COMING UP......
As part of the Brighton UK Fringe Festival,
May 2008, Jacaranda Theatre is proud to present:
SLEEPING ROUGH: A DUO OF DUOLOGUES
Saturday/Sunday 17th/18th and 24th/25th May at 3pm
Upstairs at the
Three and Ten, Steine St,
Brighton
Raimondo Cortese’s
Break In
(European Premiere) Daniel Keene’s
Night, A Wall, Two Men.
If you like gritty
Aussie film, you’ll love these
violently poetic, visceral, funny Australian plays.
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DATES
AND TIMES: 17th/18th, 24th/25th
May at 3pm
Tickets: £9 and £7 concession
Bookings:
www.otherplaceproductions.co.uk
(Fringe Theatre Managers of the Year 2007) or
www.brightonfestivalfringe.org.uk
RAIMONDO CORTESE’S
BREAK
IN (From his ROULETTE series)
UK
DEBUT
Two
young heroin addicts,
Julie and Cam, anchored to a street bench, act out a drama that captures
their hopeless predicament at the bottom of the social pile and the
intermittent but crucial optimism that helps them imagine the
possibility of progress.
Raimondo Cortese:
is
a founding member of Ranters Theatre, for which these these raw
and immediate Roulette duologues were originally written.
They have toured Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Portugal, exploring
human behaviour in a range of situations. Raimondo’s
work has a dark edge, yet the works are also full of humour especially
in the subtle twists in the narrative and in the away the power moves
from one character to another on the turn of a word. Director: Megan
Finlay, Cast: Debra Low and Mackenzie Scott.
“Universally relevant, theatrically engaging and very much of the day”
Director, Berlin World Theatre Festival
“Raw
theatre at its most basic and brilliant” Craig Clarke, The Sunday
Mail
“A
power that can make everyday language resonant with emotion and
meaning…some of the most impressive work I’ve seen” Helen Thomson,
The Age
Laden
with menace, it makes for superb theatre-provocative and
uncomfortable….Great stuff” Tim Harrison Hammersmith Informer
DANIEL
KEENE’S
NIGHT,
A WALL, TWO MEN
Straight from its sold-out run in the "Stoked" Theatre Festival, this
vicious, funny play is exactly what it says on the box: two nameless
“down-and-outs” against a wall with their nightly musings, arguments,
abuse and lamentations to keep them company. This is theatre of poverty,
of the voiceless and invisible, which emerges from the shadows and bites
you on the arse.
Director: Debra Low
(Artistic Director, Jacaranda Theatre) Cast: Donal Cox and John
Eastman
Daniel
Keene
is a “dangerous
playwright” who “works right on the moral edge” (Sydney Morning Herald),
He exposes society’s underbelly and finds a vicious beauty. His
multi-award winning plays have been acclaimed throughout Australia, in
the United States, France and Poland, and since the late 1990s he has
established himself as one of Europe’s most notable contemporary
playwrights.
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Who is Jacaranda Theatre?
Jacaranda Theatre helps put Australia on the map by producing and
promoting gutsy, globally and socially relevant, cutting-edge Australian
Drama to theatre audiences in the UK and abroad.
In addition to presenting new work, Jacaranda is dedicated to
introducing a wide range of Australian material that is yet to be
produced in the UK and internationally.
Jacaranda strives to showcase plays of an internationally transferable nature, as well as sharing the rich variety of Australian culture.
Above all, Jacaranda is committed to
developing productions of the highest quality, to take them to the
widest possible audience and to provide dynamic and unique
working conditions for theatre professionals.
Jacaranda looks forward
to expanding its repertoire, as well as developing the touring possibilities of
its existing projects,
such as SLEEPING ROUGH AND ROULETTE. It shall also
continue to showcase the many talented playwrights of Australia during
the Jacaranda play-reading season. But to do this, we need your
support. To find out how to support us,
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