QUEENSLAND THEATRE
Nick Payne's
CONSTELLATIONS
A great season of theatre is like a great album. It is a series of unique experiences that form a meaningful whole and take you on a journey. The journey across our nine shows in 2017 is deliberately varied, but unified by our desire to share the very best with Brisbane. You can see urgent new Australian stories, the finest international plays, the hottest next generation of talent and the country’s most outstanding artists. Each of the plays in Season 2017 achieves what theatre does best – puts human experience under the microscope. We can see ourselves reeling with chaos in the workplace, enraptured in new romance, navigating the parent-child relationship, celebrating with family and wrestling with a failing marriage. Theatre is unique in its capacity to change how we feel – about ourselves, about our lives, about our universe. Welcome to the next era of your Queensland Theatre.
Ladies in Black (28 Jan — 19 Feb)
(10 Feb — 5 Mar)
The Flick
Constellations
Our heart-warmingly joyous musical back by popular demand
An exquisitely observed meditation on love and change
A romance wrapped in a science blanket
Once in Royal David’s City
Noises Off (3 — 25 Jun)
(24 Jun — 16 Jul)
The great new Australian play by one of our greatest writers
A shamelessly entertaining farce that guarantees a fun night
An insightful story about the personal side of globalisation
My Name is Jimi
An Octoroon
Scenes from a Marriage
An intimate audience with our most charismatic storyteller
A provocatively hilarious interrogation of identity
A riveting portrait of a marriage performed by a real-life couple
(22 Apr — 14 May)
(22 Jul — 13 Aug)
(16 Sep — 8 Oct)
(9 Mar — 9 Apr)
Rice
(11 Nov — 3 Dec)
THE 2017 SEASON
QUEENSLAND THEATRE 9 March - 9 April
Bille Brown Studio, Brisbane
AN AN AN AN
by Nick Payne
Winner Best New Play Evening Standard Award
INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE
MULTIVERSE MULTIVERSE MULTIVERSE MULTIVERSE MULTIVERSE ROMANCE ROMANCE ROMANCE ROMANCE CONSTELLATIONS 4
Constellations by Nick Payne VENUE
Cast Lucas Stibbard...................................................... Roland Jessica Tovey ...................................................Marianne
9 March — 9 April Bille Brown Studio, Queensland Theatre
Creatives
REGIONAL TOUR
Kat Henry.............................................................Director Anthony Spinaze....................Set & Costume Designer Ben Hughes ........................................Lighting Designer Guy Webster ................... Composer /Sound Designer Kerith Atkinson.................................. Assistant Director Helen Howard ......................................... Accent Coach Niki-J Price .............................................. Fight Director
Touring regional Queensland from April — May ATTENDANCE INFORMATION Constellations will run for approximately 80 minutes with no interval.
Pip Loth ..................................................Stage Manager Rebecca Minuti ...................Assistant Stage Manager Emma Skelton ..............................Director Observation RECYCLE THIS PROGRAM Support Greening Queensland Theatre and recycle this program after the performance in the recycling bins provided in the foyer. Read the program before the show at queenslandtheatre.com.au ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY Queensland Theatre would like to acknowledge the Jagera and Turrbal people who are the Traditional Custodians of this land. We would like to pay our respects to their Elders both past and present, and all Aboriginal peoples whichever Aboriginal nation they may come from.
WARNINGS Contains adult themes (sex, assisted suicide/euthanasia, coarse language). For help or information contact Lifeline 131 114 beyondblue 1300 224 636 SuicideLine 1300 651 251 For the safety and comfort of all patrons, we only allow cold beverages in plastic cups or bottles inside the theatre. Glass, food and hot beverages are not permitted. The use of photographic or recording equipment is not permitted inside the theatre. Please be advised that this performance will not accept latecomers.
