DIE WIntErrEIsE The WinTer Journey
July 20 - July 31 2011
Pictured: George Shevtsov Photo: Jon Green
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Malthouse Theatre and ThinIce present
DIE WINTERREISE The Winter Journey
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Featuring songs by Franz Schubert Conceived & Directed by Matthew Lutton Original Text by Tom Holloway Choreographer Chrissie Parrott Set & Costume Designer Adam Gardnir Original Composition & Sound Design Kelly Ryall Additional Arrangements & Composition Alister Spence Lighting Designer Paul Jackson Music Supervisor Iain Grandage Performed by Paul Capsis, James O’Hara, George Shevtsov, Alister Spence Stage Manager Darren Kowacki Lighting Operator Stewart Birkinshaw Campbell Sound Operator Declan Kelly Mechanist Andy Moore Besen Family Artist Program (Stage Management) Jessica Smithett Set & Props constructed by Malthouse Theatre Workshop Costumes created by Malthouse Theatre Wardrobe A ThinIce, Malthouse Theatre and Brisbane Festival co-commission This production premiered at the State Theatre Centre of WA on 19 April 2011, and opened in the Merlyn Theatre, The Malthouse, on 22 July 2011.
MERLYN THEATRE, JULY 20 – JULY 31 2011
DIRECTOR’S NOTE
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Schubert wrote Die Winterreise in 1827 at the age of thirty, a year before his death. Many observed Schubert to be in a melancholy frame of mind when he wrote the songs. Some even considered that Die Winterreise contributed to his early death: “life for him had shed its rosy colour; winter had come for him,” wrote his friend, the poet Mayrhofer. Others believed Schubert had moved to a stage of life that juxtaposed hopeless fatalism with blissful serenity. However Schubert himself displayed a state of joy and ecstasy while performing the cycle for his friends – it was the joy of being able to express his own tragedy. To express his own inner state. I first listened to Die Winterreise in 2008. I was sitting alone, in an empty house, in the middle of summer. The music aroused recollections in me I found difficult to confront and painful to articulate. This was the music’s power. Schubert had investigated his soul while writing the music and this becomes contagious to the listener. It led me to grapple with the German word ‘sehnsucht’ – searching for ‘I know not what’. My first imagining for this production was of an elderly figure (somewhat like the organ grinder in the final song) who uses Schubert’s music in a similar way. He listens to the story of ‘the wanderer’ in Die Winterreise to confront himself. In the song cycle, ‘the wanderer’ leaves his lover in the middle of the night, writing goodnight on her door, and ventures into a winter landscape. It is a
story of exile, and a story of searching for a new home, for a place to be accepted, for a way to exist. As our nameless, elderly figure listens to the song cycle, he associates his own history with the journey of ‘the wanderer’. The music enters him, both physically and emotionally, as his past begins to taunt, seduce, and confront him. Finally, it may be in the act of finding his own song; in a moment of confession with himself, that he can find some rest. That after journeying through himself, he also can find a way to continue existing. MATTHEW LUTTON
Pictured: Paul Capsis & George Shevtsov. Photo: Jon Green.
