Plastic NOT Fantastic!
February 17th 2010 13:21
Original Creative Writing:
ADELAIDE, South Australia: The International Arts Festival city where trends are set and innovation in the Arts is premium - or maybe not.
How does this unravel?
Heavily funded local theatre company The Border Project are doing "Vs. MacBeth" for the Adelaide Festival as a co-production with Sydney Theatre Company; STC will also have a season of it over in Sydney at The Wharf - the promotion for the show here in Adelaide is being taken care of by The Border Project , in Sydney it's looked after by the STC.
In Adelaide (where plastic shopping bags are banned) the show is being promoted on a high grade plastic that has been printed on in yellow and black and cut to a rather odd shape - possibly so as to fit more in the landfill where it's likely to end up.
In Sydney the show is promoted on Recycled Cardboard by the Sydney Theatre Company.
How dare Mike Rann State Minister for the Arts spend public money on this group who are flying in the face of preserving our environment, lowering our carbon footprint and reducing plastic waste, by promoting a show on hard plastic handbills (flyers) when it is nothing more than an advertising gimmick - I'm utterly appalled and disgusted by this.
I have refused to promote the Adelaide season on these websites because of it - I'll promote the Sydney season where the responsible use of recycled paper is in keeping with the standard of this type of advertising - but here in South Australia I think The Border Project be damned, if this is what they call 'innovative arts' they can shove it.
It is a total waste of taxpayers money to send such rubbish out into the streets, and will probably cost taxpayers more to watch these nasty little plastic things rot, slower than the climate changes. The life of a handbill promoting a relatively short season of a piece of theatre is extremely limited. The run of the play may be ten shows over a few weeks, but the life of these plastic handbills is longer, much longer.
The life of handbills promoting a show is not uneventful; they get placed all around the city by promoters who leave a little pile here, a little pile there - people pick them up, read them, drop them. I noticed someone slipping over one at the local pup a couple of days ago. It had been read, discarded and left on the ground. A sober fellow stepped on it and slipped.
We are above this, we've supported a movement to downgrade our use of plastic shopping bags to try and reduce the amount of plastic waste in this State - and yet here are these thespians ignoring the impact their throwaway publicity will have on the environment.
So it's art - should it be exempt? Anyway - it's not art, it's advertising. Maybe they feel that there's not enough of these things to warrant any sort of outcry, but I beg to differ. A run of 500 of these things is 500 too many. I suspect they've produced far more than 500, and I remain in my position against them.
David Jobling
How does this unravel?
Heavily funded local theatre company The Border Project are doing "Vs. MacBeth" for the Adelaide Festival as a co-production with Sydney Theatre Company; STC will also have a season of it over in Sydney at The Wharf - the promotion for the show here in Adelaide is being taken care of by The Border Project , in Sydney it's looked after by the STC.
In Adelaide (where plastic shopping bags are banned) the show is being promoted on a high grade plastic that has been printed on in yellow and black and cut to a rather odd shape - possibly so as to fit more in the landfill where it's likely to end up.
In Sydney the show is promoted on Recycled Cardboard by the Sydney Theatre Company.
How dare Mike Rann State Minister for the Arts spend public money on this group who are flying in the face of preserving our environment, lowering our carbon footprint and reducing plastic waste, by promoting a show on hard plastic handbills (flyers) when it is nothing more than an advertising gimmick - I'm utterly appalled and disgusted by this.
It is a total waste of taxpayers money to send such rubbish out into the streets, and will probably cost taxpayers more to watch these nasty little plastic things rot, slower than the climate changes. The life of a handbill promoting a relatively short season of a piece of theatre is extremely limited. The run of the play may be ten shows over a few weeks, but the life of these plastic handbills is longer, much longer.
The life of handbills promoting a show is not uneventful; they get placed all around the city by promoters who leave a little pile here, a little pile there - people pick them up, read them, drop them. I noticed someone slipping over one at the local pup a couple of days ago. It had been read, discarded and left on the ground. A sober fellow stepped on it and slipped.
We are above this, we've supported a movement to downgrade our use of plastic shopping bags to try and reduce the amount of plastic waste in this State - and yet here are these thespians ignoring the impact their throwaway publicity will have on the environment.
So it's art - should it be exempt? Anyway - it's not art, it's advertising. Maybe they feel that there's not enough of these things to warrant any sort of outcry, but I beg to differ. A run of 500 of these things is 500 too many. I suspect they've produced far more than 500, and I remain in my position against them.
David Jobling
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