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Cover Photo: David Kelly Production Photography: Jodie Hutchinson
Queensland Theatre 78 Montague Road, South Brisbane, Queensland, 4101 Tel: 07 3010 7600 Fax: 07 3010 7699 Ticketing: 1800 355 528 mail@queenslandtheatre.com.au DATE NIGHT
SLIDING DOORS
#leadingfromqld GEN X/GEN Y
Follow us on:
HEARTWARMING/HEARTBREAKING
MULTIVERSE
Lucas Stibbard
Jessica Tovey
L-R: Jessica Tovey, Kat Henry, Lucas Stibbard
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Welcome Note Constellation; noun Any of 88 arbitrary configurations of stars … which form a pattern and have a name.
Sam Strong Artistic Director
There is no small amount of symbolism in naming a play about love and quantum physics after random patterns of stars. Each singular burning point is not much on its own, a dot in the black. But when seen alongside its neighbours, clustered together and joined by invisible lines, pictures emerge. Constellations are everywhere in nature: in the neural pathways of the brain; in the chain reactions that link one atom to another; and in the series of moments that make up a life – all singular parts that represent an infinite number of possibilities when joined together. The joining, however, does not happen by accident. The joining is up to us.
This is the work of scientists. It is also the work of artists. In the same collection of events there are a million stories to be told, from the boisterous to the tragic to the life affirming. Constellations has been a hit around the world because it somehow manages to tell all of these stories at once – all the possibilities of two lives shared, and the even more infinite number of tales those lives can tell. Enjoy, Sam
Humans are meaning makers. Our brains are hard-wired to draw connections. We transform the seemingly arbitrary into the significant. We recognize patterns and give them weight. To make our discoveries accessible to others we join the dots. We give these connections names and describe them in narrative terms.
DATE NIGHT
SLIDING DOORS
GEN X/GEN Y
HEARTWARMING/HEARTBREAKING
MULTIVERSE
“We have all the time we’ve ever, and never had.” – Marianne, Constellations.
Design credit: Anthony Spinaze
Director's Note Among abundant theories across many fields of time’s constitution, there is no consensus. It is at the same time innately grasped and empirically confounding; the problem of what it is persists and contrives endless supposition. Kat Henry
What we might say is that chronological time, the collection of progressive linear instances, is performed – it is attached to actions to which we are habituated in our daily lives: as we make a cup of tea, or wait in traffic, as we complete a day’s work, as we take a phone call. Further, chronology is measured through various indicators – the trajectory of the sun throughout a day or its place in the sky during the changing seasons, the hands that move on a clock, or the period of time between an activity’s beginning and its completion. We experience time in our bodies, via the adrenaline of immediacy and surprise, time’s apparent contraction within an exciting and long-anticipated event, or the expansive agony of awaiting a loved one’s return. We have an innate sense of growing older, of events that have passed, of things to which we look forward. In physics this is described as the arrow of time, charging ever forward in its single trajectory. But there is an alternative conception of time that sits contrary to chronology - one of immediacy, inherently complete in every present moment, and without beginning or end. This is time as an infinite instance, spontaneously presenting endless opportunity.
“A kind of time charged with promise and significance,” suggests Paul Chan, in A Time Apart, as he describes kairological time - not the quantity but the quality of time. In physics this time is symmetrical; it is constant and immutable, eternal, absolute, and ultimately transcendent. This is time that defies oppression, maintains love, and refuses death. It is the time we experience when we are present with it, not waiting, or longing, or apprehensive about its passing. Ironically, it’s within this conception of time as something outside ourselves that we can make it truly our own – as though only when we relinquish attempts to control time can it be transcended. And ironically further still, it’s the kind of time of which we need so much more. The universe probably doesn’t care about chronological time, and perhaps neither should you. If you want to live forever, seize the moment - choose kairos and transcend. Kat Henry Director
Chan, Paul, “A Time Apart”, in Time, Series: Documents of Contemporary Art, in Groom, Amelia (ed.), London: Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press. 2013. Print.
