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embrace: GUILT FRAME is the first production in the Sydney Theatre Company’s 2008 Wharf 2LOUD program. For a mesmerising and intensely intimate hour, Tess de Quincey and Peter Snow are literally ‘framed’ as they create a fascinating living portrait, playing out various heightened states of emotion, in the Richard Wherrett Studio, Sydney Theatre.
Drawing on The Natyasastra, the ancient Indian treatise on artistic practice, the production is the latest instalment in De Quincey Co’s ongoing ‘embrace’ exchange between international artists, exploring eastern and western performance vocabularies. Integral to the piece is Michael Toisuta’s evocative Homage to Ligeti which takes its inspiration from Györgi Ligeti’s Poème Symphonique for 100 Metronomes.
Having worked extensively in Europe, Japan, India and Australia, Tess de Quincey is one of the country’s most admired, maverick choreographer/performers. For several years she was a dancer with Min Tanaka and his Mai-Juku Performance Company in Japan and later introduced the Bodyweather performance philosophy to Australia, forming De Quincey Co in 2000. Most recently her company wowed audiences with site-specific event The Stirring at the Carriageworks in November 2007. Peter Snow is a theatre-maker, director, performer and academic with a background in both text-based and new work. He has helped to create over 40 professional productions in Australia and overseas.
At the end of each performance of embrace: GUILT FRAME the audience is invited to a discussion with the artists over a free glass of wine.
embrace: GUILT FRAME is the opening production of the 2008 Wharf 2LOUD program, the first programming venture of Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton as new Artistic Directors of Sydney Theatre Company. While the company’s mainstage program for 2008 has been devised by former Artistic Director Robyn Nevin, the Wharf 2LOUD strand is curated by the new Artistic Directors with a desire to unravel theatrical expectations.
Blanchett and Upton said: “We’re thrilled De Quincey Co launch this year’s Wharf 2LOUD program. We want to challenge what we all think we know about theatre. Innovative artists with different approaches to performance will make Wharf 2LOUD a bold program full of intrigue and possibility for regular and new audiences.”
Forthcoming Wharf 2LOUD productions are Manna created by Dan Spielman and Max Lyandvert (from 27 June), Saturn’s Return by Tommy Murphy, directed by David Berthold (from 15 August), Highway Rock’n’Roll Disaster from Adelaide’s The Border Project (from 17 September) and Frankenstein created by Ralph Myers (from 28 November).
Sydney Theatre Company presents a De Quincey Co production
embrace: GUILT FRAME
Created and Performed by Tess de Quincey and Peter Snow
Designers Russell Emerson, Steve Howarth
Lighting Designer Travis Hodgson
Sound Designer Michael Toisuta
Venue: Richard Wherrett Studio, Sydney Theatre, 22 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay
Season: Wednesday 27 February – Sunday 9 March 2008
Times: Tuesdays - Saturdays At 8.15pm / Sundays At 5.15pm. No Show Monday 3 March
Prices: $35 / Concessions $22 / Under 30 Or Student $20
Bookings: (02) 9250 1777 or Wharf2loud.com
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