QUEENSLAND TOURING SHOWCASE 2014
Welcome to Queensland Touring Showcase 2014.
Thanks to your input and feedback, we have reimagined the Showcase. The program today includes a host of new sessions to enrich presenters and producers’ touring knowledge, a market place for networking opportunities, a new format for pitching highlights plus a special mix of evening performances.
The Queensland Touring Showcase is produced by arTour. arTour is Queensland’s centre of contemporary touring knowledge. arTour supports performing artists and producers to tour work through regional Queensland. arTour also assists Queensland presenters to program performance work for their local audiences. arTour is managed by Circa and supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, part of the Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts.
The arTour team is here to help, both today and throughout the year:
Luke Harriman - Creative Broker
Luke can help you find the right show for your audience, give advice on engaging with communities, developing audiences, getting your production tour-ready, and finding funding.
Jo Currey - Tour Producer
Jo can help with tour itinerary development, tour management, production schedules, technical specifications, travel, freight, accommodation, risk management, APRA obligations, insurance requirements, crew for your tour and budgeting.
Beck Grace - Marketing Manager
Beck can help artists, producers and presenters with developing marketing strategies and campaign or materials advice.
We hope you have a great day, make new connections, begin conversations, find the right shows and experiences for your audiences and communities, and find the right market for your creations.
COVER IMAGES FROM TOP LEFT TO RIGHT: Lean Forward Arts - Dancing with Bach, Metro Arts -Boy Girl Wall Photo by Justine Walpole, Force of Circumstance - HOME: A Story of Belonging , Lisa Wilson - Lake , Dead Puppets Society - Argus photo by Dylan Evans.
All information correct at time of printing.
1 QUEENSLAND TOURING SHOWCASE SCHEDULE
REGISTRATION OPENS 8.30AM EVENT BEGINS 9.15AM
MC LEWIS JONES Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts
9.15AM – 10AM PERFORMANCE SPACE Hello and welcome from arTour Meet the new arTour team, get an overview of the changes in the touring landscape and hear about several exciting touring initiatives. FEATURING Little Black Dress Creatives, Queensland Ballet, Metro Arts - New ERA Touring and Anywhere Theatre Festival
10AM - 11AM PERFORMANCE SPACE Community engagement session Be inspired by successful case studies on community engagement and workshop ideas for your project and audiences. Community engagement is a major focus for the Playing Queensland Fund and this session will drive ideas on developing your own community engagement packages. FEATURING Queensland Music Festival, Red Chair Productions and Dancenorth.
MORNING BREAK 11AM-11:15AM Morning Tea will be served in the Foyer
11:15AM – 12PM PERFORMANCE SPACE Speed dating Make over 30 connections with presenters and producers in 45 minutes. Flirt with potential touring partners, kick-start new relationships and significantly expand your showcase networks in less than an hour.
12PM - 3.30PM PERFORMANCE SPACE & MUSIC REHEARSAL ROOM Marketplace and workshop sessions Delegates are free to move between Marketplace, pitches and workshop sessions. Lunch will be made available during this period. Marketplace Meet producers and presenters one-on-one, see how people can work together, discuss availability, scheduling and buying and selling work.
PERFORMANCE SPACE MUSIC REHEARSAL ROOM Pitch and performance sessions Workshop sessions
12PM – 12:30PM 12PM – 12:30PM Large Productions over $5,000 + Concept Shows Understanding risk • LaBoite – Pale Blue Dot (concept) Discover what it means to take risks in programing • Ellen Belloo – Motherland and production development and how to minimise • ILBIJERRI Theatre Company - Beautiful One risk. Day SPEAKERS Chloe Goodyear – Queensland Folk Federation and Stephen Foster – Creative Venues, Cairns Regional Council
Performance Space: Ground floor Music Rehersal Room: Level 4
2 1PM – 1:30PM 1PM – 1:30PM Large Productions over $5,000 Marketing on a shoe string budget • Dead Puppet Society – Argus Get tips on achieving high impact with small • Little Red Company – Rumour Has It: Sixty marketing budgets, where to save your dollars and Minutes Inside Adele how to stretch your spend for maximum results. • Red Chair – Women in Voice and Acoustic SPEAKERS Willow Hart - artsworx and Fiona Guitar Spectacular MacDonald - Imaginary Theatre
2PM – 2:30PM 2PM – 2:30PM Small to Medium Productions under $5,000 + Content marketing Concept Shows Learn how content marketing can support your • deBase Productions – Spoilt and Fly In Fly marketing strategy. As digital marketing becomes Out increasingly important discover what content you • Opera Queensland – Figaro, Barber of Seville should be creating to deepen connections with (concept) your audience. • Creative Regions – It All Begins with Love SPEAKERS Alana Capra Queensland Ballet and (concept) Louise Bezzina – Bleach* Festival
3PM – 3:30PM 3PM – 3:30PM Small Productions under $2,500 Arts for all Queenslanders • Melissa Western - Sweet, Sour and Saucy Hear Arts Queensland share their vision behind • Belinda Raisin – Confessions of a control the Arts for all Queenslanders strategy, examine freak cultural tourism and the plan to renew RADF and • Collusion - SOLOs Twogether the outcomes for regional communities. SPEAKERS Gillian Gardner – Arts Queensland
AFTERNOON BREAK 3.30PM-4PM Afternoon Tea will be served in the Foyer
4PM - 5.15PM PERFORMANCE SPACE 4PM - 5.15PM MUSIC REHEARSAL ROOM
Getting ready to tour 2014 Marketplace review Producers hear how arTour can support you, Presenters get down to the detail of which navigate the Playing Queensland Fund and productions are most likely to get a tour up. Put understand what to expect post showcase. forward your preferences and sketch out some SPEAKERS Jo Currey - arTour, Tina Hill– Arts potential tours. Queensland, Beck Grace - arTour
5:15PM – 5:30PM PERFORMANCE SPACE
Where to from here Presenters and producers come together to discuss where to from here. SPEAKERS Kate Fell and Luke Harriman - arTour
5:30PM – 5:50PM PERFORMANCE SPACE
A message from the Minister Ian Walker, Minister for Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts FEATURING A performance excerpt by Queensland Theatre Company of Buried Country
DINNER BREAK 6PM – 7:30PM Dinner is not provided so check out the great local eats – just make sure you’re back in time for the evening performances. You wouldn’t want to miss out!
7:30PM – 9:30PM PERFORMANCE SPACE
Evening performance Join us in the theatre for a cabaret style event. Enjoy a beverage from the bar as several producers perform excerpts in this evening of entertainment. FEATURING MC Liz Skitch, Force of Circumstance – HOME, Rachel Leary – Everything Must Go, Joseph Simons – First Things First, The Follies Company - A Sign of the Times
EVENT FINISH 9.30PM
3 GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR DAY
Queensland Touring Showcase has changed from previous years. Here’s some tips to make sure you get the most out of your day.
Be ready to Find others on your tour network, chat, route or in your region and share, negotiate and think outside work together throughout the square. the day.
Be clear about the needs and preferences of your audiences. Think about what works well and what will offer added benefits to your Use the calendar community. (page 60) and map (page 9) in this handbook to help with scheduling and The shows pitching and performing logistics. only make up some of the great Dinner is not shows available – this handbook and provided so the new arTour website are full of check out the fantastic shows available for tour. great local eats – just make sure you’re back in time for Make notes on the evening the worksheet Use the showcase to think about what sparks performances. (page 54) to your interest. arTour will send out a survey in You wouldn’t help refine your the week following so you can formally lodge want to miss choices through out! out the day. interest in specific shows.
If you’re feeling lost, confused and don’t know where to start, just ask one ENJOY of the arTour staff to point you in the YOURSELF! right direction. We’re here to help. CONTENTS
Queensland Small PAGE 9 PAGE 10 Region Map Productions under $2,500
Medium Large PAGE 18 Productions PAGE 34 Productions $2,500 - $5,000 over $5,000
Expression Concept PAGE 46 PAGE 54 of Interest Productions Worksheet
2015 PAGE 60 PAGE 62 Notes Calendar
5 PRODUCTION CATEGORIES
SMALL MEDIUM LARGE CONCEPT PRODUCTIONS PRODUCTIONS PRODUCTIONS PRODUCTIONS UNDER $2,500 $2,500 - $5,000 OVER $5,000
Maximum cost per performance, based on 3 performances per week and Production in remount costs split over a 9 venue, 3 week tour. Cost changes according development, to number of venues involved in the tour. Specific price information is price to be announced available from Producers and/or arTour.
SMALL PRODUCTIONS under $2,500 Page BELINDA RAISIN Confessions of a control freak 11 BRAVE THEATRE Miss Bronte 11 CHRISTINE WHEELER AND FRIENDS Rain in the mountains: Songs from Henry Lawson 12 COLLUSION MUSIC AUSTRALIA Four musicians read the old dream slowly 12 COLLUSION MUSIC AUSTRALIA SOLOs twogether 13 COLLUSION MUSIC AUSTRALIA TRIOs in Folk Style 13 DEBASE PRODUCTIONS Spoilt 14 JENS ALTHEIMER Squaring the wheel 14 JUDY HAINSWORTH #FirstWorldWhiteGirls 15 LINSEY POLLAK Live and Loopy 15 MELISSA WESTERN AND ANTONY DYER Lissa & Nee Nee’s Adventure Time 16 MELISSA WESTERN AND ANTONY DYER Sweet, Sour & Saucy 16 THE FOLLIES COMPANY A sign of the times - A comedy of life 17 THEATRE NUIT & JOUR She Walks Beside His Shoes 17
MEDIUM PRODUCTIONS $2,500 - $5,000 CRADLE PRODUCTIONS Public Toilets, Private Words 19 DEBASE PRODUCTIONS Fly In Fly Out 19 FIDDLERS FEAST Fiddlers Feast 20 FORCE OF CIRCUMSTANCE HOME: A story of belonging 20 JALLY ENTERTAINMENT Barry Morgan – World of Organs 20 JALLY ENTERTAINMENT Snow White and the seven cool dudes 21 JANE RUTTER Flute Dreaming 21 JANE RUTTER French Kiss 21 JANE RUTTER Irish Fantasy 22 JOHN THOMPSON The Great War 22 JOSEPH SIMONS First Things First 23 JUTE THEATRE Propelled 23 LEAN FORWARD ARTS Dancing with Bach 24 LITTLE BLACK DRESS CREATIVES Aria Moderna 24 LITTLE BLACK DRESS CREATIVES I can keep a secret 25 LITTLE BLACK DRESS CREATIVES Where the wild roses grow 25 MARTINE PAVEY Bette, Babs & Bassey 26 MARTINE PAVEY Judy & Liza 26 MARTINE PAVEY Stardust 26
6 MATTHEW HALE COMEDY HYPNOTIST Get Hypnotised! The Matthew Hale Comedy Hypnosis Show 27 MELISSA WESTERN & ANTONY DYER Oh, Lady be good 27 METRO ARTS boy girl wall 28 PHLUXUS2 DANCE COLLECTIVE de-generator 28 RACHEL LEARY Everything must go 29 RED CHAIR Acoustic Guitar Spectacular 29 RED CHAIR The People’s Orchestra 30 RED CHAIR The Swingin’ Martinis 30 RED CHAIR Treasure of Captain Curlylocks 30 SUCCESS ON STAGE Supreme dreams 31 THE GUITAR COLLECTIVE Gypsy in my soul 31 UPTEMPO ENTERTAINMENT INTERNATIONAL The Man In The Mirror ‘Reflections Of Michael Jackson’ 32 WISH LIST PRODUCTIONS The Secret History of Queensland 32 ZEAL QLD The Apology 33
LARGE PRODUCTIONS over $5,000 ARC DREAMING Mirabooka Dreaming 35 CIRCA Beyond 35 CIRCA Carnival of the Animals 36 CLAIRE MARSHALL SlowDive 36 DEAD PUPPET SOCIETY Argus 37 DON W MACKAY The Lux Radio Theatre Presents The Agatha Christie Radio Mysteries 37 DON W MACKAY The Lux Radio Theatre Presents The Importance of Being Earnest 37 ELLEN BELLOO Motherland 38 ERTH - VISUAL & PHYSICAL INC. Dinosaur Zoo 38 HARVEST RAIN THEATRE COMPANY Guys and Dolls 39 ILBIJERRI THEATRE COMPANY Beautiful One Day 39 JALLY ENTERTAINMENT Gallipoli - A manual of trench warfare 40 LISA WILSON Lake 40 LIZ LEA Inflight 41 LIZ LEA Magnificus Magnificus 41 MADCAT CREATIVE CONNECTIONS & RICHARD JORDAN Machina by Richard Jordan 42 PAUL HAYMAN Return to Cloudland Ballroom 42 RED CHAIR The Red Velvet Lounge 43 RED CHAIR Women in Voice 43 THE LITTLE RED COMPANY Rumour Has It: Sixty Minutes Inside Adele 44 THE LITTLE RED COMPANY Wrecking Ball 44 TOPOLOGY THREE: Tap into Topology 45