Coming Soon QUEENSLAND THEATRE AND BLACK SWAN
QUEENSLAND THEATRE AND
STATE THEATRE COMPANY PRESENT
MELBOURNE THEATRE COMPANY PRESENT
ONCE IN ROYAL DAVID’S CITY
GRIFFIN THEATRE COMPANY PRESENT
RICE
by Michael Frayn
by Michele Lee
3-25 JUNE
24 JUN — 16 JUL
S EL FA LI S NG T
by Michael Gow
NOISES OFF
QUEENSLAND THEATRE, QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT AND
22 APR — 14 MAY "VERY MOVING" — Stage Whispers “Extremely and acidly funny, touchingly compassionate.” — Stage Noise
“Pure comedy gold.” — The Guardian “... a richly detailed tapestry of catastrophe.” — Time Out London
“… a sophisticated and deliciously theatrical portrait of Australia right now, unlike anything we’ve seen before.” — Artistic Director, Sam Strong
Will has planned to share a
It was never going to be easy
Working late, Nisha is closing
restful Christmas with his
staging a bedroom farce with
a massive deal with the Indian government. Working later still
mother. But then she falls ill.
a mediocre cast, but director
During a bedside vigil, Will is
Lloyd Dallas is trying. Onstage,
is Yvette, who clears up her
forced to piece together the
it’s a whirl of slamming doors,
take-away. “Indian princess”
shards of his life, questioning
dropped lines and dropped
and “Chinese cleaner” is all
his role as an artist, a son, and
trousers; backstage, it’s a more
they see when they face each
a citizen of the world. Another
chaotic maelstrom of love
other – but as the nights wear
moving and life-affirming work
triangles and trampled egos,
on, they discover the many ties
by Michael Gow (Away).
and there’s no one without an
that bind them.
axe to grind (or swing).
Production Sponsor
Production Sponsor
PLAYHOUSE, QPAC
PLAYHOUSE, QPAC
BILLE BROWN STUDIO
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Nick Payne Writer
2012; Women Directors’ Program, Melbourne Theatre Company 2015; Women in Theatre Program, Melbourne Theatre Company 2016; Executive Artist, MKA: Theatre of New Writing 2013-2015. Awards: 2013 Green Room Awards - Best Director (nominated) Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre: Foxfinder; 2011 Matilda Awards - Best Director (nominated) Queensland Theatre: Orphans. Training: PhD (Contemporary Performance) (currently studying), Monash University; Postgraduate (Directing), NIDA; Shakespeare, LAMDA (London Academy of Dramatic Art); B.P.A. (Live Art and Phenomenology) (First Class Honors), B.A.(U.Q.); Adv. Dip. of Arts (Acting), Actors College of Theatre and Television.
Nick is a British playwright who won the prestigious George Devine Award in 2009 with his play If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet. Produced at the Bush Theatre, London, in October 2009 and directed by Josie Rourke, starring Rafe Spall. In 2012 it went to the Roundabout Theatre, New York, starring Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by Michael Longhurst. Nick studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama and the University of York, making his debut at the Royal Court theatre in September 2010 with his comedy Wanderlust. In January 2012, Nick's play Constellations opened at the Royal Court Upstairs starring Rafe Spall and Sally Hawkins and directed by Michael Longhurst. It won the Evening Standard Best Play Award and was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Play Constellations transferred to the West End in November 2012, and then to Broadway in 2015, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson, and directed by Michael. It has also been produced at the Melbourne Theatre Company and Darlinghurst Theatre Company. Nick’s other plays include Elegy, Incognito, Blurred Lines, The Same Deep Water As Me, Lay Down Your Cross, Electra, One Day When We Were Young, Switzerland, and Flourless. Nick also writes for film and TV. He has adapted Julian Barnes's The Sense Of An Ending for BBC Films, to be released in 2017 with Jim Broadbent starring and Ritesh Batra directing. In development are an adaptation of David Nicholls' Us as a three-part TV drama for the BBC and an original piece, Wanderlust, for Drama Republic and the BBC.
