Malthouse Theatre Season 2017 Brochure
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2017 SEASON 2017 4 SEASON 2017 JOIN US. COME SIT IN THE DARK AND FEEL SOME- THING. 5 SEASON 2017 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 36 BLACK RIDER: ABOUT US THE CASTING 02 WELCOME OF THE 58 ABOUT US MAGIC BULLETS 60 FIND US THE SEASON 40 THE TESTAMENT 61 WHILE YOU’RE 06 THE ENCOUNTER OF MARY HERE 08 LITTLE EMPERORS 62 SUPPORT US SPECIAL EVENTS 10 THE 63 OUR HOMOSEXUALS SUPPORTERS 44 PRE AND POST 14 PIECE FOR SHOW TALKS 64 OUR SPONSORS PERSON AND & PARTNERS 46 ANTI GRAVITY GHETTO BLASTER 47 CARAVAN 16 AWAY IMPORTANT DATES OF LOVE & BOOKING INFO 22 WILD BORE 66 SEASON 2017 24 RE VOLT. SHE SAID. NEW IN 2017 CALENDAR REVOLT AGAIN. MALTHOUSETHEATRE.COM.AU 50 SEASON 70 TICKET PRICES 28 HEART IS A PASSES WASTELAND 71 BOOKING FORM 30 YOU’RE NOT ARTISTIC PROGRAMS ALONE 54 32 THE REAL AND IN HOUSE IMAGINED 56 SUITCASE HISTORY OF THE SERIES ELEPHANT MAN 57 WE’RE FOR ARTISTS 1 SEASON 2017 WELCOME TO 2017: AN ANARCHIC, RIBALD SEASON OF THEATRE THAT REVOLTS AGAINST THE ESTABLISHMENT #MALTHOUSETHEATRE2017 AND SEARCHES FOR RADICAL COMPASSION. In 2017 we are honoured to continue new Australian plays, eight world Malthouse Theatre’s 40-year premieres, three collaborations legacy of mapping the dramatic with local independent companies, changes of our world. a cohort of international guests, contemporary adaptations of From our mainstage we create a classics and a devilish musical. space for interrogation, conversation and debate. We invent and reflect This isn’t just a season brochure, the world that surrounds us. this is an invitation to join Malthouse Theatre in a year of enacting change This year we rebel against the through interrogation, human establishment, focus on characters connection, anarchy, and compassion. at epic crossroads, and share stories that search for empathy and Yours sincerely, compassion in unexpected places. Thanks to your support 2016 was a great success for Malthouse Theatre, Matthew Lutton Sarah Neal and we are enormously proud to Artistic Director Executive Producer offer you a season that includes five & Co-CEO & Co-CEO 2 SEASON 2017 MALTHOUSETHEATRE.COM.AU 3 SEASON 2017 #MALTHOUSETHEATRE2017 4 SEASON 2017 SEASON 2017: PROPOSI- TIONS FOR REVOLUTION, RADICAL EMPATHY AND UNBRIDLED MALTHOUSETHEATRE.COM.AU FARCE. 5 SEASON 2017 #THEENCOUNTER 6 SEASON 2017 THE ENCOUNTER BY comPliciTE / Simon MCBURNEY 2 – 10 FEB ‘...THIS IS MASTERFUL STORYTELLING FROM A MAN AND A COMPANY WHO ARE INCAPABLE OF REMAINING WITHIN KNOWN THEATRICAL BOUNDARIES. A MUST-SEE—OR PERHAPS I SHOULD SAY, A MUST-HEAR.’ – THE INDEPENDENT (UK) MERLYN THEATRE The Encounter tells the true story of National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre lost in a INSPIRED BY / remote area of Brazil in 1969. The journey leads to a The book Amazon Beaming by Petru Popescu startling encounter that is to change his life. Bringing DiRECTION / the limits of human consciousness into startling Simon McBurney focus, The Encounter comes to Malthouse Theatre #THEENCOUNTER PERFORMED BY / fresh from Broadway. Richard Katz CO-DIRECTION / For over thirty years, renowned UK theatre company Kirsty Housley Complicite have dazzled audiences with their DESIGN / spectacular use of