CONCEPT PRODUCTIONS BELINDA RAISIN Obsessions of a control freak 47 CRADLE PRODUCTIONS The BiPolar Express 47 CREATIVE REGIONS It all begins with love 48 DEBASE PRODUCTIONS Furze Family Variety Hour 48 ELLEN BELLOO Tinder 49 FORCE OF CIRCUMSTANCE He Dreamed a Train 49 LA BOITE Pale Blue Dot 50 LISA WILSON PROJECTS Wireless 50 MELBOURNE BALLET COMPANY Peter and the Wolf 51 OPERA QUEENSLAND Figaro, Barber of Seville 51 QUEENSLAND THEATRE COMPANY Buried Country 52 STAGECOACH STAGE HIRE Country Music Road Show 52 THE PAINTED LADIES The Painted Ladies 53 TOPOLOGY Love Stories 53
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8 QUEENSLAND QUEENSLAND REGION MAP REGION MAP
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Normanton Burketown DOOMADGEE Doomadgee Tully CASSOWARY Croydon COAST BURKE Georgetown TABLELANDS CROYDON PALM ISLAND ETHERIDGE Ingham
Palm HINCHINBROOK Island NORTH WEST Townsville TOWNSVILLE
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CHARTERS MOUNT TOWERS Charters ISA CITY MCKINLAY Proserpine Towers Mount WHITSUNDAY Isa Cloncurry Julia RICHMOND Creek Hughenden MACKAY Richmond NORTHERN Mackay FLINDERS
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Moranbah ISAAC Winton Dysart WINTON LIVINGSTONE BOULIA Boulia BARCALDINE CENTRAL Yeppoon Longreach Barcaldine Emerald ROCKHAMPTON CENTRAL WEST LONGREACH Gladstone GLADSTONE CENTRAL WOORABINDA Bedourie Blackall HIGHLANDS Banana DIAMANTINA BUNDABERG BLACKALL Monto Jundah TAMBO Bundaberg BARCOO WIDE BAY BANANA NORTH FRASER BURNETT COAST GYMPIE QUILPIE MURWEH SOUTH Quilpie Charleville MARANOA Roma BURNETT WESTER! N DOWNS Dalby SOUTH WEST DARLING TOOWOOMBA Thargomindah St George See Inset BULLOO PAROO 0 25 50 100 150 200 DOWNS BALONNE GOONDIWINDI SOUTHERN Kilometres Goondiwindi DOWNS Stanthorpe
9 SMALL PRODUCTIONS under $2,500
These small size productions are generally 1 to 2 handers, have limited technical requirements and will suit Community Presenters. Belinda Raisin/Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts CONFESSIONS OF A CONTROL FREAK
CONTACT ARTFORM Belinda Raisin: Co-Producer/Artist Cabaret, Comedy, Live music, 0431 058 210 Physical theatre / Circus [email protected] SMALL PREFERRED CONTACT: Email PRODUCTIONS UNDER $2,500
Frances is caught in the rat trap of this multi-tasking, multi-vitamin, multi-media modern era. When she attempts to trade now now now for a little namaste, her carefully controlled existence rapidly unravels, revealing the virtues of procrastination and the joys of mixing yoga and alcohol.
‘Loads of fun’ – XS Entertainment
‘So much talent!’ - Australian Stage
‘An energetic and amusing insight into the OCD within all of us’ – Rip it Up
‘Funny, quirky & heart-warming…OH-SO-RELATABLE’ – Adelaide Now
BRAVE Theatre MISS BRONTE
CONTACT ARTFORM Mel Dodge: Producer Drama 0406 809 985 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Charlotte Brontë has a secret. In fact secrets seem to run in the family...
How could an unmarried woman living in a secluded parsonage, with only her sisters for company, write one of the World’s greatest love stories? Charlotte had secretly fallen in love with her married French Professor. She had tasted love and her secrets echo in the pages of Jane Eyre.
Carefully constructed from Charlotte’s own letters and novels, Miss Brontë tells a true story of ambition, forbidden love and the deep bond of family.
VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU 11 Christine Wheeler and Friends RAIN IN THE MOUNTAINS: SONGS FROM HENRY LAWSON
CONTACT ARTFORM Christine Wheeler: Band Leader Live music 0408 276 436 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
How does a tortured soul like Lawson, deaf, depressive and a drunkard in later life, conjure up words that will outlast him by 100 years and more? Hard to answer this question without mentioning the word ‘genius’ – they’re all hard to live with! The artists will talk about the complex life of this extraordinary Australian, in between presenting their contemporary folk-inspired settings of this special selection of his poems.
From country waltzes and Irish style slip jigs to introspective airs, jazz-tinged ballads and upbeat rocking anthems, these are uniquely beautiful arrangements of settings by writers as diverse as country music star Slim Dusty, John Schumann of Redgum fame, jazz composer Ade Monsbourgh and folk icon Chris Kempster, as well as several originals.
‘Rain in the Mountains: Songs from Henry Lawson’ has received accolades from punters and presenters alike. For this vibrant and contemporary revisiting of Henry Lawson’s resilient poetry Christine Wheeler (Wheelers and Dealers, Musica Viva in Schools) will be joined by much admired musicians Leigh Birkett and Lindsay Martin.
Collusion Music Australia Ltd. FOUR MUSICIANS READ THE OLD DREAM SLOWLY
CONTACT ARTFORM Benjamin Greaves: Artistic Director/Manager Live music 0404 646 709 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
A fine example of Australian instrumental sounds for strings, clarinet, saxophone and piano. This IS music that is easy listening, thought evoking and most importantly entertaining. This music has already captured the hearts of people in regional communities and those less accustomed to concerts given by classical musicians.
In 2012 Collusion Music enchanted the people of Landsborough in regional Victoria with this concert of beautiful Australian art music, by gifted Australian composers.
The Collusion Music ensemble will perform as the core quartet (violin/viola, clarinet/saxophone, cello and piano), offering the music from their latest two CDs I Read The Old Dream Slowly (2012) and I Saw A Peacock With A Fiery Tail (2015).
This concert exposes Queensland communities to the quality of our own home-grown composers. The music is easy listening, charming and of the highest quality.
12 VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODUCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU Collusion Music Australia Ltd. SOLOS TWOGETHER
CONTACT ARTFORM Benjamin Greaves: Artistic Director/Manager Dance, Live music, Physical 0404 646 709 theatre [email protected] SMALL PREFERRED CONTACT: Email PRODUCTIONS UNDER $2,500
Dancer/choreographer Gareth Belling and Collusion Director Benjamin Greaves perform together in a spectacular collaboration, intertwining Ballet, Physical Theatre and Virtuosic Electric Violin and Viola performance. A performance that highlights the essence of Collusion Music’s work to fuse live music and other artforms. Music from the Baroque to the 21st Century create catalyst for a spellbinding performance like no other. Music and movement steamroll towards an ode to the guitar master Jimi Hendrix.
Our most economical concert for purchase involves a solo dancer (Gareth Belling - ex Qld Ballet Dancer and Choreographer) and solo violinist (Benjamin Greaves - Director of Collusion Music), featuring a memorable performance of the spectacular baroque Pasacaglia for solo violin and dancer by Heinrich Biber. Audiences will enjoy the virtuosic spectacle of electric violinist Benjamin Greaves performing a tribute to Jimi Hendrix (music by Paul Stanhope) and be intrigued by a dance work for violin, physical theatre and 15 music stands. The show will be rounded out with the sparkling music of J.S. Bach and Tartini.
Collusion Music Australia Ltd. TRIOS IN FOLK STYLE
CONTACT ARTFORM Benjamin Greaves: Artistic Director/Manager Live music 0404 646 709 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
A trio performance featuring the virtuosic skills of Clarinettist Diana Tolmie (lecturer at the Qld Conservatorium of Music), with associate artists Benjamin Greaves (violin) and Dr Danielle Bentley (cello) will charm audiences with a spectacular glimpse of virtuosic skills in French composer Nicolas Bacri’s folk music tribute, IM VOLKSTON (in folk style).
Diana Tolmie will enrapture audiences with Brisbane composer of Video Game music Thomas Green’s Chalemeau Orbits for Bass Clarinet and Electronic Backing track. Photo by FenLan Chuang
VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU 13 deBASE Productions SPOILT
CONTACT ARTFORM Robert Kronk: General manager Cabaret, Comedy 07 3162 8812 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
“Simply ahhhh-mazing.” Heckler “Ruthless and incisive.” Theatre Press
“Tour de force… Liz Skitch, step into the spotlight and take a bow.” Weekend Notes
“Skitch is a natural mimic, shedding accents and years as easily as she changes costume.” The Age
“Each character is defined only by the choice of wig, shoes and a few accoutrements… and Skitch’s impressive ability to change her entire physicality to match each character.” Theatre People
“Spoilt delivers a very adept touch on all that is bizarre in a world we call normal and an extremely entertaining yet painfully honest perception of life as we know it.” Heckler
What’s Spoilt about? Spoilt is a comic-rollercoaster. Social satirist and clown, Liz Skitch plays five very different and very spoilt women. The show sends up self-indulgence and the self-improvement industry.
These five spoilt women; a reality TV ‘star,’ a celebrity trainer, a botoxed celebrant, a small-dog-loving PR consultant, and a bridezilla collide and compete in the lead up to the wedding of the year.
Flipping the darkside of narcissim and self-improvement sunny-side up, Spoilt is an electric comedy masterpiece. Who knew self-destruction could be this much fun?
Jens Altheimer SQUARING THE WHEEL
CONTACT ARTFORM Jens Altheimer: Producer Children’s / Family, Comedy, 0419 031 021 Physical theatre / Circus, Visual [email protected] theatre PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Squaring the Wheel combines circus, clown, strange mechanisms and contraptions, puppetry, magic and music into an unusual, thingamabobbish theatre extravaganza.
A flying broom, two ugly screaming babies, 17 balls, 34 meters of bent steel, 483 welded points and 15 marching eggs are just the tip of the iceberg of unexpected, transformed wacky materials and objects.
Unpredictable, funny, touching, highly visual and occasionally out of control, it is a clever theatre adventure for the whole family in thinking out of the box.
Topsy-turvy ways to look at things, teamed with imagination, transform a pile of junk into a resourceful repository of gadgets and circus props, into life and friendship supporting odds and ends …all done in an hilarious and ultimately very human way of complicating simple things.
Interactive workshops are available which show you the science behind the wacky contraptions and get you inspired to build your own little universe of pulleys, catapults and chain-reaction machines back home.
Winner of the Adelaide Fringe Award 2013, Best Presentation for Children.
14 VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODUCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU Judy Hainsworth #FIRSTWORLDWHITEGIRLS
CONTACT ARTFORM Judy Hainsworth: Producer/Artist Cabaret, Comedy, Live music 0423 088 122 [email protected] SMALL PRODUCTIONS PREFERRED CONTACT: Phone UNDER $2,500
Just because you have clean water, food, shelter and a Mimco handbag doesn’t mean you don’t have problems.
#FirstWorldWhiteGirls is a hilarious comedy cabaret created and performed by Judy Hainsworth (The Narcissist, Statespeare) and Kaitlin Oliver (The Mikado) and directed by Cienda McNamara (Undies the Cabaret).
