Going Down (2018) Program by Malthouse Theatre

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‘...BURSTS OFF THE STAGE’ – TIME OUT BY / Michele Lee

SOUND DESIGN & COMPOSITION / THE SWEATS

DIRECTION / Leticia Cáceres

DRAMATURGY / Mark Pritchard

CAST / Paul Blenheim Catherine Davies Josh Price Naomi Rukavina Jenny Wu

ADDITIONAL DRAMATURGY / Polly Rowe

SET & COSTUME DESIGN / The Sisters Hayes

STAGE MANAGER / Lyndie Li Wan Po

AV DESIGN / Rebecca Hayes

MONASH PLACEMENT / Tijen Irmak

LIGHTING DESIGN / Sian James-Holland

PRODUCTION MANAGER STC / Lauren Makin

A Malthouse Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company production.

Going Down was originally commissioned by Malthouse Theatre through the support of the Malcolm Robertson Foundation. A special thanks to Max Black for props assistance.

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DESIGN ASSOCIATE / Matilda Woodroofe

WHAT DO PEOPLE WANT FROM AN ASIAN WOMAN WRITING A MEMOIR? SEASON 2018

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A NOTE FROM THE WRITER

Q&A WITH MICHELE LEE In Going Down the character of Natalie mirrors you in a number of ways; she’s a writer, a HmongAustralian living in Melbourne, and a young woman who has published a memoir called Banana Girl. Did you set out to write such an autobiographical story? The initial concept was a Melbourne based Sex and the City in which not everyone was white. So, as in Sex and the City, there was a writer, who became quasi-autobiographical. Then, the Sex and the City layer dropped away. And because I had actually written a memoir—called Banana Girl—that material started to feed in. In writing Going Down, I was responding to some of the reception I had to the memoir. People had particular expectations about wanting to know about my Hmong background. That came from the Hmong community, but it wasn’t just them. More broadly, it’s part of an immaturity that Australia still has— people from migrant communities are expected to tell stories that are representative of that experience. I was deliberately pushing against that in Banana Girl and that wasn’t received well.

The tone of the writing, like Sex and the City, is very sexually explicit… Yes, Banana Girl had a lot of sexual content in it, which reflected a particular phase in my life. The confessional memoir of a woman’s explicit experiences is an established form, but I was interested in the intersection of that with questions of culture and race. The sexual content is a part of saying that there is more to my identity than which country my family was born in.

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In Going Down, I wanted to explore that further: what do people want from an Asian woman writing a memoir? I hope someone watching can have a sense that there is more to my story than what happened to my parents. Even though, ironically, what happened to my parents becomes a strong part of the play. Natalie’s connection or lack of connection to her culture and her community is a really important absence in her life.

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CAST & CREATIVE BIOS

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Michele Lee WRITER

Leticia Cáceres DIRECTOR

Paul Blenheim CAST

Michele is an Asian-Australian playwright and theatre-maker. She has been commissioned by Malthouse Theatre, STC, Griffin Theatre, Platform Youth Theatre, Next Wave, Radio National, Darwin Festival, Arts House, Westside Circus and St Martins Youth Arts Centre. Her digital theatre work, The Naked Self, co-created with Tanya Dickson, was presented at FOLA 2016 and is being remounted at Arts House in 2018. She is the 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Robertson Prize for Going Down and the winner of the 2016-17 Queensland Premier’s Drama Award and 2018 Victoria Premier’s Literary Award, Drama for Rice. Her play Moths was the inaugural recipient of the Betty Burstall Commission. Her radio play See how the leaf people run won an Australian Writers’ Guild Award in 2013. Her audio theatre work Talon Salon was presented in Next Wave Festival 2012 and remounted for You Are Here Festival 2013 and Darwin Festival 2013. She is a member of the Melbourne-based New Working Group. Her memoir, Banana Girl, was published by Transit Lounge in 2013.

