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 Theatre is a fetishistic event. We sit there getting off on wonderfully terrible things. It's a pure fetish and I love it for that. It enables us to watch terrible things happen to people and leave the theatre at the end." - Barrie Kosky
Barrie Kosky’s imminent return to the Malthouse Theatre for the production of The Tell-Tale Heart, after Edgar Allen Poe, has become a landmark artistic event following his domination of this year’s Helpmann Awards and the acclaim for his daringly grotesque-burlesque interpretation of Poppea at this year’s Edinburgh Festival.
The Tell-Tale Heart, based on the original Schauspielhaus production, promises to be a highlight of this year’s Melbourne International Arts Festival in October.
It is classic Kosky territory – gothic, dark, sizzling, piano thumping, dazzling spectacle – this time distilled into a heart wrenching monologue where we are taken on a theatrical-musical journey through the morbid yet fascinating world of this classic horror short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe.
This month The Lost Echo, the nine hour operatic extravaganza Kosky directed for Sydney Theatre Company, picked up four 2007 Helpmann Awards including Best Direction of a Play for Kosky and Best New Australian Work with writer Tom Wright. It won Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role for Deborah Mailman and Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role for Paul Capsis.
At the same time in Edinburgh Kosky’s shockingly beautiful Poppea is being hailed as a chilling modern distillation of this most savagely cynical of operatic masterpieces.
By engaging Australian artists at the vanguard of international theatre, such as Kosky, Malthouse Theatre raises the expectations for and of Australian theatre in an international context.
The company is honoured to have Barrie returning to the Malthouse Workshop and encourages all interested media to take up the opportunity to speak with this fascinating Australian artistic mind.
Melbourne International Arts Festival And Malthouse Theatre Present
The Tell-Tale Heart
Adapted and Directed by Barrie Kosky
After Edgar Allen Poe
Performed by Martin Niedermair & Barrie Kosky
Original Music Barrie Kosky
Dramaturgy Susanne Wolfe
Original Design Michael Zerz (set and lighting) & Alfred Mayerhofer (costume)
Adapted by Anna Tregloan (set and costume) & Paul Jackson (lighting design)
Venue: Malthouse Theatre Workshop, CUB Malthouse
Dates: 10 October – 20 October 2007
Opens: Thursday 11 October at 8pm
Times: Tuesday to Saturday at 8pm, Matinee Wednesday 17 October at 1pm and Saturday 20 October at 2pm.
Tickets: $24.50 - $47
Bookings: 9685 5111/ www.malthousetheatre.com.au
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