#FirstWorldWhiteGirls delves into the trauma of being a white girl – having flat hair, having too many computer passwords, being ‘time-poor’, having over-supportive parents, and always feeling like the smartest person in the room. These spoiled songstresses invite you into their den of entitlement to laugh, vent and share in their first world pain. Politically incorrect and tragically funny, this is a must- see for anyone who has ever had a spray tanning mishap or Instagram envy.
Linsey Pollak LIVE AND LOOPY
CONTACT ARTFORM Linsey Pollak: Solo Performer Children’s / Family, Live music, 07 5499 9372 Music theatre [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Linsey makes music by live looping instruments of his own making such as the saxillo, Mr Curly, Rubber Glove bagpipes and the carrot clarinet. Using these instruments as well as voice, bubble wrap drum, jawharps and iPad he cunningly creates layers of music so you can enjoy the process of composition as well as the product of performance.
Watch and listen as he uses high-tech electronic wizardry neatly combined with DIY ingenuity to create the rich mellow sound of a watering can clarinet quartet ...... voice-generated rhythm tracks & Kaossilator bass grooves….... or blasts out a dose of seventies style funk with “Mr Curly” (a contra-bass clarinet made from plastic garden hose).
Photo by Morgan Roberts
VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU 15 Melissa Western & Antony Dyer LISSA & NEE NEE’S ADVENTURE TIME
CONTACT ARTFORM Melissa Western : Creative Director Children’s / Family, Live music 0414 267 009 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Lissa and Nee Nee are a brisbane-based, all-singing, all-dancing, high energy, fun-filled, family friendly musical duo. Their shows feature fun-filled jazz numbers, magical nursery rhymes and rocking originals. Audiences are moved to their feet by the infectious energy of Lissa and Nee Nee. Parents can’t resist joining in the fun and soon enough the entire theatre is singing and dancing along to Lissa and Nee Nee’s well-choreographed Tom-foolery!
The overall themes of their shows are friendship and adventure. Lissa and Nee Nee are best friends and enjoy travelling around having everyday adventures. Photo by Michael Secis It’s a delight for the young and the young at heart! The show style is similar to live music/story groups like The Wiggles, Hi-5, The Fairies etc. Performances run to a non-stop backing of original score.
Melissa Western & Antony Dyer SWEET, SOUR & SAUCY
CONTACT ARTFORM Melissa Western : Creative Director Cabaret, Comedy, Live music 0414 267 009 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Sweet, Sour & Saucy is framed within a 1950s Australian talkback radio love show hosted by Barry and Barbara (played by Tnee and Melissa) featuring songs by Eartha Kitt, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Bessie Smith, Nat King Cole and more. Sweet, Sour & Saucy is duo jazz/cabaret performance featuring fresh, energetic interpretations of jazz standards from high calibre singer/musicians Antony (Tnee) Dyer and Melissa Western. This is the perfect mix for a touring show combining virtuosic piano playing, strong and sultry vocals, rich harmonies and inventive accompaniment (ukulele, washboard, spoons, trombone kazoo, tap dancing and more).
16 VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODUCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU The Follies Company A SIGN OF THE TIMES – A COMEDY OF LIFE
CONTACT ARTFORM Steve Helper: Writer / Director Comedy, Drama , Visual theatre 0412 118 181 [email protected] SMALL PRODUCTIONS PREFERRED CONTACT: Phone UNDER $2,500
Based on a 20 second interaction with a road worker who turns the Stop/Slow sign, A Sign of the Times is an epic comedy about depression.
The dashing and charismatic Scott Irwin gives a sensational performance as this upbeat worker on the job. He lives In our world of job losses, loved-ones with cancer, relationships under stress, endless wars, iPhones and terrible traffic. Having been restructured out of his university teaching, he has decided to become “a fixed point in the universe” with this simple job to limit these variables that have taken such a toll on him. As he works, his joyful imagination takes us from the theatre, from the reality of the work site on a journey searching for the fundamental forces that create such misfortune.
He delights in exploring Einstein, religion, Greek myths, literature and the very essence of theatre itself. He is also a delightful expert at his sign-turning, which he demonstrates on several occasions. But as we travel with him, we start to see a man valiantly, wittily, compellingly, distracting himself from the pain of his present sourced in events he relives in his past. He is going nowhere. In the pain of a nihilistic world, he is caught deep in the trap of inaction. It is his escape from this subtle, insidious trap that is the journey of A SIGN OF THE TIMES. The end of the play sees him setting off to “act”, to take positive action to rebuild his life.
Voted as one of the 5 “Best and wisest productions of 2013” by Suzy Wrong (see reviews). Features poetry by Robert Frost, Shakespeare, the Greek tragedians, Alexander Pope and T.S. Eliot. Quick bump-in and out.
Theatre Nuit & Jour SHE WALKS BESIDE HIS SHOES
CONTACT ARTFORM Florence Teillet: Producer/founder Comedy, Drama, Music theatre, 0403 288 287 Visual theatre [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Using puppets, humour and music, the play reveals the impact this traumatic experience had on Florence’s relationship with her father as she walks beside his shoes. It also reflects on her experience as a migrant artist who has called Australia (particularly the Sunshine Coast) home for the last 28 years.
The play is a unique and moving story of a father and daughter, of human survival and the role humour, luck and stubbornness play in it. It is also a story of friends as family and the need for belonging, of Australia as a place of refuge, peace and new beginnings. It brings into focus an unfamiliar story of a father and daughter, of France and Australia and of war and peace. It addresses themes of human survival, displacement, and cultural and language barriers to communication and aims to inspire cross-generational dialogue.
VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU 17 MEDIUM PRODUCTIONS $2,500 - $5,000
These mid sized productions often have 2 or more performers, a simple set and some technical requirements. These productions will suit Community Presenters and Managed Venue Presenters. Cradle Productions PUBLIC TOILETS, PRIVATE WORDS
CONTACT ARTFORM Eloise Maree: Producer Cabaret 0435 573 109 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
A cabaret flush with the philosophical musings of the drunken and the damned.
Some people contribute, some people consume it, some even capture it… and now there is the cabaret. Yes, Public Toilets, Private MEDIUM Words is an absurd comedic cabaret gem, making private moments PRODUCTIONS public by performing the scrawlings from the walls of the stalls. $2,500 - $5,000
Cabaret, puppetry and drama intertwine in this righteously dark comedy. Public Toilets, Private Words will take you to places you’ve been, but would rather forget. Set in toilet cubicles from around the world, three intrepid performers transform into more than 100 characters, launching into song and bashing on drain pipes, with occasional outbursts of wild interpretive dance.
Joyous, brazen and a little bit risqué, Public Toilets, Private Words will forever change your view of the loo and remind you that while you can’t polish a turd, you can certainly spin one into gold!
deBASE Productions FLY-IN FLY-OUT
CONTACT ARTFORM Robert Kronk: General manager Comedy, Drama 07 3162 8812 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
A funny and gritty play about growing up in a mining town, dealing with change and serving fried chicken.
Jenny lives in a small Queensland mining town: she’s almost finished Grade Ten and is struggling to balance school, her part-time jobs, her wayward sister, her relationships, and everyone’s expectations. When the charismatic Seb flies into town, Jenny’s balancing act is thrown into chaos and her world threatens to collapse around her.
Fly-In Fly-Out looks at how families and communities deal with upheaval and how we strive to adapt. The play examines universal themes through the prism of the mining boom and the influx of fly-in fly- out workers into a small community.
From the makers of the critically acclaimed Snagged and Ithaca Road, Fly-In Fly-Out has been developed in consultation with communities and young people throughout Central Queensland. The show is a must see for audiences of all ages and begins the conversation about what communities can do to develop resilience in the face of change.
“The themes of family, first love, grief, pressure, work/home balance are easily relatable and pose questions for students and teachers to ponder well after the show … it set tongues wagging.” – Natalie Nunan, Brisbane Bayside College
VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU 19 Fiddlers Feast FIDDLERS FEAST
CONTACT ARTFORM Marcus Holden: Director Live music 0407 404 443 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Drawing from the depth of Australia’s fiddling talent, Fiddlers Feast brings together the unique elements of Australia’s fiddle style with its blend of Traditional Folk, Blues, Jazz and Classical sounds combining them with breathtaking musical wizardry and quirky humour. As a small or large group, Fiddlers Feast is full of fun and energy, with an ability to engage audiences of all ages with dazzling fiddle virtuosity and sound that is all their own.
Force of Circumstance (FOC) HOME: A STORY OF BELONGING
CONTACT ARTFORM Margi Brown Ash: Founding Director Drama, Interdisciplinary, Live 0410 515 637 music, Visual theatre [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
HOME is about belonging. With her audience, Margi and son Travis step into a re-imagined world, playing with changing relationships while exploring decades of memories and their changing landscapes.
Using autobiographical stories and mythology, Brown Ash’s script moves from Australia to Egypt and to USA, returning again and again to Brisbane in the search for belonging. Taking on the writer/ performer’s multiple lived perspectives as a daughter, wife, mother, actor and therapist, HOME considers how our past, present and future can impact on one another, and how with a shift in perspective, stories can change to become empowering.
One of the script’s central threads is a re-telling of the Egyptian Myth of Isis and Osiris – a story of love, betrayal and re-birth – that extends the reach of Margi’s firsthand narratives by connecting the story of her individual transformations to this mythic tale of resurrection. The script also reports, via a spoken and musical score by Travis Ash, on world conflicts and local stories of grief and loss, running parallel and sometimes in contrast to the autobiographical experiences.
Jally Entertainment BARRY MORGAN - WORLD OF ORGANS
CONTACT ARTFORM John Bailey: Producer Comedy 0422 492 735 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email He puts the Boss in Bossa Nova, the Yes in Polyester, he’s the patron saint of the safari suit – he is Barry Morgan.
20 VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODUCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU Jally Entertainment SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN COOL DUDES
CONTACT ARTFORM John Bailey: Producer Children’s / Family 0422 492 735 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
This modern adaptation of an old favourite includes – The very clever “magic” Mirror, The Hunter, Sneezy- the Cool Dude and his Personal Trainer plus of course the lovely Snow White and one nasty old Wicked Queen.
MEDIUM PRODUCTIONS Jane Rutter Management $2,500 - $5,000 FLUTE DREAMING
CONTACT ARTFORM Jane Rutter: Producer, lead performer Live music 0433 158 026 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Jane Rutter is a classical free spirit who uses the flute as a voice, a tool of magical communication. In this intimate concert, Jane plays solo silver, gold, wooden, bamboo, ebony flutes and Irish whistles. Baroque Fantasies, Indian Ragas, Contemporary Incantations, the program includes a new work by the artist herself. Haunting, meditative works by Telemann, Debussy, Ross Edwards, and more. Prose by Shakespeare, Patrick White, Anaïs Nin.
Jane Rutter Management FRENCH KISS
CONTACT ARTFORM Jane Rutter: Producer, lead performer Cabaret, Live music, Music 0433 158 026 theatre [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Following the success of her chart-topping, ARIA-Award-nominated album An Australian in Paris, French Kiss showcases exquisite gems of French music that are a treasured part of Jane’s life and repertoire, due to the years she spent in France under the tutelage of Jean-Pierre Rampal and Alain Marion as a student of the French bel canto style of flute playing. Profoundly intimate, French Kiss enthrals us in a musical embrace, from the French Baroque to the sobbing heart of the French Romantique era, from the passionate world of Paris salons to the joyous insouciance of la Belle Époque, as well as re-interpreting classic French repertoire( Ferroud, Devienne) and Parisian cabaret favourites.
VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU 21 Jane Rutter Management IRISH FANTASY
CONTACT ARTFORM Jane Rutter: Producer, lead performer Children’s / Family, Live music 0433 158 026 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Free Spirit Classical Flutist Jane Rutter plays gold, silver, wooden flutes, and Irish whistles in lyrical, enchanting concert. Based around her #No1 Album: Fire and Water: An Irish Fantasy, Jane’s hauntingly beautiful flutes evoke the romance of the old country as she enchants audiences with this Irish classical concert. Undoubtedly Australia’s finest and best loved flute player.
