WORKING WITH CHILDREN BY NICOLA GUNN Welcome

Following her acclaimed Green Screen as part of NEON Festival 2014, it is a great pleasure to welcome Nicola Gunn back to MTC and present her latest creation, Working With Children.

Nicola is one of Australia’s most innovative theatre makers, creating incisive contemporary performance works that are sought after internationally.

She has an unrivalled ability to combine several art forms to enhance the performance narrative and tell complex stories, often exploring moral and ethical situations with her signature subversive humour.

To have the world premiere of Working With Children as part of our 2018 Season is a great thrill, as is the news that the work will have its international premiere in Seattle at On The Boards in February 2019.

At MTC we are committed to supporting independent artists in the development, production and showcase of their works and have done so through various successful collaborations in recent years. Working With Children is an example of these partnerships, as a work commissioned and produced through our NEON NEXT initiative.

Enjoy this world premiere production.

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Melbourne Theatre Company acknowledges the Yalukit Willam Peoples of the Boon Wurrung, the Traditional Owners of the land on which Southbank Theatre and MTC HQ stand, and we pay our respects to Melbourne’s First Peoples, to their ancestors and Elders, and to our shared future.

MTC is a department MTC is assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, MTC is a member of Live of the University its arts funding and advisory body, and by the State Government of Victoria through Performance Australia and the of Melbourne. Creative Victoria. Australian Major Performing Arts Group. MELBOURNE THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS WORKING WITH CHILDREN BY NICOLA GUNN

30 AUGUST— 29 SEPTEMBER 2018 Southbank Theatre, The Lawler

— About the play — Imagine a woman who works with children. Now imagine a man who works with children. The woman has a secret she is incredibly ashamed of, while the man says and does things in private that he wouldn’t want made public … Working with Children uses the moral and ethical ambiguities of working with children to explore the relationship between language and the (sexualised) body, and between naming and authority.

— Creative Team — Concept, Text, Direction, Design & Performance Nicola Gunn AV & Spatial Design Nick Roux Music & Sound Design Kelly Ryall Lighting & Spatial Design Bosco Shaw Costume Design & Co-Set Realisation Eugyeene Teh Associate Artist Sarah Aiken Script Dramaturg Jon Haynes Stage Manager Meg Richardson Rehearsals Assistant Stage Manager Emma Barbaro Rehearsal & Production Photographer Sarah Walker

Acknowledgements: For ongoing conversations about this project, I am indebted to Cristian Stefanescu and Claire Acevedo. I would also like to thank Sarah Austin, Clare Bartholomew, Luke George, Emma Hall, Pol Heyvaert, Daniel Sack and Emma Valente for their valued thoughts at points throughout the process. And finally, some of the ideas that informed this work came about during a creative development with Tamara Saulwick. ­­— Nicola Gunn

For information regarding running time, please see a member of the Front of House team.

Supported by CAMPO An MTC NEON NEXT commission Cover Photo: Justin Ridler Nicola Gunn in rehearsal CHILDREN IN PERFORMANCE Sarah Austin, a PhD candidate at VCA researching children in contemporary performance, sheds some light on the implications of featuring children in theatre. he last ten years has seen the Ariès.1 More recent childhood scholars point rapid rise of contemporary and to increasingly conservative and anxiety experimental performance works driven attitudes towards the vulnerability that feature children on stage as of children2 and it is possible to argue that performers and collaborators, these understandings have been used by Tand that are created specifically for adult artists to exploit our collective anxieties audiences. We have seen children giving and concerns. haircuts to adults, young girls dancing with grown men, a political party created by The historic involvement of children in children to address children’s policy the entertainment industry has been concerns, an army of teenage girls on stage consistently surrounded by controversy3. with a male bodybuilder and an ensemble While children have been employed of children echoing the common phrases variously as skilled performers and ‘scenic that their parents use to explain the world adornment’4 in a range of artistic practices to them. These works are critically over the decades, their function is often acclaimed, some are made by Australian as a symbol of innocence or wickedness, artists and all stage ideas of childhood or they serve as reminders of our own and children that challenge or intervene mortality or as placeholders for possible in the way we are conditioned to futures. Childhood itself is a material social perceive childhood. practice shot through with the effects of the social, political and environmental context. Childhood is a concept which has been A child in a performance context intersects articulated and defined by artists, social with (and therefore sometimes frustrates commentators and theorists throughout or alters) representational practices and history. The understanding that childhood is can destabilise some of the underlying not simply a biological reality but a cultural neoliberal and heteronormative logic that construction was articulated in 1960 by underpins their image. For example, the French historian of childhood Philippe common image of the child as ‘a hope for the future’ imagines the child as part of a temporality that progresses in a linear fashion; the child is an unfinished being, in a process of becoming and existing in a vacuum outside of history and outside of adulthood.5

The practice of creating experimental and contemporary performance brings all these potent symbolic and political representational notions around children to bear, and echoes the more recent paradigm shift in childhood studies that posits Nick Roux and Bosco Shaw; (above) Meg Richardson, Eugyeene Teh and Bosco Shaw; (opposite) Nick Roux, Meg Richardson and Nicola Gunn ‘Unfortunately I am a completely impractical person, caught up in endless trains of thought. All of us are fantasists, ill-equipped for life, the children as much as myself. It seems to me sometimes that we never get used to being on this earth and life is just one great, ongoing, incomprehensible blunder.’

