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BY MARIUS
VON MAYENBURG TRANSLATOR MAJA ZADE DIRECTOR BENEDICT ANDREWS SET DESIGNER ROBERT COUSINS COSTUME DESIGNER FIONA CROMBIE LIGHTING DESIGNER PAUL JACKSON SOUND DESIGNER HAMISH MICHAEL ASSISTANT DIRECTOR HALLIE SHELLAM STAGE MANAGER LYDIA TEYCHENNE CAST ALISON BELL JULIE FORSYTH RITA KALNEJAIS ROBERT MENZIES HAMISH MICHAEL MATTHEW WHITTET "Von Mayenburg’s collaborator is Benedict Andrews, an extraordinarily imaginative director. The productions I’ve seen of his, so far, have been unforgettable." Herald Sun COMING READY OR NOT! Six people wait in a non-descript room: dirty walls, an old carpet, a sofa, a small table, a few chairs, a sleeping bag. Without warning, someone walks to the corner and counts to 100. The room is ripped apart and turned inside out as the others desperately try to disappear. Hide and Seek, like theatre, is concerned with appearance and disappearance, with becoming strange for a time, with metamorphosis. It taps into archaic terrors of being found or forgotten, of being hunted, of trying to escape. Amid the anarchy of these obsessively replayed games, the people in the room report on unnerving behaviour of prepubescent children in their community. The local tweenies are developing terrifying powers. Lamps are flickering, strange stains are appearing, mysterious green packages are being planted in shopping centres. Questions are being asked; Should the parents call the hotline? Is it ok to torture a child for information? Could a ten-year-old plot mass murder? …or an entire generation of children? "Benedict Andrews is one of the original imaginations of Australian Theatre." NEIL ARMFIELD By turns hilarious and horrific, this premiere production of Moving Target has been created by playwright Marius von Mayenburg (Fireface, Parasites, Eldorado) and director Benedict Andrews (Eldorado, Julius Caesar, The Season At Sarsaparilla, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf) in collaboration with an exceptional Australian cast and creative team. Andrews and von Mayenburg work together at the Schaubühne theatre in Berlin where they have together created productions of Sarah Kane’s Cleansed and von Mayenburg’s The Ugly One. Spawning from this distinctive creative friendship Moving Target will mark von Mayenburg’s first premiere outside of a European theatre.  This project has been asisted by the Goethe Institute and the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. A MALTHOUSE THEATRE AND SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE COMMISSION DEVELOPED IN ASSOCIATION WITH ADELAIDE BANK FESTIVAL OF ARTS   Find out more Sydney Opera House www.sydneyoperahouse.com Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts www.adelaidefestival.com.au Other Season One ‘08 shows Ticket and session information SESSION TIMES TICKET PRICES Getting to the Malthouse FIND US Other information Moving Target will be performed in the Beckett Theatre. Beckett Theatre performances are reserved seating. |
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