Hour of the Wolf / Program (2023)

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19 OCT – 3 DEC

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WRITER’S NOTE

When we talk about theatre being immersive, we’re really talking about design. An immersion in the physical world, sharing the space with the actors, rifling through the cupboards. The stories of theatre, we hope, should always feel like an immersion, a contract you make when you walk through the door to suspend your disbelief.

In Hope Hill, belief is important. The townspeople will tell you the folklore of a Wolf, a woman, who takes things in the night. An outsider might insist it’s a lie, a collective delusion. But to locals it is very real. Their loss is true, their fear. In usual storytelling, the release of information—how and when the audience discover things—is crucial to the narrative. But in this story you are free to wander, to construct the truth for yourself.

As a visitor, the world of Hope Hill will seem familiar, yet eerily other. There are three potential starting places, but when the clock strikes four you could find yourself in any number of corners. Each room feels achingly real, but to walk through a door is to make a jump in time and space. In the back of your mind, something isn’t quite right.

As you travel you might hear from true believers in the Wolf or the sceptics. You might meet someone at the end of their night before you learn the beginning. You might uncover a secret that changes your mind. Perhaps you’ll meet the Wolf herself, if she even exists. Just as each townsperson follows a unique journey through the night, no two visitors will witness the same hour. There are no identical versions of the truth.

What happened in Hope Hill? Will you emerge a believer? We have no way of knowing.

But we know you’ll spend an hour or so stalking this town and you will leave with these people, their stories, this folklore lodged in your mind. A version of events. A lie. Or the truth. You decide.

DESIGNER’S NOTE

The design brief for Hour of the Wolf has been to conceive of a dozen immersive rooms, arranged as a labyrinth within the Merlyn Theatre and Dock, enabling audiences to weave their way through the gnarly world of Hope Hill and Keziah’s delicious narrative. Within this nocturnal world, the installation contextualises and supports the characters, pitches the ambiguities and mysteries of the town, and allows for the unravelling of its riddles. Thriller was the initial genre/provocation Matt threw to me, with the invitation to dance between concrete and dream states in visual, spatial, and tactile design.

We’re at 3am, which is not a comfortable nor an easy hour, and the experience of existing in this world should be a heightened one. I hope that the palettes and textures we’ve created come close to the beauty, honesty, and grit of Wong Kar-wai films or the uncanniness of a Gregory Crewdson photograph. In Hope Hill, audiences wander through the intensity of fluorescent lights in a compound at nighttime, past bug zappers in a lonely all-night convenience store, traverse the sadness of a balloon arch once the party has moved on, and arrive to the cold, still fear of a waiting room at a regional hospital. The team responsible for constructing, installing, sourcing, detailing, finishing, and dressing the Hour of the Wolf installation/ set/labyrinth is not enormous, but it is enormously dedicated and enormously talented. I owe each member of that team a massive debt of thanks. We all share the authorship of this design.

Campaign Photography / Kristian Gehradte. Printed on 100% recycled paper. © Malthouse Theatre, the artists, designers, photographers, collaborators and contributors. All rights reserved, 2023.

CAST & CREATIVE

JACK GREEN (HE/HIM) CAST NATASHA HERBERT (SHE/HER) CAST KEVIN HOFBAUER (HE/HIM) CAST KEEGAN JOYCE (HE/HIM) CAST BROOKE LEE (THEY/THEM) CAST EMILY MILLEDGE (SHE/HER) CAST CHRISTINA O’NEILL (SHE/HER) CAST EVA REES (SHE/HER) CAST KARL RICHMOND (HE/HIM) CAST KATHERINE TONKIN (SHE/HER) CAST DAVID HARRIS (HE/THEY) INTERACTIVE DRAMATURG ANNA CORDINGLEY (SHE/HER) SET DESIGNER BERNADETTE FAM (SHE/HER) ASSISTANT DIRECTOR LUCY ANSELL (SHE/THEY) CAST MATTHEW LUTTON (HE/HIM) CO-CREATOR & DIRECTOR KEZIAH WARNER (SHE/HER) CO-CREATOR & WRITER