Queensland Theatre: As Designer: St. Mary's in Exile, Riley Valentine and the Occupation of Fort Svalbard, Love & Information, Switzerland. As Design Assistant: Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet. Other Credits: As Designer: Matt Ward Productions/Powerhouse: Rent; NIDA: Spring Awakening, Capricornia, The Portrait of Dorian Gray. As Costume Designer: NIDA: Not Who I Was; Brevity Theatre: Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, Space Cats. As Design Assistant: Opera Australia: Aida. Film: As Designer: TRIPLE J: Loose Change’s Grown Up. As Costume Designer: AFTAS: An Easy Death. Awards: Matilda Awards 2016 – Best Set Design (nominated) Queensland Theatre: Switzerland; APDG Awards 2016 - Best Emerging Artist (nominated); 2015 William Fletcher Foundation Award for Emerging Artists. Positions: 2016 Resident Designer, Queensland Theatre. Training: B.A. Dramatic Art (Design), NIDA; B.A. Fine Arts (Technical Production), QUT.
Kat Henry
Ben Hughes
Director Queensland Theatre: Orphans, Shoot, Get Treasure, Repeat. As Assistant Director: The Importance of Being Ernest, The Estimator. Other Credits: As Director: Melbourne Theatre Company: The Son, Lord Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise; La Boîte Theatre Company: The Wind in the Willows; Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre: Foxfinder, About Tommy. As Assistant Director: Melbourne Theatre Company: The Speechmaker, The Odd Couple. Musical Theatre: Watch This: Company; Warehaus Theatre Company: Assassins. Opera: Sydney Chamber Opera: Mayakovsky. Live Art: Stella Electrika: Deliverance, Jesus! Live! Here! Tonight! #1 Spinning. Music: As Director: Brisbane Powerhouse: The Good Ship; Melbourne Fringe: The Jane Austen Argument. As Performer: The Kill Love, Pocket Calculators. Positions: National Artistic Team, Queensland Theatre 2016; Resident Director, Queensland Theatre Green House Program 2008-
Anthony Spinaze Set & Costume Designer
Lighting Designer Queensland Theatre: Switzerland, Much Ado About Nothing, The Seagull, Happy Days, Grounded, HOME, The Button Event, The Effect (with Sydney Theatre Company), The Mountaintop, Black Diggers (with Sydney Festival), Design For Living, 1001 Nights, The Lost Property Rules, Orbit, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Pitch & The China Incident, Kelly, Head Full of Love, Fractions (with Hothouse Theatre), Orphans, An Oak Tree, Sacre Bleu, Fat Pig, Let The Sunshine (with Melbourne Theatre Company), The Crucible, 25 Down, Stones in His Pockets, I Am My Own Wife, John Gabriel Borkman, The Estimator, Private Fears in Public Places, Man Equals Man, Waiting for Godot, Eating Ice Cream with Your Eyes Closed, The Exception and The Rule, Ruby Moon. As Associate Lighting Designer: Toy Symphony, Heroes. As Co-Director/Designer: Trollop. Other Credits: The Danger Ensemble: Macbeth, Caligula, The Wizard of Oz
Guy Webster Sound Designer/Composer Queensland Theatre: The Seagull, Brisbane, The Button Event, The Effect, Venus in Fur, Kelly, Orphans. Other Credits: La Boîte Theatre Company: A Streetcar Named Desire, The Tragedy of King Richard III, As You Like It, Ruben Guthrie, I Love You Bro, The White Earth, The Narcissist, Kitchen Diva, Summer Wonderland, Last Drinks, Creche and Burn, Urban Dingoes; JUTE Theatre: The Salt Remains, Bastard Territory; Lisa O’Neill: The Pipe Manager, The Pineapple Queen; Shake and Stir Theatre Co: Dracula, George’s Marvellous Medicine, Endgame, Wuthering Heights, Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts, Tequila Mockingbird, 1984, Animal Farm, Statespeare; Shock Therapy: Locked In, Viral; Brisbane Festival: Alice 21; Zen Zen Zo: Vikram And The Vampire; State Library of Queensland: Teacup Sonata, I Cherish This, The Unexpectedly Mind Boggling Adventure; Bleach Festival: Shifting Sands; Transmute Collective: Intimate Transactions, Transact, Liquid Gold, Transit Lounge; Matrix Theatre: 1347, The King and The Corpse; Institute Of Contemporary Art (London): Shifting Intimacies. Awards: Prix Ars Electronica, Interactive Art, Honorable Mention for Intimate Transactions.