PAUL CAPSIS PERFORMER Malthouse Theatre: Die Winterreise (with ThinIce), The Threepenny Opera (with Victorian Opera), Boulevard Delirium. Other theatre: Griffin Theatre Company: Angela’s Kitchen. MTC: All About My Mother, The Resistable Rise Of Arturo Ui. STC: The Lost Echo, Tales From The Vienna Woods, Volpone, Thyestes, Playgrounds, Sydney Stories. Belvoir: The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Frogs, The Cockroach Opera. State Theatre: The Emerald Room. Adelaide Festival: Julia Zemiro’s Comfort Zone, Jim Sharman's The Three Furies. Gale Edwards: The Rocky Horror Show. Cabaret & concerts: Victorian Arts Centre: The Famous Spiegeltent. Perth Cabaret and Comedy Carnivale/Adelaide Cabaret Festival/12 Acts of Cabaret (for QPAC)/The Basement: Paul Capsis – Make Me A King. Melbourne International Jazz Festival: Paul Capsis; Songs of Love & Death. New York: Absinthe. The Australian Chamber Orchestra & Bill Henson: Luminous. Taranaki International Arts Festival/The Noosa Long Weekend Festival/The Street Theatre/The Vanguard: The Capsis Experience. Recordings: Make Me A King, Paul Capsis Live, Everybody Wants to Touch Me, Boulevard Delirium. Television: My Favourite Album, In Siberia Tonight, The Sideshow, Sunday Arts, Spicks and Specks, Studio A with Simon Burke, Mornings with Kerry Anne. Film: Head On. Awards: Helpmann Awards: Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role In a Play 2007(The Lost Echo), Best Performance in an Australian Contemporary Concert 2006 (Boulevard Delirium), Best Live Music Presentation 2002 (Capsis Vs Capsis). Green Room Awards: Best Cabaret Artist 2006 (Boulevard Delirium), Best Cabaret Artist 2003. Film Critics Circle Award: Best Supporting Actor 1998 (Head On).
ADAM GARDNIR SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER Malthouse Theatre: Die Winterreise (with ThinIce), A View of Concrete, The Autobiography of Red, The Yellow Wallpaper, Drink Pepsi Bitch! Other theatre: MTC: Grace. STC: Saturn’s Return. Griffin Theatre Company: Love Me Tender (with ThinIce & Belvoir), Don’t Say The Words. Victorian Opera: Angelique, The Bear, Rembrandt’s Wife. Opera Australia: The Beggar’s Opera, The Little Sweep. Australian Ballet: Semele. Belvoir: The Promise & Paul. Shaun Parker/Sydney Festival: Happy as Larry. Events: Melbourne International Comedy Festival: Good Evening, Walking with Dinosaurs arena tours (BBC Live), Melbourne’s Commonwealth Games Cultural Festival Site. Film: Tragedy of Hamlet. Awards: 2011 Green Room Award for Best Opera (Angelique). Scholarships: VCA, Malthouse Theatre. Training: VCA, 2003 (Bachelor of Production). IAIN GRANDAGE MUSIC SUPERVISOR Malthouse Theatre: Die Winterreise (with ThinIce), Optimism, Vamp, Babes in the Wood, The Odyssey. Playbox Theatre Company: Babes in the Wood, Burning Time. Other theatre: MTC: The Blue Room, Cloud Nine, True West, The Raindancers, Duchess of Malfi. STC: In the Next Room. Belvoir: Book of Everything, Svetlana in Slingbacks, The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Black Swan Theatre: Rising Water, Year of Magical Thinking, Copenhagen, The Career Highlights of the Mamu, Away, Plainsong, Year of Living Dangerously, Merry-Go-Round in the Sea, After Dinner. Belvoir/Black Swan Theatre: Cloudstreet, Welcome to Broome. Perth Theatre Company: The Turning. La Boite: Red Cap. Dance: DanceNorth: Remember Me. Schauspiel Köln: Heute im Raum Lumina. Splinter Group: Lawn. Steamworks: The Drover’s Wives. TV: ABC TV documentary Ooldea. Radio:
