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Spring 2006
Sunday 24 September
An Ordinary Man
Is an alleged terrorist a subject for a film, or is the film
really about a
terrified society? As the filmmaker in a documentary about truth
and
lies, is it possible to take a position but not take sides?
Next in Malthouse Theatre’s Things on Sunday series is the
screening of the
award-winning documentary The President versus David Hicks (2004),
followed by a conversation with its writer-director, Curtis Levy,
about his
experiences in making the film and its relationship to his other
works. Both
promise to raise intriguing questions about the relationship between
art, ethics,
politics and everyday life.
The President versus David Hicks won the 2004 AFI Best Documentary
Award
and the Most Outstanding Documentary Series at the 2005 LOGIE Awards.
Curtis Levy’s other films include Hephzibah and The Queen Goes
West.
Sunday 19 November
The Annual Rex Cramphorn Memorial Lecture:
"A Theatre of Difference"
Theatre is not merely a mirror held up to society. If this was
its only purpose
it could never question, never oppose, never suggest an alternative.
Instead,
theatre might be considered as a place where a negotiation occurs
between
what is obvious and what is hidden; a place without borders, a place
where a
truth could be told that was not the accepted truth. Theatre can
be a place
ofseditious creation. Daniel Keene
Rex Cramphorn was one of the key theatre practitioners to come out
of the
renaissance of Australian theatre in the 1960s and 1970s. His work
ranged
from the experimental to the classical and was marked by his total
commitment
to the idea of artists working together, sharing and developing
skills, and
exploring the contemporary world.
Following his untimely death in 1991, an annual Rex Cramphorn Memorial
Lecture was established to honour the memory of this distinguished
man of
Australian theatre.
This year the lecture will be delivered by Daniel Keene, an award-winning
playwright and longstanding theatre maker. Keene has written for
the theatre
since 1979. He has won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award
for Drama
twice, the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Drama twice and
the South
Australian Literary Award for Drama. He has also been awarded, with
Ariette
Taylor the Kenneth Myer Medallion for the Performing Arts for his
work with
the Keene/Taylor Theatre Project. His work has been presented at
the
Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide festivals as well as produced all
over
Australia and, overseas, in France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium,
the
United States, Canada, China and Japan.
Previous speakers include Jim Sharman, John Romeril, Rhoda Roberts,
Lindy
Davies, Neil Armfield and Geoffrey Rush, Wesley Enoch, Nick Enright,
Barrie
Kosky and Lyndon Terracini.
Download the lecture: A
Theatre of Difference PDF 84k
Spring Season 2006
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seasons
Other THINGS ON SUNDAY
Things on Sunday: Season One ‘07
Things on Sunday: Winter
Season 2006
Things on Sunday: Summer/Autumn Season
2006
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