Devised by Michael Kantor, Paul Jackson, Maryanne Lynch
& Anna Tregloan
Scenario by Michael Kantor & Maryanne Lynch
Directed by Michael Kantor
With Alison Bell, Renee Geyer, Grant Smith & Ian Stenlake
Music Performed by Simon Burke, Peter Farnan, John Favaro
& Andrew Sylvio
Musical Direction and Sound Design by Peter Farnan
Set and Costume Designed by Anna Tregloan
Lighting Designed by Paul Jackson
Audio Designed by Russell Goldsmith


"All the things one has forgotten scream for help in our dreams."
Elias Canetti

THIS IS NO LULLABY

A little ray of sunshine… has come into the world.
A little ray of sunshine… in the shape of a girl.

The director and design team of Malthouse Theatre’s Journal of the Plague Year, The Odyssey and Babes in the Wood, join Peter Farnan (ex Boom Crash Opera) and his white-hot band to journey us through the theatrical landscape of that most dangerous of fables, Sleeping Beauty.

Goth-punk meets classical elegance while gospel collides with glam as Alison Bell, Grant Smith, Ian Stenlake and soul diva, Renée Geyer deliver us into the power and the passion of the great song-writers of our time, including Nick Cave, Elvis Costello and David Bowie.

Michael Kantor’s Sleeping Beauty is a blood-pulsing, dream-scouring take on one of the great stories of our collective consciousness where fear and desire are as interchangeable as twin blades.

"When I dream, it’s to a soundtrack of bitter-sweet love, wild collusions of lyrics and images which rub together to forge a knowable reality. Time stops and a singular emotion creates a deep well in which to swim. Sleeping Beauty emerges from such a place."
Michael Kantor


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Sleeping Beauty will be performed in the Merlyn Theatre. Merlyn Theatre performances are reserved seating.