VENGEANCE IS IN MY HEART, DEATH IN MY HAND
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We ensure Shakespeare's work lives and INDIGENOUS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT breathes in theatres, schools and regional venues throughout Australia, where his words Bell Shakespeare acknowledges the people can be truly appreciated. of the land on which we rehearse and perform across Australia. We value the beauty of Shakespeare’s ideas, language and imagery. His work helps us find Titus Andronicus will be presented at Sydney modern perspectives on timeless truths. Opera House and we acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora nation on whose ancestral We believe Shakespeare and other great works lands Sydney Opera House sits. are not stuck in the past. They are the lens through which we can explore and question The First Peoples of this nation expressed their the present, and imagine the future. culture through music, dance and storytelling, and it is a privilege to continue a tradition of These plays are not static. They’re constantly storytelling and performance in this country. helping us make sense of who we are, where we’ve been, and where we’re going. And we’re We acknowledge custodians and elders, past not static either. and present, and pay respect to the cultural authority and traditions of this land. We’ve been travelling the country for more than 28 years, bringing classic theatre to Australia, looking for new ways to inspire, imagine and ignite. Shakespeare and the other classic plays we present challenge our beliefs and urge us to see ourselves in a new light. Their ability to discover the things that make us human inspires us to make work that challenges preconceptions and encourages new interpretations and contemporary parallels — work that speaks to every age. Titus Andronicus 5
WELCOME
It is our pleasure to welcome you to one of nature of human civilisation and who questions the most bold and experimental productions how we might break destructive cycles of revenge Bell Shakespeare has ever staged, and violence. It has been a privilege to work Titus Andronicus. with Adena and the talented group of artists she has assembled to bring this audacious While there are some of Shakespeare's works interpretation of Titus Andronicus to life. that are programmed with regularity, there are others that we can only stage when the time is We thank our government and corporate right and the creative team around it is perfect. partners, our many generous trusts and Titus Andronicus is one of the those plays foundations, and our donors who together and Adena Jacobs is the only director we help us take our productions and education could imagine bringing this play to life for programs into theatres, schools and contemporary audiences. communities nationwide.
Titus Andronicus is one of Shakespeare’s earlier We also thank you — our audience — for works, thought to have been written around joining us in the theatre to experience this 1593–1594. It is undoubtedly his most confronting bold new production. play, delving into unimaginable horrors and with wretched violence, revenge and chaos at its heart.
In this production, Adena presents a bleak, dehumanised landscape; a nightmare of a society in crisis, where cycles of vengeance fuelled by grief, trauma and terror perpetuate across generations.
Shakespeare’s works are not an end in themselves but are a vehicle through which we can interrogate society and ourselves. We invite you to explore this play through the eyes of a Gill Perkins Peter Evans director who wishes to comment on the darker Executive Director Artistic Director 6 Bell Shakespeare
SYNOPSIS
With 21 of his children left dead after a decade Lavinia’s betrothed Bassianus and to attack Lavinia. on the battleground, Titus returns home to Rome. Aaron then frames Titus’ sons for the crimes. He brings Tamora, Queen of the Goths; her lover, Aaron; and her three sons as prisoners of war. Lavinia is discovered mutilated and cannot Titus sacrifices Tamora’s eldest son in honour identify her attackers. Titus’ sons are imprisoned of his dead sons, and she swears vengeance. and Aaron tricks Titus into believing they will be released if he cuts off his hand. Titus sacrifices After their father’s death, brothers Saturninus and his arm; but Aaron lied, and Titus’ sons are killed. Bassianus vie for the title of Emperor. Yet, citizens of Rome want Titus to be ruler. Titus refuses and Titus captures Tamora’s sons and kills them. bestows the title upon Saturninus. Saturninus Next evening Titus hosts a grand feast and kills declares his desire to marry Titus’ daughter, Lavinia. Tamora questions where her sons are, and Lavinia, but when he discovers Lavinia does Titus tells her they are baked in the pie she just ate. not want to marry him, he weds Tamora instead. Titus then kills Tamora. Saturninus exacts revenge and stabs Titus but is then killed by Titus’ only Meanwhile, Aaron, Tamora’s lover, plans to exact surviving son Lucius. Aaron is sentenced to death. Tamora’s revenge on Titus. Aaron manipulates Tamora’s sons Chiron and Demetrius to murder Titus Andronicus 7
