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If you believe that this work infringes copyright please provide details by email to [email protected] Notice: Please note that this document may not be the Version of Record (i.e. published version) of the work. Author manuscript versions (as Sub- mitted for peer review or as Accepted for publication after peer review) can be identified by an absence of publisher branding and/or typeset appear- ance. If there is any doubt, please refer to the published source. http:// www.queenslandtheatre.com.au/ Shows/ Rice QUEENSLAND THEATRE Queensland Theatre, Queensland Government and Griffin Theatre Company present Michele Lee's L-R: Hsiao-Ling Tang, Kristy Best. Rice by Michele Lee Cast VENUE Kristy Best .................................................... Nisha 24 June — 16 July Bille Brown Studio, Hsiao-Ling Tang ...........................................Yvette Queensland Theatre Creatives ATTENDANCE INFORMATION Lee Lewis ................................................... Director Rice will run for approximately Renée Mulder ......................................... Designer 90 minutes, with no interval. Jason Glenwright .................... Lighting Designer WARNINGS Wil Hughes ................... Composer /AV Designer Contains adult themes Tony Brumpton ......... Associate Sound Designer and coarse language. Kathryn O’Halloran ..................... Stage Manager For the safety and comfort of Rebecca Minuti .......... Assistant Stage Manager all patrons, we only allow cold beverages in plastic cups or bottles Jennifer White ............................... Dialect Coach inside the theatre. Glass, food and Gabrielle Rogers ............................ Dialect Coach hot beverages are not permitted. Sally Lattin .......................................... Direct Observation The use of photographic or recording equipment is not permitted inside the theatre. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY Cover Photo: David Kelly Queensland Theatre would like to acknowledge the Jagera and Turrbal people who are the Traditional Custodians of this land. We would like to pay our respects to their Elders both past and present, and all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. RECYCLE THIS PROGRAM Support Greening Queensland Theatre and recycle this program after the performance in the recycling bins provided in the foyer. Read the program before the show at queenslandtheatre.com.au Queensland Theatre 78 Montague Road, South Brisbane, Queensland, 4101 Tel: 07 3010 7600 Fax: 07 3010 7699 Ticketing: 1800 355 528 [email protected] #queenslandtheatre #leadingfromqld Follow us on: AUSTRALIAN STORY GLOBAL POLITICS EEL HERPES WORLD PREMIERE CORPORATE STILETTOS FOOD TRUCK qpda Queensland Premier’s Drama Award 2018-19 ENTRIES CLOSE MONDAY 30 OCTOBER 2017 The QPDA assists writers and performance makers to develop their first drafts, pitch documents, sample scenes, concept sketches, or creative development findings into a production-ready text. Is this for you? If you have an idea for a show that Australian audiences need to see on our stages, we want you to enter. This national award is open to individual artists and collectives of all levels of experience working across different performance practices. Three finalists will be selected and paid to develop their work with industry professionals. The winning entry then goes on to receive further development culminating in a world premiere professional production with Queensland Theatre. IMPORTANT DATES ENTRIES CLOSE Monday 30 October 2017 THREE FINALISTS ANNOUNCED IN January 2018 WINNER ANNOUNCED IN July 2018 Winning production premieres as part of Queensland Theatre’s 2019 Season. Find out more and apply queenslandtheatre.com.au/QPDA LEADING FROM QLD INDUSTRY NATIONAL GREAT IDEAS I QUEENSLAND THEATRE Welcome Dear Friends As you know, our company aspires to lead the country in the creation of new Australian stories and in the nurturing of new talent. The world premiere production of Queensland Premier’s Drama Award winning play Rice by Michele Lee achieves both. Sam Strong Artistic Director Rice is a highly accomplished work that run the only playwriting competition in confidently performs new playwriting’s the country that results in a guaranteed distinctive function of reflecting mainstage production. Second, we contemporary society back to itself. are proud to co-produce with Griffin And this is not just any society, it is Theatre Company, and benefit from Australian society right now: globalised, the extraordinary directorial talent of multicultural, unequal in circumstance their Artistic Director, Lee Lewis. Finally, but united by humanity. Michele Lee has Brisbane’s own Playlab has published the a knack for flipping effortlessly between text, giving it the best possible chance of the macro and the micro, the global and becoming the classic it deserves to be. the local, the universal human truth and The Queensland Premier’s Drama Award the recognisable specific detail of time or has ushered a generation of plays and place. It also expertly invokes the talents playwrights onto the mainstage. We look of its two actors, the astonishing Kristy forward to Rice joining that distinguished Best and Hsiao-Ling Tang, to transport canon of works and to this premiere and transform us. production delighting audiences in None of this would be possible without Brisbane, Sydney and Albury-Wodonga. our partners. First, the investment of the Enjoy Queensland Government enables us to Sam 5 Message from The Premier of Queensland It is with great pleasure that I introduce Rice by playwright Michele Lee, winner of the Queensland Premier’s Drama Award 2016-17. Annastacia Palaszczuk Premier of Queensland Established in 2002, the Queensland I would like to acknowledge the great Premier’s Drama Award is the only work done by Queensland Theatre over award of its kind in Australia. It provides the Awards’ 15-year history. I commend the winner with a unique opportunity their commitment to nurturing Australian to see their work transformed, over a talent and to providing the public with period of two years, from a concept to a many powerful and memorable theatrical professionally staged performance. experiences. As Premier and Minister for the Arts I am Thank you for supporting Queensland a great supporter of creating pathways theatre and I hope that you enjoy the to promote the development of talented performance. artists, and to help ensure their work is shared and enjoyed with the wider community. Since its inception, Queensland Theatre has developed 27 plays as part of the ANNASTACIA PALASZCZUK MP Award, employing more than 200 actors, PREMIER OF QUEENSLAND writers and directors and introducing MINISTER FOR THE ARTS audiences of more than 26,000 to new Australian plays. Set against the backdrop of an Australian rice company, Ms Lee’s award-winning play explores the role of two multicultural women from vastly different vantage points, highlighting issues of identity and accountability. 7 Writer's Note In the rehearsal room, as we moved through the script, we talked about the faint theme of fairytales and time within the play. That certain events in the past can start to feel mythical and magically distant, in that realm of ‘once upon a time’, even if they occurred recently. Michele Lee June 2017 In recent times, I participated in Griffin geographically close to any of my Dad’s Theatre’s Storylab program, a week-long family, and she had eventually settled workshop of master classes and concept in America. Most of my life my Dad development (I think I was the one of the had talked frequently about moving to oldest ‘emerging artists’ in the program). America, somehow winning the green The concept I brought to Storylab card lottery, to be closer to his big and about Chinese women and the Country ever-expanding family. He was the only Women's Association (CWA) then gave one in Australia. I had only met my way to something new, an image of two grandmother a handful of times when I women, one Indian and one Chinese. travelled to America. The last time I saw The beginnings of this play, Rice. This her, it was on one of these trips, and she was 2012 or so, only five years ago and was biting back tears, waving me off. She yet it feels so tucked away in the past. knew her days were growing limited and In recent times, my paternal that we may never see each other again. grandmother died. I was at work when Initially I said Rice was about a plethora my Dad called. “Mummy’s died,” he of ‘big’ contemporary issues. As if I said, in English. He was talking about was some Michael Moore of theatre. his own mother, and he sounded like a Mass agriculture. Super economies. little boy, like a forlorn son. Unnerved, I Mercenary corporations. Women in walked back