SPEAKERS: Paschal Berry (Independent), Sam Haren (The Border Project), Yaron Lifschitz (Circa) & Rosemary Myers (Windmill) FACILITATOR: Jo Porter (Malthouse)

“Over the last decade, there’s been a welcome increase in partnering and collaboration among the sector – between small and major companies, independent artists and venues, across cultural and national borders. Artists and companies collaborate to share resources, practices and audiences, to create work that neither partner could produce alone. A panel of practitioners will share their experiences of partnering and the impact it has had on their work – negotiating different ways of making, working in culturally and economically unfamiliar conditions, optimising both successes and failures.”

By the time this panel rolled around at 2pm I was more than fried. 4160 words today. (I know they’re not GREAT words…in fact I don’t even think I’ve spelt most of them properly or know what they mean any more…) I was sitting in the theatre whimpering and wishing for chocolate treats, hugs and flattery. All I can say is thank god (or ROBYN ARCHER) for Jane Howard AKA “No Plain Jane” – despite hopping around the Forum on a bung foot (8 hours of adventuring around Brisbane can do that to a girl…) she is like a machine – a smart, pretty, hopping machine… and she has written this panel up beautifully. Check it out here –

http://noplain.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/australian-theatre-forum-interdependence-or-whats-love-got-to-do-with-it/

(I need to eat cheese and chocolate treats now. And I hope that a real human talks to me I’ve been attached to this machine too long… I’d also like to thank David Williams from Version 1.0 for the coaster and Sam Hawker for giving me a glass of red wine whilst posting the last 4 posts in teh bar of the Powerhouse. Sam Hawker – I love you.)