COMPANY LIST VENGEANCE IS IN MY HEART, DEATH IN MY HAND
— Act 2, Scene 3
CAST CREW
Tamora Melita Jurisic Stage Manager Sara Holt Aaron Tariro Mavondo Assistant Stage Manager Ruth Hollows Titus Andronicus Jane Montgomery Griffiths Head Electrician Nick Toll Lavinia, Ensemble Jayna Patel Head Mechanist Bob Laverick Marcus, Bassianus, Ensemble Josh Price Head of Audio & AV Peter Doggart Mutius, Demetrius, Ensemble Tony Ray Ray Head of Costume Hannah Lobelson Saturninus, Ensemble Daniel Schlusser Costume Cutter Robyn Fruend Lucius, Chiron, Ensemble Grace Truman Costume Assistant Brooke Cooper-Scott Clown Catherine Văn-Davies Dresser Brooke Cooper-Scott Production Assistant Paisley Williams CREATIVE TEAM Directing Secondment Claudia Osborne Lighting Design Secondment Finn Appleton Director Adena Jacobs Directing Observer Sarah Vickery Designer Eugyeene Teh Directing Observer Danielle Maas Lighting & Projection Designer Verity Hampson Composer & Sound Designer Max Lyandvert Set built by Sydney Theatre Company Movement Director Danielle Micich Lighting supplied by Chameleon Touring Systems Voice & Text Coach Jess Chambers Costume props and Prosthetic Make up Effects Dramaturg Aaron Orzech by Paul Katte and Nick Nicolaou of Make-up Effects Group
PHOTOGRAPHY
Campaign imagery by Zan Wimberley Rehearsal imagery by Brett Boardman
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NOTE FROM DIRECTOR ADENA JACOBS O, WHY SHOULD WRATH BE MUTE, AND FURY DUMB?
— Act 5, Scene 3
Dear Children, Their fantasies and terrors, their visions, their futures? The belief that we are doomed to We are sorry for all these stories where you get repeat cycles of violence, is a patriarchal one. chopped into pieces, and made into pies, frozen For centuries, this myth has provided us with in towers and eaten by wolves, chased through an excuse for even more trauma and bloodshed. dark forests, and married to beasts. Burnt and It allows us to say — we cannot help it. It is in our baked, slaughtered and raped. Stories like the DNA and our history, preordained from birth. one you are about to see, where parents swallow and kill and then hand you the knife. Where a girl This production queers and re-dreams gets torn into pieces, a hole for a mouth, her Shakespeare’s play, as an attempt to x-ray our face no longer a face. Stories which turn rape relationship with violence, written on the body into metaphor, violence into poetry. Which tell and transferred through history. Bodies and you that the world was always this way and will voices, usually at the margins of the play are at continue to be. That our violence becomes the centre of our exploration. Through this lens your violence. Our pain becomes your pain. we enter the brutal and shell-shocked landscape Our nightmares; your nightmares. of Titus Andronicus, trying to comprehend and re-construct the pieces of a world torn apart. What if these stories were dreamt up by mothers? What would their warnings be for us?
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"This story of a long-ago hero and his "He gave an inner awareness to passions; unimaginable losses is also the story cruelty ceased to be merely physical. of consequence and consequences: Shakespeare discovered the moral hell. about what follows from misjudgment He discovered heaven as well. But he in high places." remained on earth."
Marjorie Garber Jan Kott
"This is a world in which people make "Titus Andronicus is in a way the radical – their own laws; as in Lear, the gods the root – of Shakespearean tragedy, the are frequently invoked but never reply." dreamscape or nightmare world laid out
Jonathan Bate for all to see, not disguised by a retreat into metaphor." "In the shape, characters, and domestic Marjorie Garber situations of Titus, Shakespeare’s earliest tragedy, can be seen not only harbingers "Titus Andronicus is often undervalued of future tragic plots of the family, from or misunderstood, regarded as a Hamlet to King Lear, but also an Shakespearean stepchild rather than a extraordinarily powerful story." legitimate heir. Even those critics who Marjorie Garber celebrate the play – and there have been many, especially in recent years – "Titus Andronicus imagines a time when often applaud its exceptionalism in the justice has left the earth." canon. But to look closely at this play
Jonathan Bate is to see not only Shakespeare in the raw, or Shakespeare in the rough, but Shakespeare very much in command of his theatre and his plot."
