‘The Eternity Man is a film opera which defies convention’.
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An OPERA by an JONATHAN MILLS M DOROTHY PORTER
A FILM by JULIEN TEMPLE
Produced by ROSEMARY BLIGHT, JOHN WYVER AND ALEX FLEETWOOD
‘The Eternity Man is a film opera which defies convention’.
A STUDY GUIDE BY MARGUERITE O’HARA Principal Cast Arthur Stace GRANT DOYLE http://www.metromagazine.com.au Myrtle Stace CHRISTA HUGHES
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An OPERA by JONATHAN MILLS DOROTHY PORTER
A FILM by JULIEN TEMPLE
Produced by ROSEMARY BLIGHT, JOHN WYVER AND ALEX FLEETWOOD
Principal Cast Arthur Stace GRANT DOYLE Myrtle Stace CHRISTA HUGHES
‘The Eternity Man is a film opera which defies convention’.
‘The Eternity Man is a film opera which defies convention’.
An OPERA by JONATHAN MILLS DOROTHY PORTER
A FILM by JULIEN TEMPLE
Produced by R OSEMARY BLIGHT, JOHN WYVER AND ‘Eternity,An OEternity!PERA by ALEX FLEETWOOD Oh, that this word could be emblazoned JONATHAN MILLS across DtheO RstreetsOTHY of P Sydney!’ORTER
Evangelist preacher John Ridley, Sydney, 1932 A FILM by JULIEN TEMPLE
Produced by The Eternity Man is a contemporary the single word, written in copperplate speak to people all over the world. The Australian opera about the life and times font – Eternity. Eternity Man is a universal story of hope of Arthur Stace, a reclusiveRO SydneySE MARY BLIGHT, JOHN WandY redemption.VER A ND character who chalked the word Eternity The film is a journey into the gritty heart more than 500,000 times all over Sydney. ofA SydneyLE itself;X aF placeLE ofE blackT Whumour,O ODuringD his journey of self-discovery he alcoholism, bashings, love, sex, lies and wrote his word almost 500,000 times; it ‘The Eternity Man is a film opera whshockingich beauty.defi Stacees c iso then archetypalventi onwas’. his mission to traverse the city to Synopsis outsider in the city; unobtrusive, its furthest reaches in order to spread distracted, flung from freak-show to his message. Now more than thirty The Eternity Man is a film opera about brothel to Baptist church, revealing years after his death, this mission has a Arthur Stace, reformed petty criminal, the secrets a city likes to keep to itself powerful resonance, to the point where World War One veteran and recovering through the autistic repetition of a single Sydney’s millennium celebrations were alcoholic, who haunted Sydney’s seedy gesture. As Stace walks through the crownedP withrin hisci wordpal lighting Cast up the bars and brothels until a revelation one decades, from the 1930s to the present Harbour Bridge in neon, sending his night in a soup kitchen chapel. Stace day, he encounters some of the key Arthevocativeur St amessagece G outR AfromN SydneyT DO andY LE then spent nearly forty years chalking a events of the twentieth century. This story across the world. timeless message on the city’s streets: is rooted in the history of Sydney but M willy rtle Stace CHRISTA HUGHES
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An OPERA by JONATHAN MILLS Principal Cast DOROTHY PORTER Arthur Stace GRANT DOYLE A FILM M byy rtle Stace CHRISTA HUGHES JULIEN TEMPLE
Produced by ROSEMARY BLIGHT, JOHN WYVER AND ALEX FLEETWOOD
Principal Cast Arthur Stace GRANT DOYLE Myrtle Stace CHRISTA HUGHES
‘The Eternity Man is a film opera which defies convention’.
traditions of this style of dramatic and musical performance.
