FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

As I write, welcome rain beats on the window pane, and the theatres are abuzz with artists and audiences. It has been thrilling to see the audiences’ glowing faces spilling out of The Spook, Exit the King, Black, and The Pitch, as deep in the rehearsal rooms, Tense Dave and OT take shape.

In this season’s offerings the beginnings and the endings of things are vivid. It’s a potent elixir; from the absinthe-tinged songs of the forsaken women conjured up by Paul Capsis, to the bright-eyed passions of a brother and a sister caught
in childhood dreams imagined by the dynamic company Stuck Pigs Squealing. Between these two lie darker possibilities and the sumptuousness of love. Barrie Kosky offers us the gothic brilliance of Edgar Allan Poe; a woman surrounds herself with cupcakes and music; and a fairytale princess walks into the deep woods hand in hand with Jean Louis Perrault. All this and more.

It is especially exciting to be bringing you Stephen Page’s Kin, a heart-tugging tribute to the young boys of his family, and the first in a series of Indigenous projects made possible through a new collaboration between Malthouse Theatre and the Poola Foundation – Tom Kantor Fund. Tom is my late brother and had a particular closeness with Indigenous issues and peoples. He would have loved this show.

It’s also wonderful to know that as we present our work to you here at Malthouse Theatre, the company is taking its first steps out into the bigger world, with Honour Bound at both the Vienna and Holland festivals and Alias Grace touring to Kuala Lumpur.

In this, our second season for 2007, life and death are indelibly linked. We celebrate; we mourn; we tremble on the edge of our dreams. Come with us as we hope and love our way through winter’s sojourn and into bright blue skies.



Michael Kantor
Artistic Director






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