Marjorie Garber 12 Bell Shakespeare
THE DEATH COUNT
Tamora’s son Alarbus is sacrificed Titus kills his own by Titus’ sons. son, Mutius.
Chiron and Demetrius murder the emperor’s Emperor Saturninus has Titus' sons, Martius brother Bassianus. and Quintus, beheaded.
Chiron and Demetrius rape and mutilate Lavinia, Emperor Saturninus orders who is eventually killed by Titus. the death of a Clown. Titus Andronicus 13
Before the play even starts, Titus has lost 21 sons in battle.
Aaron murders the Nurse who has just Titus kills Chiron and Demetrius, then cooks and delivered his newborn child. serves them up in a pie for their mother Tamora.
In his final act of revenge, Tamora’s husband, Titus kills Tamora. Emperor Saturninus, kills Titus.
Lucius, Titus’ sole surviving Newly crowned Emperor Lucius son, kills Emperor Saturninus. orders the death of Aaron. 14 Bell Shakespeare
CREATIVE TEAM
ADENA JACOBS EUGYEENE TEH DIRECTOR DESIGNER
Adena is an internationally renowned director. Eugyeene is a theatre maker, architect and She holds degrees from both Melbourne University designer who has worked extensively in Australia and Victorian College of the Arts. This is her first and internationally. This is his first production with production with Bell Shakespeare. Her other Bell Shakespeare. His other theatre design credits directorial credits include Salome for English include Endgame, Straight White Men, Hungry National Opera; Wizard Of Oz, Oedipus Rex, Ghosts, Abigail’s Party and Working with Children Hedda Gabler and Persona for Belvoir; Antigone for Melbourne Theatre Company; Blaque Showgirls and Persona for Malthouse; On The Bodily and Meme Girls for Malthouse Theatre; Lady Eats Education of Young Girls for Melbourne Theatre Apple for Melbourne Festival/Back to Back; Book Company’s Neon Festival; The Bacchae for of Exodus Part II and Elektra for Fraught Outfit; Exil Melbourne International Arts Festival/Dark MOFO; and The Howling Girls for Sydney Chamber Opera; Persona, The Bacchae, Book of Exodus – The Seen and Unseen for Asia TOPA; Shanghai Part I & II for Theatre Works; The Howling Girls Mimi for Sydney Festival; Merciless Gods for Little and Exil for Sydney Chamber Opera/Carriageworks. Ones Theatre/Griffin Theatre Company/Arts Centre The Howling Girls will be presented at Tokyo Melbourne; Dangerous Liaisons for Little Ones Festival later this year. As a dramaturg she has Theatre/Melbourne Theatre Company’s Neon worked on The Dark Chorus for Lucy Guerin Inc/ Festival; and The Happy Prince Trilogy and Dracula Melbourne International Arts Festival; Re-make for for Little Ones Theatre. Eugyeene is the Co-Artistic Chunky Move; The Seen and The Unseen for Asia Director of Little Ones Theatre. His awards include Topa/The Esplanade/Salihara. Adena is the Artistic a Green Room Award and the prestigious Keith Director of independent company Fraught Outfit and Elisabeth Murdoch Fellowship. and has been a Resident Director at Belvoir and Female Director in Residence for Malthouse. Her awards include the Melbourne International Arts Festival’s 2011 Harold Mitchell Fellowship, a prestigious Music Theatre NOW prize for The Howling Girls, and the 2018 George Fairfax Memorial Award. Titus Andronicus 15
CREATIVE TEAM
VERITY HAMPSON MAX LYANDVERT L IGHT ING AND COMPOSER AND PROJECTION SOUND DESIGNER DESIGNER
Verity Hampson is an award-winning lighting and Max is a multi-award-winning composer, sound projection designer. Since graduating from NIDA, designer and theatre maker. Max has previously she has designed over 120 productions, working worked with Bell Shakespeare for The Miser, Antony with many of Australia’s leading directors and and Cleopatra, Othello and The Merchant Of choreographers. For Bell Shakespeare, Verity Venice. Other theatre credits include Mary Stuart, designed Julius Caesar, A Midsummer’s Night Saint Joan, Top Girls, All My Sons, The Testament Dream and The Literati (with Griffin Theatre Of Mary, The Golden Age, Endgame, Children Of Company). Other theatre designs include The Sun, Macbeth, Perplex, Waiting For Godot, Winyanboga Yurringa, Enemy of the People, Fury, Gross und Klein, War of the Roses, Mrs. Sami in Paradise, Faith Healer, The Drover’s Warren’s Profession, and many others for Sydney Wife, Ruby’s Wish, The Blind Giant is Dancing and Theatre Company; Book Of Exodus Part 1 & 2 for Ivanov for Belvoir; Blackie Blackie Brown, Hamlet: Fraught Outfit; The Winter’s Tale for Queensland Prince of Skidmark, Machinal and Little Mercy for Theatre Company; Dead City, The Wizard Of Oz, Sydney Theatre Company; Death of a Salesman for Oedipus Rex, The Business, The Ham Funeral, Queensland Theatre; Wake in Fright for Malthouse; UBU and Macbeth for Belvoir; Gulls, Macbeth, One the Bear and Blackrock for La Boite; and The Idiot, Kafka Dances, Courtyard Of Miracles, The Bleeding Tree, The Boys and The Floating Closer, The Rose Tattoo and Twelfth Night for World for Griffin. Opera credits include Fly Away State Theatre Company of South Australia; and Peter for Sydney Chamber Opera; and Orpheus and Art And Soul and Design For Living for Melbourne Eurydice for Spectrum Now Festival. For television, Theatre Company. Max won an AACTA award for best Verity was lighting director for ABC’s Live at the music in television for The Kettering Incident, and Basement and The Roast. Awards include a 2019 composed the music for The Devil’s Playground. Green Room Award, two Sydney Theatre Awards His documentary credits include Gayby Baby for Best Mainstage Lighting Design, and the Mike and After The Wave, and film credits include Hey Walsh Fellowship. Hey It’s Esther Blueburger, The Sense Of It and Two Wheeled Time Machine. Max has won the Helpmann Award for Best Sound Design twice, as well as receiving numerous other nominations. Recently, Max composed the music for the Australian Pavilion for the Venice Biennale 2019. 16 Bell Shakespeare
CREATIVE TEAM
DANIELLE JESS CHAMBERS MICICH VOICE AND MOVEMENT TEXT COACH DIRECTOR
Danielle is an award-winning choreographer, Jess works internationally as a voice and dialect director and performer of dance theatre. She is coach. She trained at London’s Central School a graduate of Victorian College of the Arts with of Speech and Drama. For Bell Shakespeare a Bachelor of Dance and Melbourne University she was the voice coach for Much Ado About with a Graduate Diploma of Education. This is Nothing, Macbeth, The Miser, Julius Caesar, Danielle’s first production with Bell Shakespeare. The Misanthrope, Antony and Cleopatra, The In opera, theatre and dance, Danielle’s credits Merchant Of Venice, Richard 3, Othello, Romeo include work for Sydney Theatre Company, And Juliet, Henry V and The Players. Her other Belvoir, Black Swan State Theatre Company, theatre credits include Mosquitoes, How To Rule Perth Theatre Company, Night Train Productions, The World, Power Plays, A Midsummer Night’s Strut Dance, Steamworks Arts Productions, Dream and Battle Of Waterloo for Sydney Nova Ensemble, Dwhani Dance Company (India), Theatre Company; Matilda The Musical in Barking Gecko Theatre Company, Buzz Dance Australia for The Royal Shakespeare Company/ Theatre, QL2, PVI Collective, Artrage Festival, Louise Withers and in London for The Royal WA Opera, Pinchgut Opera, DarcSwan Dance Shakespeare Company; and Alice In Wonderland, Company and Monkey Baa Theatre. Danielle is Sweet Charity, You Never Can Tell and Pygmalion Artistic Director of Force Majeure and was for The Shaw Festival Theatre (Canada). Her previously Artistic Director of STEPS Youth Dance dialect coach credits include School of Rock Company. Danielle’s ambition is to contribute to for GWB Entertainment/The Really Useful Group; making new Australian work through storytelling Jersey Boys for Rodney Rigby/TEG Dainty/ that reaches audiences by exploring themes The Dodgers; Les Misérables for Cameron and issues relevant to contemporary culture; Mackintosh/Michael Cassel; and The Sound Of reflecting, embracing and challenging Music for John Frost/The Really Useful Group. community attitudes and ideals. Jess’ television credits include Frayed and The Unlisted, and her film credits include dialect assistance on Hacksaw Ridge. Titus Andronicus 17