Kerith Atkinson Assistant Director Queensland Theatre: As Actor: Motherland (with Ellen Belloo and Critical Stages), The Lost Property Rules, An Oak Tree, Pygmalion, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Vincent in Brixton, A Christmas Carol, The Works 2004/06/08/10, The Country (play reading tour), Let the Sunshine (play reading tour); QTC Education: Young Playwrights Awards 2004/05/06/16, 2016, Exploration of the Caucasian Chalk Circle. Other Credits: As Director: Short & Sweet: Creative Developments for Duende and White Lotus; As Assistant Director: 4MBS: Much Ado About Nothing; Brisbane Arts Theatre: Teddy Bear’s Picnic. As Actor: La Boite Theatre Company: The Operator; Now Look Here: The Lover/A Slight Ache; Theatre Activ-8: Dear Charlotte, Black Christmas; 4MBS: The Tempest, Prometheus Unbound, Amadeus, Amadeus National Tour; Kooemba Jdarra: Njunjul The Sun; La Boite Theatre/ Independent: Colder; Three Sisters Productions: Bronte; Casting Couch: Lovepuke; Someone: Dark Heart; Side Effect: Three Sisters; Harvest Rain: The Crucible; Theatre North: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Film: Australia Day, Talking Back at Thunder, Last Man On Earth, Girl Clock, Transmission, Imagination Game. Television: Mako: Island of Secrets, Reef Doctors,Terra Nova, Texas Rising, Candlestein, All Saints, Farscape, Water Rats. Positions: Emerging Artist, Queensland Theatre (2005); In-School Workshop Facilitator, Queensland Theatre; Queensland Representative, National Performers Committee; Vice President, QLD Equity MEAA; MEAA member (1998-current). Training: B.A. Acting, QUT.
Helen Howard Accent Coach Queensland Theatre: As Accent Coach: Waiting for Godot, Stones in His Pockets, Betrayal, That Face, Private Lives, Private Fears In Public Places, Absurd Person Singular, The Orphanage Project, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg. As Actor: That Face, Rabbit Hole, Private Fears In Public Places, Absurd Person Singular, The Memory of Water, Molly Sweeney, The School for Scandal, The Winter’s Tale, Peter Pan, Dancing at Lughnasa. As Writer: 1001 Nights (with QMF/ZenZenZo). Other Credits: As Accent Coach: Theatre: QUT: Voyage; La Boite: Summer Wonderland; Matrix: The Wishing Well; Mog Roith: Under Milk Wood; Three Sisters: Bronte. Film: Narnia, The Ruins, Peter Pan, Flammable Children, Mental, Narnia. Television: Misery Guts, The Family Law, SLiDE. As Director: QMF: Piano Lessons; Artworx: Pride and Prejudice, We That Are Left; Artslink: Ruby Moon; The Con: Godspell; Zen Zen Zo: Therese Raquin. As Actor: Theatre: Matrix: The King and the Corpse!, 1347, Lunch, The Woods; La Boite: The Tragedy of King Richard III, The Glass Menagerie,
BIOGRAPHIES
(with La Boite & Brisbane Festival), Sons of Sin, Children of War, Loco Maricon Amor, The Hamlet Apocalypsel; La Boite: A Streetcar Named Desire, Snow White (with Opera Queensland & Brisbane Festival), Medea, A Doll’s House, Cosi, Kitchen Diva, Statespeare; State Theatre Company of South Australia: Straight White Men (with La Boite); Belvoir: Samson (with La Boite); Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre: Vikram and the Vampire, Cabaret, Dracula, Zeitgeist, My Sublime Shadow; Stella Electrika: The New Dead: Medea Material; Expressions Dance Company: The Host, Carmen Sweet, Propel; Queensland Ballet: Flourish, Giselle, A Classical Celebration, ...with Attitude; Phluxus2 Dance Collective: The Paratrooper Project. As Associate Lighting Designer: Elision Ensemble: The Navigator; Meryl Tankard: The Oracle; Opera Queensland: Aida; Expressions Dance Company: Where The Heart Is. Positions: Affiliate Artist, Queensland Theatre (2014 & 2011); Resident Lighting Designer, Queensland Theatre (2013); Associate Artistic Director – The Danger Ensemble; Emerging Artist, Queensland Theatre (2007); Professional Member, Association of Lighting Designers; Accredited Member, Australian Production Design Guild. Awards: 2011 Groundling Award – Outstanding Contribution to Lighting Design.