This guide offers three sets of questions most closely related to particular subject areas, though there is overlap between them; any attempts to deconstruct the film purely in subject specific categories has limitations. However, given the complexity of this rich aural and visual experience, teachers could select particular sets of questions that relate best to the particular interests of their students. These sets of questions are headed: A. Drama and Musical performance B. AustralianAn O HistoryPER andA Societyby C.J OMediaNA andT HFilmA StudiesN MILLS ItD wouldOR probablyOTH beY useful PO toR readTE R through the background material about Arthur Stace and the glossary of key opera termsA relevant FIL Mto thisby production before watching the film. For some studentsJU LseveralIEN terms TE inM thisP glossaryLE may be familiar to them. BackgroundProduced by ROSEMARWhoY BwasL ArthurIGH Stace?T, JOHN WYVER AND
ArthurAL EStaceX Fis generallyLEET referredWO Oto asD ‘The Eternity Man’, identified through this word that he wrote over many years all over Sydney Streets. He was an enigmatic figure, and below is a brief description of what is believed about his background. Arthur Stace was born in Sydney’s Balmain slums in 1884 into a family of drunkards and poverty. Both parents and Sydney from the 1920s to today, as siblings were alcoholics, leaving him to well as dramatized reconstructions of often fend for himself. He used to steal Curriculum Relevance milk from the doorsteps, pick scraps of The Eternity Man would be of interest imagined events from Arthur Stace’s life and times. All dramas, whether musicals food out of garbage and shoplift cakes and relevance to senior secondary and and sweets. tertiary students of: or plays, are set in a particular period and place and generally reflect something His formal schooling was practically • Musical Styles and Performance of their age. However, some can be non-existent, and at the age of twelve he transposed into another time and place. • Drama became a ward of the state. By the time It is hard to imagine The Eternity Man set he was fourteen he had his first job – in • Media and Film Studies ‘The Eternity Man is a film opera whanywhereich dotheref ithanes Sydney, con sov integralenti ao na’ coal. mine – and his first pay cheque part of Stace’s story is the city itself. • Australian History and Culture he spent in a hotel. As a teen Arthur had • English A distinctively Australian opera about already become an alcoholic. By age fifteen Arthur went to jail for the first time, • Religious Studies a relatively contemporary figure should offer students a chance to broaden their and it soon became a regular affair. The Eternity Man is a film of an opera, view of what operatic productions can staged and filmed on the streets of He was in his twenties when he moved to be. It may enhance their understanding Sydney, the action unconfined by the the thenP seedyrin ciinnerpa suburbl Ca ofst Surry Hills. of the ways in which a contemporary limits of a theatrical stage. It incorporates He worked as a ‘cockatoo’, a person who opera, while referencing earlier styles andAr thur Stace GRANT DOYLE some wonderful archival footage of would lookout for the cops at a ‘Two-Up’ approaches, can re-invent and extend M yrtleschool. Sta Hece was C mixedHR upIS withTA various HU GHES
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An OPERA by JONATHAN MILLS DOROTHY PORTER
A FILM by JULIEN TEMPLE
Produced by ROSEMARY BLIGHT, JOHN WYVER AND ALEX FLEETWOOD
Principal Cast Arthur Stace GRANT DOYLE Myrtle Stace CHRISTA HUGHES
‘The Eternity Man is a film opera which defies convention’.
housebreaking gangs and worked as a scout for his sister’s brothels.
