to everyone we have spoken to over the past few weeks about the contents of this document and how the festival will work. Because of your feedback we feel we've got a good package and we hope you agree.

Wordle.net analysis of the draft Anywhere Theatre Festival Producers Pack

If you haven't used it before, Wordle.net is a fantastic tool that looks through a web site or document and provides a summary of the key words used in a semi graphic form.

In anticipation of the Producers Pack release on July 5th, I ran an analysis of the document. Click on the link below to see what Worldle.net came up with.