Jane brings her trademark passionate lyricism to music which has captivated audiences throughout the ages. Don’t miss this chance to see and hear Australian classical flute superstar in Irish mode. Accompanied by the Fear An Bhata Ensemble: (string trio and harp), the concert is mixture of lush and lively music, presented with warmth and wit: from lyrical tunes to jaunty jigs steeped in tradition, the programme includes a collection of Baroque gigues, da Falla’s Ritual Fire Dance, and famous Irish and Celtic melodies, including The Mistrel Boy, The Kerry Dance, My Heart Will Go On, She Moved through the Fair, the beautiful I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls, Finnegan’s Wake, and the Irish tune from County Derry (Danny Boy).
John Thompson THE GREAT WAR: SONGS & STORIES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
CONTACT ARTFORM John Thompson: Artistic Director Live music 0416 032 573 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
2014 marks the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. The Great War marks this centenary by shedding a new light on the role music played in the war.
Through the songs and images of both war and the homefront, The Great War aims to recreate this period for a contemporary audience. Projected images form the background to a narrative of the war’s chronology and in particular, the Australian experience of the war.
The music of the war served to unite the participants in the war, both military and civilian. Through popular song and parody, they found expression of their longing for a return to peace and of their reactions to the strange experiences which overwhelmed so many societies.
First performed in November, 2013, The Great War has been developed as a touring production for both concert presentation and as a tailored show for schools.
While largely a one-man show, The Great War is augmented with other musicians as required for particular arrangements of individual songs.
22 VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODUCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU Joseph Simons FIRST THINGS FIRST
CONTACT ARTFORM Joseph Simons: Producer Children’s / Family, Comedy, 0432 498 020 Dance, Interdisciplinary, Physical [email protected] theatre / Circus PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
First Things First is a 60 minute one-man dance show created and performed by one of Australia’s most innovative young performers, Joseph Simons.
First Things First is about first experiences, and the transition between the unfamiliar to the routine. MEDIUM “Straight down to business: First Things First is incredibly funny, intelligent, charming and amazing. PRODUCTIONS Joseph Simons is a chameleon, a theatre animal, a phenomenon. His face is almost stronger than his $2,500 - $5,000 body. It seems fully transformable; joyful or reserved, clownish, flirty, arrogant or self-depreciating.” - Anna Volkland - ada-studio.de
JUTE Theatre Company PROPELLED
CONTACT ARTFORM Suellen Maunder: Artistic Director/CEO Visual theatre 07 4050 9444 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Take a ride in someone else’s wheels.
Coming of age is a tricky business, especially when you’re on wheels and life keeps throwing roadblocks at you.
Doug is 25 years old. He likes football, partying with his mates, and girls. He’s pretty much your average guy except for one big difference. Doug has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, and negotiates life’s twists and turns in a wheel chair; not always an easy feat despite the help and support of friends, family and well-meaning strangers.
Life is no blithe spin in the park; stairs aren’t built for wheels, and some doors are easier to get through than others.
Armed with a whole lot of smarts, an impressive capacity for patience and a keen awareness of life’s absurdities, Doug takes a heroic journey into the liminal worlds between boy and man, man and machine, the real and the fantastical, to discover who he is, and in the process finds a path uniquely his own.
‘Propelled’ offers a rare insight into an inspiring life through the eyes of an extraordinary man on a remarkable journey. Take a ride and be transformed. Photo by Romy Photography The differences may not be what they seem.
VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU 23 Lean Forward Arts DANCING WITH BACH
CONTACT ARTFORM Brendan Ross: Producer Dance, Interdisciplinary, Live 0419 438 732 music [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Treat yourself to stunning ballet and live cello music. Drawing inspiration from Johann Sebastian Bach’s evocative Cello Suites, this contemporary ballet work weaves a thread through the emotional, artful and mysterious life of the celebrated composer.
Choreographed by Louise Deleur, Dancing with Bach captivates through the richness of the live cello and the intimacy between the three dancers and internationally-renowned Baroque cellist Louise King. Dancing with Bach has performed to sell out audiences in Brisbane, Gold Coast, Gympie, and Cooroy. It’s a treat not to be missed.
Little Black Dress Creatives ARIA MODERNA
CONTACT ARTFORM Alicia Cush: Creative Director Live music, Opera, Physical 0418 783 082 theatre / Circus [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Aria moderna is an evocative spectacle of light and sound that fuses a rich electro-opera soundscape with urban projection art.
The operatic aria is re-imagined for a modern palate by Brisbane’s most innovative classical singers and finest electronica producers. Three ethereal voices perform live to a soundtrack of contemporary collaborators from a Burton-esque film composer, electro-pop songstress Photo by Black Bee Studio and hip hop beat-maker through to dubstep prince and four-to-the-floor house duo. Exchanging the orchestra for laptop, the blue alien is brought to the concert stage; Handel meets a dance beat, Purcell gets experimental and Tchaikovsky sips a coffee at the Cafe del Mar.
Performed in both traditional and non-traditional spaces, theatre sets are replaced with projected animation, cast on drop curtain, warehouse concrete wall or cave rock face. Modern interpretations of operatic scenery have been specifically developed to complement each sonic vignette for a mesmeric experience.
This genre-defying work melds elements of cabaret, opera, and physical theatre, exploring opera’s finest melodies in chronological order from Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, through to Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and Gershwin’s ‘Summertime’.
24 VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODUCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU Little Black Dress Creatives I CAN KEEP A SECRET
CONTACT ARTFORM Alicia Cush: Creative Director Cabaret, Live music 0418 783 082 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Hiding your lust for Daryl Somers? Pretending that pesky STI doesn’t itch? Eat the chocolate frosting before it makes the cake? You’re not alone.
Babushka invites you into their intimate confessional box for a musical celebration of the quirky, the unexpected and a world of delicious mash-ups, where Tchaikovsky meets Kate Bush and MEDIUM Kylie crash tackles Carmen. PRODUCTIONS $2,500 - $5,000 I Can Keep A Secret is a 60-minute cabaret combining the dirty and flirty talents of Brisbane’s Alicia Cush, Bethan Ellsmore, Arlie McCormick and Judy Hainsworth.
Gallivanting through a far-wandering songbook, these femme fatales will draw you into their fabulously flawed world and take you to the deepest, darkest corners of Portishead, Sondheim, Gotye and Sufjan Stevens.
Salacious musical revelations in four-part harmony, duets and solos provide the red-velvet carpet to their secrets. You’ll laugh with delight and cry with melancholy as they weave stories into a champagne-soaked evening of peccadillo and peculiarity.
Little Black Dress Creatives WHERE THE WILD ROSES GROW
CONTACT ARTFORM Alicia Cush: Creative Director Cabaret, Live music, Music 0418 783 082 theatre, Opera [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Where the Wild Roses Grow is a contemporary cabaret that delves into the dark side, divulging tales of fated love, lust and lives lost to deadly indiscretion. In the murder ballad tradition, these quirky pop sopranos lure you into a world of bloody passion exploring songs by Tori Amos, Weill, Nick Cave and Purcell in their absurdist crossover style, where Tchaikovsky meets Kate Bush and Faure crash tackles indie rock. The four classically trained voices of Babushka combine vocal acrobatics, rich musical arrangements, precise a cappella singing and compelling story-telling in ‘a real post-modern mash up’ (Alison St Ledger).
VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU 25 Martine Pavey BETTE, BABS AND BASSEY
CONTACT ARTFORM Martine Pavey: Producer-Performer Cabaret, Live music, Music 0419 357 145 theatre [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Festooned in a flotilla of feathers, sequins and dripping with jewels, ever popular Melbourne songbird Martine Pavey takes us on an unforgettable musical journey relating the lives, the loves, the glitz, the tears and the tantrums in the life of a diva. Featuring the songs of world renowned Divas Barbra Streisand, Shirley Bassey, Bette Midler and many more, Bette, Babs and Bassey is guaranteed to pack a powerful musical punch with a lot of laughs along the way!
Martine Pavey JUDY & LIZA
CONTACT ARTFORM Martine Pavey: Producer-Performer Cabaret, Live music, Music 0419 357 145 theatre [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
From the silver screen to top-rating television shows, to the concert stages of the world, Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli fired the senses and inspired the imagination of audiences for generations. Talented Melbourne songstress Martine Pavey presents a musical tribute to two unforgettable glittering and beloved entertainers of the last century who just happened to be mother and daughter! Covering so many of the memorable hits including Get Happy, Over The Rainbow, Cabaret, The Money Song, Meet Me In St Louis and The Man That Got Away and superbly accompanied by Simon Stone, this delightful show will capture all the drama, whimsy, humour and sentiment that was Judy and Liza.
Martine Pavey STARDUST
CONTACT ARTFORM Martine Pavey: Producer-Performer Cabaret, Live music, Music 0419 357 145 theatre [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Martine Pavey presents a sassy and jazzy tribute to father and daughter showbiz legends Natalie and Nat King Cole. Relive the inspiring story and music of the man whose voice was to become among the best-known in the world of popular music, and his seven Grammy-Award Winning daughter who came to devote herself to her father’s legacy. Martine skillfully recreates the magic of those timeless songs including When I Fall In Love, Straighten Up and Fly Right, Unforgettable and more. Beautifully costumed and with imaginative musical arrangements by Simon Stone, STARDUST is simply a must- see for this season!
26 VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODUCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU Matthew Hale Comedy Hypnotist GET HYPNOTISED! THE MATTHEW HALE COMEDY HYPNOSIS SHOW
CONTACT ARTFORM Kathryn Preston: Partner Cabaret, Children’s / Family, 0400 356 610 Comedy, Visual theatre [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Winner of 3 national comedy awards, Matthew Hale is a professional stage hypnotist based in Australia. Having hypnotised people around the world from London to Vegas (where even Mike Tyson told him ‘You are AMAZING!’), Matthew currently provides MEDIUM his show for events of all sizes. PRODUCTIONS $2,500 - $5,000 Combining the fun of total audience participation with the incredible abilities of the mind, Matthew turns the traditional hypnosis show on its head, highlighting the talents and creativity of the volunteers for big laughs instead of embarrassing them. No two shows are ever the same!
Expect to see hypnotised volunteers transported into bizarre car journeys, talking alien and unleashing talents they never knew they had.
In addition to his live shows, Matthew trains stage hypnotists in the USA, has released his own range of hypnosis CDs, and conducts group seminars on a variety of subjects including memory, Photo by Manny V stressbusting, motivation, weight management, and smoking cessation.
He’s appeared in media as diverse as the UK’s tabloids, BBC, ABC, Today Tonight and has been included in the National Film and Sound Archive and Ripley’s Believe It Or Not.
Melissa Western & Antony Dyer OH, LADY BE GOOD
CONTACT ARTFORM Melissa Western: Creative Director Cabaret, Live music 0414 267 009 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Did you know: Aretha Franklin had given birth twice by age 14 | Marilyn Monroe helped Ella Fitzgerald catch her big break at the Mocambo nightclub | Peggy Lee travelled with ‘Charlie’, a large oxygen tank which prevented her lung filling with liquid? These and other fascinating facts abound in Oh, Lady Be Good - a feast of classic jazz and blues, flavoured with the music and stories of legendary chanteuses. You know the classics of Ella, Billie, Peggy, Eartha, Roberta, Aretha, Carmen Miranda, Judy Garland, and more, but do you know their stories? In a cabaret filled with fascinating facts and great quality music, Melissa performs timeless songs with pizzazz and flair.
VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU 27 Metro Arts BOY GIRL WALL
CONTACT ARTFORM Katrina Toreenbeek: Managing Producer Comedy, Drama, Live music, 07 3002 7100 Physical theatre / Circus, Visual [email protected] theatre PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
This is the story of Thom and Alethea. Two neighbours in an apartment block, trying desperately to keep their lives from falling apart. But the wall that stands between them has decided they belong together.
Following sell-out seasons across Australia, this hilarious smash-hit production by The Escapists is a stunning celebration of theatricality, imagination and the joy of play.