Stace was enlisted in the army during World War One in France and returned to Sydney gassed and half blind in one eye. He resorted back to the old habits of the grog, leading him into trouble with the law, until finally one day he stumbled upon an inspiring sermon by Rev. R.B.S. Hammond at the St Barnabas’ Church on Broadway, Sydney. Stace was so inspired by the words, he became enamored with the notion of eternity and converted to Christianity. Two years later Stace heard Evangelist John G. Ridley at the Baptist Tabernacle in Sydney’s Darlinghurst preach on ‘The Echoes of Eternity’ and the word began to ring in his brain. An OPERA by Incredibly, even though Arthur could hardly write his own name legibly, the JONATHAN MILLS word Eternity ‘came out smoothly, in a beautiful copperplate script,’ Arthur said DOROTHY PORTER in disbelief. Not even Arthur could stop himself from inscribing the word ‘Eternity’ everywhere, saying it was directed A FILM by to him from a higher source. Several mornings a week, Arthur would wake JULIEN TEMPLE around 5am to go around the streets of Sydney and chalk the word Eternity on footpaths, train station entrances and Produced by anywhere else he could think of. It is estimated that he wrote the word half a ROSEMARY BLIGHT, JOHN WYVER AND million times during his lifetime. Workers ALEX FLEETWOOD arriving in the city would see the word freshly written, but not the writer, and so, ‘The man who writes Eternity’ became a legend in Sydney. It was, for over a decade, a mystery debated in the leading papers and their letters columns. He Glossary of relevant operatic terms Ensemble – a musical piece performed experimented with variations at times, by more than one singer, including duets but in the end he finished as he had Opera – a drama whose story is told (two singers), trios (three singers) and so begun – with the word Eternity. Others through music and song on up to any number of voices singing claimed responsibility for the messages, Libretto – text, story or words of an opera together since they were the object of a prolonged public curiosity and speculation, but Composer – writer of the music of an Overture – orchestral prologue to the he did not come forward. He saw his opera drama, played before the curtain rises, mission as evangelistic, but he didn’t and usually introducing a number of the Conductor – person who directs the want the publicity for himself; it was a opera’s musical themes orchestra and singers thing between him and God. The mystery Recitative – sung-spoken dialogue often was solved when Reverend Lisle M. Director – person who conceives and linking arias and ensembles, used to Thompson, who preached at the church oversees the performance of the opera advance the narrative and fill out the where Arthur worked as a cleaner, saw details of the opera him take a piece of chalk from his pocket Soloists – main characters who sing arias ‘The Eternity Manda writen i thes worda f onil them footpath. oper a whaloneic hor withde othersfies that c propelonv and/orent ionScore’. – text containing all the words Thompson wrote about Stace’s life and reflect on the drama (the libretto) and the musical parts of the an interview was published in the Sydney opera Chorus – group of singers who often Sunday Telegraph on 21 June 1956. accompany the principal soloists and Surtitles – translated or transcribed lyrics Arthur Stace died of a stroke in a recapitulate the dramatic and musical projected above a stage or displayed on nursing home at the age of eighty-three themes a screen, commonly used in opera or on 30 July 1967. He left his body to other musicalPrin performances.cipal Ca Thest word Orchestra – musicians who perform the the University of Sydney, and later his ‘surtitle’ comes from the French ‘sur’, music and accompaniment to the singersArthur Stace GRANT DOYLE remains were buried with those of his meaning ‘over’ or ‘on’, and the English wife at Botany Cemetery around two Aria – a solo song where a character M mayyr tleword S t‘title’,ace formed CH inR a IsimilarSTA way H toU GHES years later. reflect on his/her situation the related subtitle. Surtitles are used
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An OPERA by JONATHAN MILLS DOROTHY PORTER
A FILM by JULIEN TEMPLE
Produced by ROSEMARY BLIGHT, JOHN WYVER AND ALEX FLEETWOOD
Principal Cast Arthur Stace GRANT DOYLE Myrtle Stace CHRISTA HUGHES
‘The Eternity Man is a film opera which defies convention’.
