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
Written by Andrew Bovell Directed by Mark Gaal 28–31 Oct, 2, 3 Nov, 7.30pm 30 Oct, 3 Nov, 1pm NIDA Theatres, Playhouse Running time 115 minutes When the Rain Stops Falling will be performed in one act with no interval.
‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’ William Faulkner This year we have all become a little more aware of just how interdependent the threads that connect humankind are. The consequences of a single event ramify beyond ourselves and those close to us, to others, who walk alongside us, and as we are yet to see, those after us. Dramatising just such a fragile thread, When the Rain Stops Falling takes us across the globe – from a family living in a flat in London to a young man’s search for belonging that begins on the coastal fringes and arrives at the central heart of Australia. Darting back and forth across decades – through the 1960s and 1980s, the 2010s and into the future, the play immerses us all in a world blindly consuming itself over and over again. First produced by Adelaide’s Brink Productions in 2008, When the Rain Stops Falling, is a timely reminder of these interrelationships and the shared responsibility arising from the knowledge that what we do now inevitably impacts those that come after. – Mark Gaal, Director Performance rights for When the Rain Stops Falling exclusively licensed by HLA Management Pty Ltd, P.O. Box 1536, Strawberry Hills NSW 2021 (hla@hlamgt.com.au)
Presented by NIDA BFA Costume, BFA Properties and Objects, 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 Henry Law/Gabriel York Gabriel Law/Andrew Price Elizabeth Law 1960 Elizabeth Law 1988 Joe Ryan Gabrielle York 1988 Gabrielle York 2013
Director Assistant Directors Set Designers Costume Designer Lighting Designer Video Designer Sound Designer Voice Coach MFA Voice Coach Production Stage Manager Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager
Nathaniel Langworthy Head Electrician Sophie Jones Thomas Dawson Video Systems Joel Mallett Ayla Beaufils Costume Supervisor Sarah Murdoch Alex Stamell Construction Manager Nick Day** Jason Jeffries Costume Assistant Lily Mateljan Anna Clark Props Maker Connor McCool Melissa Kahraman* Design Assistant Hailley Hunt Mic Tech/Technical Assistant Bella Thompson Mark Gaal** Technical Assistants McLane Catterall Ruby Rees Scott Cleggett Mark Bolotin Zoe Davis Milla Gentil Jessie McGuigan Isabel Hudson** Pip Morey Rita Naidu Jess Pizzinga Mali Tauro-Cesca Cameron Smith Krystelle Quartermain Jennifer White* Raechyl French Lachlan Steel Sophia Wallace *Guest artist Alexis Worthing **NIDA staff
Music: Plan & Elevation: IV. The Orangery by Caroline Shaw from the album ‘Orange’ Special thanks to: MNR Constructions, Sydney Dance Company, Richard Whitehouse, Sam Mezups, Drew Ferors and Tom Houghton. 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
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