Student Productions October 2020 - Ghosts

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STUDENT PRODUCTIONS OCTOBER 2020 nida.edu.au/october-2020


WELCOME STUDENT PRODUCTIONS OCTOBER 2020

I would like to begin by acknowledging the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we learn and tell stories, the Bidjigal and Gadigal people, and pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders past, present and emerging. Welcome to the October Season of Student Productions at NIDA. It is fantastic to see the culmination of all the hard work that has happened here over the past few months, and it is wonderful to be able to experience the magic of face-to-face theatre again. I am excited to celebrate our amazingly talented graduating students, to witness the inherent creativity of their work and to be in the audience with you. After the outstanding success of our Digital Theatre Festival last August, we now present five fully staged and two workshop productions with award-winning directors, all working under COVID-19 restrictions – seven stories about how we cope with crisis and change and come out the other side. This season gives all our students the opportunity to push boundaries and to engage with industry representatives, agents, theatre and event companies, film, and television producers. The state-of-the-art performance spaces they work in, as well as the experts they have access to at every step of the creative process, are what makes NIDA one of the world’s top performing arts educators. We couldn’t present any of these high-calibre productions without support from the Australian Government, our Principal Partner for property services ARA, our Major Partners Technical Direction Company and Canon Australia, our Corporate Partner YouTube, our Supporters Tempus Two, Young Henrys and Media Super, and our legal services Supporter Kay and Hughes, the trusts and foundations and the generous individuals who make up our donors and supporters. So, thank you all. We hope you enjoy these live productions. We know the future is a bright one for all our brave graduates.

– Liz Hughes, CEO



Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts  In a new version by Rebecca Lenkiewicz  From a literal translation by Charlotte Barslund Directed by Priscilla Jackman      30, 31 Oct, 2–4 Nov, 8pm 31 Oct, 4 Nov, 1pm NIDA Theatres, Reg Grundy Studio Running time 90 minutes Ghosts will be performed in one act with no interval. A central pillar in the conception of our production of Ibsen’s Ghosts is a celebration of the anachronistic. We seek to invite audiences into an arresting conversation, not by doggedly attempting to meticulously recreate a museum-esque world of 19th century Norway. Our production is not an exercise in the style of Realism in a claustrophobic space.

Our interrogation of this 138-year-old text has been in full recognition of our 21st century lens as artists. The precision of our contemporary design, projection and sound score, is positioned a deliberate juxtaposition to the historical silhouettes of our Alvings and Engstrands. The pulsating sexual violence that sits under the surface of almost every interaction in the play, forces us to acknowledge, in our post-MeToo world, the direct lineage we share with figures like Helene and Regine – who stand as enduring examples of those whose fate has been determined by patriarchal sexual violence and secrecy. Ghosts is ultimately a play about power. It is a warning of what happens when hypocrisy and the taboo remain unchallenged. What happens when we lack the courage to live authentically, face our past, if we perpetuate in concealing traumas of our history. The Black Lives Matters movement paved the way to our rehearsal period, and Sydney Morning Herald journalist Julia Baird, wrote: ‘Have we even moved on from the denialism of the past? If we don’t accept the truth of history, can we ever move forward and seriously address the gnawing, enduring inequality of who we are in the present’. We invite audiences to join us, as we glare unflinchingly into the face of Ibsen’s startlingly radical text, Ghosts – hurling head-on into his breath-taking provocations on gendered power dynamics, family legacy, generational debt and sexual violence.

– Priscilla Jackman, Director

Ghosts in this version was first performed at The Arcola Theatre, London on 22 July 2009.


Presented by NIDA BFA Costume, BFA Properties and Objects, BFA Scenic Construction and Technologies, BFA Technical Theatre and Stage Management, BFA and MFA Design for Performance, MFA Directing, MFA Voice, MFA Writing for Performance and final year BFA Acting students.

