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| Wednesday, 29 November 2006 |
7:30:00 PM |
| Thursday, 30 November 2006 |
7:30:00 PM |
| Friday, 1 December 2006 |
7:30:00 PM |
| Saturday, 2 December 2006 |
2:00:00 PM |
| Saturday, 2 December 2006 |
7:30:00 PM |
Program A - Parade Playhouse | Program B - Parade Space
Six NIDA graduating directors present two programs of short, contemporary plays, presented over five nights, in two venues. Developed in collaboration with their NIDA colleagues from the Acting, Design, Production and Production Crafts (Props and Costume) courses, these productions are the culmination of the year-long NIDA Postgraduate Directing Course. Don't miss these six new directors working with challenging texts - and their imaginations.
PROGRAM A
PARADE PLAYHOUSE
Lunch
Playwright: Steven Berkoff
Director: Kellie Mackereth
Designer: Melanie Paul
Two strangers meet at lunch by the sea. This chance encounter could provide the injection of warmth they both desperately crave. Berkoff's rich and provocative language explores a void, 'filled with the debris of expected performance, vanity and exploitation'.
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Mountain Language
Playwright: Harold Pinter
Director: Shane Jones
Set Designer: Andy McDonell
Costume Designer: Alice Morgan
In a hostile landscape, political dissidents and their families are forbidden to speak their own language and must only use 'the language of the capital'. The Nobel laureate reveals the isolated and powerless trapped within state controlled regimes.
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A Body of Water
Playwright: Lee Blessing
Director: Jason Bridgeman
Designer: Gabrielle Logan
Two people wake up together every morning - but do not know who or where they are. When memory is as fluid as water, what truth will they choose to believe?
PROGRAM B
PARADE SPACE
Monsieur Jean
Freely adapted from Strindberg's Miss Julie
Director: Subramaniam Velayutham
Designer: Brigid Dighton
A midsummer night's dalliance between an aristocrat's daughter and her father's valet turns to disaster. A new version of Strindberg's wrenching psychodrama explores the limits of freedom.
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Fags
Playwright: Gary Owen
Director: Lara Macgregor
Designer: Rita Carmody
"You're twenty-four hours from death, but the doctors find a perfect match for your ruined organs. Then someone walks in and says, 'I've got a bone to pick with you'." A simple meeting between a mother and her grown-up son. Funny, beautiful and full of sentiment.
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One Good Beating
Playwright: Linda McLean
Director: Sally Blackwood
Designer: Alice Lindstrom
On the eve of their mother's death, two grown up children lock their father in the coal shed. 'All you had to do was hold him. One good beating and we would've been finished'. A children's game or adult vendetta?
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JAMES FAIRFAX FOYER
Yours Sincerely: (New Work)
Devised and directed by Joshua Consandine
Designer: Paul Matthews
Smiles, laughter and the joy of life. Pain, loss, sorrow and suffering. Between these two poles of extremities, what is it to be sincerely oneself?
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