Using chalk, sock puppets, an overhead projector and over two-dozen characters, this captivating tour de force performance will inspire and delight with live music in a tall tale of whimsy and architectural enlightenment.
Phluxus2 Dance Collective DE-GENERATOR
CONTACT ARTFORM Nerida Matthaei: Artistic Director Dance 0410 560 921 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
When the world is unregonisable, strung up and gutted; a rotting carcass of the paradise once known - where will you be standing?
The warning signs were all there, but we chose to ignore them. We turned the volume up to mute the cries. We turned a blind eye. Now it’s eternal darkness. Enter the world of de-generator, where the destitute and desperate battle their post-apocalyptic nightmares to find solace in a world stripped of everything they had once appreciated, loved and desired.
Phluxus2’s dance installation places the audience at the centre of a black hole. The action takes place around us and through us, to activate our fear of the future, the unknown, the end, and consider our accountability to the disintegration.
“Giddying twists, spirals and extensions, sweaty limbs entwining… de-generator seeks out our innermost fears”
“In the act of sharing her anxiety… Nerida Matthaei aims perhaps to bring us all together” RealTime Arts
28 VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODUCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU Rachel Leary EVERYTHING MUST GO
CONTACT ARTFORM Rachel Leary: Producer/performer/writer Comedy, Drama 0431 683 547 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Nancy Browne is having a garage sale. There will be treasure like you can’t imagine. Like you really can’t imagine. Hilarious, ridiculous and very touching, this is a fabulously unique Australian character. Eccentric and reclusive, Nancy has lived in the same house, the same MEDIUM valley all her life, but now the valley is changing — farms PRODUCTIONS are being sold and city people with new ideas are moving $2,500 - $5,000 in. The wider world has encroached and Nancy has to make sense of it. She also has to move house. Nancy delights the audience with show and tell, drawing out family stories from the items she is selling in her sale, as well as highlighting her own original take on the world.
Directed by three-time Barry Award nominee Damian Callinan ‘Everything Must Go’ is a comedic and poignant portrayal of a misfit finding her way. Performed by character comedian and writer Rachel Leary, Nancy Browne wins the hearts of audiences with her unique analysis of life and its events and her endearing art-and-craft.
Red Chair ACOUSTIC GUITAR SPECTACULAR
CONTACT ARTFORM Angie Dunbavan : Managing Director Live music 07 5473 9498 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
A hand-picked group of internationally recognised acoustic guitarists from across the globe join forces to weave memorable musical magic.
Internationally acclaimed Brisbane acoustic guitarist Michael Fix – recently named as one of Australia’s Top 25 Guitarists of All Time by readers of Guitarist Australia magazine – will be joined by New Yorker (now living in Austria) fingerstyle funkmeister Adam Rafferty and internationally acclaimed fiery flamenco virtuoso Andrew Veivers for a series of very special concerts.
Concerts are structured so that each player will feature as solo artists, as well as performing as an ensemble, allowing plenty of opportunity for spontaneity and improvisation. Three players with such diverse musical backgrounds present amazing possibilities, and incredible variety for audiences. Each guitarist is known for their ability to entertain, and each present their music with a view to engage and delight audiences with stories, songs, and humour, (as well as fretboard fireworks!), making it a performance aimed for all people, not just ‘guitar aficionados’.
This is a rare opportunity to see such a wealth of amazing musical talent on the one stage. In particular, it’s a unique chance to see one of the international stars of the global guitar acoustic scene as he embarks on his first tour of Australia.
VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU 29 Red Chair THE PEOPLE’S ORCHESTRA
CONTACT ARTFORM Angie Dunbavan : Managing Director Live music 07 5473 9498 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Come one... Come all ... From tin whistles to French horns, violins to ukuleles, guitars to clarinets, any instrument and players of all skill levels are welcome to join The People’s Orchestra in an all inclusive collaboration of dizzying heights, ambition – and fun. Andrew Veivers will push your musical boundaries, excite your sensory receptors, and suggest a version of an orchestra that you may have never considered - think session bar meets Wagner!?!
Red Chair THE SWINGIN’ MARTINIS
CONTACT ARTFORM Angie Dunbavan : Managing Director Cabaret, Comedy, Live music, 07 5473 9498 Music theatre [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
The Swingin’ Martinis is a 40-min interactive music/comedy show performed in stylish black tuxedos.
Take a couple of swingers, hand them microphones, slip them into tuxedos and what do you have? The Swingin’ Martinis!!
With a double scoop of comedy, a generous serving of musical mayhem and some good old slapstick. The Swingin’ Martinis have put together a cocktail that any self respecting Swinger will not want to miss out on!
Red Chair THE TREASURE OF CAPTAIN CURLYLOCKS
CONTACT ARTFORM Angie Dunbavan : Managing Director Children’s / Family, Comedy, 07 5473 9498 Live music, Music theatre [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
When the treasure chest of Captain Curlylocks washes up on Tugun Beach, Nadia takes a careful peek inside ... but what is this! Instead of rubies and pearls, Captain Curlylocks has left her patchwork pirate coat and inside its pocket ... a treasure map!!! Join Nadia as she sets sail on an unforgettable and fun- filled adventure to a land where the imagination runs free.
Red Chair and acclaimed children’s songwriter and comic actress Nadia Sunde present a brand new musical comedy for 3 - 8 year olds and their families. The production was supported in development and launched at Bleach* Festival 2014. Regional touring in 2014 includes the Northern Gold Coast, Coomera, Boonah and the Sunshine Coast.
30 VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODUCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU Success on Stage THE SUPREME DREAMS
CONTACT ARTFORM Leslie Martin: Producer Cabaret, Children’s / Family, 0416 043 785 Interdisciplinary [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Motown is Back! Three gorgeous girls with fabulous voices bring back the hit songs of Motown.
Think Martha and the Vandellas, Aretha Franklin, MEDIUM Tina Turner and The Supremes and then you’ll start PRODUCTIONS humming the songs that made these legends: $2,500 - $5,000
Baby Love, Nowhere to Run, You Can’t Hurry Love and My Guy will have any audience Dancin’ in the Streets!
The Supreme Dreams provide a fully costumed and choreographed show which can last from 15 minutes to 2 hours. They love any opportunity to get amongst their audience and to get them up dancing.
Starting in the 60’s and moving through to the disco era, this energetic and popular show has toured to Far North Queensland, headlined at the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers and stormed the stage at the Princess Theatre in Brisbane.
If you want fun, high energy entertainment with well-loved songs, The Supreme Dreams are your Supreme Dream.
The Guitar Collective GYPSY IN MY SOUL
CONTACT ARTFORM Tim O’Brien: Producer /Artist Live music 0431 113 041 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
A guitar performance using the music from Segovia, Robert Johnson and Django Reinhardt
Segovia was an exceptional classical guitarist and he is remembered for his expressive playing: his tone, and his distinctive musical personality. Robert Johnson will always be the extraordinary Delta Blues performer, Django is remembered as one of the greatest gyspy guitar players of all time
Tim & Mia O’Brien’s performances, captures the soul of the gypsies, spirit of the masters and the essence of guitar.
VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU 31 Uptempo Entertainment International THE MAN IN THE MIRROR ‘REFLECTIONS OF MICHAEL JACKSON’
CONTACT ARTFORM Craig Symons: Producer Children’s / Family, Dance, Music 0418 381 461 theatre, Visual theatre [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Phone
Dancer, showman, entertainer – Paul Rizzo has it all and delivers it all! Paul is the consummate performer as Michael Jackson in ‘The Man in the Mirror – Reflections of Michael Jackson’ dance tribute show.
There is no disputing the simple fact that there will never be another Michael Jackson, but the legacy he left behind continues to thrill audiences via the MAN IN THE MIRROR Reflections Of Michael Jackson multi media dance production starring Paul Rizzo, Australia’s No.1, internationally recognised Michael Jackson tribute artist.
This is simply the finest Michael Jackson tribute production featuring high energy, flawless dance routines, MJ’s famous Smooth Criminal, 45° anti-gravity lean along with the silhouette routine, sensational authentic costumes, an electrifying light show and amazing video footage! The Man In The Mirror multi media production continues to go from strength to strength with constant sellout performances throughout Australia, New Zealand , Sth East Asia & The Middle East.
October 2012 saw The Man In The Mirror team perform in Taiwan for that countries National day celebrations and New Years Eve 2013 saw The Man In The Mirror perform as the headline act for approx’ 10,000 people at The Westin Resort in Dubai.
Wish List Productions THE SECRET HISTORY OF QUEENSLAND
CONTACT ARTFORM Emma Nixon: Partner Children’s / Family, Live music 0410 756 792 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Developed in response to an invitation from the State Library of Queensland for Queensland Week 2012, The Secret History of Queensland is a presentation of songs and stories about Queensland history. These compelling tales of the past are delivered through music, song and stories, all illustrated by live sand-painting, digitally projected for audiences of all sizes and ages. The show can be performed as a theatre presentation or as an interactive, child-centred school performance.
The history of our place is carried in the personal histories of the people who live here. Using this premise, Emma Nixon and Nicole Murray began with stories gleaned from their own Queensland families, and built on these authentic experiences, presenting these intriguing stories with an equally fascinating instrumentation: they are highly accomplished musicians who accompany their singing with violin, viola and cello, a skill known as “fiddlesinging”.
The songs and stories of The Secret History of Queensland performance, are illustrated by the live creation of a stunning series of illustrations by sand-drawing on a lightbox, with images of sailing ships, historic houses, convicts, horses and riders, cleverly constructing the next image out of the remains of the last.
32 VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODUCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU Zeal Qld THE APOLOGY
CONTACT ARTFORM Sam Foster: Founder Children’s / Family, Comedy, 0448 853 141 Drama, Live music, Physical [email protected] theatre / Circus PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Inspired by a true story of a high school student who “took revenge” on a classmate who was bullying him after his father advised him to “fight back”, The Apology is a searingly honest look at the repercussions of taking revenge and the long term MEDIUM effects that bullying can have. PRODUCTIONS $2,500 - $5,000 Ray Bones is being hassled by ‘the Eneme’. When a year-nine excursion to the Boggo Road Goal goes awry, Ray’s dad encourages him to pick his moment and fight back. The Apology ricochets through a five year period where the bruises of bullying refuse to heal. Told from an unbiased perspective, this powerful production forces students to decide if the punishment fits the crime.
The Apology is performed by two actors (Sam Foster and Hayden Jones), who play 18 different characters in total, without ever leaving the stage or changing costume. Fuelled with intensity, The Apology fuses physical theatre techniques, multiple role-sharing and live music into a visceral and dynamic piece of theatre. The Apology is an example of Zeal Theatre’s signature style of doing as much as possible with as little as possible.
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Large size shows often have a cast of 4 or more and/or high production values requiring experienced crew for longer bump ins. These productions will suit Managed Venue Presenters or well equipped community venues. ARC Dreaming MIRABOOKA DREAMING
CONTACT ARTFORM Silvana van Dijk: Manager Dance, Live music 0490 093 892 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Mirabooka is a collaboration between Indigenous performance group “Nunukul Yuggera”and musical ensemble, “Visions of a Nomad”.
The two groups have a track record of working together. They produced their first highly successful theatre show, “ARC dreaming” in 2001 and received standing ovations and rave reviews on their tour’s to Europe, Ireland and Greece. In this ancient and modern ceremony our host, Nunukul Yuggera leads a spectacular corroborree, empowered and ornamented by a cultural cast of local and global musicians.
The topic of reconciliation has always been the driving force between the collaboration. ARC is a meeting place of Cultural integrity. The working process involved is of an organic nature and the cast of ARC adheres to Indigenous protocols. Ideas for the content of the show are open to all members of the cast - it’s a unique and harmonious working ethic that has proven to produce fantastic results . LARGE PRODUCTIONS Making Aboriginal culture accessible to our young generations by using popular musical genres like OVER $5,000 hip hop fusing in with culture, this unique production also utilises the sacred elements of western classical, jazz and world music.
A variety of genres in Western music are used as a parallel to the european world of theatre and the Aboriginal world of ceremony, both sacred in establishing communication, manifestation, creativity and social change.