Company Mrs Alving Pastor Manders Osvald Engstrand Regine Director Assistant Director Movement Coach Set/Props/Costume Designer Lighting/Video Designer Production Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Voice Support MFA Voice Support

Head Electrician Elif Akgul Jessica Spies Video Systems Filip Wyker Ryan Panizza Construction Manager Barnaby Gilbert Patrick Mandziy Production Manager Nick Day** Philip D’Ambrosio Resnick Scenic Artist Karen Scribbins** Zoe Props Supervisor Marcelo Zavala-Baeza** Props Maker Daniel Druery Priscilla Jackman** Props Assistant Luca Kovacs Matthew Latham Costume Supervisor Georgia Attewell-Moore Gavin Robins** Costume Assistant Jasmin Gray Angus Konsti Design Assistant Benedict Janeczko-Taylor Morgan Moroney Houghton Tom Loisa Leia Rabinowitz Jodi Robert Maxwell* **NIDA staff Rudolf Hendrikx

Music excerpts: Hel (feat. Christian Reindl & Lucie Paradis) by Power-Haus, Balder (feat. Christian Reindl & Lucie Paradis) by Power-Haus, Gefion (feat. Christian Reindl & Lucie Paradis) by Power-Haus, Freya (feat. Christian Reindl & Lucie Paradis) by Power-Haus, Flying & Flocking by Zoë Keating (https://music.zoekeating.com/track/flying-flocking). Special thanks to: Paul Prestipino, Phil Erbacher and our industry mentors Monica Girard (Stage Management), Damien Cooper (Lighting), Kingsley Reeve (Sound) and Mic Gruchy (Video). Thank you to our October 2020 Student Productions Project Supporter Chameleon Touring Systems.


Graduating students 2020 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting)

Reb e cc a At t ana sio

Ayla B eaufils

A nna Clark

Leinad C oulthur s t

Philip D’A mbrosio

T hom a s Daws on

Mic aela Ellis

Charlot te G rimmer

Ja s on Jef ferie s

L achlan Kent

N athaniel L angwor thy

A lana Louis e

T hom a s Loveluck

Patrick M andziy

Brodie Ma sini

A lb er t Mwangi

R yan Paniz za

Zo e Re snick

B randon S c ane

Je s sic a S p ie s

A lexandra St amell

L uke V is entin

A lan Zhu

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Costume)

Av ril B radbur yG e orgia Hoath At tewell-Mo ore

A llo quois C allaway

Te s s Healy

S arah Murdo ch

Emily Pire s

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Design for Performance)

Meret te B ou tros

Te s s B urg

O liv ia Hu tley

Jordan Leah

Iz S p erling

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Properties and Objects)

A lexandra A llans on

Daniel D ruer y

L uc a s G uillemin

A m anda Torrisi

S idney Tulau

Ruru Zhu


Bachelor of Fine Arts ( Technical Theatre and Stage Management)

T hom a s B ensley

Fiona Lloyd Harding

A mellia B ruderlin

K hyam C ox

Morgan Moroney

A na s t a sia Mowen

Je s s e G reig

L ucia Haddad

Daniel Her ten

Tom Houghton

Ros e Mulc are

C ameron S mith

L achlan Ste el

Mali Tauro Cesca

Mellit a Ver tigan

Master of Fine Arts (Design for Performance)

Adrienne A ndrews

S om a G arner

A ngus Kons ti

Claudia K r ys zk iew ic z

Monique L angford

Rit a N aidu

Zo e Hollyoak

M at thew L atham

L iam McIlwain

Ruby Re e s

G areth Is a ac

Adam Lyon

Eleanor St ank iew ic z

Jack St arkey- G ill

Master of Fine Arts (Directing)

S ophie B ena s si

Mark B olotin

A melia B urke

Master of Fine Arts ( Voice)

Lea B aker

Rae chyl French

Rudolf Hendrik x

Jennifer Jackson

Ella Van Dam


STUDENT PRODUCTIONS OCTOBER 2020

NIDA employs a wide range of industry professionals on both a part-time and casual basis who teach students across all the courses. NIDA would like to acknowledge and thank all members of staff who have shared their expertise with the 2020 students.

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