Come away with me to the end of the world
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5 – 24 JuL BECKETT Theatre
Eavesdrop, with permission, into the intimate.
Devised by / Ranters Theatre Text / Heather Bolton, Beth Buchanan, Adriano Cortese, Raimondo Cortese, Patrick Moffatt Direction / Adriano Cortese Performers / Heather Bolton, Beth Buchanan and Patrick Moffatt Design / Callum Morton Composition & Sound Design / J. David Franzke Lighting Design / Govin Ruben Costume Design / Belinda Hellier Choreography / Jo Lloyd Musical Direction / Evan Lawson Tarantella / Rosa Voto Dancers / Rosa Voto with Alessandra Barone, Natasha Colangelo, Tania Dionisio, Lucia Gareffa, Vincenzo De Simone, Joseph Sirianni and Ourania Vassis Executive Producer / Robina Burton Stage Manager / Harriet Gregory Lighting Intern / John Collopy
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A note from the DIRECTOR
At this point we began to think about making a show that expressed how we were experiencing ourselves now, about how we wanted to live, about change and the desire for it and the role fantasy played in all this and ultimately about brushing up against a sense of mortality. In his book Depression and the Body, the psychotherapist Alexander Lowen links our quality of life with our ability to negotiate the collapse of the dreams that occur throughout our lives. He defines ‘dreams’ as not only things we desire for ourselves, but also those aspects of life that we never imagine ending until they do, such as relationships, health, friendships, death of friends and family, and our personal shifts in beliefs and attitudes that we have been confronted by and may not have expected. Come Away with Me to the End of the World is a quietly personal meditation of some of these things.
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Come Away with Me to the End of the World grew out of a series of catch-ups between company members over a number of years. There was no sense of a show in the beginning. We would just be together talking about what was happening in our lives — the usual things. Somewhere in the midst of this we realised we had been working together for over twenty years. We had never really thought about it before. We would come together for a show and then move on to the next one. Our work has always been about the ‘now’, the ‘present’. We rarely considered the past or events moving through time in any conscious way when it came to making work. It came as a bit of a shock in some ways. Whilst we had been working together we had also been sharing our personal lives. We had seen each other create families and experience forms of happiness, live in different parts of the world and experience changes, grief and trauma and loss and everything in between. It was strangely moving to acknowledge this. As we had been witnessing each other live over the last twenty years, we had also been watching ourselves dying.
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Adriano Cortese invites you to come away with him to the end of the world
Cast & Creative Bios
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Heather Bolton Performer / Writer
Beth Buchanan Performer / Writer
J. David Franzke Composition / Sound Design
Govin Ruben Lighting Design
Belinda Hellier Costume Design
Since 2000 Adriano has been the Artistic Director of Ranters Theatre, of which he is a founding member. His productions have received wide critical acclaim and toured both nationally and internationally to countries including USA, Canada, Portugal, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, UK and Denmark. As an actor he has worked for most of Australia’s major theatre companies including MTC, STC, STCSA, Playbox, Sidetrack and Ensemble Theatre. He has received several Green Room Award nominations, winning for Best Director and Best Production with Holiday in 2008.
Heather is a company member of Ranters Theatre, and has performed in seasons of Affection, The Wall, St Kilda Tales and Roulette. Other theatre: The Crucible and The Gift at Melbourne Theatre Company and Porn Cake for Malthouse Theatre. TV: Winners and Losers, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries and The Mystery of a Hansom Cab for ABC. Films: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark and Mr Wrong.
Beth is a member of Ranters Theatre, and has performed in seasons of Intimacy, St Kilda Tales, The Large Breast or Upside-Down Bell, Features of Blown Youth, Roulette, The Wall, Break-In and Affection. Other theatre: Crimes of the Heart, Miracles and God’s Last Acre. Film: Fortress, A Telephone Call for Genevieve Snow, The Hard Word, Hamlet, The King. TV: Lowdown, A Country Practice, Neighbours, Home And Away, Flying Doctors, The Brittas Empire (UK), Law of the Land, Blue Heelers, Halifax f.p.
David is a composer and sound designer with work spanning film, theatre, visual arts and numerous albums. Credits for sound design and composition include; for Ranters: Song, Intimacy and Holiday; for Malthouse Theatre: Picnic at Hanging Rock, Night on Bald Mountain, Pompeii L.A; for MTC: The Beast, Australia Day, The Joy of Text, The Grenade, August: Osage County, Don Juan in Soho, Birthrights, The Recruit; for STC: The Wonderful World of Dissocia; for BalletLab, Aviary.
Govin graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts (Melbourne) in 2005 majoring in the field of Lighting Design. He has designed and devised works for theatre, dance, puppetry and created art installations for companies, governments, festivals and artists across Europe, Asia and Australia. Govin has a keen interest in collaboration and the design of new works, particularly those based around interactive visual stimulus.