An OPERA by JONATHAN MILLS either to translate the meaning of the lyrics into the audience’s language, or DOROTHY PORTER to transcribe lyrics that may be difficult to understand in the sung form. The two musical score, he has set The Marriage and visual style demonstrates several of possible types of presentation of surtitles of Figaro in contemporary New York, the ‘crossover’A FelementsILM byused in many of are as projected text, or as the electronic in the Trump Towers. This necessitates ChamberMade’s productions. libretto system. Titles in the theatre have JULIEN TEMPLE more than just changes to costume and proven a commercial success in areas setting to be convincing as a drama. such as opera, and are finding increased Such updating and transforming often use for allowing hearing impaired patrons The FilmmakersProduced by brings a mixed response from audiences to enjoy theatre productions more fully. The Eternity Man was directed by accustomed to traditional productions. Surtitles are used in live productions in ROSEMARJulienY B Temple,LIG whoseHT, previousJOH Nfilms W YVER AND In changing some lines in Figaro to more the same way as subtitles are used in have included The Great Rock and Roll contemporary language such as ‘the ALEX FLEETWOOD movie and television productions. Swindle and Joe Strummer: the Future punk is gone, sweetie’ and ‘if you want is Unwritten, films which have largely to dance, Count, babe, I’ll back you Verismo – a nineteenth century style of defined punk on the big screen. Jonathon on guitar’, opera purists have become opera that advocated ‘truth’ or ‘realism’, Mills composed the musical score enraged. Musical operas such as West about ‘ordinary’ people instead of kings working with a libretto written by Dorothy Side Story are based on Shakespeare’s and queens and gods in mythological Porter, renowned Australian poet and Romeo and Juliet and Baz Luhrmann’s settings. Puccini, a nineteenth century author of El Dorado and The Monkey’s 1996 film Romeo + Juliet introduced a Italian composer of opera, is best Mask, crime novels in verse. The film is whole new audience to Shakespeare. known for this style. His operas in this based on an opera which premiered at style include La Boheme and Madame In Australia, there have been several the Almeida Theatre in London in July Butterfly. contemporary operas with distinctively 2003 and at the Sydney Festival in 2005. Australian themes and voices, written, Cast composed and performed by Australians. A note about These include Voss (1978), with a Australian baritone, Grant Doyle, plays contemporary opera libretto written by David Malouf from a Arthur Stace while Arthur’s sister Myrtle Every opera was contemporary at the Patrick White novel and Summer of the is played by Christa Hughes. She is not time it was first performed and often Seventeenth Doll, from Ray Lawler’s from the world of opera and is a former explored present-day issues and the love successful play about Queensland cane member of rock band Machine Gun lives and concerns of ‘ordinary’ people cutters. Dorothy Porter and Jonathon Fellatio and MC for Circus Oz. She truly (see Verismo note above) Today, apart Mills also collaborated on The Ghost inhabits both the letter and the spirit of ‘The Eternity Mfroma nnew i operass a exploringfilm people’soper lives,a w hWifeic, ah distinctively defie sAustralian con voperaen int ionthe’. streets. musical directors sometimes transpose 1999. the original story from another time and Student Activity 1 In Melbourne, ChamberMade is a place and setting into a present-day company focusing on productions of Pre-viewing questions milieu. music-theatre-opera with distinctively • Is music important in your life? Peter Sellars, an American music Australian themes. Visit their web site director has updated several of Mozart’s at
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An OPERA by JONATHAN MILLS DOROTHY PORTER
A FILM by JULIEN TEMPLE
Produced by ROSEMARY BLIGHT, JOHN WYVER AND ALEX FLEETWOOD
Principal Cast Arthur Stace GRANT DOYLE Myrtle Stace CHRISTA HUGHES
‘The Eternity Man is a film opera which defies convention’.
musician or part of the production crew? • In what ways is a musical performance a collaborative production? • Name any operas you have heard of. • Do you automatically associate operas with classical music from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? • Why do you think opera performances are usually attended by a mainly older audience? • What common qualities do rock operas such as Wicked and Jesus Christ Superstar and more classical operas share? Student AnActivity O P2 ERA by AfterJO WatchingNAT HtheA FilmN MILLS
• DShareOR yourO immediateTHY P responsesORTE toR this film with your classmates. • Identify which aspects of the production you found Amost F Iengaging.LM by • WereJU thereLI anyEN parts T Eof MtheP filmL E you found puzzling, unclear or disappointing? There are Proa numberduc ofed ways by to reflect on this production: as an opera – a ROSEMARcontemporaryY BLIG musicalHT, JperformanceOHN W withY VER AND aA librettoLE Xthat F is LbothE EnaturalisticTWO butO D also at times highly stylized; as a film about a period and character in Sydney’s history that brings the past alive; and as a visually sumptuous film that incorporates elements of music videos where the words, music and moving images combine to create something new and vibrant. Select from A, B or C of the following sets of questions as a way to read the film. Each has a different focus. A. Opera as a dramatic musical performance
‘The Eternity Man is a film opera which defies convention’.