Circa BEYOND
CONTACT ARTFORM Charlie Cush: General Manager Physical theatre/Circus 07 3852 3110 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
There is a fine line between human and animal, between madness and sanity, between logic and dream... Circa invites you to step over this line... and go Beyond.
Beyond is a warm, surreal and unexpectedly moving. Blending dynamic circus acts like trapeze and Chinese pole with multiple rabbit heads, rubics cubes and blindfolds, set to a bewitching mix of show tunes, ballads and electronica, this creation delights and enchants.
Over the course of Beyond we meet the artists, marvel at their skills, enter their personalities and emerge into a strangely beautiful and curiously tender world.
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CONTACT ARTFORM Charlie Cush: General Manager Physical theatre/Circus, 07 3852 3110 Children’s/Family [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
A blend of circus and multimedia, Carnival of the Animals is a magical reinvention of the classic music by French composer, Camille Saint-Saëns. Depicting creatures from land, sea and sky, Circa’s performers take children and their adults on a safari through the lives of the tortoise, the elephant, the kangaroo, the swan, the life aquatic and many other beasts.
Featuring large digital animations, the stage is transformed into a series of wondrous animal habitats, while performers stun audiences with acrobatic feats and aerial skills. It’s an exuberant celebration of life on earth and the power of our bodies to express who we really are.
Claire Marshall Projects SLOWDIVE
CONTACT ARTFORM Claire Marshall: Artist Dance 0409 617 600 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
An immersive dance experience into the debauched and underground world of alternative club culture.
Enter the world of SlowDive and take a journey to the Brisbane nightclub scene of the 1990s. Choreographer Claire Marshall successfully recreates the atmosphere, aesthetics and feeling of a club in this dance-based, immersive performance art experience where the audience becomes part of the action.
SlowDive cleverly explores human behaviour, as it shifts between the strangely compelling and the somewhat disturbing events that occur in a night club environment. Surrounded by elegant, erotic, at times hilarious and at times violent contemporary dance choreography, the audience follows a bunch of clubbers over the course of a debauched night out.
36 VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODUCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU Dead Puppet Society ARGUS
CONTACT ARTFORM Nicholas Paine: Producer Children’s / Family, 046 752 3252 Interdisciplinary, Live music, [email protected] Visual theatre PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Step into this whimsical wonderland where table tops grow grass and water bottles become the depths of the ocean.
Making use of nothing but household objects and the performers’ hands, Argus transcends from the simple to the sublime exploring the fragile attempts of this little creature to find a home in a world where he just doesn’t fit in.
Working on principles of found objects and transformation, this quietly touching piece highlights the beauty of an impossible life; one that LARGE PRODUCTIONS is full of playfulness, joy and laughter. OVER $5,000
Argus will expand the imaginations of adults and Photo by Dylan Evans children alike.
Don W Mackay Pty Ltd
THE LUX RADIO THEATRE PRESENTS THE AGATHA CHRISTIE RADIO MYSTERIES
THE LUX RADIO THEATRE PRESENTS THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
CONTACT ARTFORM Don Mackay: Director Drama (03) 9725 3184 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
The Lux Radio Theatre recreates radio plays as live theatre.
This show has three options : • The Agatha Christie Radio Mysteries (Full length show), • The Agatha Christie Radio Mysteries (One hour show) • The Importance of Being Earnest (One hour show)
The same versatile company performs all three. The ongoing popularity of Agatha Christie ensures a success with the show. The daytime Earnest appeals to older audiences and secondary school students.
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CONTACT ARTFORM Katherine Lyall-Watson: Playwright and producer Drama 0404 802 800 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Sweeping through the Russian Revolution, World War II, and Brisbane history, Motherland is an epic new work of historical fiction, informed by actual events.
Three women, exiled from their homelands, find their lives are woven together across continents and decades. Nell Tritton, the Brisbane wife of a deposed Russian prime minister forms a close friendship with Nina Berberova, who is exiled in Paris. The woman who would tell their story is Alyona, a Russian curator whose dreams of a new Australian paradise are crushed by bankruptcy and the Fitzgerald Inquiry.
Shortlisted for the Patrick White Playwrights’ Award, Motherland is a tapestry of friendship, displacement, home, and identity – a finely-crafted story of the casualties of love, ambition, and politics.
Erth - Visual & Physical Inc. ERTH’S DINOSAUR ZOO
CONTACT ARTFORM Anna Young: General Manager Children’s / Family, Physical (02) 8571 9135 theatre / Circus, Visual theatre [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Following sell out international seasons both in the UK (WEST END) and the USA (BROADWAY), Erth is bringing Dinosaur Zoo back home to share its success and a further developed performance in touring to regional areas of Australia.
Meet Erth’s awesome prehistoric creatures, from cute baby dinos to teeth-gnashing giants. Meet the most recent edition to Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo - a carniverous theropod known as the Australovenator, discovered in QLD and is the most complete meat- eating dinosaur skeleton yet found in Australia.
Erth’s life-like dinosaurs are alive and mostly friendly (!) in this fun, educational and unique performance event that will delight children of all ages.
38 VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODUCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU Harvest Rain Theatre Company GUYS & DOLLS
CONTACT ARTFORM Tim O’Connor: Producer Music theatre (07) 3103 7438 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
From the producers of Oklahoma comes one of the most popular Broadway musicals of all time, Guys & Dolls. Don’t miss the show that Time Magazine says is ”without a doubt the greatest of all American musicals!”.
Harvest Rain’s QPAC season starred TV heartthrob Ian Stenlake (Stingers, Sea Patrol), musical theatre stars Wayne Scott Kermond (Singin’ in the Rain, Candyman) Liz Buchanan (Hairspray) and Angela Harding (Oklahoma, Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) and Australian TV icon Daryl Somers (Hey, Hey! It’s Saturday) as Nicely Nicely Johnson, Guys & Dolls in an unmissable theatrical event!
Featuring some of Broadway’s most iconic tunes - including ”Luck be a Lady” and ”Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat” - Guys & Dolls takes us back to 1940’s New York where small-time gambler Nathan Detroit bets his big-time pal Sky Masterson that he can’t make the next ”doll” he sees fall in love with him. When that doll turns out to be the local neighbourhood missionary, the scene is set for an LARGE unforgettable evening of entertainment. PRODUCTIONS OVER $5,000
This Tony Award winning musical with it’s colourful costumes and breathtaking choreography will delight musical theatre lovers of all ages.
Based on a story and characters of Damon Runyon, Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser, Book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, By arrangement with Hal Leonard Australia Pty Ltd, Exclusive Agent for Music Theatre International (NY)
ILBIJERRI Theatre Company BEAUTIFUL ONE DAY
CONTACT ARTFORM Brad Spolding: Executive Producer Drama, Interdisciplinary 0407 977 905 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Palm Island 2004. An Aboriginal man is arrested, allegedly for insulting a police officer. Within 90 minutes, he lies dead on the watch house floor, his liver cleaved in two. The community protests, the police station is torched. A Senior Sergeant stands trial for manslaughter but is acquitted. Questions are raised about manipulation of evidence and a court suppression order. A protestor, jailed for inciting a riot, is out on parole on condition that he speaks to no one.
Beautiful One Day is a co-production between ILBIJERRI Theatre Company, version 1.0, Belvoir St Theatre and the Palm Island community. Brought together via a shared sense of outrage over the death of Mulrunji Doomadgee, Beautiful One Day interprets the events on Palm Island in 2004 against the full sweep of the island’s history.
As raw as it is confronting, the show stars three Islanders in their first theatrical appearances. It combines documentary-style footage with conversation, reportage, stories and images, told in their own words. Beautiful One Day captures the horrible reality of an unnecessary death and yet the remarkable humanity, wisdom and determination to forgive of Palm Islanders.
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CONTACT ARTFORM John Bailey: Producer Drama 0422 492 735 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
In the trenches at Gallipoli during World War 1, two soldiers fight not only the Turkish enemy, but also the military establishment which condemns them.
Lisa Wilson Projects LAKE
CONTACT ARTFORM Lisa Wilson: Creative Director Dance, Interdisciplinary, Visual 0412 012 263 theatre [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Bold in its vision and deeply evocative, Lake literally floods the entire performance area to create a visually stunning and highly engaging dance theatre work. A seamless fusion of visual design, video projection, an original score and Wilson’s acclaimed choreography, Lake explores our fascination with and fear of water, a medium that can be at turns breathtakingly beautiful and a force of indiscriminate destruction.
Serene, calm, haunting, and menacing, Lake takes audiences on a journey through their primal response to sparkling reflection and murky depths; to intense beauty and chilling isolation; to utter wilderness and timeless myth.
40 VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODUCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU Liz Lea Dance INFLIGHT
CONTACT ARTFORM Liz Lea: Artistic Director Children’s / Family, Dance, Drama, 0435 025 365 Film, Interdisciplinary, Visual [email protected] theatre PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
InFlight is a celebration of Australian aviation - man, woman and bird take to the skies, celebrating the legacy of Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm. Liz Lea Dance presents an original dance work with archival film and sound from the National Film and Sound Archive and National the Library of Australia.
The work is split into two interlinked section; Aviatrix where four fabulous women are inspired to fly, build a life size plane onstage and face the perils of flights, all set to the voices of Ulm and Kingsford Smith with an emotive score driving the action. The second half, Aviary, opens with a world of birds inhabiting the space, feathers and beauty abound as these beautiful creatures flutter and fight to create their nests and define their space. Created with an installation by Naomi Ota and lighting design by Karen Norris.
InFlight premiered on the 31st May 2013 marking the 85th anniversary that Kingsford Smith and Ulm LARGE PRODUCTIONS took off from California on the beginning of the their record breaking Trans Pacific flight. InFlight has OVER $5,000 the blessing of both the Ulm and the Kingsford Smith families and has been specifically created for small stages/spaces/school halls/lecture theatres.
Liz Lea Dance MAGNIFICUS MAGNIFICUS
CONTACT ARTFORM Liz Lea: Artistic Director Children’s / Family, Dance, Drama, 0435 025 365 Live music, Visual theatre [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Where science and dance meet Indigenous and cross cultural heritage…
‘Magnificus Magnificus’, performed by Tammi Gissell and directed by Liz Lea, dives into the world of the red tailed Black Cockatoo. ‘Magnificus Magnificus’ draws upon Indigenous knowledge and stories, aligned with science. The work celebrates a stunning bird, her history, character and style in a cabaretesque explosion of feathers.
Highly theatrical with a simple but effective set ‘Magnificus Magnificus’ explores the nature of being a performer, where they come from and how they go forward, making the most of Tammi’s strong performance quality, speaking voice, strength and vulnerability. The red tailed Black Cockatoo is the bringer of truth, tears and rain. Let the stories begin.
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CONTACT ARTFORM Catarina Hebbard: Director/Producer Drama 0418 719 618 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Machina, by Richard Jordan, is an ensemble piece which explores the nature of intimacy in the digital age. Machina revolves around the decision of, David Sergeant (34), to separate his mind from his body, via the technological advancements of the digital network called Machina. Machina is a global entity with one distinct point of difference; it offers the option of “Going Inside”. The concept is simple, yet potentially dangerously enticing: directly upload your consciousness to the network, and discard your need for a body.
The play begins one month after David’s decision, and follows the lives of 6 characters (his mother, his sister, and his online acquaintances) who are struggling to understand his physical absence. Each in their own way is also suffering from a mind-body disconnect: unable to access their emotions or feel safe in their own skin. As their lives intersect and collide on Machina, the truth behind David’s virtual goodbye is slowly brought to light.
The project’s artistic innovation lies in its “offline” aesthetic. The setting is other worldly and incredibly stark. Most importantly, we are interested in blurring the boundaries between our characters’ online and offline realities, by exploring their digital lives within an “analogue” space.
Paul Hayman RETURN TO CLOUDLAND BALLROOM
CONTACT ARTFORM Paul Hayman: Producer/Director/Vocalist Cabaret, Children’s / Family, 0434 993 649 Dance, Interdisciplinary, Live [email protected] music, Music theatre PREFERRED CONTACT: Phone
Cloudland Ballroom was the iconic Dance and Music venue of Brisbane for almost 40 years and was considered The Greatest Ballroom in the Southern Hemisphere.
