Drama and Theatre Studies Performance Season
Terrorism
…a play by the Presnyakov Brothers featuring Performing Arts students, directed by James Wardlaw.
Russia. Now. The airport is closed; there are mysterious bags on the runway. Bastardisation, some sex, some murder and a dead end job. Welcome to the world of Terrorism where every day each person is moving closer to the fate they deserve.
"A deft and brilliant piece" - The Guardian "A bitter, funny, penetrating look at the toxic effects of living with fear" - The ObserverWhen: 10-12 September, 8pm
Where: Drama Theatre, Centre for the Performing Arts, Building 68, Clayton campus
Tickets: Adults $10, Concession $5; available at the door.
For further information contact Christine on 9905 9135.
Love Play
…by Moira Buffini, directed by Trent Baker, and featuring Performing Arts students
First year Bachelor of Performing Arts students present ‘Love Play’. Sexy. Witty. Powerful. Love Play follows a trail of seductions and encounters that take place in the same location in London across 2000 years. Romping through the centuries from the Romans to the Elizabethans to the present day, in blunt comic style, Love Play challenges the whys and ways we aspire to love.
When: 17-19 September, 8pm
Where: Drama Theatre, Centre for the Performing Arts, Building 68, Clayton campus
Tickets: Adults $10, Concession $5; available at the door.
For further information contact Christine on 9905 9135.
Smashed
… a play by Lally Katz, featuring Second year Performing Arts students, directed by Suzanne Chaundy.
Smashed is about friendship, time travel and death. Writing for The Age, Helen Thomson calls the play “a remarkable evocation of childhood on the brink of adulthood,” that “recreates the rituals of adolescence, seemingly so trivial, with a sense of their precious value.” Smashed will be a tribute to invention, imagination and girl power.
When: 24-26 September 2009, 8pm
Where: Drama Theatre, Centre for the Performing Arts, Building 68, Clayton campus
Tickets: Adults $10, Concession $5; available at the door.
For further information contact Christine on 9905 9135.
http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2009/09/24/theatre-smashed/
Musical Theatre 101: A Revue-sical
…featuring Performing Arts students
An early career Professor lectures on her beloved art-form and yet secretly yearns for more...
A playwright, a lyricist and a composer collaborate on their dream of writing a musical...
A Musical longs for the courage to be brave...
Musical Theatre 101; a revue-sical is an exploration of a form. Part lecture, part revue, part musical.
This original work features music and lyrics by writers such as Maurey Yeston, Stephen Schwartz, Stephen Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Jason Robert Brown, William Finn, Madonna, Kit and Yorkey, Lopez and Marx. Also features 3 original songs by the creative team specifically written for this research project.
When: 8, 9, 10 October 2009, 8pm
Where: Drama Theatre, Centre for the Performing Arts, Building 68, Clayton campus
Tickets: Adults $10, Concession $5; available at the door.
For further information contact Christine on 9905 9135.
http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2009/10/08/theatre-musical-theatre-101%E2%80%94a-revue-sical/
Big and Little
…a play by Botho Straussfeaturing second year Performing Arts students, directed by Laurence Strangio.
Lotte is a divided woman living in a divided city in a divided country. How do we reconcile ourselves with our friends, our family, our lovers, … with ourselves?
A dreamlike journey in search of identity …
Note: This play begins at 7:30pm each night, not 8:00pm like the other performances.
When: 15-17 October 2009, 7:30pm
Where: Drama Theatre, Centre for the Performing Arts, Building 68, Clayton campus
Tickets: Adults $10, Concession $5; available at the door.
For further information contact Christine on 99059135.
http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2009/10/15/theatre-big-and-little/
In Transit
…a play featuring Performing Arts students
In Transit is an original interdisciplinary work for performance by writer/theatre maker Alison Richards and composer/musical director Natasha Moszenin, working with 3rd year Monash Bachelor of Performing Arts students.
Set in the endless time and space of an international airport lounge, In Transit uses movement, spoken and recorded voice, sound and image to explore the pressures facing travellers in a globalised culture.
In Transit ... who is waiting for you? ...
When: 22-24 October 2009, 8pm
Where: Drama Theatre, Centre for the Performing Arts, Building 68, Clayton campus
Tickets: Adults $10, Concession $5; available at the door.
For further information contact Christine on 99059135.
http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2009/10/22/theatre-in-transit/