SEPTEMBER 27 – OCTOBER 8

MALTHOUSE THEATRE PRESENTS APHIDS’


Created and Performed by Sarah Kriegler and Jacob Williams
Music The Tiger Lillies
Lighting Design Richard Vabre
A Lemony S production

A Quarreling Pair:

By Jane Bowles, Lally Katz and Cynthia Troup
Direction Margaret Cameron
With Caroline Lee and Sarah Kriegler
Sound Design Jethro Woodward
Lighting Design Richard Vabre
Music Paul Bowles

Malthouse Theatre in collaboration with award winning multidisciplinary
company, Aphids and puppeteers Sarah Kriegler and Jacob Williams, enchants
with alternate nights of surreal and impressionist intrigue, with two twisted
puppet works, A Quarrelling Pair & Apples and Ladders.

First premiered at the Melbourne International Arts Festival in 2004,
A Quarreling Pair consists of a triptych of miniature puppet plays for adults.
In this compelling study of sisterly rivalry, actor Caroline Lee and puppeteer
Sarah Kriegler (and a very versatile dressing table!). suggest a dark candour,
as the two sisters’ playgrounds are animated by object theatre, live actors,
puppets and music. A Quarreling Pair is also includes rarely performed songs
by Jane Bowles’ husband, Paul Bowles.

Thematically the three miniature plays draw on the desire to feel both
safeandfree. Jane Bowles' A Quarreling Pair is an intense study of the desire
to feel both safe and free in our most precious relationships. Elaborating on her
ambivalent imagery is Mr Peterson's Milk by Lally Katz, where the sisters are
fearlessly together, sharing a surreal adventure inside the milkman's brain.
When They Were Good by Cynthia Troup finds the sisters restless, inhabiting
an old fairytale.

In the alternative night’s performance, Malthouse Theatre will present the
premiere of Apples and Ladders, a non-verbal, impressionistic exploration of
aging and alcoholism. Puppeteers Sarah Kriegler and Jacob Williams present
this beer-stained story of a neighbourhood not unlike our own. It’s a twisted
suburban fable of loss and redemption, where a miniature puppet cabaret
exists, and lovers and drag queens sell their souls for the ultimate life of
affection.

Supported by music from UK Brechtian Punk Gypsy band, The Tiger Lillies,
Apples and Ladders portrays love, sadness, dreams (and pole-dancing!) using
layered images of shadow puppetry, marionettes, object-theatre and banraku
puppets.

A Quarreling Pair is an Aphids collaboration between some of Australia's finest
artists including:

Margaret Cameron (recipient of the prestigious Theatre Board Fellowship from
the Australia Council for the Arts), writer Lally Katz, whose plays have twice
won the Producer’s Choice Award at the New York International Fringe Festival,
and actor Caroline Lee, whose recent performances in Alias Grace and La
Douleur at the Malthouse have met with great acclaim.

Founded in 1994, Aphids is an independent, non-profit, project based group who undertake a varying series of cross-art form projects usually involving contemporary music; international residencies and collaborations; and community cultural developments. Aphids also mentors new and emerging artists and projects through its Hungry Caterpillars program. Recent collaborations have included a one month residency with Brussels-based MUSiCLAB at Les Bains:Connective, a socio-artistic laboratory in a disused, art-deco indoor swimming pool; Skin Quartet incorporating digital video projection and music for string quartet, at Anna Schwartz Gallery and recorded by ABC Classic FM; and Instrument Building at St Kilda’s Linden Gallery where the sounds of contemporary instruments under construction, in rehearsal and in performance transformed Linden into a huge instrument building: with boiling kettles, miniature percussion, analogue noise boxes, violinmaking and a circular harp.

Apples and Ladders is a new puppet work created and performed by Sarah
Kriegler and Jacob Williams. Sarah Kriegler is a freelance puppeteer and
puppetry director. She is a graduate of the VCA School of Drama Animateuring
(Theatre Making) course. In 2000, Sarah received a Churchill Fellowship,
awarded to undertake an intensive study in Puppetry at Teatro San Martin,
Buenos Aires, Argentina for six months. During 2001, she was awarded at
Rotary "Young Achievers Award" for services to the puppetry arts. She is a
core artist at Polyglot Puppet Theatre and is currently the artistic representative
on the board of Polyglot.

Jacob Williams is a freelance puppeteer, maker and actor with over twenty
years experience in the arts. He has worked with Terrain Puppet Theatre in
Hobart, and his satirical musical The Jacqui Boo Boo Experience which was the
hit of the Hobart Fringe in 2001.During 2004, he toured internationally with Black
Hole Inc.’s production of Caravan which played to sold out audiences in
Scotland, Poland, Ireland and England. Jacob completed a post-graduate
degree at the Victoria College of the Arts Drama School in Animateuring
(theatre making) in 2005. Early in 2006, he was Assistant Puppetry Director
for the Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony.

"... the tiny, intimate A Quarrelling Pair by Aphids was a quiet revelation with
its shifting weave of human and puppet, voice and sound score." RealTime
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Presented as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival

Venue: Tower Theatre, CUB Malthouse
Season Details: September 27 – October 8 2006
Previews: Wednesday 27 Sept at 7.00pm for A Quarrelling Pair & Thursday
28 Sept 7.00pm for Apples & Ladders
Opening: Friday 29 Sept 7.00pm for Apples & Ladders and 8.30pm
for A Quarrelling Pair

Performance Times:
Saturday 30 Sept 7.00pm Apples & Ladders
Sunday 1 Oct 4.00pm & 6.30pm A Quarrelling Pair
Tuesday 3 Oct 7pm (8) Apples & Ladders
Wednesday 4 Oct 7.00pm A Quarrelling Pair
Thursday 5 Oct 7.00pm Apples & Ladders
Thursday 5 Oct 8.30pm A Quarrelling Pair
Friday 6 Oct 7.00pm Apples & Ladders
Saturday 7 Oct 1pm a Quarrelling Pair
Saturday 7 Oct 7.00pm Apples & Ladders
Sunday 8 Oct 4.00pm A Quarrelling Pair

Tickets: Single performance: $15 - $27 + booking fee.
Double Bill: $35 + booking fee

Bookings: Malthouse Box Office 9685 5111/ www.malthousetheatre.com.au

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