Leticia served as Associate Director at MTC, where she directed Birdland, Death and the Maiden (with STC), The Effect, Cock and Constellations, as well as education shows Yellow Moon (winner of a Drama Victoria Award), Helicopter and Random. She has also directed for Belvoir; Barbara and the Camp Dogs, Mortido, Miss Julie and The Dark Room. La Mama; Tall Man. Creative Regions; Tales of the Underground. QTC; The Orphanage Project, Far Away and The Memory of Water. Sydney Opera House; Random, Hoods and Children of the Black Skirt (all recipients of Drama Victoria Awards). La Boite/Brisbane Festival; Kingswood Kids. Arts Centre & Brisbane Powerhouse; Hoods and Children of the Black Skirt. She is the co-founder of RealTV. Their seminal work, Hoods, won the 2009 Matilda Award for Best Independent Production, received a 2008 Helpmann nomination, and toured to Austria and Italy in 2010. In 2011, RealTV’s War Crimes toured Melbourne and regional Victoria. She has been nominated for over 12 Green Room Awards. Her previous professional appointments include Associate Director for QTC and Artistic Director of Tantrum Youth Theatre, Newcastle.

Malthouse Theatre and STC: debut. Little Ones Theatre: Merciless Gods, The Happy Prince, House of Yes, Salome (with Malthouse Helium), Psycho Beach Party. One Word Productions/ Melbourne Fringe: Traps. Granite/Melbourne Fringe: Saving Spiders. Cut Lunch/ Theatreworks: Bent. Dirty Pretty Theatre: Thérèse Raquin. Elbow Room: The Motion of Light in Water. The Hayloft Project: Arden V Arden. Sisters Grimm/ MTC Neon: The Sovereign Wife. Fatboy Dancing/ Tamarama Rock Surfers: Wrecking. Exhibit A Theatre: Eight. Whale Chorus/ Carriageworks: Rhapsody. MKA: 22 Short Plays. TV: Sisters, Australia on Trial. Paul has been nominated for two Green Room awards (Merciless Gods, Thérèse Raquin). Training: VCA. Proud member of Actors’ Equity.

Catherine Davies CAST

Josh Price CAST

Naomi Rukavina CAST

Malthouse Theatre and STC: debut. Bell Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice. Griffin Theatre: Turquoise Elephant. Belvoir: Back at the Dojo. Little Ones Theatre: The Happy Prince, Dracula, Dangerous Liaisons. Rachel Perks & Bridget Balodis: Ground Control. Arthur: The Myth Project: Twin, Cut Snake, Superhero Training Academy, Waltzing Wooloomooloo: The Tale of Frankie Jones. MKA: sex.violence.blood.gore. Malthouse Helium: Lord of the Flies. TV: The Love of Bruno, The Fighting Season. Training: QUT, HB Studio (New York). Proud member of Actors’ Equity.

Malthouse Theatre: Antigone, Good Person of Szechuan, The Dragon. The Histrionic (with STC) MTC/Chunky Move/ Théâtre national de Chaillot: Complexity of Belonging. Daniel Schlusser Ensemble: M+M (with Melbourne Festival), Menagerie (with MTC Neon), The Dollhouse, Life Is a Dream, Peer Gynt. Big Hart: Blue Angel (with Ten Days on the Island Festival). Fraught Outfit: Electra. Little Ones Theatre: The House of Yes. The Hayloft Project: Delectable Shelter. TV: Molly, Underbelly: Infiltration, City Homicide. Training: VCA. Proud member of Actors’ Equity.

Malthouse Theatre: Away (with STC) normal.suburban. planetary.meltdown, Vampirella. MTC: The Crucible, Yellow Moon. The Hayloft Project: Arden V Arden, The Seizure. Complete Works: Medea. La Mama: Quick Death/ Slow Love. Elbow Room: Now More Than Ever, As We Mean To Go On, Kassandra. Real TV: War Crimes. Complete Works: Medea. Film: Pawno, EMO the Musical, Save Your Legs! TV: Newton’s Law, It’s a Date, Wentworth, Offspring. Radio: Vampirella, Women of Troy. Splendid Chaps: Night Terrace. Training: VCA. Proud member of Actors’ Equity.

