SEASON PROGRAM 2024
TAFEQLD.EDU.AU
TAFE QUEENSLAND ACTING, DRAMA AND PERFORMANCE
We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which TAFE Queensland operates. We recognise the continuing connection to land, waters, culture and kin that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples uphold. We pay our respects to Elders past and present, who give us strength, inspiration and guidance to deliver great training outcomes for all Queenslanders.
This event is an initiative of the students from TAFE Queensland Brisbane region as part of their assessment.
Front cover: Jade Ellis, Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp by Caryl Churchill, Directed by Lisa O’Neill
Current page: Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Co-Directed by Anatoly Frusin & Lisa O’Neill
NORMAN PRICE THEATRE
The Norman Price Theatre is located on our South Bank campus in the heart of Brisbane’s arts and cultural precinct. The campus is adjacent to art galleries, performing arts venues, the museum, the State Library and easy access to the city, the beautiful South Bank Parklands, as well as plenty of cafés and restaurants to enjoy a pre-show meal.
PARKING
Onsite parking is available during the performance season. Enter via Glenelg and Merivale Streets for free parking.
VENUE
Norman Price Theatre
TAFE Queensland
South Bank campus
C Block, 66 Ernest Street, South Brisbane
BOOKINGS
Limited seats, booking is essential. Book online at
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“ TO THE HUMAN MIND A GRAIN OF DUST IS A UNIVERSE - SO REALITY DOES CLOTHE ITSELF IN COUNTLESS FORMS.”
NOH THEATRE / VIRGINIA WOOLF
BOOTCAMP ROYALE 17
15-18 MAY
TIME 7pm
ADMISSION
Adults $25 / Concession $15
BOOKINGS
“ MOST PEOPLE REALLY HAVE ENOUGH TO EAT AND A ROOF OVER THEIR HEADS. NOBODY ACTUALLY STARVES--YOU CAN ALWAYS EAT GRASS OR SOMETHING.”
Digital additions by
Kishawi
Peta
THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH
BY THORNTON WILDER
SECOND YEAR STUDENTS (BACHELOR OF CREATIVE INDUSTRIES – ACTING AND PERFORMANCE) (ARB401)
After the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic Our Town, as the United States entered WW2, Thornton Wilder wrote The Skin of Our Teeth, a madcap comedy about what it means to be human and our capacity to be both good and evil.
The Antrobus family of Excelsior, New Jersey, seem like a typical American nuclear family, but they are living in the last Ice Age, and the world is about to end! Are they Adam and Eve? Noah and his wife on the Ark? Or survivors of a nuclear holocaust?
In this meta-theatrical masterpiece, part American sit-com, part parable, time and place and the very fabric of the theatre warp and collide, as the play grapples with questions about humanity, its destiny, and its survival.
Can we save the human race?
And is it worth the effort?
30 OCT - 2 NOV
By Arrangement with ORiGiN™ Theatrical
On Behalf of Samuel French A Concord Theatricals Company
DIRECTED BY ANATOLY
FRUSIN
TIME 7pm
ADMISSION
Adults $25 / Concession $15
BOOKINGS
“ THIS IS THE NEXT WAR. THIS IS THE NEXT INVASION. YOU WILL NOT RETURN HOME. YOU WILL INVADE. STAND BY TO INVADE.”
SHOOT. GET TREASURE. REPEAT
BY MARK RAVENHILL
Unfortunately, war is always topical. Each week, month, year, decade, century new conflicts arise across the globe, some new, some historical, all with the basis in economic exploitation.
Mark Ravenhill is one of the infamous “in-yer-face” UK theatre writers of the 90’s.
He wrote Shoot. Get Treasure. Repeat in the wake of 9/11, the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, and consequent ‘War on Terror’. The core theme of this play is fear of the other: the notion of ‘us and them’ fuelled partly by the rhetoric and fear campaigns of politicians and the media. Ravenhill brilliantly juxtaposes and interrogates the multiple perspectives and experiences of war with both gravity and grim humour.
‘You are being bombed. I wake up. You are being bombed. I shower. I prepare fruit. You are being bombed. I juice. I turn on the television and you are being bombed again. The worse so far they tell me.’