BBC Radio 3 & 4, ABC Radio: (Radio Play Composer). Works Performed By: Australian String Quartet, Brodsky String Quartet, Australian Brass Quintet, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Australian Youth Orchestras, Sara Macliver, Craig Ogden, Miki Tsunoda, Topology & choirs throughout Australia, the US & Europe. Orchestral Arrangements : Tim Minchin, Sinead O'Connor, Black Arm Band, Tiddas, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, The Whitlams, Augie March, Tim Rogers, Tex Perkins, Ben Folds. As Musical Director: Black Arm Band: dirtsong, Hidden Republic. Melbourne Festival: Seven Songs. Eddie Perfect/ANAM: Songs from the Middle. Meow Meow/ ANAM : Wunderschön. Black Swan Theatre: Corrugation Road. As Musician: Meow Meow’s plaything, Topology, Australian Art Orchestra. Award Nominations: Helpmann Awards: Best Music Direction 2009 (Wunderschon), Best Music Score 2006 (The Drover’s Wives, The Odyssey), 2001 (Plainsong). Green Room Awards: Best Music Score 2003 (True West). Awards: Helpmann Awards: Best Music Score 2002 (Cloudstreet). Green Room Awards: Best Musical Direction in Cabaret 2009 (Wunderschon), 2008 (Vamp), Best Music Score for Dance 2009 (Lawn), Best Music Score/Sound Design 2004 (Babes in the Wood /The Blue Room). APRA/AMC WA State Award: 2007 (The Silence), 2005 (Sleep). Other: Ian Potter Emerging Composer Fellow 2010-11. Composer-in Residence: Youth Orchestras of Australia 2006-07, WA Symphony Orchestra 200405, Black Swan Theatre Company 1996-98. Musician-in Residence: UWA 2002-04. TOM HOLLOWAY ORIGINAL TEXT Malthouse Theatre: Die Winterreise (with ThinIce). Other theatre: B Sharp: Beyond the Neck. Griffin Theatre Company: And No More Shall We Part, Don’t Say the Words, Love Me Tender (with ThinIce and Belvoir). Red Stitch Actors Theatre: Red Sky
Morning. Tasmania Performs: Beyond The Neck. The Gate Theatre London/Munich Volksbuhne’s Yung Radikal Festival: Fatherland. Hampstead Theatre, London: And No More Shall We Part. Åarhus Teater Denmark: Faces Look Ugly. As Librettist: Bavarian State Opera/Munich Opera Festival: Make No Noise. Award Nominations: Shortlisted: 2009 NSW Premier’s Play Award (Don’t Say the Words), 2010 Griffin Award (Faces Look Ugly), 2009 Young Vic/Theatre 503 Season Award (Don’t Say the Words), Patrick White Award 2009 (And No More Shall We Part) and 2010 (Faces Look Ugly), 2010 Western Australian Premiers Book Awards (Love Me Tender). Awards: AWGIE Award: Best Stage Play 2008 (Beyond the Neck), 2010 (And No More Shall We Part). Louis Esson Prize for Drama in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2010 (And No More Shall We Part). R. E. Ross Trust Development Award 2007 (Red Sky Morning). Green Room Award Best New Writing for the Australian Stage 2008 (Red Sky Morning). Max Afford Fellowship 2011 (Faces Look Ugly). PAUL JACKSON LIGHTING DESIGNER Malthouse Theatre: Die Winterreise (with ThinIce), A Golem Story, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Trial, Sappho...in 9 fragments, Human Interest Story, The Threepenny Opera, Elizabeth – Almost By Chance A Woman, Furious Mattress, Knives in Hens, Happy Days, Optimism, Woyzeck, Vamp, Through the Looking Glass, Venus & Adonis, Moving Target, Tartuffe, Criminology, Sleeping Beauty (also as cocreator), The Pitch, Anna Tregloan’s BLACK, Babes in the Wood, Eldorado, The Ham Funeral, Journal of the Plague Year, The Odyssey, Boulevard Delirium. Playbox Theatre Company: The Frail Man, Babes in the Wood, This Way Up, The Fat Boy, Double Bill. Other theatre: MTC: Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Madagascar, Enlightenment, Ghost Writer, Frozen, The Recruit, Dinner, Cruel and Tender. Chamber
