Right - Suzannah Bayes Morton in The Last Highway.
Photo - Heidrun Lohr
Alicia Talbot has worked as a writer, director and performer
with a number of major Australian companies and festivals including
Company B, Salamanca Theatre Company and the Adelaide Festival.
Since 2001 she has served as Artistic Director of Sydney’s Urban Theatre Project,
a company renowned for its provocative site specific works and strong
engagement with the local community. In 2002, UTP was awarded the
Sidney Myer Award in recognition of the company's outstanding
contribution to Australian theatre.
UTP productions often taken place in non-traditional venues such as trains, streets and backyards and their latest work, The Last Highway,
is set in a disused petrol station in Bankstown. Fergus Linehan,
Artistic Director of the Sydney Festival, describes the work as “a
very ugly world characterised by boredom, viciousness and regret… I
think it says some truly profound things about Sydney and Australia in
2007.”
Alicia Talbot spoke to Australian Stage’s Simon Piening about Urban Theatre Project’s The Last Highway - the only local theatre work to be included in the 2008 Sydney Festival.
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