Company No. 3, The Fixed and Free, and MKA: Theatre of New Writing with creative development opportunities and residencies. We encourage you to follow the development of these projects – to journey with us through the creative process. Details about showings will be listed on our website. Theatre Works is a creative hub in the heart of St Kilda. We support visionary artists, nurture the development of ideas and provide space for bold artistic adventures. We connect to diverse communities through live performances and participatory experiences that pleasure, provoke, disturb and entertain. The calibre of artists developing and presenting work at Theatre Works in 2012 is outstanding and we are thrilled to be staging these 9 wildly different productions that highlight the richness and vibrancy of our independent theatre community. In 2012 we will also support Daniel Schlusser, The Rabble, THE HAYLOFT PROJECT, Present Tense, Katy Werner,
Our final season for 2012 will be announced in July and includes our 3 Selected Works for 2012: Nicola Gunn’s Hello my name is, Pop Up Playground’s This is a Door and Present Tense’s The Margaret Fulton Musical. We will also launch Melbourne’s first One-on-One intimate performance festival. It’s an exciting, ambitious year and we look forward to sharing it with you. Daniel Clarke Creative Producer Theatre Works 14 Acland Street, St Kilda 3182 Tickets: theatreworks.org.au 03 9534 3388 Enquiries: admin@theatreworks.org.au
MKA: Theatre of New Writing in association with Theatre Works
The National InStitute of Dramatic Art
hoSe and tinkertOwn
Solo vOyageS
MKA Double Bill: Hose and Tinkertown You can't choose your relatives. You can't choose your friends. You can't choose yourself. HOSE: Condemned woman Isabelle seeks sanctuary in a beauty salon deep within the shopping malls of suburbia, where her superficial layers are peeled away and the details of a brutal revenge crime she has committed are revealed. Written by Bridget Mackey Directed by Alister Smith Designed by Eugyeene Teh Performed by John Shearman, Claudia Tory, Veronica Thomas, Lily Constantine, Nick Colla TINKERTOWN: On his first day out of prison in 10 years, Chester decides to visit his teenage daughter. But when he accidentally shoots dead his ex-wife's sister,
the visit turns into a kidnapping and he and his daughter race across the outback - spending 'quality time' together and getting the f*** away from the cops. Written by Nathaniel Moncrieff Directed by Tobias Manderson-Galvin Designed by Eugyeene Teh Performed by Steven Kennedy, Rebecca Mezei, Marilyn Harris, Cameron Moore “The breakout company is without doubt MKA…workingall-the-bloody-time.” Time Out February 22 (Preview) February 23 – March 3 Tue-Sat Hose at 8:00pm & Tinkertown at 9:00pm From $15 plus booking fee Double Bill from $30 plus booking fee theatreworks.org.au
A double bill presentation of Thirst and Howl as well as an exhibition of work focusing on the individual pitted against nature and the world. THIRST BY EUGENE O'NEILL Directed by Dominic Mercer Designed by Katren Wood HOWL Adapted from howl by Allen Ginsberg* Directed by Daniel Lammin Designed by Ruth Arnold For more than 50 years the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) has been the nation's leading institution for arts training and education. Its graduates represent the nation's leading performers and creative artists working in the fields of theatre, film and television.
Solo Voyages showcases the work of NIDA’s recent directing and acting graduates, guest artists and NIDA’s current design, costume, properties and production students. March 7-10 at 7.30pm March 10 at 1.00pm (followed by Q&A) From $10 plus booking fee theatreworks.org.au Warnings: Sexual References and Coarse Language. Suitable 16 years + *Howl from collected poems 1947-1997 ©2006 The Allen Ginsberg Trust
Collaboration The Project
cOllIde Collaboration The Project produces a jam-packed evening of dance. These two new energetic works will fuse Contemporary, Hip Hop and Breakdance and indulge your love of dance. This explosive collision course will be directed by Paul Malek and choreographed by some of Melbourne's most exciting talent, including Yvette Lee and Jack May. Collide promises to make your heart pump from start to finish as a collection of Australia’s finest dancers are unleashed in this ground breaking event that is not to be missed! Collaboration The Project is a dance project that provides Australian Dancers, Choreographers and Artists, performance & creative opportunities on Australian shores, working towards a strong and connected
artistic environment, allowing creative artists to grow and expand their craft. "Collaboration The Project is absolutely vital to the Australian dance landscape. We need more artists willing to be this daring and more choreographers as talented as Malek to pull it off." Dance Informa Magazine April 12 – 14, 17 – 21 at 8:00pm From $25 plus booking fee theatreworks.org.au
THE Shift theatre IN ASSOCIATION WITH THEATRE WORKS
Fraught Outfit in association with Theatre Works
Square Peg PRODUCTIONS in conjunction with SaSSy Red PRODUCTIONS
RedRoom Theatre Company
THE gIrlS In grEy
pErSona
reaSOnS tO be prETTy
Himmelweg
by Carolyn Bock and Helen Hopkins
Based on the film by Ingmar Bergman, translated by Keith Bradfield
The Girls in Grey is set within the landscape of World War One. Three Australian nurses set out to prove their worth and find adventure. What they experienced was a time in our history that left the world irrevocably changed. In a story woven from eyewitness accounts, it is a poetic and stark interpretation of commitment and courage. Brought to the stage by some of Melbourne’s finest theatre practitioners and lauded by historians as deeply authentic and moving, this inspirational work brings the silent voices of the nurses into the interpretive world of theatre, in a vivid and candid retelling of life on active service. Shortlisted for the National Play Festival and included on the VCE Drama curriculum for 2012.