THIRD YEAR STUDENTS (BACHELOR OF CREATIVE INDUSTRIES – ACTING AND PERFORMANCE) (ARB401)
DIRECTED
BY
LISA O’NEILL
TIME 7pm
ADMISSION
Adults $25 /
Concession $15
BOOKINGS
An amateur production by arrangement with ORiGiN Theatrical, on behalf of RIGHTS HOLDER
STUDIO SHOWINGS
NORMAN PRICE THEATRE FREE ADMISSION
IMAGE by Jade Ellis
Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp by Caryl Churchill
Directed by Lisa O’Neill
ALUMNI THEATRE COMPANY
ROBERT THE CAT
Robert The Cat (RTC) is a theatre collective headed by directors Lisa O’Neill and Anatoly Frusin. For over two decades they have had the fortune of working with apprentice actors in their acting and performance program at TAFE Queensland, staging work marked by an emotional intensity, physicality and theatricality.
The RTC collective has been established to take the work of these graduate actors to a broader public, and to showcase their work as performers in challenging contemporary theatre.
Productions include Love & Information by Caryl Churchill (2019), Flat Out Like A Lizard by Norman Price (2020), and Sunny Tribe District (2022) written and directed by Patrick Mu’a. roberthecattheatre.com
Robert The cat is proudly supported by Metro Arts as part of their educational partnership with TAFE Queensland.
Image by Monique Roy
Robert The Cat & Metro Arts
Flat Out Like a Lizard by Norman Price
Directed by Lisa O’Neill & Anatoly Frusin
INDUSTRY PARTNERS
EDUCATIONAL PARTNER
For 42 years, Metro Arts has been a home for Australian artists — providing a foundation for the development of inventive contemporary arts and performance. Championing all contemporary art forms, the organisation helps to both develop and present local exhibitions and performances. Metro Arts works to support the wider artistic community with a number of initiatives designed to develop the future of Australian contemporary arts practice.
metroarts.com.au
METRO ARTS NIDA
VENUE PARTNER
TAFE Queensland is proud to be in partnership with Australia’s most celebrated and prestigious acting school NIDA: The National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney.
Each year NIDA will be offering TAFE Queensland acting and drama students numerous scholarships to enrol into their NIDA Open Program and two exceptional third-year students will get the opportunity to visit NIDA in Sydney to audit and partake in activities at the main school over a two-week study secondment.
nida.edu.au/home
Image by Jade Ellis
Gagarin Way by Gregory Burke
Directed by Anatoly Frusin
STUDY PROGRAMS
Develop the practical skills, knowledge and experience required to work in the performing arts as a stage and film actor, performing artist, performance maker, or arts facilitator.
TAFE Queensland’s comprehensive acting, drama and performance courses will give you a solid grounding in acting, body and voice techniques, performance-making and entrepreneurial skills, community engagement, and performance theory.
You’ll benefit from our extended community of practice which includes ongoing relationships with schools, industry, community and student alumni to prepare you for employment and career opportunities within the greater “arts industry”.
Our teaching staff are nationally and internationally recognised as practitioners in their own right. Working across theatre, opera, dance, new media, contemporary performance practice, playwriting, film-making and music, our teachers bring with them a wealth of experience and knowledge.
OUR COURSES:
ARB401 BACHELOR OF CREATIVE INDUSTRIES (ACTING AND PERFORMANCE)
In partnership with the University of Canberra
ARB404 BACHELOR OF CREATIVE INDUSTRIES (DRAMA AND PERFORMANCE)
In partnership with the University of Canberra
CUA30213
CERTIFICATE III IN COMMUNITY DANCE, THEATRE AND EVENTS (ACTING)
IMAGE by Jade Ellis
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Directed by Lisa O’Neill & Anatoly Frusin
HOW TO APPLY
ARB401
BACHELOR OF CREATIVE INDUSTRIES (ACTING AND PERFORMANCE)
In partnership with the University of Canberra
AUDITION:
Applications open all year
Video + portfolio submission required
Call back November & January
FOR APPLICATION INFORMATION:
Go to TAFE Queensland Website (Creative Industries – Acting)
Call (07) 3244 5521
ARB404
BACHELOR OF CREATIVE INDUSTRIES (DRAMA AND PERFORMANCE)
In partnership with the University of Canberra
OPEN ENTRY:
For enrolment information:
Go to TAFE Queensland Website (Creative Industries – Drama)
Call (07) 3244 5521
Apply through QTAC or direct entry with the University of Canberra
SCAN ME
SCAN ME
IMAGE by Jade Ellis
Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp by Caryl Churchill
TAFEQLD.EDU.AU TAFE QUEENSLAND RTO 0275 | CRICOS 03020E | PRV13003 UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA CRICOS 00212K | TEQSA PRV12003
Directed by Lisa O’Neill
