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An open letter to Quentin Tarantino
Thursday 22 March 2007
Quentin, my main man:
Hope you're well. I haven't heard from you for a while: I've been getting a bit worried. I sure do hope you weren't too offended by all that Quentin's-sold-out-and-betrayed-his-indie-roots stuff. We were just messin' with you. Anyway, I went to the theatre a couple of weeks ago and had an awesome idea for your next project. This thing's pretty much written for you. That's right. I'm suggesting you produce Hamlet.
Remember what Romeo + Juliet did for Baz Luhrmann? Well, that shows there's a market for this Shakespeare stuff done right, right? The audience is there, and ripe for the picking in the usual T-man style.
I know you like to mix things up a bit chronology-wise. That's where you and the Bard differ slightly: he was more of a
On getting 10,000 sick bags custom printed
Sunday 28 August 2005
I think it was Lucy Dollard, the Producer for Theatrical Theatrics Productions who came up with the suggestion. Our play for 2005 is Tom Stoppard’s Rough Crossing, so why not build on the title by advertising the production at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe using custom-printed sick-bags?
The idea was a good one. There are over a thousand productions going on in Edinburgh in the festival period in August, and just about all of them to a man are trying to stand out in their self-advertisement on the Royal Mile. Most people lump with fliers, and this is what we did in 2004. We hadn’t done too badly then, selling out every day, but this year we had to sell a hundred seats per show, more than twice what we had had last year. So, I set about trying to find out how to get
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