CREATIVE TEAM
AARON ORZECH DRAMATURG I’LL FIND A DAY TO MASSACRE THEM ALL Aaron is a Melbourne-based performer and theatre-maker. This is his first production — Act 1, Scene 1 with Bell Shakespeare. His other theatre credits include co-director and performer of The Collected Works of Victor Bergman for fortyfive downstairs; co-director and dramaturge of The Book of Exodus Parts I & II, The Bachae and On The Bodily Education of Young Girls for Fraught Outfit; co-creator of The Director for Aphids/ANTI Contemporary Festival/Sydney Opera House; co-creator of A Singular Phenomenon for Aphids/Malthouse; and as a performer in Antigone for Malthouse. He is currently developing several new works including NEVERNEVERNEVERNEVERNEVER- NEVERNEVER, to be performed at Arts House next year, and is undertaking a residency at London’s Live Art Development Agency supported by the Ian Potter Foundation. 18 Bell Shakespeare
CAST
MELITA JURISIC TARIRO MAVONDO TAMORA AARON
Melita has worked for many leading and alternative Tariro is a VCA graduate. For Bell Shakespeare theatre companies throughout Australia in over she performed in a Learning production of Romeo 100 productions. For Bell Shakespeare she has and Juliet and was a member of The Players in performed in King Lear. Her other theatre credits 2017. Her other theatre credits include Jumpy include receiving the inaugural Cladan Award for for Melbourne Theatre Company; Pigeons for A Doll’s House and Green Room Awards for I Am Melbourne Theatre Company/Multicultural Arts A Miracle, Night on Bald Mountain, Danny & The Victoria; Baulkham Hills’ African Women’s Troupe Deep Blue Sea and Bali Adat. Barrie Kosky invited for Belvoir/Riverside; In the Next Room for Black her to perform at Vienna’s Schauspielhaus as Swan State Theatre Company; Dance Nation for the unanimously praised Medea, and she has Red Stitch; Three Sisters for Metonia Theatre continued to perform in Europe to critical and Company; The Faithful Servant for The Street public acclaim. Melita’s film performances include Theatre; Thula Thula for La Mama; and Doubt Mad Max Fury Road, The Sound of One Hand for Chapel off Chapel. Her web series credits Clapping, The Tale of Ruby Rose, which garnered include Sisters, Shakespeare Republic S2, and her the International Critic’s Prize for Best Actress Other People’s Problems. Her film and television at the Venice Film Festival, the Croatian films credits include Winners & Losers, Home, Arrivals. Transatlantic and Kotlovina and most recently Tariro was a recipient of the 2011 Irene Mitchell the Austrian film Murer-Anatomy Of A Trial. Award for Outstanding Actor. On television, she is known for her portrayal of Dr. Magda in The Flying Doctors and Dr. Eva in Something in the Air. Melita is the singer/ songwriter of the Viennese band Metalycée whose first album, It Is Not, was voted one of the ten best Austrian albums of the decade. Titus Andronicus 19
CAST
JANE JAYNA PATEL MONTGOMERY L AV INIA, GRIFFITHS ENSEMBLE TITUS ANDRONICUS
