Cast 29 June to 19 July Horse Genevieve Morris Clyde Jim Russell Southbank Theatre, The Lawler Puppeteer Michelle Robin Anderson About the play Production Across a dry and dusty desert two tinkers, Clyde and Horse, drag an Director Leticia Cáceres enormous egg. They can’t remember how long they’ve been dragging Puppetry Director Sam Routledge it, or why they’ve been dragging it, or where they are dragging it to. Set and Costume Designer Owen Phillips All they know is that it’s really important. Lighting Designer Andy Turner Composer and Sound Designer THE SWEATS Choreographer Andrew Hallsworth Directorial Secondment Jeanette Tong Commissioned and developed by MTC and Terrapin Puppet Theatre Stage Manager Victoria Woolley with the assistance of the Australia Council Interconnections Program. A co-production with Terrapin Puppet Theatre. Ovo puppet made by Bryony Anderson Miniature puppets made by Jill Munro Rehearsal Photography Deryk McAlpin Share your egg-cellent creation #mtcEgg Production Photography Jeff Busby Angela Betzien Leticia Cáceres Playwright Director Angela Betzien is a multi-award-winning Associate Director at MTC from 2013 to 2015, writer and a founding member of independent Leticia Cáceres directed The Distance, Death theatre company RealTV. Her work has toured and the Maiden, Birdland, The Effect, Cock, and widely across Australia and internationally. Constellations for the Company, as well as the Her plays include Mortido (Belvoir), The Dark MTC Education shows Yellow Moon, Helicopter, Room (Belvoir; Sydney Theatre Award for Best and Random. She has also directed for Belvoir New Australian Work), War Crimes (Kit Denton Disfellowship and (Miss Julie and The Dark Room), La Mama (Tall Man), Creative Queensland Literary Award for Playwriting), Children of the Black Regions (Tales of the Underground), Queensland Theatre Company Skirt (Drama Victoria Award for Best Performance by a Theatre (The Orphanage Project, Far Away, and The Memory of Water), Company for Secondary Schools), Hoods (Sydney Opera House/ Sydney Opera House (Random, Hoods, and Children of the Black Regional Arts Victoria), Where in the World is Frank Sparrow? Skirt), La Boîte Theatre/Brisbane Festival (Kingswood Kids), and (Graffiti Theatre, Ireland), The Girl Who Cried Wolf (Sydney Opera Brisbane Powerhouse (Hoods and Children of the Black Skirt). As House/Arena Theatre), Helicopter (MTC Education and National co-founder of nationally-acclaimed RealTV, she directed Hoods, Theatre of Norway), Tall Man (RealTV and Creative Regions), The which, following an Australian tour, was presented at ASSITEJ Teenage Alchemist (ATYP and Camp Quality), Princess of Suburbia World Congress and toured to Austria and Italy. In 2011, RealTV’s (RealTV), and The Kingswood Kids (La Boîte). War Crimes toured Melbourne and regional Victoria. In 2015, while Mortido was staged at Belvoir and State Theatre Company of South Genevieve Morris Australia. She has been Associate Director for Queensland Theatre Horse Company and Artistic Director of Tantrum Youth Theatre, Newcastle. Genevieve Morris returns to MTC, where she previously performed in True Minds, The Sam Routledge Recruit, Art and Soul, Explorations: Macbeth Puppetry Director (MTC Education), Shorts, The Shaughraun, and Sam Routledge is a director, puppeteer, and the regional tour of Sylvia. Her other stage creator of contemporary puppetry with appearances include Small Metal Objects and a strong record of innovation in the form. Jim Russell and Genevieve Morris Mental for Back to Back Theatre; Play Dirty and Panacea for Arena, Beginning his professional career in 2002 as in rehearsal St Kilda Tales for Ranters, and many seasons of Spontaneous an Assistant Stage Manager and Puppeteer Broadway. On television, she has been seen in No Activity, Randling, with Kim Carpenter’s Theatre of Image, he has Talkin’ ’Bout Your Generation, Live from Planet Earth, City Homicide, since created and co-created nine original works, including two Comedy Inc., The Late Shift, Can of Worms, and Tractor Monkeys. international touring productions, Men of Steel and I Think I Can. He Andy Turner Person of Szechuan (Malthouse/National Theatre of China); The also initiated, for My Darling Patricia, Africa and The Piper (Sydney Lighting Designer Fortunes of Richard Mahony, The Orphanage Project, Black Comedy, Jim Russell Theatre Award). His work has been presented at the Vancouver Andy Turner is a Melbourne-based lighting The Memory of Water, and Far Away (QTC); Cocki and Kingswood Clyde International Children’s Festival, Soho Theatre (London), Festival designer and production manager who recently Kids (La Boîte); and Tall Man and Status Update (La Mama). THE Jim Russell’s stage credits include Small Metal De Betovering (The Hague), Sydney Festival, Sydney Opera