• Title
  Item 2: Aarne Neeme interview by Margaret Leask, 2 August 2023
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  2 August 2023
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9682525
• Physical Description
  2 audio files (2 hr., 6 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
  
• Scope and Content
  In this second interview, Neeme discusses his preparation for a production, his way of approaching a text when working with play scripts and students, and the life of a freelance theatre maker responding to issues of funding and resources. He also discusses the impact of COVID on his teaching in Singapore, and on the wider arts community in general. Neeme reflects on the decade he spent directing episodes of Australian popular TV shows between 2001 and 2011 (including Home and Away, Blue Heelers, Neighbours) and the differences in directing for television. In the last few minutes of the interview Neeme reads a touching letter from Dorothy Hewett written towards the end of her life reflecting on their friendship and work together - the two had first met after the first production of her play The Chapel Perilous in 1971 in Perth.
• Language
  English
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Recorded at Neeme's home in Edgecliff, New South Wales on 2 August 2023.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Neeme, Aarne
  
• Subject
  Neeme, Aarne--Interviews.
  Theatrical producers and directors--New South Wales--Interviews.
  Drama--Study and teaching.
  Theater--Production and direction.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE21145149

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