— WG Sebald from Rings of Saturn

Nicola Gunn and Nick Roux children as socially and biologically enter the public consciousness. As this unfinished bodies6 towards children as unfolds, institutions have responded with agents who are shaped by but also have the policies and legislation designed to increase capability to shape society.7 Performance protection and safeguard children from studies scholar Isis Germano argues that possible and perceived harm. The Victorian the current interest in child performers by government introduced the Child Safe theatre and dance practitioners provides Standards, which became legislation in a fertile ground to examine childhood’s 2016, which effect all organisations and complex relation to the production of individuals working with children. As normalcy and strangeness regarding the institutions become more risk-averse it is human itself.8 possible to see the vulnerability paradigm that circles around ideas of children and The proliferation of performance work in childhood at play. Whilst these standards Australia featuring children on stage also exist to protect children, it is important to occurs in the context of a specific social ask what this might mean for children rights moment surrounding the Royal Commission and whether it will diminish the capacity of into Institutional Responses into Child children to act as agents of culture and to be Sexual Abuse, which means almost daily heard and taken seriously on matters that unthinkably horrific, historical crimes against effect them.n children are confirmed and broadcast and

SARAH AUSTIN Sarah Austin is a PhD candidate at the Victorian College of the Arts researching children in contemporary performance. She is a Research Associate at the School of Culture and Communication (University of Melbourne) on an ARC funded project investigating Disability Arts Practice in Australia and an award-winning artist making performance work with, by and for children and young people. This is an extract from Sarah’s paper that won the 2018 Veronica Kelly Prize at the Australasian Drama Studies Conference in June.

Endnotes 1 Ariès, Philippe (1962) Centuries of Childhood, trans. 6 Shilling Chris (1993) The Body and Social Theory, Robert Baldick, New York: Vintage Sage Publications, London 2 Budd, Natasha (2004) Staging Childhoods: Experiments in 7 James, Alison and Prout, James (eds) (2015), Constructing authentic theatre making practice with children, QUT and reconstructing childhood; contemporary issues in the (Thesis) sociological study of childhood, Routledge, London and 3 Budd 2004: 21 New York 4 Davis, Tracy C. 1986: “The employment of children in the 8 Germano, Isis (2018) ‘So Cute, So Creepy: Children Undoing Victorian theatre”, New Theatre Quarterly, 2 (06): 177-135 the human in Het Hamiltoncomplex’, Performance 5 Halbertsam, Judith (2011) The Queer Art of Failure, Durham: Research, 2018, 23 1, p44-p51, Duke University Press; Edelman, Lee (2005) No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, Durham, NC: Duke University Press

(Below) Nicola Gunn; (opposite from top) Nicola Gunn with Meg Richardson; Kelly Ryall

‘There is hardly an action we perform in our youth that we don’t later long to annul. But what we ought to regret is not the actions of the past, but the fact that we no longer possess the spontaneity that made us perform them. Adolescence is the only period in which we learn anything.’

— Marcel Proust from Within a Budding Grove Creative Team

NICOLA GUNN NICK ROUX KELLY RYALL Concept, Text, Direction, AV & Spatial Design Music & Sound Design Design & Performance