Jane had extensive theatre experience in the UK, This is Jayna’s first production with including with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Bell Shakespeare and marks their professional Theatr Clywd, Cambridge Theatre Company and stage debut. Their other theatre credits include Chichester Festival Theatre. For Bell Shakespeare the NSW State Drama Festival, performing as she has performed in King Lear. Her other theatre a member of the NSW Drama Ensembles over credits include Macbeth for Melbourne Theatre four consecutive years, for The Arts Unit; and Company; Sappho in…9 fragments, Wild Surmise, performances of Oliver!, Jack and the Beanstalk, Frankenstein and Antigone for Malthouse Theatre; Mulan Jnr, The Little Mermaid Jnr, The Wizard of Wizard of Oz for Belvoir; Wit for Artisan Collective; Oz, Alice in Wonderland, Rapunzel (A very hairy and Good People for Red Stitch. Her television fairytale), Cinderella, Leap of Faith, The King and credits include Five Bedrooms, The Bill, Casualty, I, Dreamgirls, Legally Blonde and Camp Rock for Red Dwarf, One Against the Wind and A Murder various community theatre groups. Their film of Quality. Jane’s writing credits include Sappho… work includes Montaigne’s music video Ready. in 9 fragments, Razing Hypatia, Wild Surmise, Antigone and Eurydike and Orpheus. Jane’s awards include White Rose Best Actress (Gaslight), Manchester Evening News Best Actress (Electra), Greenroom Award Outstanding Performer (Wit), Helpmann Best Supporting Actress Nomination (Macbeth) and Victorian and NSW Premiers’ Literary Nominations for Sappho…in 9 Fragments. Jane is Professor of Theatre Performance at Monash University and Director of the Centre for Theatre and Performance. With thanks to the Pratt Foundation and Monash Academy of Performing Arts for their generous support. 20 Bell Shakespeare
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JOSH PRICE TONY RAY RAY MARCUS, MUTIUS, BASSIANUS, DEMETRIUS, ENSEMBLE ENSEMBLE
Josh is a graduate of the VCA. This is his first This is Tony’s first production with production with Bell Shakespeare. His other Bell Shakespeare. His other theatre experience theatre credits include The Violent Outburst includes FAST, Let’s Not Waste Away, Atomic Brain That Drew Me To You and An Ideal Husband for Boy and The Legend of Orpheus Catholic Schools Melbourne Theatre Company; Going Down and Performing Arts Sydney; Oliver for De La Salle The Histrionic for Sydney Theatre Company/ Catholic College; four productions of CaSPA Malthouse; Antigone and The Dragon for LiVE for CaSPA LiVE; and Boogie Fever, Annie Malthouse; The Good Person of Szechuan for and Wizard of Oz for Star Power Studios. Malthouse/National Theatre of China; M+M for Melbourne Festival; Complexity of Belonging for Chunky Move; and Looking Glass and The Dollhouse for fortyfive downstairs. His musical theatre credits include Blue Angel for Big Hart/ Tasmanian International Arts Festival; Margaret Fulton: Queen of the Dessert for Present Tense/ TheatreWorks; and The Love Birds for Melbourne Festival. His television credits include Molly, Australia On Trail, Underbelly: Infiltration, and City Homicide. Josh is a proud member of MEAA. Titus Andronicus 21
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DANIEL GRACE TRUMAN SCHLUSSER LUCIUS, CHIRON, SATURNINUS, ENSEMBLE ENSEMBLE
Daniel is an artist who creates theatre, opera This is Grace’s first production with Bell and installation-work. This is his first production Shakespeare. Her other theatre credits include with Bell Shakespeare. His other theatre credits Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam for National as performer include Trustees for Belarus Theatre of Parramatta; and Blackbird for Sydney Free Theatre/Malthouse/Melbourne Festival; Fringe Festival. She is creator of the web series Trapper for Sydney Opera House; Persona amazing Grace, where she is the lead actress, for TheatreWorks/Malthouse/Belvoir; On the co-writer and songwriter. Her performance in Misconceptions of Oedipus for Malthouse/Perth the series has received international recognition, Theatre Company; Kill Hamlet for La Mama/The from Miami Web Fest, Seriesland Bilbao and the Universal/Griffin Theatre Company; and Cageling Asia Web Awards. Grace was nominated for Best for Carriageworks/fortyfivedownstairs. Theatre Newcomer at the 2018 Sydney Theatre Awards. credits as director include The Histrionic for Malthouse/Sydney Theatre Company; and Medea for Melbourne Festival. As Artistic Director of Daniel Schlusser Ensemble, his directing credits include They Divided the Sky for Belvoir 25A; Life is a Dream for The Storeroom; Ophelia Doesn’t Live Here Anymore... for Chamber Made Opera/Bell Shakespeare’s Mind’s Eye. Daniel has received numerous awards and recognition including the George Fairfax Memorial award, an Ian Potter Award, a Besen Family Fellowship, and a Goethe Institute “Key Cultural Personnel” grant. He holds a Masters of Theatre Directing (by research) from VCA. 22 Bell Shakespeare