Principal Cast Arthur Stace GRANT DOYLE Myrtle Stace CHRISTA HUGHES
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An OPERA by JONATHAN MILLS DOROTHY PORTER
A FILM by JULIEN TEMPLE
Produced by ROSEMARY BLIGHT, JOHN WYVER AND ALEX FLEETWOOD
Principal Cast Arthur Stace GRANT DOYLE Myrtle Stace CHRISTA HUGHES
‘The Eternity Man is a film opera which defies convention’.
Looking at how all the elements come together
What dramatic and musical characteristics are specific to opera and this production in particular? Make notes in the right- hand column about how each of these elements contributes to the production. Elements Notes
Characterization of Arthur and Myrtle
Narrative and plot development An OPERA by JONATHAN MILLS DOROTHY PORTER Costuming and make-up A FILM by JULIEN TEMPLE Dialogue, especially recitative Produced by ROSEMARY BLIGHT, JOHN WYVER AND Lighting ALEX FLEETWOOD
Soundscape, other than music
Music
Main arias
Settings ‘The Eternity Man is a film opera which defies convention’.
Changing times
Principal Cast Role of the chorus members – the Arthur Stace GRANT DOYLE prostitutes, the church ladies and the sharks Myrtle Stace CHRISTA HUGHES
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An OPERA by JONATHAN MILLS DOROTHY PORTER
A FILM by JULIEN TEMPLE
Produced by ROSEMARY BLIGHT, JOHN WYVER AND ALEX FLEETWOOD
Principal Cast Arthur Stace GRANT DOYLE Myrtle Stace CHRISTA HUGHES
‘The Eternity Man is a film opera which defies convention’.
B. Australian History and Society
Understanding how the film depicts more than fifty years of Australian history and dramatizes a narrative within a time and place.
The film was shot on location in the streets of Sydney, and includes images of many iconic locations, including King’s Cross where Stace lived much of his life, Luna Park, The Rocks area, Waverley Cemetery, The Gap and on the Harbour Ferries. As Stace traverses the streets, the years pass and times change but he remains constant in his mission.
An OPERA by JONATHAN MILLS Elements NotesDOROTHY PORTER
Key recurring visual images such as the bridge and the cockatoo A FILM by JULIEN TEMPLE Act 1 reflections of a particular Sydney world and time Produced by Archival footage, including World War One, ROSEMARY BLIGHT, JOHN WYVER AND the end of World War Two and the Vietnam ALEX FLEETWOOD war
Rendering the changing social attitudes through street scenes, advertising and neon lights
The importance of water
Depiction of an underclass of drinkers, prostitutes and lonely and homeless outsiders
Representation of women
The natural world ‘The Eternity Man is a film opera which defies convention’. Costuming
Production design elements including artefacts that reflect earlier times, e.g the Bellco chalk box Principal Cast Arthur Stace GRANT DOYLE Representation and development of the two main characters – Arthur and Myrtle Myrtle Stace CHRISTA HUGHES
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An OPERA by JONATHAN MILLS DOROTHY PORTER
A FILM by JULIEN TEMPLE
Produced by ROSEMARY BLIGHT, JOHN WYVER AND ALEX FLEETWOOD
Principal Cast Arthur Stace GRANT DOYLE Myrtle Stace CHRISTA HUGHES
‘The Eternity Man is a film opera which defies convention’.
