JANE LONGHURST PRESENTS THE BLACK BAG TRILOGY PERFORMANCE 02 IN ASSOCIATION WITH BLUE COW THEATRE AND DETACHED ORGANISATION AND PRESENTED AS PART OF BEAKER STREET FESTIVAL:
REQUEST PROGRAMME A play by
Franz Xaver Kroetz
Translated by
Katharina Hehn
4pm and 7pm 5 / 6 / 7 / 12 / 13 / 14 August 2022 Detached Gallery, Macquarie Street, Hobart
Performed by
Directed by
Lighting design by
Sound design by
Jane Longhurst is an award-winning actor, broadcaster with ABC Local Radio, voice artist and popular presenter of events big and small. A Victorian College of the Arts graduate, her television credits include Rosehaven, Blue Heelers, Janus and an AFI Award winning episode of GP . Recent theatre credits include Happy Days by Samuel Beckett directed by Robert Jarman (Mona Foma 2021) and the critically acclaimed Tasmanian Theatre Company production The Mares directed by Letitia Caceres as part of Ten Days on the Island (2019). Jane has appeared in The Winter’s Tale and Hamlet both performed in th e Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery for Blue Cow Theatre, both directed by Robert Jarman and as the Narrator for Terrapin Puppet Theatre’s You and Me and The Space Between written by Finegan Kruckemeyer, directed by Sam Routledge. Site specific work of note include cocreating The Green Room with sound designer Dylan Sheridan, located within a gunpowder magazine and providing the voice over for Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey’s work The Shadows Calling , presented by Detached in association with Dark MOFO in 2015. Jane has been a proud member of Media Entertainment Arts Alliance since 1986.
Robert has directed or performed for all major Tasmanian companies, including Zootango, Theatre Royal, Terrapin Puppet Theatre, Tasmania Performs, Salamanca Theatre Co., Is Theatre, Tasmanian Theatre Co., Australian Script Centre, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, IHOS Opera, Bel Canto Opera, Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, Festival of Voices, TasDance, Two Turns Dance, as well as numerous community-based and independent projects.
Nicholas is an independent Lighting Designer living in the north west of Tasmania.
Jacky Collyer is a musician, composer and producer based in Hobart. She has recently completed a Bachelor of Music with Honours, majoring in Music Technology at University of Tasmania. Collyer was a founding member of Melbourne band KINS and has toured extensively throughout Australia, the UK and Europe. In 2020, Collyer won a Tasmanian Theatre Award in Sound Design for Tasmanian Theatre Company’s Gruesome Playground Injuries . In film, Collyer has composed for Chris Pender’s Ruthless (2017), Rebecca Thompson’s documentary short A Hairy Problem (2018), and two short films in the Women of The Island series: The Snake Lady and In Search of Family . Collyer recently worked as the assistant sound designer to Glenn Richards for Archipelago Productions’ The Bleeding Tree and was the composer for Jane Longhurst’s production in association with Blue Cow Theatre of Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days staged as part of Mona Foma 2021.
Jane Longhurst
Robert Jarman
Robert’s work has featured in all Ten Days on the Island festivals. He is the recipient five Tasmanian Theatre Awards for directing and acting, the Federation Medal for services to the performing arts, and is well into his fourth decade as a proud member of the Media Entertainment Arts Alliance.
Nicholas Higgins
Recent productions in this time of Covid include: Human Ba La La for Great Southern Dance, Grace Under Pressure for Alternative Facts, 91 Storey Treehouse for CDP Theatre Producers, The Mares for Tasmanian Theatre Company, The Magic Beach for CDP Theatre Producers, and One Crowded Hour for Tasmanian Theatre Company.
We acknowledge and respect the palawa/pakana people as the traditional and ongoing owners and custodians of the skies, land and water of lutrawita. We pay our respects to their elders both past and present and acknowledge that sovereignty has never ceded.
Jacky Collyer
Set design by
Jon Bowling
Jon has nearly 50 years experience working in theatre, television, events and film. He has worked with Zootango, The Conservatorium of Music, Theatre Royal, X Wellington/Wellington X, IHOS, Tasmanian Theatre Company, Blue Cow and Terrapin Puppet Theatre, Exit Left, the G & S Society, Hobart Rep and Old Nick and most of the Hobart and Launceston Colleges.