Paul Hayman’s Return to Cloudland Ballroom incorporates the music, history, fashions and dance phases during its existence. The Show is structured as a chronological journey through the Ballroom’s history.
Paul has created this unique interactive show to give the audience a new and fresh show experience and to promote the health benefits associated with regular social dancing.
The 7 piece Band is comprised of QLD conservatorium graduates and seasoned international musicians. It replicates the line up of the resident band of Cloudland Ballroom - ‘The Sounds of Seven’
Current champion Ballroom and Rock’n’Roll dancers feature in showcases throughout the show and also engage with the audience, partnering with them for various dances throughout the performance. Vocalist, compare & host, of the show is Paul Hayman. Paul is a seasoned professional and has been working continuously throughout Australia as a singer, actor and entertainer for the last 15 years. The bandstand stage set, an authentic replication of the original venues, completes the transportation back through an integral part of Brisbane’s Social history.
42 VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODUCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU Red Chair THE RED VELVET LOUNGE
CONTACT ARTFORM Angie Dunbavan : Managing Director Cabaret, Comedy, Live music, (07) 5473 9498 Music theatre [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
The Red Velvet Lounge presents an intimate, hilarious and joyful performance from multi award- winning performer and entertainer Nadia Sunde and her band ‘The Distinguished Gentlemen’. Nadia draws her audience into the music of her childhood as told through her father’s lounge jazz record collection. A double bass jazz musician, inventor and apple farmer, he passed away when she was small, but his legacy continues to inspire her journey as a musician today. Featuring songs by Dean Martin, Sam Cooke, Sergio Mendes, Rosemary Clooney, Harry Belafonte, Doris Day and Nadia’s own inspired original compositions.
‘The Distinguished Gentlemen’ feature a stellar cast of Australian musicians, including: Michael Fix (guitars), Doug Gallacher (drums/percussion), Andrew Shaw (double bass) & Ross Comerford (keys).
LARGE PRODUCTIONS Red Chair OVER $5,000 WOMEN IN VOICE
CONTACT ARTFORM Angie Dunbavan : Managing Director Cabaret, Comedy, Live music, Music (07) 5473 9498 theatre [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Boasting a bold line up of some of the biggest voices in town, Women in Voice delves into a captivating mix of cabaret, rock, soul, pop and a dose of disco. With a 21 year history of delivering sell-out performances and rave reviews, Women in Voice is stretching her wings to tour regional Queensland and offering emerging female vocalists from throughout the state to join the production for a unique mentoring and performance opportunity.
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CONTACT ARTFORM Adam Brunes: Co-Director Cabaret, Comedy, Live music, (0421 233 609 Music theatre [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Part MTV unplugged, part intimate bedroom lament, Rumour Has It: Sixty Minutes Inside Adele marries a modern day music legend with Australia’s newest cabaret star.
You’re invited to spend an evening with Adele: Grammy goddess, young mum, and potty-mouthed everywoman. Joined on stage by a big band of Australia’s best musicians, Adele rolls in the deep down under, spilling intimate details about life on the road, love on the rocks, and the prick who took a sledge hammer to her heart.
Starring Naomi Price in her acclaimed portrayal of pop idol Adele and featuring Adele’s biggest hits including Skyfall, Rolling in the Deep and Someone Like You, Rumour Has It has quickly become one of Australia’s most-loved original cabarets.
The Little Red Company WRECKING BALL
CONTACT ARTFORM Adam Brunes: Co-Director Cabaret, Comedy, Live music, Music (0421 233 609 theatre [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Hannah Montana is dead.
The postmortem is inconclusive. Natural causes? Or hot-mess murder gone platinum?
Childhood friend Miley returns home to Nashville for the wake. F**k the funeral, it’s the party she’s come for.
In this open letter to you – her pouters and doubters – Miley takes a sledge hammer to Disney dreams, teen idols and tabloid fantasies.This is one eulogy you’ll kill to see.
Wrecking Ball hails from the creators of the critically acclaimed Rumour Has It: Sixty Minutes Inside Adele and is the ultimate coming of age party, starring Naomi Price. Photo by Dylan Evans
44 VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODUCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU Topology THREE: TAP INTO TOPOLOGY
CONTACT ARTFORM Carol Lloyd: Executive Producer Live music with film projection (07) 3254 1492 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Topology works with rhythmic genius/drum-kit soloist, Grant Collins and tap-dance wizard Bill Simpson to create bold new territory in both music and dance.
Grant pushes all the artists to the edge of rhythmic possibility, never compromising groove, and Bill dances on the precipice, creating new space with his body and resounding shoes.
Three features new original compositions for drums and tap, and Topology’s saxophone, strings and piano.
It’s a fearsomely energetic performance that brings together ideas and inventions from 3 distinct genres to generate something both unfamiliar and intoxicating.
LARGE PRODUCTIONS OVER $5,000
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These productions are in development, price is to be announced. They range from small to large scale productions. Belinda Raisin OBSESSIONS OF A CONTROL FREAK
CONTACT ARTFORM Belinda Raisin: Co-Producer/Artist Cabaret, Comedy, Drama, 0431 058 210 Interdisciplinary, Live music, [email protected] Physical theatre / Circus PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Obsessions of a Control Freak picks up the journey of our hero, Frances, the beloved freak from Confessions of a Control Freak. Only this time Frances has all but buried herself in her world of lists and other obsessions and she is only digging a deeper hole for herself. In this show we’ll be exploring the darker side of popular struggles of modern society like self-improvement, the search for happiness and the constant need for more and better without preaching or sending audiences running to their therapists.
The medium of cabaret will be a basis for exploring the material however unlike most cabaret, movement and physicality will be strong elements in the show. This work will contain all original songs and music allowing us to create material that truly serves the story, the mood and the work as a whole.
Cradle Productions THE BIPOLAR EXPRESS
CONTACT ARTFORM Eloise Maree: Producer Cabaret 0435 573 109 CONCEPT [email protected] PRODUCTIONS PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
This one-woman performance is about the creator’s experience discovering she has bipolar disorder. The performance is a low-fi comedic cabaret constructed of performance vignettes, much in the style of Bryony Kimmings. Throughout the performance, Eloise (playing herself) escapes from a high-security mental ward, makes friends with many other colourful hospital patients, sings of her high-flying mania and uncovers a fact that is incredibly hard to accept. The show is a celebration of mental illness, a look-in at poor mental health care in Australia and a righteous journey from denial to acceptance.
Just with Eloise onstage, the piece is low-fi contemporary cabaret. It is linear in it’s following from Eloise’s manic state to her eventual acceptance of her illness (she prefers to call it her normative yet slightly unusual mental condition), but branches off into magic realist moments as she ventures through this journey of mind. Eloise performs using live art-like vignettes, performance and singing with her keyboard/ ukulele.
It is an important show for Eloise to explore, it being a true tale and on an issue she is highly passionate about – mental health. With a team of stellar artists – Georgia Symons (dramaturg– currently studying Masters at VCA), Daniel Czech (director – VCA graduate and director/ devisor with Eloise in Public Toilets, Private Words – a contemporary cabaret recently making critical acclaim at the Melbourne Comedy Festival), Sound Designer Raya Slavin (award winning, Melbourne based) this show promises to be full of heartbreak, hope and absurdism.
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CONTACT ARTFORM Rod Ainsworth: Creative Producer Drama 0409 595 704 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
IT ALL BEGINS WITH LOVE is a verbatim theatre work devised over the last two years through interviews with victims and perpetrators of domestic violence. Commissioned through the Regional Stages Project initially (Australia Council, Arts Qld and Bundaberg Regional Council funded), the project has continued beyond the life of that program and has received two public readings during its development. A Senior Constable from the Queensland Police Service said, “I’ve been to every professional development opportunity in the country it seems, and I was very cynical about another role play. But I’ve never seen anything like this. Congratulations.” Further testimonials about the project, including from Bundaberg Magistrate Debra Vasta, and newspaper articles can be found at http://creativeregions.com.au/latest-news/dvverbatimtheatre (website under redevelopment so apologies if it is not immediately available).
Creative Regions has received Australia Council Community Partnerships Program funding in 2014 to develop this work to full production in Bundaberg on Friday, 21 November. This year’s work includes engaging an educational developer to create material to link the work to senior secondary curriculum.
The work is being developed to tour easily. It is a five hander and will have a portable design to be adaptable to any touring circumstance. Creative Regions has become very practical in its tour planning and logistics :)
We would like to explore the potential to tour the work to both schools (especially targeting young women) and the general public (with a particular emphasis on adult men). Through our existing partnership with UnitingCare Community and Relationships Australia, a niche tour could be established through regional Queensland designed to stimulate community discussion on the issue. A facilitated post-show discussion, with counsellors present, is suggested.
deBASE Productions FURZE FAMILY VARIETY HOUR
CONTACT ARTFORM Robert Kronk: General manager Cabaret, Children’s / Family, 07 3162 8812 Comedy, Dance, Live music [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
The story of a contemporary comic duo attempting to stage an old-school vaudeville extravaganza.
With only each other, a faded set and a lion costume they stole from Cirque de Soleil, they take the audience on a never-to-be-forgotten ride through their dysfunctional relationship, presenting classic comedy routines with a postmodern twist.
The Furze Family Variety Hour draws on clown and vaudeville to delight audiences. The show is suitable for the whole family and guarantees a great night out and spectacular acrobatics.* (*acrobatics may not be included).
Featuring Helen Cassidy and Leon Cain, Directed by Bridget Boyle, Music by David Megarrity and Samuel Vincent, Set Design by Josh McIntosh.
48 VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODUCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU Ellen Belloo TINDER
CONTACT ARTFORM Katherine Lyall-Watson: Playwright and Producer Drama, Interdisciplinary, Visual 0404 802 800 theatre [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Tinder is a play about imagination, truth, dysfunctional families and madness. It’s set in a world that’s partly our world and partly a creation of the Brothers Grimm.
Ned is a young man who has never been able to use his legs. He’s crippled from the waist down and lives with his mother, Martha, far from any neighbours or civilisation. He gets about on a board on wheels, like an overgrown spider.
Martha keeps tight control over Ned. He’s not allowed off their property and he must always do as he’s told. His reward for good behaviour is stories from the one book in the house – a collection of dark fairy tales. His punishments are numerous and severe: including being tied into a straight jacket; having to wear a nappy and being locked in a dark room.
Ned is innocent and naïve. The only world he knows is the world his mother has created and he believes her every word. He believes in the magic of the stories and when he opens the book he sees the stories come to life. (Shadow puppets are used throughout the play.)
All this changes when a man arrives at their isolated house. He is Martha’s estranged brother and he’s finally made contact for reasons he tries to keep hidden. The battle for Ned’s trust and for one correct version of the world is bloody and there can only be one winner.
Tinder is a dramatic exploration of family relationships, control, terror and, finally, hope. CONCEPT PRODUCTIONS
Force of Circumstance (FOC) HE DREAMED A TRAIN
CONTACT ARTFORM Margi Brown Ash: Founding Director Drama, Interdisciplinary, Live 0410 515 637 music, Visual theatre [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Two generations of artists collaborate on a piece of contemporary performance, wedding Benjamin Knapton’s (of Circa) highly innovative world of visual dramaturgy/ design/movement and Margi Brown Ash’s postdramatic, poetic performative style. This piece screams living and dying. It is about preconceived dreams being ruptured by the ugliness of the reality of sickness. The impact of world literature, of linguistics, of poetic landscapes, of bodily disintegration, of strained relationships and uplifting stories are juxtaposed with visual dramaturgy incorporating film, soundscape, projection, etc. It is aimed at an audience who is interested in being challenged and provoked as well as entertained. Set in the western suburbs of Brisbane, moving to country NSW then back again, this performance explores what it is like to stand in the shoes of someone with a terminal illness, the opportunities this presents as well as interrogating our oftimes surprising and somewhat cruel responses to mortality. The visual dramaturgy is a crucial aspect of the performance, creating ruptured and surprising metaphorical landscapes, where the unexpected happens. “He Dreamed a Train” offers audiences an intimate and impactful insight into how death flirts with our everyday life, with humour, surprise, anger and disappointment.
