OCTOBER 1 – OCTOBER 23

MALTHOUSE THEATRE & MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENT

RANTERS THEATRE’S

INTIMACY

DEVISED & DIRECTED BY ADRIANO CORTESE
TEXT BY RAIMONDO CORTESE
SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER ANNA TREGLOAN
LIGHTING DESIGNER NIKLAS PAJANTI
SOUND DESIGNER DAVID FRANZKE
VIDEO DESIGNER KERI LIGHT
COMPANY MANAGER ALISON HALIT

CO-DEVISED & PERFORMED BY
BETH BUCHANAN
PAUL LUM
PATRICK MOFFATT

BECKETT THEATRE
OCTOBER 1 – OCTOBER 23

Intimacy is born in the strangest of places.

Our friends reflect who we want to be; our acquaintances who we might become; our family what has made us. But only a stranger can reveal who we really are.

Intimacy begins with a man stepping out of his apartment into the chaos of a busy night. His aim: nothing more than to speak to strangers, to meet new people, to flirt with the simple differences any urban street may throw up. The result: an evening of human connection between people whose collision is as profound as its happenstance.

Ranters Theatre is a Melbourne based ensemble whose production, Holiday, a hypereal two-hander, enjoyed a season of sold-out performances for Malthouse Theatre in 2008.
As a result, in partnership with Melbourne International Arts Festival, Malthouse Theatre has commissioned Ranters to create Intimacy, an extension of that unique theatrical vision exploring what the most humble of interactions can reveal to us.

A MALTHOUSE THEATRE AND MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL COMMISSION.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTIMACY WAS SUPPORTED BY ARTS HOUSE, IN THE CULTURELAB, WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF ARTS VICTORIA.

PHOTO GARTH ORIANDER PICTURED PAUL LUM