A MOVEABLE THEATRE
THIS WIDE NIGHT
by Chloe Moss
A tender portrayal of two women trying to start again after serving time and sharing a prison cell. On the day of her release after 12 years, Lorraine avoids her halfway house and heads straight to the
flat of Marie - a young girl with whom she had shared a cell - who had been released earlier. On the inside they used to share everything but the friendship that once protected them now threatens to smother the fragile freedom they have found. As Lorraine strives to reconnect with the son she had taken from her on her incarceration, Marie tries to hide from Lorraine the true nature of the life she has found outside.
Written by Playwright Chloe Moss after a 3 month residency in a UK Women’s Correctional Centre, THIS WIDE NIGHT explores the importance and uniqueness of relationships formed in prison: how they can, or perhaps cannot exist in another context; and resettlement where ‘freedom’ can actually feel like a very bleak and frightening concept.”
THIS WIDE NIGHT premiered in 2008 by Clean Break at Soho Theatre
before a National Tour of Theatres and Women’s Prisons.
A Moveable Theatre’s Season at Back Dock Arts was developed and informed by a New Initiative to examine choices for Women on Release from Prison in Queensland. AMT Staged a Workshop performance of pivotal scenes to Brisbane Women Serving a Sentence and their Support Workers and Parole Officers to gain their endorsement of our Production as a true representation to the general public of the struggles they faced returning to the outside world.
DIRECTED and DESIGNED BY
Michael Beh
PERFORMED BY
Julia Johnson & Shardè Anne
LIGHTING DESIGN BY
Bethany Scott
AUDIO & VISUAL DESIGN BY
Wayne McPhee
PRODUCED BY
Terry Hansen
STAGE MANAGED & OPERATED BY
Ebony Webb
PHOTOGRAPHY BY
Naz Mulla
SO MUCH TO TELL YOU
Adapted to stage by Terry Hansen
from John Marsden’s First International Best Seller
Scarred, literally, by her past, Marina has withdrawn into silence. Then, at her new boarding school, she is set the task of writing a diary by her English teacher, and finds a way of expressing her thoughts and feelings and of exploring the traumatic events that have caused her distress. Through Marina's diary we gain an insight into life in her dormitory, and her difficult relationship with her father, who injured her in an angry moment.
A Multi-media Stage adaptation melding live performance Julia Johnson as Marina with voice over of thoughts by Tara King and image projection created by Heidrun Lohr.
So Much To Tell You debuted at The Pilgrim Theatre Sydney and later toured Greater Sydney and Regional New South Wales and Victoria with the Young Australia Workshop.
"So Much To Tell You is that rare theatrical conjuration: a play for young teenagers that kicks through the age barrier. The story might be grim, but So Much To Tell You is alive with energy and generous humanity.”
- Sun Herald
ADAPTED & DIRECTED BY
Terry Hansen
PERFORMED BY
Julia Johnson, Rebecca George, Rosalie Lester, Bruce Love, Ange Hammond, Emma Butere
VOICE OVER BY
Tara King
LIGHTING DESIGN BY
Liz Allen
COSTUME DESIGN BY
Gracie Matthews
PHOTOGRAPHY BY
Heidrun Lohr
CONQUEST OF THE SOUTH POLE
Manfred Karge Translated by Tinch Minter and Anthony Vivis
Best mates – out of work, on benefits, hanging out, and hiding in epic journeys of the imagination. Four young men escape the realities of signing on and missing out by recreating Admundsen’s legendary expedition in a tiny attic room: one London footstep for every polar kilometre.
“Nothing but booze, make-believe and blarney.
Sod off to the South Pole.”
A contemporary classic, The Conquest of the South Pole revels in the complexities of what makes a group tick. Highly theatrical and poetic, this bolt-of-energy play tracks a journey from despair to hope – the weight of the everyday world seen through youthful eyes.
Our Premiere Season of Manfred Karge’s CONQUEST OF THE SOUTH POLE was funded by the Australia Council to Tour Q Theatre and Labour Market Programs throughout Greater Sydney. Two and a half thousand traditional non-theatre goers attended these performances with their tickets paid as part of their support coping with long term unemployment.
“The language is sometimes spicy and the dialogue rapid-fire, but Conquest very efficiently comes face to face with the issue of long-term unemployment and put it in it’s place.”
- Sunday Telegraph
“It is an impressive young company, with goals that are unashamedly Brechtian. This means it wants to deal realistically, but not in a naturalistic form, with modern issues.”
- The Australian
DIRECTED BY
Julian Meyrick
PERFORMED BY
Steve Hardman, Julia Johnson, John F Howard, Bob Pavlich, Terry Hansen, Gaby Mason, Jamie Robertson
SET & LIGHTING DESIGN BY
Geoff Cobham
COSTUME DESIGN
Louise McCarthy
TOUR PRODUCER
Anna Grega