With the voice of
Christopher Lawrence
Christopher Lawrence’s career spans more than 40 years of broadcasting in radio and television. He has written and produced documentaries, presented an interview series for the Ovation channel, and conducted most of Australia’s capital city symphony orchestras. Christopher was the first presenter of ABC RN’s The Music Show in 1991. He is bestknown for his work with ABC Classic FM. The He has designed and three Swoon collection constructed sets for hundreds of productions albums that evolved out including the first Hobart of his Breakfast program in the 1990s broke sales Les Misérables in 1995. records in the Australian Recent productions classical music industry, include Rock of Ages, each achieving Platinum We Will Rock You, sales status. He has Something’s Afoot, also worked extensively Antarctica, Washpool on ABC Local Radio, Gully, One Man Two presenting Evenings Guvnors , A Not So and Breakfast on ABC Traditional Story , The Sydney, Afternoons on Mares . Recent Film ABC Hobart, and the and TV credits include series Bakelite Express Construction for The on Networked Local Kettering Incident , Radio across the country. The Gloaming and Rosehaven .
Please note, Request Programme contains themes some patrons may find disturbing. Themes of social isolation, suicide ideation and nudity are present in this production. Lifeline Tasmania will have support people present at each public performance of this Detached performance season. Please speak to them if you would like to seek support, phone Lifeline 13 11 14 or call 000 if your life is in danger. All items on set bought specifically for this production will be donated to local charities.
Stage managed by
Set build by
Saxon has a Masters in Multi Media Composition from the Victorian College of the Arts and is a graduate of the University of Tasmania’s Conservatorium of Music. For the past seven years Saxon has worked extensively across the Tasmanian arts environment being involved with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (TSO), University of Tasmania (UTAS), DoMaur Productions and Madlight theatre companies as well a plethora of commercial agencies.
Paul Colegrave has worked extensively in set design and construction for twenty-five years for Theatre Royal, Exit Left, Terrapin and Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
Saxon Hornett
Paul Colegrave
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes
Director’s notes The very first play I directed, long ago at university, was Stallerhof , by the writer of tonight’s work, Franz Xaver Kroetz. That play’s characters are largely inarticulate: incapable of expressing their needs, fears and even joys. Dramatically, Request Programme is even more astringent, though the situation is very different. Tonight’s protagonist is not incapable of talking but rather has no-one to talk to. She is alone.
Last year Jane Longhurst and I worked together on Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days . Jane played Winnie, a woman who talks non-stop: talking as if her life depended on it. What a contrast! Yet both women are stoical: determined in their endurance. Both plays are filled with action and objects – so many props! – and with time-filling. I’m glad to have returned to the work of Kroetz whose plays are, I think, objects of steely politics, great beauty and deep love of humankind. Robert Jarman
This production was assisted through Arts Tasmania; the Australian Cultural Fund and MatchLab; and made possible by the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund, which supports the arts in regional and remote Australia; and over 100 individual donors.
Thank you: Dr Margo Adler and the Beaker Street Festival Board, staff and volunteers Penny Clive, Michael Bugelli and Dean Ware from Detached Cultural Organisation Lucinda Toynbee Wilson and Blue Cow Theatre Tasmanian Theatre Company Board Clare Pearson and Jordyn Robottom from LifeLine Tasmania Pam Stewart Angelo Fraraccio and Cibo e Vino Guy Hooper Sue Hayes Amy Russell Sara Cooper Chrissy Best Brody Atkinson and Louis Vincent John Xintavelonis
And to the following donors, my heartfelt thanks for their support:
Caroline Sharpen Judy Tierney & Phil Capon Rod Anderson & Dr Craig White Justy Phillips & Margaret Woodward Mary Pridmore Will Pridmore Angela McDermott Angela Blake Gillian Biscoe Geoff Stump Peter Choraziak Dr Peter & Tiina Sexton David & Michelle Warren Liz Frankham Nicholas Heyward Simon Spain Victoria Ryle Rob Valentine MLC Fae & Peter Robinson Anthony Bonney Jacqui Allen Fiona Barber & Andrew Hickman Albert Ogilvie Anne Wishink Alan Glass Edith Lempa Therese Taylor
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