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CATHERINE VAN-DAVIES ROME IS BUT CLOWN A WILDERNESS OF TIGERS
— Act 3, Scene 1
Catherine graduated from QUT with a BFA (Acting) in 2006 and trained at HB Studio, New York in 2010. For Bell Shakespeare she has performed in The Misanthrope and The Merchant Of Venice. Previous theatre credits include Going Down for Sydney Theatre Company/Malthouse Theatre; Complexity of Belonging for Chunky Move/Falk Richter; An Enemy Of The People, Back At The Dojo and The Kiss for Belvoir; Turquoise Elephant for Griffin Theatre Company; Angels in America for Apocolypse Theatre Company; The Happy Prince, Dracula and Dangerous Liaisons for Little Ones Theatre; The Myth Project: Twin, Cut Snake, Superhero Training Academy and Waltzing Woolloomooloo: The Tale of Frankie Jones for Arthur; sex.violence.blood.gore for MKA; and various shows for Milk Crate Theatre. Her television credits include Hungry Ghosts, The Letdown, Fighting Season, Pet Killer and Precinct 13. Catherine is a member of MEAA. 23
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ARTISTIC Annie and John Paterson Janet Whiting AM & Phil Lukies DIRECTOR'S CIRCLE Foundation Anonymous (2) Neil & Rachel Sinden $1,000+ Thank you to our 2019 Artistic Andrew Sisson AO Adrianne Anderson Director’s Circle members who Alden Toevs & Judi Wolf Ilana Atlas & Tony D’Aloisio AM are passionate about the process of $10,000+ Helen Bauer & Helen Lynch AM making theatre and are supporting Susan Burns Paul Bedbrook and observing this year’s mainstage Louise Christie The Staff of Bell Shakespeare and education seasons. Michael & Christine Clough Berg Family Foundation Jennifer Darin & Dennis Cooper Anne Loveridge Christy Boyce & Stephen Roberts Beau Deleuil Nick & Caroline Minogue Katherine A Brazenor Lachlan & Rebecca Edwards Roslyn Packer AC Dr John Brookes Shannon Finch Kenneth Reed AM Janet C Binns Jinnie & Ross Gavin Jacqui Scheinberg Virginia Brown David & Deborah Friedlander Gene Tilbrook James Browning Linda Herd Sally White OAM Jan Burnswoods Andrew Low Anonymous Rick Burrows Sam Sheppard John & Alison Cameron $5,000+ Alden Toevs & Judi Wolf The Hon Joseph C Campbell QC & Dr Brett Archer Jennifer Campbell Fiona Archer John Cauchi AM SC & John Bell AO OBE & Anna Volska ANNUAL GIVING Catherine Walker PSM Janet Calvert-Jones Jenny & Stephen Charles Phil Chronican We are incredibly grateful for our George Clark Robert & Carmel Clark annual donors who contribute Belinda Cogswell Michael S Diamond AM MBE essential funds, via Supporting Collarts Lachlan & Rebecca Edwards Cast and Sharing Shakespeare, Darren Cook David & Deborah Friedlander to the cost of our core operations Kevin Cosgrave Linda Herd ensuring we are able to focus our Russ & Rae Cottle Julia & Nick Holder efforts on finding new ways to Jason Craig Dr Sue Kesson create, collaborate, educate on Professor A T Craswell Justice François Kunc & Felicity the mainstage and beyond including Joanne & Sue Dalton Rourke the life changing opportunities Coles Danziger Foundation Dr Kathryn J Lovric & Dr Roger Allan provided through our learning and Jennifer Darin & Dennis Cooper The Alexandra & Lloyd Martin Family outreach programs nation-wide. Antony de Jong & Belinda Plotkin Foundation Mark Dempsey & Jodi Steele $50,000+ Belinda Gibson & Jim Murphy John Dever Tom & Elisabeth Karplus J