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'necessary'
I'm not being rude: I'm saying that your actions are telling me you believe Pan's Preludes is 'necessary' for the classical community to...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 112 min read
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Question Time 11 February 2025
Five questions for the Prime Omelette. Chippy asked two questions, which is unusual. I hadn't been following the news yesterday, so when...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 114 min read
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In praise of local amenities
I bitch about Wellington a lot, but there's several areas where the city shines. The WCL library service is very good, despite the...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 101 min read
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Param Vir: Snatched By The Gods/Broken Strings
Param is a friend of John Psathas, and I met him briefly as a composition student. John had mentioned that he wrote musicals and operas,...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 102 min read
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Weeded Out - what went wrong
How did a genuinely good first draft fizzle? That's probably want the film pros are interested in knowing. Maybe this is a typical...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 103 min read
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Opera vs. shows
When you write an opera, you're beginning with a different set of dictates. First, you're essentially agreeing to write vocal music for...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 81 min read
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To Marama
I'm pretty sure you read my stuff, so let's be plain: your party has got to give up on some of their notions regarding my screenplay. ...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 61 min read
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 50 min read
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Audiences
The Dakumentary did great with the over-50 crowd, which was good, as the ads-in-progress were reaching a younger audience. That's the...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 41 min read
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'again'
No Tina films can legally exist, and it's disingenuous to keep asking now that it's firmly established as my IP. I will never change my...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 41 min read
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Reminder
Any further attempts to produce a film based on my Weeded Out screenplay will result in only one outcome: legal action. I am not...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 31 min read
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'heir'
No, I'm not Sondheim's heir. He has no heirs. I'm just a young composer that he was interested in, but we never met. Again, it's the...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 31 min read
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Stigma and mental health
To be honest, my generation is the one where we began to pathologise children, and I think that those scars are unlikely to resolve...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 31 min read
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Shooting without sets
That's pretty much what Riddell Productions made our name on. Yes, it does seem as if Paul's house is a set, but it was actually Manny's...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 11 min read
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Question Time 30 January 2025
The public galleries were cleared halfway through for an iwi group. The Speaker has made photo ID for Parliament visitors mandatory and...
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 302 min read
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To Circa Theatre
No, I'm not going to turn Weeded Out into a stage play. I'm writing a book, and that is simply the reality. I'm not interested in what...
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 301 min read
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 290 min read
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Question Time 29.01.2025
Watched it live. - 1:10-1:25 pm Greens took a photo on the steps while chanting 'No sand mining!' Summer shower. A very mild one. ...
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 293 min read
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Why didn't Weeded Out get made
Stop telling me it's some kind of tragedy that I have to feel guilty about, particularly given that it's the prospective producers that...
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 292 min read
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Commencement speeches - 28 January 2025
The identity theft has me too frazzled to do much. My money's safe, even if they do have my bank information, as my Mum has the remaining...
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 286 min read
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