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Jenny Wu CAST

The Sisters Hayes SET & COSTUME DESIGN

Sian James-Holland LIGHTING DESIGN

Malthouse Theatre: debut. STC: Chimerica. Siren Theatre Co/Griffin Independent: The Ham Funeral. Erth Visual & Physical Inc: Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo. Can You See Me Theatre: Circumspecto, All the World is a Stage. Film: As Actor; Australia Day, Lady Bloodfight, The Promise I Made to You. As Assistant Director; Dragon Blade. Short Film: As Actor; Inside, Drum Wave, Do You See What I See. TV: Top of the Lake: China Girl, Chosen, Secret City, Deep Breathing in Australia, My Little Friends. Music Video: Stranded by Flight Facilities. Training: NIDA. Proud member of Actors’ Equity.

Malthouse Theatre: Antigone, Walking into the Bigness, Blood Wedding. As Production Designers: Melbourne Festival; The Carnival of Mysteries. La Mama: The Flood. Next Wave Festival: A Good Death. Other: As Visual Artists: RAWCUS; Now You See Me, Portraits. ACMI: Profile Me. Rae & Bennett Gallery: Big Sky Country. As Artists/Curators: Arts Project Australia: The Great UnReveal. Training: VCA (Esther & Christina Hayes), RMIT (Rebecca Hayes).

STC: Australian Graffiti. As Assistant Lighting Designer: Endgame, Switzerland. Other Theatre: As Lighting Designer; Ensemble: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Bell Shakespeare: Henry V. Theatre of Image: Monkey ... A Journey to the West. Sport for Jove: Of Mice and Men, The Crucible. Griffin Independent/Just Visiting: This is Where We Live. Darlinghurst Theatre: In Real Life, Savages, Good Works, Venus in Fur, Ordinary Days, Reasons to be Pretty. The Banff Centre: Turn of the Screw, Hold Me Neighbour in this Storm. DeQuincey Co: Metadata, Pure Light, Box of Birds, Inner Garden. ACO: Timeline (with The Presets), Barry Humphries’ Weimar Cabaret. Circus Oz: Model Citizens. Flying Fruit Fly Circus: Circus Under My Bed, Control Alt Delete, Beach Party. As Tour Re-Lighter; Really Useful Group: Cats (China and Korea tours). Other: Co-designer of lighting (with Nick Schlieper) for THE POOL, Australian Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale. Training: WAAPA. In summer 2010 and 2011, Sian was in residence at the Banff Centre, Canada, by generous support of the Laszlo Funtek Scholarship.

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Malthouse Theatre: Love and Information (with STC) Meme Girls, The Good Person of Szechuan (with National Theatre of China). STC: Three Sisters, Chimerica, Death and the Maiden (with MTC). Belvoir: The Drover’s Wife, Mortido (with STCSA), Miss Julie, The Dark Room. MTC: Lilith—The Jungle Girl (with Sisters Grimm), Egg (with Terrapin Puppet Theatre), Miss Julie, The Distance, Buyer and Cellar, The Effect, Yellow Moon, Cock (with Missy Higgins). RealTV: Tall Man, War Crimes, Hoods, Children of the Black Skirt, Princess of Suburbia, The Suitcase. Elbow Room: The Motion of Light in Water. QTC: The Memory of Water, Far Away, A Conversation, Black Comedy, The Real Inspector Hound, The Cherry Orchard. La Boite: Cock, Kingswood Kids. Short Film: The True History of Billie the Kid, Wild, Drowning, She Loves Me She Loves Me Not, Stray, And Everything Nice, Transient, Booth. Albums; THE SWEATS: You Make Me Feel EP, Samo EP. SMEAR: The Rockstar Instinct?, S & M for the EAR. Awards: Sydney Theatre Award (2015, 2016, 2017), Green Room Award (2014) Sydney Queer Screen Award (2017).

