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| PERFORMANCE / OPERA THE CHILDREN’S BACH Music Andrew Schultz Libretto Glenn Perry Director Chris Kohn Music Director Brett Kelly Lighting Designer Richard Vabre Designer Dale Ferguson Sound Designer Russell Goldsmith Performers James Egglestone, Kathryn Grey, Dimity Shepherd, Andrea Carcassi, Tess Duddy The Children’s Bach is a new opera based on the celebrated novel by Helen Garner. It is a contemporary story set on the banks of Merri Creek in inner-suburban Melbourne. Dexter and Athena live in a ramshackle house with no TV and an outside loo. But they are comfortably happy although life with their disabled son, Billy, has taken its toll. Against this family crashes another, Phillip, Elizabeth and Vicki: urbane, musical and stylish. And like most crashes there’s collateral damage. Despite the title this production is not suitable for children The title comes from a collection of musical exercises (ed E Harold Davies. Allens & Co 1933) designed to teach people how to play Bach, and Bach is like Life really and, like Bach, Life needs practice. 15 Performances from 20 June – 5 July, Merlyn Theatre BUY TICKETS PERFORMANCE / THEATRE Melbourne Theatre Company Studio Season BLACKBIRD By David Harrower BECKETT THEATRE JULY 17 – AUGUST 16 Best New Play – 2007 Olivier Awards ‘The most powerful drama of the season.... A miracle.’ The New York Times Featuring Greg Stone and Alison Bell Warning: For mature audiences. Not suitable for children. Book at Malthouse Theatre Online Box Office or at 03 9685 5111BUY TICKETS DANCE / THEATRE AXEMAN LULLABY CHUNKY MOVE STUDIO 111 STURT STREET SOUTHBANK AUG 7 - 17 Choreography Phillip Adams Composer David Chisholm Costumes Doyle Burrow Musicians Duo Sol Performers Carlee Mellow, Clair Peters, Jo White and Stuart Shugg Axeman Lullaby is set to premiere in August this year and is promising to deliver a sense of occasion like no other, in true BalletLab form. Artistic Director Phillip Adams has turned his attention to the historical Australian competitive sport of Wood chopping. Axeman Lullaby is a collaborative exploration and reflection on the physical and climatic characteristics of Australian wood chopping and early Victorian bush settlements. Underpinning this new work is the desire to recreate a sense of Australian cinematic landscapes. In the mid 70s and early 80s Australian cinema produced a flood of films that captured a raw and experimental identity about suburban and indigenous myth. These films offered a somewhat serial and eerie portrayal about our past and unsettled future. The powerful image of a man swinging an axe in the forensic nightmare of Thomas Keneally The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith is like the prevailing electric atmosphere and air of danger while watching a wood chopping competition. Please note this production will be held at Chunky Move Studios (across the courtyard from the CUB Malthouse) but tickets are sold through the Malthouse Box Office, on sale from June 9. BUY TICKETS PERFORMANCE / THEATRE Bell Shakespeare and Queensland Theatre Company present ANATOMY TITUS FALL OF ROME A SHAKESPEARE COMMENTARY BY HEINER MÜLLER Translated by Julian Hammond Directed by Michael Gow Starring John Bell MERLYN THEATRE Give me a staff of honor for mine age, In a powerful new co-production with Queensland Theatre Company, Michael Gow directs an extraordinary work, Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome by renowned German director and playwright, Heiner Müller, a reworking of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. Set in Rome in the aftermath of war between the Romans and the Goths, Titus Andronicus, an honourable war general, returns to his home only to find himself caught in a sordid web of unrest and upheaval, on both political and personal fronts. As Titus moves from triumph to tragedy through the shattering consequences of revenge, the message of the futility of war and animus is resounding. A tale of grim, grinding brutality with revenge at its dark heart, this is a sharply political work that speaks as much to the contemporary polemic as to Ancient Rome. Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome, starring John Bell as Titus, is a production of breathtaking theatrical power.
Performance times Also touring to Brisbane, Canberra & Sydney Meet Bell Shakespeare Meet Bell Shakespeare is a free briefing where you’ll meet the director and cast, and get an insight into the creative vision that has inspired our shows. To reserve your free seat/s call 02 8298 9038.BUY TICKETS |
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