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B Sharp is delighted to welcome performer, producer and now playwright, Tahli Corin and her first full-length play, Bumming with Jane to the Belvoir St Downstairs Theatre. Inspired by the poetry of Charles Bukowski, Bumming with Jane is an exploration of love, poverty and constructed reality.
Patrick and Jane are madly in love, madly in lust and occasionally just plain mad. They live on a diet of cheap wine, baked beans and whatever else they find in the large dumpster bins outside their local supermarket. They take turns seeking part-time employment, and all of their furniture, except a large tattered couch, has been sold to Ronnie, the pawnbroker. Life is great if completely transitory, but their situation spirals out of control.
Bumming with Jane is a unique romantic comedy – delicately weaving a humour-filled love story with provocative undercurrents exploring complex social issues around poverty and homelessness, gender roles and relationships in the modern Australian city. It’s about choice: the choices we make, the choices others make for us, and the choices that circumstance dictates.
Tahli Corin, who has most recently come from co-writing and performing in Conclusions: On Ice, a black comedy that premiered at the 2008 Adelaide Fringe Festival, wrote and is producing the new Australian work inspired by a kind of raw poetry of the street.
"When I first picked up a book by Bukowski, I thought I would hate it. I heard that he was a crude, womanising, alcoholic. What I discovered in fact was a particularly frank and somewhat refreshing record of modern life. He treated the dire and divine aspects of life with the same reverence, and he was an incredible storyteller.
“Often in a metropolitan city like Sydney, we walk the streets with our blinkers on to what is really around us. We tend to stare at or ignore people who are different to us, rather than engage with them. Bumming with Jane is a slice of life less ordinary – one of a poverty-stricken couple on the verge of everything, making what they can out of nothing," Tahli said.
Bumming with Jane opens for just over three weeks from 14 August at Belvoir St Downstairs Theatre. Jane will be played by Sophie Cook (Packed to the Rafters, The Burlesque Ball, Scarlett Girls) and her boyfriend Patrick by Tahki Saul (The Cherry Orchard, Game of Love and Chance, Attempts on her Life (NIDA)). Their boozy landlord Bev will be played by Gertraud Ingeborg (Manna, The Crucible, The Tempest).
Bumming with Jane is the sixth play in the acclaimed 2008 B Sharp Season. The Downstairs Theatre is Company B’s independent wing which hosts the annual B Sharp Season, supporting independent artists to present dynamic small-scale work and deliver a vibrant range of theatrical voices in an intimate setting.
B Sharp presents
Bumming with Jane
Written and produced by Tahli Corin
Inspired by the poetry of Charles Bukowski
Directed by Kellie Mackereth
Designer Melanie Paul
Lighting Designer Sophie Kurylowicz
Sound Designer/Composer Rosie Chase
With: Sophie Cook, Tahki Saul and Gertraud Ingeborg
Venue: Belvoir St Downstairs Theatre, 25 Belvoir St, Surry Hills
Preview: Wednesday 13 August
Opens: Thursday 14 August
Season: 14 August – 7 September
Times: Tues 7pm, Wed-Sat 8.15pm, Sun 5.15pm
Tickets: $29/$23 (Preview $20, Cheap Tues Pay-what-you-can min $10)
Bookings: 9699 3444 or www.belvoir.com.au
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