Belinda works across a variety of design areas, including costumes and sets for dance, drama, film and television, and has an extensive practice in product and textile design. She has presented several exhibitions of her work. Belinda has worked as art director on numerous music video clips and TV commercials. In 2016 she was Production Designer on the web series Little Acorns, a comedy set in a childcare centre. Her label Blinkdesigns produces an extensive range of homewares.
Raimondo Cortese Writer
Patrick Moffatt Performer / Writer
Callum Morton Design
Jo Lloyd Choreography
Evan Lawson Musical Direction
Rosa Voto Tarantella
Raimondo graduated from the VCA School of Drama in 1993 and is a founding member of Ranters Theatre. Raimondo was the Artistic Director of Ranters Theatre from 1994 to 2000 and has written over forty plays, as well as fiction, film, and radio. He currently runs the Master of Writing for Performance course at VCA, Melbourne University.
Patrick is a member of Ranters Theatre, a graduate of the VCA and a musician with the glam-trash rock band, The Melody Lords. For Ranters: Intimacy, Song, Holiday, Affection, The Wall, St Kilda Tales, Features of Blown Youth, The Fertility of Objects. Patrick received the 2008 Victorian Green Room Award for Best Male Actor (Independent Theatre) and the 2009 Dublin Fringe Award for Best Male Performer (joint winner).
Callum exhibits nationally and internationally, including the Venice Biennale (2007) and Sydney Biennale (2014). Morton’s public art works includes Hotel (2008), Eastlink Freeway, Melbourne; Grotto (2009), Tilburg, Netherlands; Silverscreen (2010), MUMA, Melbourne; Monument Park (2014) Melbourne’s Docklands. Set design includes Other Desert Cities and Endgame for MTC. Morton is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney. He is currently Professor of Fine Art at Monash Art Design and Architecture, Melbourne.
Jo is a VCA graduate and has presented her work over the last 15 years in Japan, New York, Hong Kong, Next Wave Festival and Dance Massive. Recent projects include; Confusion for Three (2016 Australian Dance Award nomination), How Choreography Works with Deanne Butterworth, Shelley Lasica for Biennale of Sydney; Nicola Gunn’s Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster. In 2016 she will create a work for Chunky Move’s Next Move program and is Resident Director of Lucy Guerin Inc.
Evan Lawson is a composer and conductor, graduating from Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and VCA. Evan was a developing artist with Malthouse Theatre under the mentorship of David Chisholm in 2014 and with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in 2011. He has studied internationally with conductors David Aronson (Wiener Staatsoper) and Matthias Pintscher (Grafenegg Festival). Evan is currently composer-inresidence at Billilla Mansion and has been Artistic Director of Forest Collective since 2009.
Rosa is an Italian dancer, teacher and performing artist. She studied ballet and jazz dance at the Hamlyn Academy in Florence, Italy. Since her early childhood she was interested in the traditional dances, music and folklore of the South of Italy, were her ancestors are from. In 2011, after extensive field research and studies, she founded the Melbourne School of Tarantella, the first school dedicated to Southern Italian traditional and ritualistic dances in Australia. Rosa directs the Melbourne Tarantella dance troupe and the music ensemble Sanacori.
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At Malthouse Theatre we collaborate with local and international artists to create work that puts provocative, and entertaining human experiences on stage. We champion artistic and cultural diversity; we advocate for alternative points of view. We believe theatre can be – and should be – an agent of change. The theatre we produce explores the world personally, socially and politically. We cultivate and curate irreverent, courageous theatrical experiences from Australia and around the globe to captivate audiences. Welcome to Malthouse Theatre.
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Join us for another journey
The king whose story tells us why business and pleasure mustn’t mix.
We hope you enjoy Come Away with Me to the End of the World. With a season full of more spine-tingling shows, we think these other new works will also have you on the edge of your seat. Why not see all three and save big when you book a Mini Malty, your three show pass to Season 2016?
EDWARD ii 29 JUL – 21 AUG
Edward II / is a leader who fails to lead — a king who loses everything because of his addiction to another man. Newly crowned and convinced he’s invincible, he flaunts his affair and in doing so, affronts the nation. Anthony Weigh’s new adaption leaves the Elizabethan language behind, to meld the lust and politics of the 14th and 21st centuries to dizzying effect.
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THE FIERy MAZE
WAR AND PEACE
BLAQUE SHOWGIRLS
Dorothy Porter and Tim Finn in a dream collaboration.
Fiction and reality unfold in a collision of surveillance and live action.
Not everything is blaque and white in Australia’s Sin City.
18 AUG – 4 SEP
18 – 30 OCT
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11 NOV – 4 DEC
Expect a collision of danger and fabulous extravagance in this radically revamped version by director Matthew Lutton. Edward II is a perverse, sexy and provocative look at a leader who / pays the ultimate price for making the personal political.
Contains adult content. Recommended for ages 18+.
Find out more at malthousetheatre.com.au
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By / Anthony Weigh Direction / Matthew Lutton
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Season 2016 scene & heard
One of the actors emailed Demis Roussos after listening to one of his early songs. His response made it in the show.
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