2010

Australian Ghost

by Tristan Savage, JCU (QLD)

‘Australian Ghost’ is a combination of stand-up comedy, parody and phonetic studies that satires some of the racist attitudes inherent in this great nation. James Cook University’s forth year Theatre Honours student and character actor Tristan Savage presents this experimental one-person show that focuses of three distinct characters that are only too eager to present their respective point of views. This production contains coarse language and sexual references.

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Burn My Heart Out

by Underground Productions, UQ (QLD)

Michael is a complicated young man with a minor intellectual impairment and signs of Aspergers who loves music and his computer, and who struggles through life in his own world; unwanted by the world at large, misunderstood and alone. On top of these already debilitating impairments, he has recently been experiencing feelings he is unsure of the meaning of - feelings that seem natural but that he does not fully understand nor have a name for. The Man is mysterious, a not-always-equal balance of light and dark, yet he is strangely sexual and alluring to certain types of people. He and Michael have previously crossed each other's paths, recognised a mutual connection and interest, and after some interaction have organised to meet up tonight; a meeting of some importance. A tortured Michael has since been re-considering his commitment to tonight's meeting, and though he does not yet know it. his world will be forever changed tonight by the arrival of The Man.

by Jeremy Wood
Directed by William Wood

Starring John Da Conceicao
and Jeremy Wood

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Debauchery Limited

by Radical Dumb Army, QUT (QLD)

Debauchery Limited focuses upon the intimate lives of David and Jenna, a couple whose views on jealousy and monogamy are a little bit “skewed”. As issues of trust start to arise among the duo, the bonds that once seemed tight run the risk of being severed. Will the fears of infidelity disturb their style of fornication?

Daniel Maloney- Writer/Co-director
Moneth Montemayor- Co-Director

Cast:
Oliver Coady
Samuel Green
Curtis Clarke 
Julia Forsberg

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The Flu Season

by Vena Cava Productions, QUT (QLD)

Coming from the fantastic writer of 'Thom Pain (Based on nothing)', The Flu Season is a play of life, love, loss, disappointment, hope and making art. Mult-award winning director, Michelle Miall, brings this text to life, providing audiences with an immersive theatrical experience that won’t soon be forgotten.

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Stuck in Four Walls

by Chelsea Thomas, Griffith (QLD)

What happens when the person on the inside isn’t built for the outside world?  Neil is an obsessive compulsive recluse who has only his mouse Nigel, for company.  He has built a life around routine and habit, where he is comfortable, safe and undisturbed by the outside world.  When Cherry, a call-girl with the wrong address, knocks on his door, his routine life is turned upside down. Stuck In Four Walls examines the parallel worlds in which we, as humans, exist.  How do we balance real life with the reality we create in our own heads?  With passion, sex, and habit Stuck In Four Walls is an exciting original work written, directed and performed by Applied Theatre students at Griffith University that forces the audience to see inside themselves and recognise that there’s a little bit of Neil in all of us.

Writer: Martina Cross
Director: Chelsea Thomas
Assistant Director: Tenneale Rogers
Set Designer: Michelle Zahner
Stage Managers:  Katherine Grant/ Christina Sanderson
Hair and Make Up: Natasha Veselinovic

Cast: Sam Jones & Amy Sillar

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Hippolytus Raised

by SUDS,
The University of Sydney Union (NSW)

A company of fourteen student theatre-makers will grapple with a classical tragedy in a traditional staging, and only then unleash their contemporary aesthetic to create a meditation on those ideas in their time. It is a show of two halves: stripping the stage bare in pursuit of Euripides’ Hippolytus; then tearing it down and having a party with the pieces.

Hippolytus Raised is a powerful reflection on chastity, desire and the place of virtue in imperfect worlds, showcasing not only showcase what the Greeks have to offer us; but further situating their concerns at the heart of our modern lives. It is an audacious attempt to smash classicism and post-modernism together and see what remains when we sift through the debris.

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LifeBlog

by eXp Performance Collective, QUT (QLD)

LifeBlog. Connect. Create. Express.