Made Opera: Crossing Live, The Hive, Teorema, The Possessed, Recital, Walkabout, Corruption. Also includes: Victorian Opera, Australian Ballet, West Australian Ballet, Bell Shakespeare, Black Swan State Theatre Company, Ballet Lab, Not Yet It’s Difficult, New Zealand Ballet, The Production Company, Lucy Guerin Inc, Melbourne Workers Theatre. Award Nominations: 20 Green Room Award nominations, Bulletin Magazine 2004 Smart 100, 2005 & 2008 Helpmann nominations, 2008 & 2009 Sydney Theatre Critics’ Circle Award nominations. Awards: 2007 Gilbert Spottiswood Churchill Fellowship. Green Room Awards: Lighting for Drama 2006, Lighting for Opera 2004, Design Cabaret 2005. Currently: Associate Artist (Design) at Malthouse Theatre. Lighting Designer with Melbourne based firm, The Flaming Beacon. Founding member of Not Yet It’s Difficult performance group. DARREN KOWACKI STAGE MANAGER Malthouse Theatre: Die Winterreise (with ThinIce), A Golem Story, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Trial, The Threepenny Opera, Elizabeth – Almost by Chance A Woman, Africa, Knives In Hens, A Commercial Farce, Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd, Venus & Adonis, Kitten, Tartuffe, Exit the King. Malthouse Melbourne touring: Die Winterreise, Knives in Hens, The Trial, Optimism, The Spook, The Tell-Tale Heart. Other theatre: The Production Company: The Boy From Oz. The Store Room/Melbourne Festival: The Dictionary of Imaginary Places. Chamber Made Opera: The Children’s Bach. Chapel off Chapel: Shadow Passion. McLaren House: Fully Committed. Her Majesty’s Theatre: Miss Saigon, Cabaret. Lano & Woodley: Goodbye (Australian Tour). Dave Hughes: Dave Hughes Live (Adelaide Fringe Festival). St Martins Youth Arts Centre: Pretty White Lies & The Velveteen Undertow, Radicals & Misanthropes, The Wild Blue, When Sand Becomes Glass. Polyglot Puppet Theatre:
We Built This City. Events: Marriner Theatre Events, 2009 AFL Grand Final Breakfast (CFMEU), Nickelodeon Events, 2007 Australian Jamboree, St Kilda Festival. Launches: Grease the Arena Spectacular (SEL), Chicago the musical (GFO). Training: VCA (Production). Other: Lighting designer for La Mama: She’s Not Performing, St Martins, Oz Opera, VCA, CVP, Scouts Australia. Production Manager for St Martins Youth Arts Centre (2005 - 2007). MATTHEW LUTTON DIRECTOR Malthouse Theatre: Die Winterreise (with ThinIce), The Trial (with STC and ThinIce), Tartuffe. Other theatre: STC: The Mysteries:Genesis, The Duel (with ThinIce). Belvoir: Love Me Tender (with Griffin Theatre Company & ThinIce). Griffin Theatre Company: Don’t Say the Words. ThinIce: Anti gone (Perth Festival 2009), Red Shoes, The Gathering, Bed, The Bald Prima Donna. Black Swan Theatre Company: The Lady Aoi (Perth Festival 2007), Woyzeck, The Visit, Striptease, Mountain Language. Opera: Make No Noise (Bavarian State Opera/Munich Opera Festival) Awards: 2003 Perth Fringe Festival Best Production (The Bald Prima Donna), 2005 Equity Guild Awards Best Production (The Visit), 2005 Young Achiever of the Year (Arts), 2007 Young People & the Arts Fellowship (ArtsWA), 2010 West Australian of the Year (Youth Arts). Other: Matthew is the founder and Artistic Director of ThinIce. From 2003 to 2006 Matthew was the Artistic Director of Black Swan State Theatre Company’s BSXTheatre program. He is currently an Associate Artist (Direction) at Malthouse Theatre.
