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By Richard Foreman
Direction and Composition Max Lyandvert
With Ben Winspear, Gibson
Nolte and Rebecca Smee
Lighting Design Luiz Pampolha
A Kitchen Sink production
(Producer Brenna Hobson)
Director and ten-time OBIE Award winning playwright Richard Foreman
has
written a ferociously funny homage to Communism; a fierce and satiric
exploration of the cultural remnants of the Cold War.
In a black and white world with shocks of crimson, two alter egos
dance,
fall down, get up and ponder the mysterious contents of drawers
and boxes
while desperately wanting to be each other.
Fred and Freddie’s philosophical and side-splitting encounters
persist in a
universe of oppression, spying and mass manipulation. Celebrated
composer
and director, Max Lyandvert (composer for The Ham Funeral, Journal
of the
Plague Year and Eldorado) directs the Melbourne premiere
of Foreman’s
comic tribute, in a labyrinth of flashing lights, microphonics and
frenetic delirium.
"Richard Foreman, one of the most influential figures in American
drama, is
widely considered the foremost avant-garde playwright in the world
today."
The New York Times
"Max Lyandvert’s realisation reveals why one of the
most influential
international artists in contemporary theatre has entrusted his
body of
work to this talented director/ composer from Australia."
Sydney Morning Herald
Originally co-produced by B Sharp
and Malthouse Theatre
Supported by the Lehrer and Castan Families
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