R Nethercote Dr Antonio Di Dio Sue Maple-Brown AM Alice Arnott Oppen OAM Jane Diamond David & Jill Pumphrey $20,000+ Jim & Sue Dominguez John B Reid AO & Robert Albert AO & Libby Albert Diane & John Dunlop Lynn Rainbow Reid AM Philip CrutchfieldQC & Amy Michael & Roslyn Dunn Smith Charitable Fund Crutchfield Dr & Mrs B Dutta Diane Sturrock Jane Hansen & Paul Little AO Elizabeth Evatt AC Peter Sturrock John Hindmarsh AM & Rosanna Richard Fisher AM & Diana Fisher Dick & Sue Viney Hindmarsh OAM Christopher Fox Jackie Waterhouse Dr Anne Reeckmann & Dr Gary Graham Froebel Maureen Wheeler AO & Holmes Rodney Garrett QC Tony Wheeler AO Low Family Foundation 28 Bell Shakespeare
Dr Mary-Jane Gething & Joe Eva & Timothy Pascoe Annabel Dulhunty Sambrook Meredith Paynter Jeanmaree Furtado & Scott Wilson Jennifer Giles Gill Perkins & Family Justin Gardener Sharon Goldschmidt Julie Claridge & James Philips Leigh & Adele Gordon Louise Gourlay OAM CMDR Warwick Potter RAN Richard & Anna Green Mark & Patricia Grolman J & K Preedy Sue Griffin Steven & Kristina Harvey Andrew Price James Hall Joe Hayes & Jacinta O’Meara Paul & Jacqueline Pryor Elizabeth M Hamilton Paul Hayes QC & Rachel Broderick Dr Susan Pugh & Professor Michael Lesley Harland The Hon Peter Heerey AM QC & Bennett Bruce Hartnett AM Sally Heerey Bill & Katharine Ranken Dr Anthony Harris Jane Hemstritch Rodney & Donna Ravenscroft Reverend Bill & Natalie Hickey Bryce Raworth & Isobel Williams Rosemary Huff-Johnston In memory of Armon Hicks Jnr Mary & Michael Regan Fiona Hulton Ken & Lilian Horler Greg J Reinhardt AM Dr Malcom Irving AM M Horne Robert Richardson Bruce & Natalie Kellett Dr David Howell & Sarah Howell Ruth Ritchie Dr Angela Kirsner & Dr Richard Mike Hutchinson Mark & Anne Robertson Kirsner Vincent Jewell Vio Samson Cheryl Lo John Colet School Keiko Schmeisser Peter Lockwood Cam & Caroline Johnston Warren & Pamela Scott Robin Low Mathilde Kearney-Kibble Lynne Sherwood & the Late Tim Douglas Meagher QC & Rosemary Peter & Elizabeth Kelly Sherwood Meagher Michael Kingston Geoffrey A Starr Keith Bayliss & Holly Mitchell John Knowles OAM Penelope Seidler AM National Australia Bank Jane Kunstler The Peter Stirling Family J Norman Julie & Michael Landvogt Kristin Stubbins Lady Potter AC Owen Lennie Douglas Sturkey CVO AM Debra Reinecke & Stuart Le May Bob Lim & Jennifer Ledgar Anne Swann & Robert Johanson Heather Ridout AO Dr Kimberly Cartwright & Charles Alan & Jenny Talbot Trudie Rogers Littrell David & Jenny Templeman Jennifer Royle Richard & Elizabeth Longes Robert & Kyrenia Thomas Jane Sandilands Linda Lorenza Mike Thompson Sam Sheppard Adrian Lotrean & Jerome Tse John & Julie Waters Jann Skinner Brendan & Jodie Lyons The Vine Foundation (Rebel Helen Swift & Les Neulinger Ian & Wendy Macoun Penfold-Russell OAM) Robin Syme AM & Rosemary Syme The Hon Ian MacPhee AO & Julie Dr Peter White Margaret Tilley MacPhee George M Wilkins Suzanne & Ross Tzannes AM Carina Martin Helen Williams AC The Hon Justice Anthony Whealy & The Hon Jane Mathews AO Annabel Williamson Anne Whealy Diane Matthews Anonymous (17) Peter Willis & Eleneth Woolley Julianne Maxwell Marie Wright $500+ Banjo McLachlan & Paul Mahony Anonymous (10) Rob & Lyn Backwell Luke Merrick Loretta Barnard We would also like to thank our Dr Diana Milliner & Robert Milliner Ken Barton & Linda Chung family of donors who generously Dr Alana Mitchell Dr Neal Blewett contributed up to $500. Every gift Peter & Felicia Mitchell Yola & Steve Center makes a difference to what we are Stephen Nagle & Nikita Gill Tim Cox AO & Bryony Cox able to achieve. Naylor-Stewart Ancillary Fund Eloise Curry Patricia Novikoff The annual gifts recognised have S Ford & C Curtis Kathy Olsen & Bruce Flood been received in the 12 months Ann Darby Catherine Parr & Paul Hattaway preceding 1 August 2019. Daryl & Nola Daley Titus Andronicus 29
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