JAMES O’HARA PERFORMER Die Winterreise is James’ first production with Malthouse Theatre & ThinIce. James started dancing at an early age in his native Perth, Australia. He received scholarships for his studies at John Curtin College of the Arts, WAAPA & STEPS Youth Dance Company. After completing his Royal Academy of Dance examinations in 2003 he joined the Ballet Junior de Genève in Switzerland. In 2004 he received an award from the Princess Grace Foundation at the Monaco Dance Forum, shortly thereafter becoming a member of Centre Chorégraphique National Ballet Preljocaj in France. Since 2006 James has worked with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, notably on Myth, La Zon-Mai (a film installation), Babel (co-created with Damien Jalet) & Faun, a duet initially commissioned by Sadlers Wells (London) as part of a special program celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Ballet Russes, In the Spirit of Diaghilev. He was Larbi's assistant for the creation of L'Homme de Bois with the Royal Danish Ballet, Orbo Novo with Cedar Lake (New York), Labyrinth with Het National Ballet of Holland (Amsterdam) & has restaged In Memoriam with several dance companies in Europe. James has performed as a guest with Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet in Decadance (Ohad Naharin) at the American Dance Festival & with Company Velvet (dir: Joanne Leighton) in Display / Copy Only. He took part in the 2008 Dance Lines, directed by Wayne McGregor at the Royal Opera House (London), & is a founding member & choreographer with Cross Connections Ballet Company, based in Copenhagen. CHRISSIE PARROTT CHOREOGRAPHER Die Winterreise is Chrissie’s first production with Malthouse Theatre and ThinIce. Her distinctive choreographic style draws equally
upon her foundations in classical dance & the richness of contemporary dance theatre. Commissions include many national dance & theatre companies in Australia & international companies such as Sinfionetta de Lorraine, France, Theater Vorpommern in the Baltic city of Stralsund and Tanz Forum, Cologne. Chrissie’s contribution to dance-associated arts has been significantly awarded by Sidney Myer, Sounds Australia, WA Citizen of the Year, a Centenary Medal & numerous awards for choreography and stage design. She was senior research fellow at ECU where she was founding Artistic Director of its graduate dance company LINK. She was adjunct professor at QUT teaching multimedia units to dancers. Chrissie is creative director of Chrissie Parrott Performance Company, a multidisciplinary company that crosses performance genres. Works include: Metadance, Motel Deception for ABC, Swimming the Luna Sea, Cyg.net, Digital twin and Dis Patch, which was screened at the Monaco Dance Forum, Monte Carlo. KELLY RYALL COMPOSER & SOUND DESIGNER Malthouse Theatre: Die Winterreise (with ThinIce), The Trial (with ThinIce and STC), One Night The Moon. Other theatre: MTC: Dead Man’s Cell Phone, God Of Carnage, Savage River. Bell Shakespeare: Julius Caesar. Griffin Theatre Company: Don’t Say The Words, Love Me Tender (with ThinIce & Belvoir). KAGE: Sundowner. ArtsHouse/Carlee Mellow: Expectation. Full Tilt: Harry Harlow Project (with Insite Arts), The Man with the September Face. Red Stitch Actors Company: Red Sky Morning. B-Sharp: Thom Pain. The Amazing Business: Chocolate Monkey, Space Monkey, Love Monkey. Angus Cerini’s Doubletap: Wretch, Chapters from the Pandemic, Detest, Saving Henry V5, Puppy Love. Arena Theatre Company: Mr Freezy. Hothouse Theatre: The Glory. Little Death: Mercury Fur. UHT: Fire Raisers,
Attempts on Her Life. Black Hole Theatre Company: Coop. Lucy Guerin Inc: Pieces For Small Spaces. Platform Youth Theatre: Tenderness. The Town Bikes: The Meat Show. Store Room Theatre: Smashed, The Room, A Mile In Her Shadow, Chesapeake. Awards: Green Room Awards: Composition & Sound Design 2009 (Coop, Love Monkey), 2005 (Arabian Night). Melbourne Festival Award 2007 (Spacemunki/Body of Work). Fringe Festival Design Award 2005 (The House of Application). GEORGE SHEVTSOV PERFORMER Malthouse Theatre: Die Winterreise (with ThinIce). Other theatre: ThinIce: Red Shoes. Deckchair Theatre: Grace, Citizen X, Twelfth Night. Black Swan Theatre: Honor, Life x 3, The Crucible, Proof, Uncle Vanya, Diary of A Madman, Waiting For Godot, Dead Heart, To Whom It May Concern, A Night A Wall Two Men, Custody, Closer, Cosi. STCSA: The Department, 3 Cuckolds, Duchess of Malfi. Yirra Yaarkin: Honey Spot. Pork Chop Productions: Ruby's Last Dollar. DreamThinkSpeak: Don't Look Back. Nimrod Theatre: Steven Berkoff's Metamorphosis, Henry IV, Makassar Reef. STC: Cyrano de Bergerac, The Cherry Orchard. Darwin Theatre Company: Cloudstreet. Effie Crump Theatre: Dreamer Examines His Pillow. Blue Room: Redemption. As Director: Australian Opera Studio: One Act Operas Mavra, The Human Voice, Mozart & Salier. Dance: Fragments, Don Quixote Book. Poetry & Book Readings: Stormy Weather, ABC Poetica. Television: Stormworld, Shark Net, WildKat, Sweat, Big Sky, Clowning Around. Film: Crawl, Love Serenade, Esoterica, No Through Road, Japanese Story, Ike Countdown to D-Day, Dead Calm, Lets Get Skase, Mushrooms. Awards: Swan Gold Actor of the Year. Other: George teaches and directs for WAAPA, Contemporary Performance at ECU, Annie Stainer's Total Theatre.