LifeBlog is an internet community where people have applied to be followed by cameras 24/7 and have their lives broadcast live, online and worldwide. Watch how the lives of Mary, Connor and Alex, three 'subjects' from the Brisbane area, live their everyday lives on and off screen. Millions of people around the world are voyeuristic consumers and seek entertainment through the exploitation of others. But is this 'reality' or is LifeBlog manipulating their subjects' lives and their identities?

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Limbus

By Ryanna Clayton, QUT (QLD)

Limbus- (n.) Latin, meaning edge often perceived as Limbo

Limbo is described as a cool dark place on the outskirts of what we know as heaven and hell. A place where souls reside and wait, but what are they waiting for? What if Limbo wasn't some dark foreboding place filled with emptiness? What if it was just a waiting room where people sat, listened and anticipated their number to be called? Limbus is a play exploring life...after life but before the after- life.

When Aqua, a socially inept young woman finds her life has been put to an end she discovers that death is nothing like she thought it would be. She is caught between Penny a 1960's well dressed starlet with a potty mouth and an addiction to cigarettes. An ill tempered woman who can't even remember her own name; and Fofo the mute whose inability to talk has driven her to display the characteristics of a through – bred puppy!

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Dear Mrs Edmondson

By Craig Wood, Griffith (QLD)

Blending verbatim theatre, museum theatre and surrealism, Dear Mrs Edmondson draws on official war diaries, the personal diary of Mrs Maude Edmondson and condolence letters written to her. This is Maude’s story; a case study in grief of mothers of Australian military personnel who, as a nation, we continue to send across thousands of miles of oceans to foreign lands.
Step into Mrs Edmondson's space as she attempts to come to terms with the loss of her son, Jack, in Tobruk.

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The Object of My Affection

by Full Skirted Productions, University of Melbourne (VIC)

The Object Of My Affection is a series of monologues that explore the manifestations of love, obsession and addiction in the lives of six different women. From an eighteenth century bride, to a twenty-first century narcissist, Full-skirted Productions presents a two-woman show that will make you think twice about that age-old theme love.

Written and performed by Annabel Green and Letitia Kearney.

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Short Works

by La Trobe (VIC)

Short Works is the La Trobe Student Theatre and Film annual season of short student written and directed plays has been a feature of the La Trobe theatrical year since 1991. Nineteen years the season is more popular than ever and of the eleven plays that premiered in Melbourne in August we are bringing more than half to Brisbane for the first Festival of Australian Student Theatre. Amongst the treats on offer is an encounter between Dan Brown and St Peter at the pearly gates, the story of a thief with memory loss and a meeting with an arsonist.

Written, directed and performed in by La Trobe Students, Short Works 2010 offers a fresh and voracious take on life and in this season of winter chills will snuggle up to you with laughs and thrills!

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Wake in Fright

by La Trobe (VIC)

from the novel by Kenneth Cook
adapted and directed by Bob Pavlich

"May you dream of the Devil and wake in fright." An Old Curse

Eager to escape his one-room outback school for the summer holidays, young city teacher, John Grant, heads toward Sydney. Passing through the rough mining town of Bundanyabba, Grant becomes hopelessly stranded, losing his entire wages in a game of two-up and over the subsequent five days sinks into a cycle of drunkenness, hangovers, fumbling sexual encounters and increasing self-loathing. Trapped in a hellish limbo, the once ordinary world of rural Australia becomes the setting for his grotesque and surreal nightmare.

Wake in Fright explores the very real distrust that exists between city and the bush and is an unflinching depiction of Australian masculinity that is as pertinent today as it was when written in 1961.

The 1971film version was lost for twenty years, the footage vanishing in vaults and nearly destroyed, and was only recently rediscovered, restored and re-released in 2009. And now, La Trobe University Student Theatre and Film is proud to present the very first theatrical adaptation of this classic story.

With Beth Myring, David Wright, George Lingard, Jacob Pruden, Kurt Mottershead, Laura Wheelwright, Matthew Bolger-Hobson, Matt Sharawara and Stephen Foster; this production, directed and adapted by the Artistic Director of Student Theatre, will shed new light on this already well-known harrowing tale.

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