The Tinderbox Orchestra is the main focus and first stage of the Tinderbox Project, a broader initiative which aims to bridge the gap between youth music and the contemporary music and arts scene, providing opportunities for young people to work with a wide range of professional artists and encouraging creativity, network building and excellence in youth music.
Not until after 1955 did the Syrian political scene provide opportunity for the realization of ʿAflaq's dreams.
We were presented with a scene of opportunity: contractors were settling in, apparently useful and minus the greed and inefficiency that would emerge later; the UK's Department for International Development seemed set to play an important, constructive role.
As Iachimo, a part that has a number of scene-stealing opportunities, Boris McGiver is full of ideas, but in his physicality and line readings he falls just a hair short of the character's malicious charisma.
This is no small decision; audiences for cabaret in Australia can be small and, despite Sydney's growing (and thrilling) independent musical theatre and cabaret scene, the opportunity to tour to the southern hemisphere's biggest cabaret event can be huge milestone in an artist's career.
He and designers Jon Bausor and Paul Keogan treat the playing space as a canvas, with each new scene an opportunity for another exquisite stage picture: the conspirators caught in angular light on a bare stage framed by looming white marble walls; Aidan Kelly's Mark Antony bathed in a golden glow atop a plinth.
Dramatic action scenes provided opportunities to create innovative spatial arrangements.
Just about everyone in the troupe is required to do more than keep up--New York City Ballet loan Georgina Pazcoguin, wearing white, is first among equals--but a preponderance are given scene-stealing opportunities and take full advantage.
It further presents the library scene and new opportunities for its participation in the e-Learning process.
This survey of the landscape reveals not a clear target for explanation but a pluralistic and evolving scene with diverse opportunities for grounding future research.