KARINE LARCHÉ (SHE/HER) ASSOCIATE SET DESIGNER

AMELIA LEVER-DAVIDSON (SHE/HER) LIGHTING DESIGNER

ADDITIONAL CREATIVES

BRIDGET BALODIS / INTIMACY COORDINATOR

MARKYLEE CAMPBELL / FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER

CODY RILEY / ASSISTANT FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER

GIOVANNA YATE GONZALEZ /

BESEN PLACEMENT (LIGHTING DESIGN)

HOLLY-JANE COHLE / BESEN PLACEMENT (COSTUME DESIGN)

ELOISE LEEMANN / MONASH UNIVERSITY

SOUND DESIGN INTERN

EVA SEYMOUR / VOICE ARTIST

KHISRAW JONES-SHUKOOR / VOICE ARTIST

KAIVU SUVARNA / VOICE ARTIST

ZOË ROUSE (SHE/HER)

COSTUME DESIGNER

JETHRO WOODWARD (HE/HIM) COMPOSITION & SOUND DESIGNER

BAXTER CLIP

JO REDFEARN / CAMERA & EDIT

CHRIS CLARKE (SUND SERVICES) / SOUND

BENJAMIN NICHOL / ACTOR

EVA SEYMOUR / ACTOR

PRODUCTION

BLAIR HART / PRODUCTION MANAGER

BAIRD McKENNA / TECHNICAL MANAGER

DEXTER VARLEY / OPERATIONS MANAGER

ZOE RABB / PRODUCTION COORDINATOR

COINTHA WALKEDEN / PRODUCTION COORDINATOR

ROB BALLINGALL / HEAD TECHNICIAN (LIGHTING)

BRENDAN JELLIE / HEAD TECHNICIAN

MICHAEL CARR / HEAD MECHANIST

DELIA SPICER / WARDROBE SUPERVISOR

GOFFREDO MAMELI / WORKSHOP MANAGER

LENNON FOWLER / SET BUILDER

ELIZABETH WHITTON / SET BUILDER

AL BRILL / GRADUATE SET BUILDER

EM VAN DYK / MECHANIST

WORKSHOP

MYLES CAREW , NICHOLAS DUNNAND , KHISRAW JONES-SHUKOOR , SAM NIX , JASPER SPICER , DAN SPIELMAN

JUSTIN GARDAM (HE/HIM) ASSOCIATE SOUND SYSTEM DESIGNER

MATILDA WOODROOFE (SHE/HER) SET DRESSER

SCENIC ART

SANDRA DRUMMOND , PATRICK JONES

TECHNICIANS

ASHLEIGH BASHAM , LUKE GRANA ,

STEPHEN HAWKER , RILEY McCULLAGH, NICHOLAS MOLONEY, NATALYA SHIELD, OUNIE WITHEROW AITKEN

MECHANISTS

FINN GLEESON, JOSHUA MACKENZIE, WILLIAM PALAZZO, DARREN PEET, PHILLIP WATTS

LYNDIE LI WAN PO (SHE/HER)

STAGE MANAGER

ROSEMARY OSMOND (SHE/HER) ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER

WARDROBE

JO FOLEY, JODI HOPE

MALTHOUSE STAFF & BOARD

BOARD

FIONA M c GAUCHIE (CHAIR)

JACOB VARGHESE (DEPUTY CHAIR)

JADA ALBERTS

DEBBIE DADON AM

DR ANNA FOLEY

LINDY HUME AM Ph D

ANDREW MYER AM

SUE PRESTNEY

PAMELA RABE

MARY VALENTINE AO

ALAN WONG

DANIELLE LEIGH (OBSERVER)