ALISTER SPENCE PERFORMER & ADDITIONAL COMPOSITION Malthouse Theatre: Die Winterreise (with ThinIce). Other theatre: Griffin Theatre Company: Angela’s Kitchen. Festivals: As Performer: Montreux Jazz Festival, Tokyo Jazz Festival, International Festival de Jazz de Montreal, Vancouver Jazz Festival, Jazz Yatra (India), Shanghai Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, JBL Jazz Festival Rome, Edinburgh Festival, All Tomorrows Parties (Australia: Nick Cave curator), Luminous Festival (Sydney: Brian Eno curator), Auckland Festival, Melbourne and Wangaratta Jazz Festivals. Live Music: As Composer/Performer: The Alister Spence Trio, The Australian Art Orchestra, Paul Capsis, Wanderlust, Ed Kuepper (and the Laughing Clowns), Clarion Fracture Zone, Chris Abrahams, Andy Sheppard (UK), Karaikudi Mani (India), Satoko Fujii (Japan), Jim O’Rourke, Sting, and others. Recorded Music includes: Clarion Fracture Zone: Blue Shift. Wanderlust: Wanderlust. Bernie McGann: Bundeena. Alister Spence Trio: Flux. Alister Spence Trio: Mercury. Alister Spence Trio: fit. Paul Capsis: Make Me A King. Ed Kuepper: The Ascension Academy. Producer: Make me A King (Paul Capsis: ABC Records 2010), Three is a Circle, Flux, Mercury, fit (Alister Spence Trio: Rufus Records 2000, 2004, 2007, 2009). Film: Beneath Clouds, Dhakiyarr vs The King, Spirit Stones, Yellow Fella, A Sisters Love, Journey, Tears, Vanish, Molly and Mobarek, Dust, Wind, Shifting Shelter, In My Fathers Country, A Pilots Story. Award Nominations: Aria Award for Best Jazz Album: 2004 (Flux), 2007 (Mercury). AFI Award for Best Soundtrack 2002 (Beneath Clouds). Awards: ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album 1990 (Blue Shift), 1993 (Wanderlust), 2001 (Bundeena). Voted 2009 worldwide top releases, WIRE Magazine UK (fit).
Thinice Based in Perth, ThinIce incubates and presents unique performance projects that exceed the common expectation of what is possible in theatre in Australia. The company is a mobile unit, working on a national scale, to create signature works in collaboration with other organisations. ThinIce is designed to support the productions of director Matthew Lutton. Under his leadership, the company works with eclectic and forward-thinking artists to create performances that break artistic boundaries. Drawing inspiration from rich material from around the world, ThinIce not only aims to reinvent powerful stories - it aims to constantly explore the possibilities of the theatrical form itself. ThinIce is a leading innovator producing sophisticated contemporary theatre, which exhilarates and inspires. Through its productions, ThinIce re-inspires existing theatregoers and builds audiences for the next generation. Board of direcTors Monique Beaudoire (Chair) Dean Gillespie (Company Secretary) Zoe Atkinson Noel Kagi Matthew Lutton
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