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And therefore is Love said to be a child,
Because in choice he is so oft beguiled
Helena
The Belvoir St Downstairs Theatre is kicking off the festivel season with a new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Director Eamon Flack has turned this great Shakespearean classic into a grand, decadent and sad celebration – a party unfolding on stage, shot through with karaoke ballads and comedy.
With a cast of eight (and a half), new doublings and reordered scenes, this is A Midsummer Night’s Dream as it’s never been done before. It is an exploration of a hedonistic pursuit of love, pleasure and freedom – that comes at a cost.
Eamon said, ‘This play is a vivid reminder of what it’s like to fall in love for the first time – the hope, pain, thrill, extreme amazement, profound confusion, awful misunderstanding and brilliant aliveness – that’s why we’ve been putting on this play for 400 years and still haven’t got enough of it. ’
Eamon Flack has worked as an actor, director, writer and dramaturg for Company B Belvoir, STC, Bell Shakespeare’s Mind’s Eye, thinice, Perth International Arts Festival, Griffin Stablemates, PlayWriting Australia, the Ensemble Theatre, ArtRage, deckchair, the Old Fitz and Darlinghurst Theatre. He founded Bob Presents, a loose collective of theatre-makers. In 2009 he adapted and directed Gorky’s Summerfolk for Bob Presents and his adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone was directed by Matthew Lutton for ThinIce and the Perth International Arts Festival. He is the Artistic Associate of Company B Belvoir and will be
directing Samuel Beckett’s The End in the 2010 season.
DIRECTED BY EAMON FLACK
WITH: ELIZABETH BLACKMORE, KIT BROOKMAN, KATHARINE CULLEN, GARETH DAVIES,
CHARLIE GARBER, ANDY LEES, ANYA POUKCHANSKI, TIM SPENCER & TIM WALTER
DESIGNER: ALISTAIR WATTS
LIGHTING: CHRIS PAGE
SOUND: STEFAN GREGORY
PRODUCERS: ROSIE FISHER & SAM HAWKER
SEASON INFORMATION
PREVIEW: 26 November
OPENING: 27 November
SEASON DATES: 26 November – 20 December
PLAYS: Tues 7pm, Wed-Sat 8.15pm, Sun 5.15pm
Meet the artists for a post show Q&A on Wednesday 21 October
WHERE: Belvoir St Downstairs Theatre, 25 Belvoir St, Surry Hills
TICKETS: $29/$23 (Preview $20, Cheap Tues Pay-what-you-can, min. $10)
BOOKINGS: 9699 3444 or www.belvoir.com.au |
