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 White Whale Theatre has boldly gone where most fledgling theatre companies would fear to tread – they have commissioned five outstanding Melbourne writers to each create a 20-minute piece about a slice of life in a Melbourne suburb.
These five short plays are woven together in Melburnalia, a unique evening of theatre presented by a talented ensemble of six performers, which will have its premiere at Forty Five Downstairs on 1 November 2007. Directed by David Mence and dramaturged by Melanie Beddie, Melburnalia is a thought-provoking exploration of the diverse localities, peoples and meanings that come together to form ‘Melbourne’.
Local audiences will be able to see specially crafted works by playwrights Ross Mueller (The Glory, Construction of the Human Heart), Tee O’Neill (Requiem for the 21st Century) and Lally Katz (The Black Swan of Trespass, Criminology), as well as witnessing the first theatrical creations of novelists Kate Holden (In My Skin) and Alice Pung (Unpolished Gem). These five works will interlink and form a single theatrical journey, with audiences whisked from suburb to suburb and shown an ever-changing portrait of a city with many masks.
In every nook and corner of Melbourne may be found the traces, textures and imprinted experiences of its citizens. Paraphernalia and miscellanea yield up their stories: from the transformative streets of St Kilda to the boulevards of Kew; first love in Footscray and betrayal in Ringwood; from the wide lanes of the Maroondah Highway to the narrow cafés of Degraves St; from heroin to homosexuality; library to laneway; sex work to stage work; bohemians to bogans to boat people to an Apocalypse Bear; all are joined by the shared experience of this place we call Melbourne.
White Whale Theatre is an inspired new entity on the Melbourne theatre scene, having received rave 5 & 4 Star reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2006 with David Mence’s original work Macbeth Re-Arisen. The company has recently had a successful season of Mence’s new work Convict 002 in the Melbourne Fringe Festival.
White Whale Theatre present
Melburnalia
Featuring The CBD – Kew – St Kilda – Ringwood – Footscray
In short works by
Ross Mueller – Lally Katz – Kate Holden – Tee O’Neill – Alice Pung
Venue: Forty Five Downstairs | 45 Flinders Lane
Date/Time: 8.00pm: 1-3, 7-10, 14-17 November; 6.30pm: 4 & 11 November
Tickets: $26 (full) $22 (concession) $20 (preview)
Bookings: 9662 9966
www.whitewhaletheatre.com
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