An OPERA by JONATHAN MILLS DOROTHY PORTER
A FILM by JULIEN TEMPLE
Produced by ROSEMARY BLIGHT, JOHN WYVER AND ALEX FLEETWOOD
• Make a list of some of the key moments in Australian history that are shown in the film to indicate social and political changes over the decades. • Musical theatre has been used as a way of celebrating the life and times of several Australians. Some recent successful productions include The Boy from Oz about Peter Allen and Keating! The Musical, about a recent Australian Prime Minister. Select a colourful character from Australian history and develop an outline of how you might construct a musical drama about their life. They do not necessarily have to be people from the world of music such as Jimmy ‘The Eternity MBarnesan i ors Catea Ceberano.film o Wouldper Stevea w hC.i Mediach dande fFilmie sStudies conventionsounds’. in each location. The score Irwin, Cathy Freeman, Ron Barrassi or consists of a 25-piece orchestra, made Ned Kelly be suitable subjects for an The film was shot primarily on high- up primarily of the Australian Chamber opera? definition video, and draws on extensive Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony • Make a list of the places particular to archival images of Sydney through the Orchestra. There is a visual richness and your chosen individual. twentieth century. The voices of Arthur density about this film that demands our and the chorus were recorded live, • Make a list of costumes and objects attentionP andrin offerscip a dizzyingl Cast picture of moving and singing in real locations Sydney through the twentieth century. that represent important aspects of the rather than re-enacted to playback, individual’s life. ArthUseur the S headingstace G of RtheA tableN Ton DpageO YLE ensuring the quality of the recording 10 to work out how such effects are is authentic and utilizing the ambient M yrtleachieved. Stace CHRISTA HUGHES
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An OPERA by JONATHAN MILLS DOROTHY PORTER
A FILM by JULIEN TEMPLE
Produced by ROSEMARY BLIGHT, JOHN WYVER AND ALEX FLEETWOOD
Principal Cast Arthur Stace GRANT DOYLE Myrtle Stace CHRISTA HUGHES
‘The Eternity Man is a film opera which defies convention’.
An OPERA by JONATHAN MILLS
Elements NotesDOROTHY PORTER
Non-traditional aspects of this A FILM by production JULIEN TEMPLE
Produced by Use of black and white, sepia and ROSEMARY BLIGHT, JOHN WYVER AND colour. ALEX FLEETWOOD
Light and dark
Projection of dream sequences and ghostly images
Visual rendering of time passing
Recurring visual and aural elements ‘The Eternity Man is a film opera which defies convention’.
Water as a visual and aural element Principal Cast Arthur Stace GRANT DOYLE Busyness and stillness Myrtle Stace CHRISTA HUGHES
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An OPERA by JONATHAN MILLS DOROTHY PORTER
A FILM by JULIEN TEMPLE
Produced by ROSEMARY BLIGHT, JOHN WYVER AND ALEX FLEETWOOD
Principal Cast Arthur Stace GRANT DOYLE Myrtle Stace CHRISTA HUGHES
‘The Eternity Man is a film opera which defies convention’.
