Tag: floetrol
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After banging on about fitness in the last few posts, I thought I’d celebrate the schizoid nature of this blog by returning to one about creativity. I recently helped paint some sets for Maitland Repertory Theatre’s annual melodrama ‘Pure as the Driven Snow’. Snow tells the story of a mysterious young woman, who stumbles…
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Recently I got all nostalgic about 80’s paint effects, largely as a result of working on the sets for The Guardsman, a play produced by Maitland Repertory Theatre. Described as a ‘light comedy about marriage’, The Guardsman was written by Ferenc Molnar and directed by Frank Oakes. The green paint under the dado…
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An odd instance of life turning full circle, but lately I’ve been working as a set painter for an amateur theatre company. The last time I did this job I was about eighteen, so more than twenty years ago, and I find I’m enjoying it just as much this time around. I got into it…
Helen Hopcroft: an artist's life 