Nicola Gunn is an award-winning Nick Roux is an artist working Kelly Ryall is an award-winning writer, director, performer and in sound, video and computer composer, musician and sound designer, who combines text, programming. He has previously designer for theatre, dance and choreography and visual art to worked with Nicola Gunn as film. Kelly’s recent work with make contemporary performance sound designer for A Social Melbourne Theatre Company in response to a self-generated Service (Malthouse Theatre), and includes composition and sound impulse to tell a story or explore Person of Interest (Theatre Works design for Di and Viv and Rose, a form. Her work has toured for FOLA). As video designer, he Hay Fever, Three Little Words, across Europe, North America, has created work with All the Double Indemnity, Rupert, New Zealand and throughout Queens Men (Fun Run), Chamber Peddling, , On the Australia. Most recently she Made (Diaspora), MONA FOMA Production of Monsters, Return created Mermermer with (Faux Mo) and Cinedans Dance to Earth, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, choreographer Jo Lloyd for Film Festival (The Palindromist). God of Carnage, and Savage Chunky Move; Piece for Person Together with Frieder Weiss he River. His other stage credits and Ghetto Blaster for Performing created real-time motion include Title and Deed, Kill the Lines/Mobile States; A Social graphics for Global Creatures Messenger, Cinderella, Nora, and Service for Malthouse Theatre; (King Kong the Musical), (Belvoir); Romeo Green Screen for MTC’s NEON Mercedes Benz (A-Class Launch) and Juliet, As You Like It, Phedre, Festival; The Interpreters for Field and Take That (2015 Live Tour). He Henry IV, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Theory at Alliance Française; and has collaborated on dance works The School for Wives, and Tartuffe In Spite of Myself for Arts Centre with Luke George as sound/video/ (Bell Shakespeare); Boys Will be Melbourne/Melbourne Festival. system creator (24 Hours, Not Boys (); She has performed in the works About Face, Erotic Dance, Public The House on the Lake, Emerald of Ridiculusmus and Tamara Action, Group Action) and City, The Boys (); Saulwick; dramaturged dance composed sound for Aphids And No More Shall We Part, The works by Luke George and Jo (Gameshow), Gabrielle Nankivell Floating World, Dreams in White, Lloyd; and written for Jessica (Thorn) and All The Queens Men (Griffin Theatre Company); Wilson and Ian Pidd. Nicola is the (Congress). For New Music Brothers Wreck (State Theatre recipient of an Australia Council ensemble, Speak Percussion he Company of ), for the Arts Creative Australia has designed and built bespoke Edward II, The Shadow King, Fellowship and a Churchill instruments (Bell Curve, Polar Dance of Death, The Trial Fellowship. She holds a Masters Force, Fluorophone) and (Malthouse Theatre); Scenes from of Art (Art in Public Space) programmed custom software a Marriage ( Theatre); from RMIT. for Antony Hamilton Projects You Animal, You (Force Majeure); (They Want New Language), Animal (Theatre Works); The Rosalind Hall (Body of People) Bacchae (Fraught Outfit, and Matthias Schack-Arnott Melbourne Festival, (Field Sever Points). Dark Mofo). Creative Team

BOSCO SHAW EUGYEENE TEH JON HAYNES Lighting & Spatial Design Costume Design & Script Dramaturg Co-Set Realisation

Bosco Shaw works primarily Eugyeene Teh is a designer across Jon Haynes co-founded as a lighting and set designer. multiple artforms. Recent design Ridiculusmus in 1992. Since His interest is in work that credits include Abigail’s Party, then he has collaborated with involves bodies and movement, Hungry Ghosts, Endgame and Co-Artistic Director David Woods how light feeds and influences Straight White Men (Melbourne to devise and perform in all the performing space and Theatre Company); Blaque Ridiculusmus’ shows, including collaborations that propose Showgirls, Meme Girls, A Social Tough time, nice time, Ideas alternate light sources and Service and Approximate Men, Say Nothing, Yes Yes Yes, means. He works with Paul Lim Translation (Malthouse Theatre). The Exhibitionists, The Third and Tom Wright as ADDITIVE, As a co-artistic director of Little Policeman, Three Men in a Boat, a collaborative lighting design Ones Theatre, his many designs At Swim Two-Birds, Paranoid company. Design projects include The Happy Prince Triology, Household, Total Football, How include Meeting (Antony Merciless Gods (with Griffin to be Funny, The World Mouse Hamilton); Stampede the Theatre Company); Dracula, Plague, The Eradication of Stampede (Tim Darbyshire); Dangerous Liaisons (with MTC Schizophrenia in Western Attractor (Dance North); It NEON Festival); Salomé (with Lapland, Give Me Your Love and Cannot Be Stopped (Chunky Malthouse Helium); Psycho Beach Die! Die! Die! Old People Die! With Move); A Drone Opera (Matthew Party and The House of Yes. As Ridiculusmus, Haynes has won Sleeth); Double Blind (Stephanie resident designer for MKA, his awards from Time Out, Total Lake); Erotic Dance (Luke designs include The Trouble with Theatre (including a Significant George); Permission to Speak Harry, The Unspoken Word is ‘Joe’ Contribution award in 2014) and Between 8 and 9 (Chamber (Griffin Theatre Company); and The Herald Angel. He has Made opera); XO State (Asia Triangle and sex.violence.blood. presented a substantial body of TOPA); Between Tiny Cities (Nick gore. Other recent credits include work in London at The Barbican Power); Nightdance (Mel Lane); Melbourne Festival’s Lady Eats Centre and Battersea Arts Bangsokol (Cambodian Living Apple (Back to Back); Book of Centre, and developed work Arts): Requiem for Cambodia; Exodus Part II (Fraught Outfit); with the Royal Court and Faux Mo (MONA FOMA) and Exil and The Howling Girls (Sydney National Theatre, alongside Night Mass (Dark Mofo). Chamber Opera); In Between 24 years of UK and international Two for Sydney and Melbourne touring. He has been a guest Festivals, The Moors (Red Stitch); lecturer at the Universities of and Coloured Aliens (La Mama). Wolverhampton, Kent, Queen Eugyeene won a Green Room Mary College, London and many Award for The Happy Prince and others, and given numerous talks has received seven previous and demonstrations at festivals nominations. He is a recipient of and symposiums. the Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship. Carrying tradition into the future.

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