Holding the Man, As You Like It, Colder, Hamlet, Last Drinks; Metro Arts: Piano Lessons; NORPA: Too Young for Ghosts; Tropic Line: Private Lives, The Importance of Being Earnest; Hot Tin Roof: Dead Cats Don’t Bounce; Metro Arts: Piano Lessons. Television: The Family Law, The Bill, Through the Looking Glass, Capstick’s Law, Paradise Beach, Pacific Drive. Film: Don’t Tell, Bullets for the Dead, The Fear of Darkness, Hypersleep, Code 111-4, The Marine. As Writer (with Michael Futcher): The Wishing Well, The Drowning Bride, Citizen Jane, A Beautiful Life, Cutting Loose, 1347, The King and the Corpse!, As Solo Writer: Therese Raquin (adapter), Talking Dirty, Beetle-Eyed. Positions: Artistic Director: Matrix Theatre; Co-Artistic Director: Zen Zen Zo. Awards: Matilda Award: Body of Work 2012, Director: Therese Raquin. Actor: Rabbit Hole, Molly Sweeney. Supporting Actor: Last Drinks. Playwright: A Beautiful Life, The Drowning Bride. New Work: 1001 Nights, The Wishing Well. Greenroom Award: A Beautiful Life.
Pip Loth Stage Manager Queensland Theatre: As Stage Manager: Riley Valentine and the Occupation of Fort Svalbard, Gloria. As Assistant Stage Manager: Ladies in Black (2015), Country Song. As Set Builder: Macbeth. Other Credits: As Stage Manager: World Science Festival: Dear Albert; La Boite Theatre Company: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Motherboard Productions: Shimchong, Daughter Overboard!; EMS Entertainment: Barbie Live! The Musical (East Pacific Tour 2013-14); Life Like Touring: Elmo’s World Tour, Dora the Explorer’s Pirate Adventure. As Assistant Stage Manager: Gordon Frost: Driving Miss Daisy; Dreamworks & Global Creatures: How to Train your Dragon – Arena Spectacular (North American Tour). As Follow Spot Operator: Brisbane Festival: FLOWN. Film: As Rigging Electrics: Nim’s Island, Terra Nova. As Site Manager and Assistant Production Manager: Midsumma Festival. As AV Technician: Avcom. Positions: Stage Management & Technical Theatre Lecturer & Production Supervisor, University of Southern Queensland (2016). Training: B.A. Fine Arts Technical Production (Honours), Certificate II – Furniture Making & Finishing, Dip Live Production (Theatre & Events).
Rebecca Minuti Assistant Stage Manager Queensland Theatre: For the Moment, Where in the World is Frank Sparrow?, Switzerland. Other Credits: As Assistant Stage Manager: Now Look Here Theatre: The Lover and A Slight Ache. Training: B.A. Fine Arts (Technical Production), QUT.