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CONTACT ARTFORM Rhys Holden: General Manager Drama (07) 3007 8600 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Here is a captivating new Australian comedy about aliens, alienation and the terrifying and comforting thought that we are not alone.
Insurance fraud investigator Joel Pinkerton doesn’t believe in aliens. So when his company introduced UFO abduction insurance as a publicity stunt a few years ago, he never gave it much thought. Until now.
When Joel is called to investigate the possible alien abduction of 16-year-old schoolgirl Storm, he finds himself drawn into intergalactic intrigue and conspiracy theories. What happened to Storm during those missing 24 hours? And how did she wake up in an empty field 200km from home? As Joel gets sucked up in the vortex, he begins to feel increasingly alienated from his wife Holly and their newborn baby girl, who is exhibiting some very odd behaviours of her own…
Written by young QLD writer Kathryn Marquet, Pale Blue Dot was developed through La Boite’s Playwrights-in-Residence program, is directed by Michael Futcher, with music by Gordon Hamilton, Artistic Director of the world-beating The Australian Voices.
Lisa Wilson Projects WIRELESS
CONTACT ARTFORM Lisa Wilson: Creative Director Dance, Interdisciplinary, Live 0412 012 263 music, Physical theatre / Circus, [email protected] Visual theatre PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
WIRELESS is a new inter-media dance theatre work about trust, privacy and control by Choreographer Lisa Wilson and Composer Paul Charlier, layering dance, music, design and on-stage interactive technology. The work is being developed with the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts through Fresh Ground.
The first stage development, drawing on John Locke’s Eavesdropping: An Intimate History, brought out thematic ideas around the idea of privacy , which as an idea in our society is quite young, and only started when we began building walls around ourselves.
WIRELESS uses existing applications on mobile phones held by and attached to dancers to create and control an accompanying musical score, translating this data into an aural environment, which gives a physical presence to the radio waves that surround us, through which we communicate and the dancers interact.
We are not using this technology and approach to expand the canvas. We are using it to go in the opposite direction, to go inside, to bring out something that is quite dark and fragile inside every individual – loss of trust. It is not about the technology as a game played out in front of an audience nor using the technology as an extension of human physicality but as an extension/expression of human desire.
We desire connection but simultaneously build glass walls around ourselves and then are shocked when our privacy is shattered.
So... Wireless is about trust and deception, untethered technology and untethered people ... and the ways we use our phones as a instrument of constant desire.
50 VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODUCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU Melbourne Ballet Company PETER AND THE WOLF
CONTACT ARTFORM Simon Hoy: Creator Children’s / Family, Dance, Drama, 0425 492 496 Music theatre [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Proudly presented by the Melbourne Ballet Company - Peter and the Wolf is a traditional Russian folk- tale set to music by Sergej Prokofiev, in which the orchestra itself tells the story – with the help of a narrator. It was written with the idea of introducing the principal instruments of the orchestra to young people using the different timbres of each instrument. It is a kind of symphonic opera based on the traditional story of Peter and the Wolf in which music and images are merged to help children distinguish between different musical instruments. Thus each character in the story is linked with a particular instrument: Peter is represented by the strings; the bird by a flute; the duck by an oboe; the cat by a clarinet; grandfather by a bassoon, the wolf is heard as three horns, and the hunters’ rifles by the timpani.
The vocal narration of the story is interpolated into the musical score so that children alternately listen to the symphony and the narrator. This allows the audience to relate each character to a particular instrument and melody. In this way the narration and the music together tell the story of Peter - as a courageous protagonist in a fantastic adventure with all the elements of a fairy tale: a hero, transgressions, a battle between hero and the antagonist, an ending with victory for the hero and punishment for the antagonist. The story starts with Peter, his cat, and Peter’s grandfather who all live in the forest. The unfortunate duck is eaten by the wolf, who is then caught by Peter with the help of a bird. In the end Peter saves the wolf from being shot by hunters, and takes it to the zoo instead. The story has some timeless qualities, capturing the spirit and curiosity of adventurous youth, and presents an unerring pursuit of justice. These are qualities not limited to the young. CONCEPT PRODUCTIONS
Opera Queensland FIGARO, BARBER OF SEVILLE
CONTACT ARTFORM Valerie Cole: Business Manager Opera (07) 3735 3030 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
The new production conceived and directed by Lindy Hume draws on opera, vaudeville and burlesque performance styles to tell the story of Beaumarchais’ charmingly smooth yet revolutionary rascal Figaro.
Having quit his servitude, Figaro has reinvented himself as a celebrity hairdresser/entrepreneur catering to his clients’ every need in fashion-conscious Seville. He plays Cupid too, when necessary, using every trick in the book to help his old boss Count Almaviva woo the lovely Rosina away from her crusty old guardian. Figaro’s adventures are set to some of the most infectious, bubbly music ever written.
For 90 frenzied, chaotic minutes, a versatile cast of five fantastic singers/actors and three musicians play multiple characters and improvise ridiculously elaborate comic scenarios in OperaQ’s madly irreverent new treatment of Rossini’s classic comedy. The show shamelessly exploits every Spanish cliché, from the bright orange design, to Manuel from Fawlty Towers’ accent, to Pedro Almodovar’s manic energy.”
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CONTACT ARTFORM Christine Johnstone: Touring & Regional program Coordinator Drama, Live music, Music theatre 07 3010 7630 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
Buried Country promises to be an irreverent, joyous musical celebration of Indigenous Australian Country and Western music. Queensland Theatre Company, under the Artistic Direction of Wesley Enoch, has commissioned this new work from writer Reg Cribb from an original concept by Indigenous Actor/Singer Michael Tuahine.
Michael Tuahine, inspired by the life of Jimmy Little to create a story which told this great Indigenous man’s life, presented this project to Wesley Enoch, QTC’s Artistic Director. Michael was privileged to have the opportunity to sing with Jimmy Little on a number of occasions, and to spend time in conversation with him about his life. Playwright Reg Cribb felt he was in the presence of a man with great grace and wisdom, when he too met Jimmy Little in 2004. Already ill with the kidney disease that would take his life in 2012, Jimmy’s amazing story stretched back five decades to 1950’s Australia. His impact was such that although it would still be a decade before Aboriginal people would be recognised as Australian Citizens, Jimmy became a major pop and country music star entertaining and inspiring both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
Exploring Jimmy’s life and story has led to a greater tale, of the many Indigenous musicians who not only forged careers at the same time as Jimmy Little, artists including Vic Simms, Auriel Andrews, Lionel Rose and Roger Knox, but also the ones who have followed, including today’s stars Troy Cassar Daly and Dan Sultan.
In the vein of The Sapphires and Bran Nue Dae we know this project will have broad appeal on the regional touring and international festival circuits as the country and western songs lead an audience into remarkable stories of dedication, passion and courage.
StageCoach Stage Hire COUNTRY MUSIC ROAD SHOW
CONTACT ARTFORM Donna Clarke: Owner Live music 0488 878 243 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
We wish to roll into a town with our purpose built stage which includes green room, kitchenette, toilet and shower onboard. We have a 9x6m performance stage with 3m drum riser. Our concept is to provide entertainment to the outback areas of Queensland where there is nothing but a paddock or showground to set up. Run a stage performance workshop by day for all ages, an evening show by the workshop participants and then our main show of a night which includes local, national and international artists.
52 VISIT THE ARTOUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ON THESE PRODUCTIONS ARTOUR.COM.AU The Painted Ladies THE PAINTED LADIES (CONCERT PERFORMANCE)
CONTACT ARTFORM Leanne de Souza: Producer Live Music 0412 622 881 [email protected] PREFERRED CONTACT: Email
In 1973, Indigenous singer/songwriter Vic Simms recorded the most important Australian album you’ve never heard, “The Loner”, from the confines of his cell in Bathurst jail.
In 2014, Brisbane Indigenous singer/songwriter Luke Peacock has brought together some of the finest talents in Australian music to form “The Painted Ladies” to recreate the important songs of Vic Simms and bring a message as poignant today as it was in 1973 to the mainstream.
The Painted Ladies project and the Vic Simms story will unveil itself over the coming months with the first single “”Get Back Into the Shadows”” to radio on April 8 and the album landing on June 6.
Topology LOVE STORIES
CONTACT ARTFORM Carol Lloyd: Executive Producer Live Music (07) 3254 1492 [email protected] CONCEPT PREFERRED CONTACT: Email PRODUCTIONS
Love Stories is a unique new collaboration between internationally acclaimed guitarist (and actor) Karin Schaupp, brilliant cutting edge Australian ensemble TOPOLOGY and multi award-winning film maker and one of Australia’s leading journalists, Trent Dalton.
This is a real life look at love: real people share their own stories on film, intimately captured by Dalton. We are invited into their world as they share words, songs and poems of love- romantic love, family love, self love, friendship and tragedy. Their stories form the basis of the all-new musical soundtrack which was created by Topology with Karin Schaupp and its live performance is interwoven with the films.
This is an emotional and contemporary look at love. A single line on the guitar underpins a man’s sharing of his story of the child he lost and the love he still feels, the ensemble accompanies as a young woman shares the story of her first kiss, soaring strings accompany an old woman’s beautiful rendering of her favourite love song, sung to the budgie who saved her life.
At the end we discover that all the characters we have laughed and cried with are not only real people, they are all homeless people living in Brisbane in 2014.
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CRADLE PRODUCTIONS Public Toilets, Private £ £ £ £ Words DEBASE PRODUCTIONS Fly In Fly Out £ £ £ £ FIDDLERS FEAST Fiddlers Feast £ £ £ £ FORCE OF CIRCUMSTANCE HOME: A story of £ £ £ £ belonging JALLY ENTERTAINMENT Barry Morgan – World of £ £ £ £ Organs JALLY ENTERTAINMENT Snow White and the £ £ £ £ seven cool dudes JANE RUTTER Flute Dreaming £ £ £ £ JANE RUTTER French Kiss £ £ £ £ JANE RUTTER Irish Fantasy £ £ £ £ JOHN THOMPSON The Great War £ £ £ £ JOSEPH SIMONS First Things First £ £ £ £ JUTE THEATRE Propelled £ £ £ £ LEAN FORWARD ARTS Dancing with Bach £ £ £ £ LITTLE BLACK DRESS CREATIVES £ £ £ £ Aria Moderna LITTLE BLACK DRESS CREATIVES £ £ £ £ I can keep a secret LITTLE BLACK DRESS CREATIVES Where the wild roses £ £ £ £ grow MARTINE PAVEY Bette, Babs & Bassey £ £ £ £ MARTINE PAVEY Judy & Liza £ £ £ £
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MARTINE PAVEY Stardust £ £ £ £ MATTHEW HALE COMEDY HYPNOTIST Get Hypnotised! The £ £ £ £ Matthew Hale Comedy Hypnosis Show MELISSA WESTERN & ANTONY DYER £ £ £ £ Oh, Lady be good METRO ARTS boy girl wall £ £ £ £ PHLUXUS2 DANCE COLLECTIVE £ £ £ £ de-generator RACHEL LEARY Everything must go £ £ £ £ RED CHAIR Acoustic Guitar £ £ £ £ Spectacular RED CHAIR The People’s Orchestra £ £ £ £ RED CHAIR The Swingin’ Martinis £ £ £ £ RED CHAIR Treasure of Captain £ £ £ £ Curlylocks SUCCESS ON STAGE Supreme dreams £ £ £ £ EXPRESSION THE GUITAR OF INTEREST COLLECTIVE £ £ £ £ WORKSHEET Gypsy in my soul UPTEMPO ENTERTAINMENT INTERNATIONAL The Man In The Mirror £ £ £ £ ‘Reflections Of Michael Jackson’ WISH LIST PRODUCTIONS The Secret History of £ £ £ £ Queensland ZEAL QLD The Apology £ £ £ £
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arTour would like to thank the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts for their generous support of the Queensland Touring Showcase 2014.