Student Activity 3 From this ign’rant Unadorned To go before The language of the opera – arias Hand That knows your every His While this opera is sung in Australian Letter Maker English, the words and arias would not necessarily be surtitled, as is the case Your every The vision accompanying this final aria with many opera productions performed Lovely curl includes the fireworks on the Sydney in languages other than English. Still, That knows, oh Harbour Bridge where the word Eternity knowing some of the words from the Eternity appeared in lights during the 2000 libretto often develops our understanding millennium celebrations. The cockatoo, and engagement with the opera. This is No other word a classically iconic Australian image of a often the case when the visuals are so No other letter long-lived observer of life is also seen on striking and demanding of our attention The miracle a ledge. that we only have a general sense of Of this der’lict sinner’s heart some of the lyrics of the arias. In a film as • All opera comprises a visual and sung densely packed with images and sounds That narrative. While in many operas arias as this one, it may be too demanding or Knows how and duets are the means by which the action isAn propelled, OPE inR thisA story,by Arthur’s distracting for an audience for the film to To bless be surtitled. ‘aloneness’ and relationship with the And make holy changingJONA cityT overHA timeN isM central.ILL SWhat Here are some of the words of important Every flooding do we learn about Arthur’s life in this arias. The first one is from the opening DOROTHY PORTER Filthy film and through his arias? scene of the film where Myrtle, Arthur’s • How might the world of Myrtle and sister, is inviting us into her world. Gutter Arthur’s poverty-stricken childhood Oh A FILM by 1. Excerpt from Aria 1 – Scene 1 have been factors in Arthur’s conversion Eternity to JbecomeULI aE quietN TevangelistEMP forLE Creep into Heaven 3. Excerpt from Arthur’s final aria on the eternity? Dance into Hell. Stroll to the spell harbour shore – Scene 31 • In an age when many people do not of Sydney! believe inPro an afterlifeduced implied by by the How can I write Join us in the mirth and muck ROSEMARYword B ‘Eternity’,LIGH Stace’sT, J Olife’sH missionN W inY VER AND On water? chalking a single word throughout the Of our Royal Easter Show Do the fish AstreetsLE overX F severalLEE decades,TWO hasO struckD Take your seats a chord of both admiration and wonder. Do the giant squid In the glittering sawdust Why do you think this might be the Read? Of Sideshow Alley case? Has his life’s work just been very How can I write well promoted or is there more to it? Watch our own On water? Why do you think Arthur Stace devoted Arthur Stace • There is one mortal place his life to such a mission? Was he God’s vagabond champion Left anything more than a persistent Knock out of the ring graffitist? No Angel All of our city’s • How does the sweeping graphic style Is Most bruising temptations of Arthur’s writing affect the way we, Ever 2. Excerpt from an aria Arthur sings on the shore of the harbour with the bridge, the ferries and opera house as background – Scene 26 I churn like a night ferry I churn through the black water Of your streets ‘The Eternity MaI churnn is a film opera which defies convention’. And leave in my glit’ring Rocking wake A miracle The sandstone golden Miracle Of My Principal Cast Bobbing word Arthur Stace GRANT DOYLE Eternity The miracle Myrtle Stace CHRISTA HUGHES Sprouting like an angel’s Wing
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An OPERA by JONATHAN MILLS DOROTHY PORTER
A FILM by JULIEN TEMPLE
Produced by ROSEMARY BLIGHT, JOHN WYVER AND ALEX FLEETWOOD
Principal Cast Arthur Stace GRANT DOYLE Myrtle Stace CHRISTA HUGHES
‘The Eternity Man is a film opera which defies convention’.
and earlier Australians, may respond to reading this word? • Do you think it is important to celebrate the lives and deeds of so-called ‘ordinary’ people in art, music and An OPERA by literature? Student Activity 5 Jperformed,ONAT howHA haveN theyMI beenLL S Student Activity 4 received by audiences and how many Extending the discussion and DofO themRO haveTH beenY PmadeOR intoT filmsER researching The Eternity Man Reviews – your own and those and/or shown on television? The of others Select from one or more of the following ChamberMade Opera Company site at
An OPERA by JONATHAN MILLS DOROTHY PORTER
A FILM by JULIEN TEMPLE
Produced by ROSEMARY BLIGHT, JOHN WYVER AND ALEX FLEETWOOD
Principal Cast Arthur Stace GRANT DOYLE Myrtle Stace CHRISTA HUGHES
‘The Eternity Man is a film opera which defies convention’.
An OPERA by JONATHAN MILLS DOROTHY PORTER
A FILM by JULIEN TEMPLE
Produced by ROSEMARY BLIGHT, JOHN WYVER AND ALEX FLEETWOOD
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Principal Cast Arthur Stace GRANT DOYLE Myrtle Stace CHRISTA HUGHES
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An OPERA by JONATHAN MILLS DOROTHY PORTER
A FILM by JULIEN TEMPLE
Produced by ROSEMARY BLIGHT, JOHN WYVER AND ALEX FLEETWOOD
Principal Cast Arthur Stace GRANT DOYLE Myrtle Stace CHRISTA HUGHES