A Humble gallery

by Site Admin on Saturday, August 9, 2008
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The STAC website is abandoning its fancy “Flash” galleries in favour of a new, embedded thumbnail format.

(This option was made available by an upgrade to the content management system behind the scenes, and may be useful for users with lower resolutions, without Flash, or with slower connections.)

Humble Boy is the first play whose dedicated page sports a gallery in the new, simplified format, and somewhat belatedly the performance photos are now up!

Our website has been feeling blue

by Site Admin on Friday, May 2, 2008
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Huge apologies for a fortnight of malware coming from this website. This was caused by a worm which infected our files and was attempting to redirect visitors to a site which would try to install malware on your machines. I believe this has now been fixed and the content management system has also been upgraded.

We will follow this post with some catch-up news.

The Theatre of War

by Site Admin on Tuesday, April 8, 2008
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National, Newspapers, Online

Michael Kustow, widely experienced man of theatre, writes in the Guardian’s “Comment is free” today, arguing the case for “a radical shake-up” of war as portrayed in theatre.

Aeschylus, Euripides and Aristophanes wrote plays about war while the body bags were still coming home from the war with Sparta that finally sank Athens. They pushed the forms of Greek drama - epic cycle, impassioned debate and convulsive comedy - to breaking point to grapple with war and all its fallouts. In their form as much as their content, plays like The Oresteia, The Trojan Women and Lysistrata broke the mould of theatre. For these dramatists, war was too dehumanising to be left to the chroniclers and historians. Alarms had to be sounded for all citizens through the artifice of theatre.

Today, in the fifth year of the Iraq war and its seemingly endless aftermath, playwrights are beginning to create drama up to the measure of our wartime wasteland.

The whole article continues at Comment is free.

The review that made it in the end

by Site Admin on Friday, October 19, 2007
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Newspapers, Online, Reviews, STAC productions

I’ve just been informed by the Worcester News that the previously mentioned review of Relatively Speaking has made it to their website in the end. (Archive copy.)

One for the album

by Site Admin on Friday, August 31, 2007
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Photographs from the dress rehearsals for our Festival play, One For the Road, are now up on the production’s dedicated page (under the heading “Performance”).

A similar gallery was made for Popcorn and hopefully we’ll soon be backdating the STAC website into our archive so that photographs from many previous shows can also be seen.

Thanks to Howerd Brooksbank for taking our One For The Road photographs as usual (and thanks to Frank Wellbourne for stepping into the breach on Popcorn!).

One for the Websites

by Site Admin on Thursday, July 26, 2007
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Online, Publicity, STAC productions, Worcester Live

STAC’s upcoming Festival production, One for the Road, has — after a bit of a late start — made it onto the Worcester Live website. The Worcester Live website was overhauled recently, and very nice it looks too.

At the same time, One for the Road has appeared on the Worcester Festival site (which has a page per performance of each show, for some reason).

STAC on Facebook and RemoteGoat.co.uk

by Site Admin on Wednesday, June 20, 2007
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Online, Publicity, STAC news

STAC has its own Group on popular social networking site Facebook.com: STAC (Swan Theatre Amateur Company) Group. There is also an Event for Popcorn.

Future STAC productions are also listed at a new event-based networking site, www.RemoteGoat.co.uk. The entry for Popcorn is here. The entry for One for the Road is here. The RemoteGoat page for the Swan Theatre is here.