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Summer/Autumn 2006
Sunday 26 February
Imagining History
"History," claimed Voltaire, "consists of a series
of accumulated imaginative
inventions". The writer and artist Paul Carter with indigenous
film maker,
playwright and activist Richard Frankland discuss the fine line
between
fact and fiction in how Australians imagine our past and present.
Hosted by Alison Croggon.
Sunday 9 April
Lost
Readings from the hidden stories of women in an era when abortion
was a
criminal act. With Margaret Harvey, Monica Maughan, Lois Ramsey,
Sigrid
Thornton and others. Directed by Kate Cherry. Performance text co-edited
by
Hilary McPhee and Hannie Rayson, from Lost: Illegal Abortion
Stories by Jo
Wainer, with a foreword by Helen Garner (MUP, 2006).
Sunday 30 April
How to Be Funny
A hilarious exploration of the art of humour by the award-winning
duo
Ridiculusmus, David Woods and Jon Haynes, with sidekick Adam Broinowski.
Ridiculusmus presents the ‘secret’ of comedy in a mock
lecture that combines
exposition and explosive laughter. How to Be Funny has been
presented at the
Singapore Comedy Festival, Aspen’s HBO Comedy Festival, Montreal’s
Just For Laughs and the Edinburgh Fringe where it was nominated
for the
Perrier Award.
Ridiculusmus will also present their version of Oscar Wilde’s
The Importance of Being
Earnest from April 12 - April 30 as part of the 2006
Melbourne International Comedy Festival in co-production with Malthouse
Theatre.
Sunday 28 May
Theatres of Violence
Violence is all around us. Physical violence, economic violence,
sexual,
psychological and racial violence, and more. How does theatre respond
to
violence and when is it itself violent?
Next in Malthouse Theatre’s Things on Sunday series, Alison
Croggon curates
readings from performance texts by Daniel Keene (Aust), Sarah Kane
(UK), Jasmine Chan (Aust) and Peter Weiss (Ger) that puncture the
skin of language
and pull its insides out. With Robert Menzies and Lindy Davies.
Summer/Winter Season 2006
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Things on Sunday: Season One
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