technology in theatre. In their most Michael Levine SOUND / immersive and multisensory work to date, a state-of- Gareth Fry with the-art audio design will lead audiences into another Pete Malkin world, raising some of the most urgent questions of LIGHTING / today: about how we live and what we believe to be Paul Anderson true. In this solo performance Richard Katz transports PROJECTION / Will Duke the audience to the Amazon as McIntyre encounters ASSOCIATE DiRECTOR / the Mayoruna people and is led into the depths of the Jemima James rainforest and through time. A Complicite co-production As each member of the audience dons a headset, they with Edinburgh International Festival, the Barbican, London, are plunged headlong into McIntyre’s world through a Onassis Cultural Centre – Athens, 3D soundscape, where the heat of the rainforest and Schaubühne Berlin, Théâtre the whisper of unfamiliar languages whips through Vidy-Lausanne and Warwick Arts Centre. Supported by Sennheiser the ears, in an intoxicating and immersive experience. and The Wellcome Trust. Expect to be on the edge of your seat. 7 SEASON 2017 8 #LITTLEEMPERORS SEASON 2017 LITTLE EMPERORS 小皇帝 9 – 26 FEB ‘ASPIRING AND AMBITIOUS, THEATRE DIRECTOR WANG CHONG IS ON A MISSION TO OVERTHROW THE DATED STAGE TECHNIQUES THAT DOMINATE CHINESE THEATRE TODAY.’ – THE GloBAL Times BeckeTT THEATRE ‘Little Emperor Syndrome’ is a term used to describe the behavioural time-bomb created WRITTEN BY / by China’s One Child Policy. Introduced in the Lachlan Philpott DiRECTION / aftermath of the Cultural Revolution as a way Wang Chong of curbing population growth, an entire TTLEEMPERORS I DRAMATURGY / generation was raised without brothers and #L Mark Pritchard sisters. Pampered, entitled, and bucking against SET & COSTUME China’s proud tradition of filial piety, the children DESIGN / Romanie Harper of the world’s next superpower were born bearing LIGHTING DESIGN / the weight of their parents’ expectation. Emma Valente In 2016 China’s One Child Policy officially ended, A Malthouse Theatre and to mark the close of an era, we’ve teamed production presented in association with Asia TOPA: up with award-winning Australian writer Lachlan Asia Pacific Triennal of Philpott and one of Beijing’s most innovative Performing Arts, and supported by the Victorian Government directors, Wang Chong, to explore the stories, through Creative Victoria. secrets and aspirations of the children of a radical With producing support from political experiment. Set in both Melbourne Ping Pong Productions. and Beijing, and weaving between Mandarin and English, this rich and revelatory new play cuts through our assumptions to take us deep into the lives of a generation of secret and only children. 9 SEASON 2017 THE HomoseXUALS, OR FAGGOTS 17 FEB – 12 MAR FAGGOT noun #HOMOS ( ) 1/ A ball or roll of seasoned chopped liver, baked or fried 2/ A bundle of sticks bound together as fuel 3/ Pejorative term for a male homosexual 10 SEASON 2017 #HOMOS 11 SEASON 2017 #HOMOS 12 SEASON 2017 THE HomoseXUAls, OR FAGGOTS 17 FEB – 12 MAR ‘WE ARE GOING TO BE HERE TO SEE THE START OF THE PARADE, WE DON’T GO TO THE PARTY, WE GENERALLY HAVE AN EARLY NIGHT, BUT I AM SURE EVERYONE WHO DOES WILL HAVE A GOOD TIME.’ – MAlcolm TURNBULL ON SYDNEY GAY AND LesBIAN MARDI GRAS 2016 MERLYN THEATRE Warren and Kim are happily married—or as happily ‘married’ as two rich, white gay men in Australia BY / can be. Perusing a dinner menu at a pub one night, Declan Greene DiRECTION / they are mortally offended by the dinner special: #HOMOS Lee Lewis ‘Faggots—with mashed potato and gravy.’ Jump CAST INCLUDES / forward one month: Warren is attending a party Lincoln Younes in a highly offensive costume. Kim is interviewing SET & COSTUME a highly offend-able academic. You’d hope their DESIGN / Marg Horwell paths wouldn’t cross. But this is a farce, so they definitely do. A co-production with Griffin Theatre Company. Set during Sydney’s Mardi Gras this comedy of ‘mistaken identities’ takes the farce to new extremes. As one half of queer theatre outlaws Sisters Grimm, playwright Declan Greene (I Am A Miracle, Calpurnia Descending) has made his name toying with the subversive. With The Homosexuals, he takes the comedy of errors and lets it swerve across the road like a drunken driver, creating a howlingly funny hour of blistering satire that deals equally vicious blows to left and right wing hypocrisy. 13 SEASON 2017 14 #PIECEFORPERSON SEASON 2017 Piece FOR PERSON AND GHETTO BlASTer 15 – 26 MAR ‘COMIC GENIUS… GUNN’S TEXT IS INTRICATE AND OFTEN BRILLIANT, FULL OF UNPREDICTABLE DIGRESSIONS AND CURIOUS FACTOIDS. IT’S THE VERBAL EQUIVALENT OF SKIMMING STONES OVER WATER.’ – THE Age BeckeTT THEATRE Walking along the river in a foreign country, you see a man throwing stones at a nesting duck. CONCEPT, TEXT & PERFORMANCE BY / You ask him to stop. He tells you to mind your ORPERSON Nicola Gunn own business. What do you do? F CHOREOGRAPHER / ECE I Jo Lloyd Presented as a part of Dance Massive, Piece For #P SOUND DESIGN / Person and Ghetto Blaster explores the rawness Kelly Ryall of confrontation and the ethical dilemma of LIGHTING DESIGN / intervention. Through the lens of a surreal but Niklas Pajanti everyday event, Gunn plays out the tangle of AV DESIGN & DRAMATURGY / imagined responses and repercussions through Martyn Coutts a web of performance and dance. SCRIPT DRAMATURGY / Choreographed by Jo Lloyd to a rhythmic Jon Haynes COSTUME DESIGN / electronic soundscape, the interior struggle over Shio Otani whether to intervene or not becomes an erratic, TOUR PRODUCER / and ecstatic, meditation on the complexities of Performing Lines becoming a better person. Nicola Gunn was last A co-production with Performing seen on our stage in the furious political satire A Lines. Presented in association Social Service. Piece For Person and Ghetto Blaster with Dance Massive. harnesses Gunn’s signature wit to create a scathing performance of self-examination that is hypnotic and profoundly funny. 15 SEASON 2017 AWAY 3 – 28 MAY ‘GOW BALANCES EPIC FORCES— DARK AND LIGHT, LIFE AND DEATH, RAGE AND #A FORGIVENESS— W AYTHESHO ELEGANTLY AND W EVEN DELICATELY… IN A WAY THAT IS UNSENTIMENTAL, TRUE, FUNNY, AFFECTIONATE AND WISE.’ – HILAry BELL 16 SEASONSEASON 2017 W AYTHESHO W #A 17 SEASON 2017 18 #AWAYTHESHOW SEASON 2017 AWAY By MICHAEL GOW 3 – 28 MAY ‘WHAT COUNTRY, FRIENDS, IS THIS?’ – TWELFTH NIGHT, AcT I, sc. ii. Merlyn THEATRE Families can be cruel as well as kind. It is summer, W 1967, and three families head for the coast to get BY / away, to move on, to change.