House, designed lighting for MTC’s production of SWEATS is also Resident Composer for the multi-award-winning Objects, Mental, and Soft for Back to Back Performance Space, Arts House, Perth International Arts Festival, Peddling. He trained at RADA, and has worked theatre company RealTV, with writer Angela Betzien and director Theatre; Suburban.Planetary.Meltdown and Malthouse Theatre, and Brisbane Powerhouse. As a puppeteer, extensively in the UK. He is currently the Leticia Caceres. http://soundcloud.com/thesweats Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd for Malthouse; he has performed and collaborated with leading Australian and Tech Co-ordinator at fortyfive downstairs. The Trade for HotHouse; Footprints on Water international companies including Blak Lines, Snuff Puppets, Recent lighting designs include L’amante anglaise (fortyfive Andrew Hallsworth for Neonheart; and Love and Other Sharp Gruppe 38 (Denmark), Societas Raffaello Sanzio (Italy), Arena downstairs), Birdland (MTC), Waking Up Dead (fortyfive downstairs), Choreographer Objects, Liar Liar, Barracouta, and Rebellion for Woolly Jumpers. Theatre Company, Windmill Theatre Company, and LATT Children’s Resplendence (Angus Cerini/doubletap for NEON Festival), and Andrew Hallsworth returns to MTC having On television, he has appeared in Utopia, Glitch, The Nowhere Boys, Theatre (Korea). He has been the Artistic Director of Terrapin Puppet the Long Pigs (Insite Arts). In 2013, Andy received a Green Room choreographed Ladies in Black, Private Lives, The Dr Blake Mysteries, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, At Home Theatre since November 2012. Award for Lighting Design (Independent Theatre) in recognition Rupert, Hamlet, Next to Normal, and The with Julia, City Homicide, As the Bells Rings, Satisfaction, Comedy of this work on Savages (fortyfive downstairs). Drowsy Chaperone. He won Helpmann Awards Inc., MDA, Saddle Club, Stingers, Blue Heelers, Something in the Owen Phillips for Best Choreography for Sweet Charity Air, Australian Life, Round the Twist, BackBerner, Waiting at the Set and Costume Designer THE SWEATS (Luckiest Productions/Neil Gooding/Tinderbox) Royal, Monster, Stingers, SeaChange, The Never Too Late Show, Blue Credits for Owen include set and/or costume Composer and Sound Designer and Anything Goes (Opera Australia/GFO). Among his other Heelers, Small Tales and True, Halifax f.p., State Coroner, Mercury, design for I’ll Eat You Last, starring Miriam THE SWEATS is Pete Goodwin, composer and choreographic credits are A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to and Neighbours. Margolyes for Melbourne Theatre Company; sound designer for theatre, film, television, and the Forum, Dream Song, Shane Warne – the Musical in Concert, Little Shop of Horrors and the Helpmann advertising. He was recently awarded the 2015 An Officer and a Gentleman, Eurobeat – Almost Eurovision, (revised Michelle Robin Anderson Award-winning Sweet Charity for Tinderbox Sydney Theatre Award for Best Score or Sound for the Edinburgh Festival, the West End, and a subsequent UK Puppeteer Productions/Luckiest Productions; Jerry’s Girls, Design of a Mainstage Production for his work tour), Leader of the Pack – The Ellie Greenwich Musical (Green Room Since completing her training in Contemporary La Cage Aux Folles, and The Pirates of Penzance for the Production on Love and Information. THE SWEATS has Award for Best Choreography); Menopause the Musical; The Merry Performance at WAAPA, Michelle has worked Company; Master Class, starring Maria Mercedes, for Left Bauer previously produced music and sound for MTC’s Miss Julie, The Widow, Sideshow Alley, Prodigal Son, and Wombat Stew. For the extensively as a puppeteer, actor, and theatre- Productions; The Dust and Us for Human Animal Exchange; Sisters Distance, Buyer and Cellar, Death and the Maiden (MTC/STC), The Production Company, he has choreographed many productions, maker. She has performed with My Darling Grimm’s The Sovereign Wife and Arthur’s The Myth Project: Twin Effect, Cock (with Missy Higgins), Constellations, Yellow Moon (2014 including Jerry’s Girls, La Cage Aux Folles, Pirates of Penzance, Patricia on The Piper (Edinburgh Fringe Festival (MTC NEON); Bock Kills Her Father for She Said; Psycho Beach Green Room Award Winner for Composition and Sound Design for Gypsy, and The Producers. He has choreographed extensively and Sydney Festival) and Africa (national tour and Party for Little Ones Theatre; and Gaybies, for both the Midsumma Mainstage Theatre), Helicopter, and Random. His other credits in cabaret, and co-choreographed Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Sydney Theatre Company); Erth Visual and Physical Theatre on Erth’s Festival and Darlinghurst Theatre Co-productions. Owen’s work has include Mortido,