Malthouse Theatre
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Malthouse Theatre
at The C.U.B. Malthouse
113 Sturt Street
Southbank Victoria 3006
Australia
Phone: +61 3 9685 5111
JULY 7 – JULY 26
MALTHOUSE THEATRE PRESENTS
AN APHIDS PRODUCTION
CARE INSTRUCTIONS
DIRECTOR MARGARET CAMERON
WRITER CYNTHIA TROUP
MUSIC DAVID YOUNG
LIGHTING DANNY PETTINGILL
CAST
JANE BAYLY
LIZ JONES
CAROLINE LEE
In a post-Beckettian, dream-like laundry, the Sleeping Beauty’s thirteenth godmother is re-imagined as a triptych of washerwomen, possessed of a language that is at once melodious and daringly potent. In anticipation of the perfect drying day, performers Jane Bayly, Liz Jones and Caroline Lee (Alias Grace, La Douleur) shine as the mythical trio of women in-waiting, and women at work, as they delve deeply into rhyme, sing-song, and the allusive poetry of piles of washing.
Care Instructions sparkles without bleach, but there’s no telling what may come out in the wash. Cynthia Troup’s whirl of words unleashes an unstoppable force, teasingly irreverent, fuelled with the spirit of Gertrude Stein and James Joyce.
ATTENTION PATRONS: THIS PRODUCTION CONTAINS SMOKE EFFECTS AND MILD NUDITY.
CARE INSTRUCTIONS WAS DEVELOPED AS PART OF LA MAMA’S 2007 EXPLORATIONS SEASON, AND PREMIERED AT LA MAMA COURTHOUSE IN NOVEMBER 2008.
CARE INSTRUCTIONS
JULY 7 - JULY 26
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SESSION TIMES / PRICES
“IN MARGARET CAMERON’S HANDS, AND WITH HER MARVELOUS TRIO OF PERFORMERS CARE INSTRUCTIONS BECOMES AN ENCHANTING EVENING OF THEATRE. SOME KIND OF MAGIC IS GOING ON IN THIS INCANTATORY LANGUAGE; A SUMMONING OF THE SENSUAL PLEASURES OF CLEAN SHEETS AND CRISP LINENS, THE SMELL OF WASHING IN SUNLIGHT.”
ALISON CROGGON, THEATRE NOTES