EXECUTIVE

MATTHEW LUTTON OAM

SARAH NEAL

ARTISTIC & PROGRAMMING

ANNIE BOURKE

BERNADETTE FAM

LAURA HALE

LAURA MILKE GARNER

JO REDFEARN

MARLINE ZAIBAK

FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION

ULRIKE READ

LIZ WHITE

CONNIE STELLA

CAITLYN O’KANE

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

CLAIRE LA GRECA

DAVEY SIMMONS

JACQUI BATHMAN

KEYANNA BURGHER

LAUREN GALLINA

TAMARAH SCOTT

PUBLICITY

TS PUBLICITY

GRAPHIC DESIGN

HOURS AFTER DEVELOPMENT

ALEX BELLEMORE

PATRICK CRUMMY

EDUCATION

LYALL BROOKS

TICKETING & BOX OFFICE

PRUE SUTHERLAND

FIONA WISEMAN

BOX OFFICE STAFF

PAUL BUCKLEY

PERRI CUMMINGS

BRONYA DOYLE

CLAIRE DUNCAN

CASEY GOULD

MELLITA ILICH

JULIA LANDBERG

BRIGID MEREDITH

ISA MUNHOS

LIZ WHITE

PRODUCTION

BLAIR HART

BAIRD M c KENNA

DEXTER VARLEY

COINTHA WALKEDEN

ROB BALLINGALL

MICHAEL CARR

BRENDAN JELLIE

DELIA SPICER

GOFFREDO MAMELI

ELIZABETH WHITTON

LENNON FOWLER

AL BRILL

PRODUCTION STAFF

LEIA ALEX

ASHLEIGH BASHAM

GABRIEL BETHUNE

SUZIE BROOKS

MYLES CAREW

GIDEON COZENS

NICHOLAS DUNNAND

SANDRA DRUMMOND

NATHAN EVERS

JO FOLEY

JUSTIN GARDAM

FINN GLEESON

LUKE GRANA

MITCHELL GUNTHORPE

KADIN HAWKER

STEPHEN HAWKER

SPECIAL THANK YOU

JODI HOPE

ETHAN HUNTER

PATRICK JONES

KHISRAW JONES-SHUKOOR

JACK KENNEDY

TARAS KOHUT

JOSHUA MACKENZIE

RILEY M c CULLAGH

NICHOLAS MOLONEY

SAM NIX

NICHOLAS PAGES-OLIVER

WILLIAM PALAZZO

DARREN PEET

ASHLEIGH SHEARMAN

NATALYA SHIELD

JESSICA SMART

IVAN SMITH

JASPER SPICER

DAN SPIELMAN

NATHANIEL SY

NATALIE VINCENT

PHILLIP WATT

LACHLAN WATTS

OUNIE WITHEROW AITKEN

VENUE

DANIELLE GIORDANO

EMMA CORBETT

STEVE HEARNE

FIKER GEBREHANA

FRONT OF HOUSE STAFF

CARA BRODIE

MITCHELL BROTZ

DANI GODER

GEORGE JEFFORD

SOPHIE M c CRAE

TEXAS NIXON-KAIN

LUCY SEALE

DARCIE SHORT

FLYNN SMEATON

BARNEY SPICER

KATE WASHINGTON

BAR STAFF

ISSY COMEGNA

KIRRA NINER

ELLEIA RUSSELL

CLAUDE SARMIENTO

KAIVU SUVARNA

To the following second year VCA Design and Production students who each designed a bespoke scenic or property element. WILLOW ARGUS, ELLA BARRETT, SARAH BROWNE, NIGEL CHUA, MORGAN CLYNE, FINNEGAN COMTE-HARVEY, TALLULA DAVIS, VIVIENNE HARGREAVES, ALICE HUXTABLE, CHAR LEE, DEE LEE, DYLAN LUMSDEN, STEPHANIE MCNALLY, SOPHIE NESS, ASHLEY REID, MIRIAM ROBINSON, NELLIE SUMMERFIELD, LOKAN WOERZ

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Malthouse Theatre is generously sponsored by Roy Morgan. For over ten years, Roy Morgan have worked closely with Malthouse Theatre to provide comprehensive research support, including in-depth cognitive testing for Hour of the Wolf. Malthouse Theatre is proud to partner with Roy Morgan as Australia’s best known and longest established market research company.

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