Lucas Stibbard Roland Queensland Theatre: The Seagull, Macbeth, Fractions (with HotHouse Theatre), An Oak Tree, Grimm Tales, Richard II, The Real Inspector Hound, Black Comedy, The Cherry Orchard, Eating Ice-cream With Your Eyes Closed, Hamlet (with State Theatre Company of South Australia), Richard III and The Alchemist (with Bell Shakespeare). As Director: The Lost Property Rules, The Fledglings. Other Credits: As Performer: Melbourne Theatre Company: North by North West; The Escapists: boy girl wall, Attack of the Attacking Attackers! (with La Boite Theatre Company), Elephant Gun, Packed (with HotHouse Theatre); World Theatre Festival/Brisbane Powerhouse: White Rabbit Red Rabbit; Windmill Theatre: Grug; Queensland Music Festival: Drag Queensland; La Boite Theatre Company: Straight White Men, The Danger Age, Zig Zag Street; Someone: He Died With A Felafel In His Hand (with La Boite); DeBase: Lovejunk; Sarah Winter: 1000 Ways to Say I Miss You; Elbow Room: New Royal. The Weeping Scab Players: Cousin Love. As Director: Empire Theatre: Breaker Morant, Chalk; World Theatre Festival/Brisbane Powerhouse: Horrendo’s Curse; The Breadbeard Collective/La Boite Theatre Company: >< R&J. As Writer: boy girl wall, Packed (with Matt Ryan); As Dramaturge: La Boite: The Tragedy of King Richard III. Film: The Great Raid, Kokoda, The Wilde Girls, Attack On The Queen. Television: Hoges, Wanted, Prank Patrol, Wombat. Positions: National Artistic Team, Queensland Theatre 2016/2017; Artistic Advisory Committee, Queensland Theatre 2013/14; Emerging Artist, Queensland Theatre 2004; Artist in Residence, Powerhouse; Artist in Residence, Metro Arts; One sixth of The Escapists. Awards: Matilda Award - Best Actor in a Supporting Role - New Royal; Matilda Commendation – Best Independent Production - boy girl wall; Matilda Award Devising and Producing - boy girl wall; The Victor Award, International Performing Arts for Youth Conference – Grug; Green Room Award – Best Ensemble – North By Northwest; Helpman Award Nomination – Best Actor – boy girl wall. Training: B.A. Theatre Arts (Acting), MFA Cultural Leadership (undertaking).
Jessica Tovey Marianne Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other Credits: Melbourne Theatre Company: Double Indemnity; Q Theatre: Truck Stop; New Theatre: Seven Little Australians; Television: Wolf Creek, Movie Juice, Wonderland, Mr and Mrs Murder, Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo, Cops Lac, Panic at Rock Island, Wicked Love, Rescue Special Ops, Home & Away, Underbelly: Golden Mile, Wicked Science. Film: Tracks, Lemon Tree Passage, Adore, Beast No More. Awards: Logie Awards – Best New Talent (nominated), Silver Logie Actress (nominated), Out of the Box - IF Award (nominated).
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Touring Queensland Theatreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s geographic reach will significantly increase in 2017 with a tour of Constellations, straight from the Brisbane season, to 10 venues in regional Queensland. 20 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 21 April The Arts Centre Gold Coast (07) 5588 4000 | theartscentregc.com.au
9 May Gladstone Entertainment Convention Centre (07) 4972 2822 | gladecc.com.au
26 April Riverway Arts Centre, Townsville (07) 4727 9797 | ticketshop.com.au
12 May Moncrieff Entertainment Centre, Bundaberg (07) 4130 4100 | moncrieff-bundaberg.com.au
29 April Pilbeam Theatre, Rockhampton (07) 4927 4111 | seeitlive.com.au
16 May Ipswich Civic Centre (07) 3810 6100 | ipswichciviccentre.com.au
3 May Mackay Entertainment & Convention Centre (07) 4961 9777 | mackaytix.com.au
18 May Empire Theatre, Toowoomba 1300 655 299 | empiretheatre.com.au
6 May Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns 1300 855 835 | ticketlink.com.au
23 May The Events Centre, Caloundra (07) 5491 4240 | theeventscentre.com.au
L-R: Lucas Stibbard, Jessica Tovey, Kat Henry
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Rethink