Directed by Karen Martin Performed by Carolyn Bock, Olivia Connolly, Helen Hopkins, Lee Mason Lighting Design by Nick Merrylees Sound Design by Nick van Cuylenburg Set Design by Alexandra Hiller Costume Design by Lyn Wilson April 25-May 13 Wed-Sat at 8:00pm, Sun at 5:00pm April 26, May 2,3,9,10 at 11:30am From $20.00 plus booking fee theatreworks.org.au Image by Nick Merrylees
Bergman’s cinematic masterpiece boldly re-imagined for the stage. One night, during a performance of Elektra, an actress falls silent, and from then on, refuses to speak. The nurse assigned to her recovery, takes her to a remote seaside cottage. Gradually, this safe house transforms into a site of terror and isolation, as patient and nurse grow dangerously close. A nightmarish poem about identity, intimacy and the limits of the spoken word. Brought to you by the creative team of Martin Crimp’s The City at Red Stitch - 2010 Green Room nominee for Best Production (Companies).
Conceived and adapted by Adena Jacobs, Dayna Morrissey and Danny Pettingill. Directed by Adena Jacobs Production Design by Dayna Morrissey Lighting Design by Danny Pettingill Performed by Karen Sibbing and Meredith Penman By arrangement with Hal Leonard Australia Pty Ltd, on behalf of Josef Weinberger Ltd London. Translation provided by Marion Boyars Publishers. Image by Richie Lipp
May 18 at 8:00pm (Preview) May 19, 22, 23, 24,25,26 at 8:00pm May 20 & 27 at 5:00pm & May 26 at 2:00pm From $20 plus booking fee theatreworks.org.au
By Neil LaBute
How much is “pretty” worth? Greg’s tight-knit social circle is thrown into turmoil when an offhand remark about a female co-worker’s pretty face gets back to his girlfriend. When Greg’s best friend and his wife also enter the picture, the emotional equation becomes exponentially more complicated. As their relationships crumble, four friends are forced to confront a sea of deceit, infidelity, and betrayed trust on their quest to answer the all important question: “How much is pretty worth?” With Reasons to Be Pretty, LaBute examines the social obsession with physical beauty and confronts it headlong in a brutal and exhilarating way.
"LaBute has exchanged misanthropy for empathy, reaping unexpected dividends ... some of the freshest and most illuminating American dialogue to be heard anywhere." The New York Times Directed by Eddy Segal Designed by Isobel Hutton Performed by Paul Denny, Rebecca Denny, Eleanor Howlett, Johnny McNamara May May Wed Sun Sat
30 (Preview) 31 – June 17 – Sat at 8pm, at 6:30pm matinee at 2pm
From $27 plus booking fee theatreworks.org.au
By Juan Mayorga
“Did you not see the ovens? Did you not see the trains? The smoke? The Ash?” This explosively dynamic play is based on the true events surrounding World War II. HIMMELWEG tells the chilling tale of the actual events that tragically occurred in the Theresinstadt concentration camp. Know as OPERATION EMBELLISHMENT, a fake community was established in an attempt to misdirect the worlds view of Hitler as he addressed “the Jewish question”. The camps prisoners were forced to rehearse scenes which literally became the performances of their lives. HIMMELWEG shows propaganda at it’s most deadliest. There was no barbed-wire; there was no starving children; there was no mass graves; there was no torture; there was no gas chamber;
this was not the death camp we had been told of. Had we got it all wrong. Were the Nazis actually doing something right? “Operation Embellishment” was in full effect. “What I saw was an ordinary town.” “Eloquent... Haunting... POWERFUL” The New York Times “This Shattering play should not be missed!” Sunday Times "a compelling, cunningly constructed play" The Independent Directed By Alister Smith Translated By David Johnston www.redroomtheatre.com June 21 – July 1 Tue-Sat at 8:00pm Sun at 5:00pm From $30.00 plus booking fee theatreworks.org.au