SEASON TWO '08

MALTHOUSE THEATRE PRESENTS
RANTERS THEATRE'S

HOLIDAY

CONCEPT AND DIRECTION BY ADRIANO CORTESE
TEXT BY RAIMONDO CORTESE
SET DESIGNER ANNA TREGLOAN
SOUND COMPOSER DAVID FRANZKE
LIGHTING DESIGNER NIKLAS PAJANTI
SOUND OPERATOR DAVID FRANZKE
PERFORMED AND CO-DEVISED BY
PAUL LUM
PATRICK MOFFATT

TAKE A BREAK,
YOU MAY JUST FIND YOURSELF.

A holiday is that dreaded place we try desperately to reach and spend our time there wondering if it’s really what we wanted.

Melbourne based ensemble company, Ranters Theatre create performances with a rawness and spontaneity that uncovers an almost brutal naturalism in their story telling, and this unique style underpins the making and experience of their acclaimed production, Holiday.

Its inaugural season at Arts House last year so excited the Malthouse Theatre team that we couldn’t wait to bring it into the Tower Theatre for your pleasure in 2008.

Holiday is a gentle provocation, an examination of the private conversations that are prompted through enchanting distraction. From the bar to the chaise lounge, this is the journey of man’s simple complexities, set within a sparingly elegant design, complemented by a contemporary baroque musical score sampling Vivaldi, Corelli and Albinoni.

Stripping theatricality back to its rawest form, it reveals meaning in the most unconscious gesture, power struggles in the politest of exchanges, and hope in the blank spaces between strangers.