Mark Pritchard DRAMATURGY Malthouse Theatre: Heart is a Wasteland, Little Emperors, Turbine, Blak Cabaret, Love and Information (with STC). As Dramaturg; Theatreworks: Anti-Hamlet. Wael Zuaiter Unknown. As Director/ CoDirector; New Working Group: Triumph. Wael Zuaiter Unknown. Red Stitch: 4000 Miles. NO SHOW: Shotgun Wedding, The Séance, Unfinished Business. Positions; Malthouse Theatre: Resident Dramaturg. Training: VCA: Postgraduate Diploma in Performance Creation (Directing), UOW: Bachelor of Creative Arts (Performance).

Polly Rowe ADDITIONAL DRAMATURGY Polly Rowe has been the Literary Manager at Sydney Theatre Company for ten years. Her role includes consulting on programming decisions, commissioning new plays and providing dramaturgical support to playwrights. She also curates STC’s Rough Draft creative development program. Before joining STC Polly was Acting Literary Manager then Literary Associate at Belvoir in Sydney. Polly holds a BA in Drama, English & Education Studies from the University of Cambridge and an MPhil in Playwriting Studies from The University of Birmingham.

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THE SWEATS COMPOSITION & SOUND DESIGN

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Matilda Woodroofe DESIGN ASSOCIATE

Lyndie Li Wan Po STAGE MANAGER

Matilda is a performance designer with a diverse body of work spanning theatre, dance, performance art, television and film. In her final year of a Fine Arts degree in Production Design, Matilda worked for the first time with the Sisters Hayes, as the design assistant on Walking Into The Bigness (Malthouse Theatre). Matilda has worked with a myriad of performing arts companies across Melbourne and Sydney including Sydney Theatre Company, Victorian Opera, Melbourne Theatre Company, Arena Theatre Company and Bangarra Dance Theatre. She also completed a year long Emerging Artist placement with The Rabble in 2016. Her work in film and TV includes Cleverman and Get Krack!n for ABC and feature length dance film, Spear, an Arenamedia, Brown Cab and Bangarra Dance Theatre production. She has recently finished working as part of the wardrobe team for Madman Production Companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feature documentary, 2040, exploring what our planetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future might look like if already available environmental solutions were incorporated into the mainstream.

Lyndie graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013. Selected Malthouse Theatre shows include Picnic at Hanging Rock, Timeshare, I Am a Miracle and The Good Person of Szechuan. Recent shows for The Production Company include Funny Girl, Curtains, Dusty, Hello Dolly and Jesus Christ Superstar. Lyndie has worked internationally in theatre and live events and regularly stage manages for Windmill Theatre (Grug, Grug and the Rainbow) and Polyglot Theatre (Separation Street, Cerita Anak).

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STAND TOGETHER WITH MALTHOUSE THEATRE. At Malthouse Theatre we collaborate with local and international artists to create inventive performances that cut to the core of the human experience. Theatre has the power to interrogate, disrupt and to be an agent of changeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and we think it always should. At Malthouse Theatre the work we produce explores the world personally, socially and politically. Based in a dedicated venue, The Coopers Malthouse in Melbourne, we are a home for live experiences that entertain and provoke a dialogue with and within audiences. Welcome to Malthouse Theatre.

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[NAKKIAH LUI’S] MIND SINGS LIKE AN F1 ENGINE: SWEETLY AND LOUDLY

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— THE AUSTRALIAN (FOR BLAQUE SHOWGIRLS)

BLACKIE BLACKIE BROWN: THE TRADITIONAL OWNER OF DEATH 5 – 2 9 J U LY On a dig in the Australian outback, archaeologist Dr. Jacqueline Black unearths a mystical skull from a hidden mass grave. It talismanically transforms her into arse-kicking indigenous superhero Blackie Blackie Brown. Her mission: to track down every last descendant of the men who killed her ancestors and have her revenge. It ain’t about forgiveness. It ain’t about reconciliation. This is about Blackie Blackie Brown: The Traditional Owner of Death.

WRITTEN BY / Nakkiah Lui

DIRECTION / Declan Greene

A Malthouse Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company production.

SCENE & HEARD

The creative team enlisted their mums to help knit the ‘bollard warmers’ used in the show.