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PATRON His Excellency the Honourable Paul de Jersey AC Governor of Queensland MEMBERS OF THE BOARD Elizabeth Jameson (Chair) Rachel Crowley Wayne Denning Professor Richard Fotheringham Peter Hudson Susan Learmonth Dr Andrea Moor David Williamson ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Sam Strong EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Sue Donnelly EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT Tammy Sleeth ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Paige Rattray DEVELOPMENT, FINANCE & OPERATIONS DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Amanda Jolly CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS MANAGER Nikki Porter DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR Alana Tierney COMMUNICATIONS AND GRANT COORDINATOR Anja Homburg FINANCE MANAGER Michael Cullinan ASSISTANT ACCOUNTANT Georgia Knight VENUE AND OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR Julian Messer FINANCE OFFICER Sarra Lamb PROJECT OFFICER Jolene Wright FOH COORDINATOR Kate Hardy
MARKETING MARKETING AND AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Tracey Webster HEAD OF CAMPAIGNS Jane Hunterland MARKETING ASSISTANT Louisa Sankey DIGITAL MARKETING OFFICER David D’Arcy GRAPHIC DESIGNER Aleesha Cuffe PUBLICIST Kath Rose and Associates PRODUCTION PRODUCTION MANAGER Toni Glynn TECHNICAL COORDINATOR Daniel Maddison PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Canada White TOURING COORDINATOR Michael Rogerson HEAD OF WORKSHOP Peter Sands COMPANY CARPENTER/HEAD MECHANIST John Pierce COSTUME SUPERVISOR Nathalie Ryner WARDROBE COORDINATOR Barbara Kerr PROGRAMMING PROGRAMMING MANAGER/ SENIOR PRODUCER Sophia Hall ARTISTIC COORDINATOR Samantha French PRODUCER (NEW WORK AND DEVELOPMENT) Shari Irwin PRODUCER (EDUCATION AND YOUTH PROGRAMS) Heidi Irvine PROGRAMMING COORDINATOR Laurel Collins ASSOCIATE ARTIST (EDUCATION AND YOUTH) Travis Dowling
Queensland Theatre is a member of the Australian Major Performing Arts Group.
TICKETING TICKETING SUPERVISOR Eloise Sowden SENIOR TICKETING OFFICER Donna Fields-Brown TICKETING OFFICER Madison Bell, Annabelle Hazell INDIGENOUS REFERENCE GROUP Wayne Denning (Chair), Nathan Jarro, Adam James, Angela Leitch, Paula Nazarski, Todd Phillips NATIONAL ARTISTIC TEAM Jimi Bani, Wayne Blair, Margi Brown Ash, Marcel Dorney, Christie Evangelisto, Kat Henry, Nakkiah Lui, Renee Mulder, Annette Madden, Lucas Stibbard FOUNDING DIRECTOR Alan Edwards, AM, MBE (1925 – 2003) QUEENSLAND THEATRE PRODUCTION STAFF CARPENTER Jamie Bowman CARPENTER Aleksis Waaralinna SCENIC ARTIST Leo Herreygers COSTUME MAKER Michelle Wiki PRODUCTION ELECTRICIAN Matt Allan LIGHTING OPERATOR Tom Edmiston SOUND CONSULTANT Kyle Berry ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Zane Hema – British Sign Language Consultant, Leanne Beer – Auslan Interpreter, Kim Pidcock, Dr Catherine Bettington. Rehearsal Photography: Stephen Henry. Heroes + Villians Barbers. Sandra Monteath.
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WELCOME TO THE BILLE BROWN STUDIO To ensure that patrons enjoy the performance, management asks you to note:
• Cameras, tape recorders and paging devices should not be used inside the auditorium. • Switch off alarms and mobile phones prior to the performance. • A single cough measures approximately 65 decibels of sound. The use of a handkerchief helps greatly to soften the sound. The management reserves the right to refuse admission, also to make any alterations to the cast which may be rendered necessary by illness or other unavoidable causes. Patrons are advised that the Bille Brown Studio has EMERGENCY EVACUATION PROCEDURES, a FIRE ALARM system and EXIT passageways. In case of an alert, patrons should remain calm, look for the closest EXIT sign in GREEN, listen to and comply with directions given by the inhouse trained attendants and move in an orderly fashion to outside the Studio.
QUEENSLAND THEATRE AGE PACK 41* Y A L $1 3P ONLY FROM
THE 2017 SEASON