Welcome to the new evolution of the company; Store Room Theatre Workshop - SRTW.  SRTW has been undertaking a series of creative developments over the past year and is pleased to announce the fruits of those labours with two productions playing between October 23rd and November 25th, 2007.  

Oct 23 - Nov 4
'(the Pilot Version of...) SOMETHING TO DIE FOR'.
By Ross Mueller

and

Nov 9 - 25
LETTERS FROM ANIMALS
By Kit Lazaroo

Bookings:       (03) 94818496 or online
Tickets:           $19 Conc, $27 Full, $10 Previews

Read on for further details of each production and click here to see details of various shows in development.
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Playing Oct 23 - Nov 4, 2007

store room theatre workshop
Proudly presents,

'(the Pilot Version of...) SOMETHING TO DIE FOR'.
By Ross Mueller

"At the outset, the lights go up and - the author - is found on the stage. He begins to speak."

A brilliant and defiantly idiosyncratic work, Ross Mueller's latest offering traces the fated meeting of an Australian writer with British heavyweight playwright David Hare during a residency at Royal Court Theatre in London. The Australian writer addresses the central question in Hare's notorious meditation on the Middle East crisis - 'Via Dolorosa'- 'what would you die for?

Fiercely intelligent and propelled by a dizzying linguistic force, this staggering new work from the 2006 Wal Cherry Award Winner is muscular, lyrical, funny as all get out and ultimately moving. Smart, original theatre at its best. 

Ross Mueller's most recent work, 'Ghost Writer' premiered this year at the Melbourne Theatre Company whilst his other work 'No Man's Island' has been performed to critical acclaim this year  in New York.  His play 'Construction of the Human Heart' which premiered at The Store Room in 2005, has recently commenced a national tour.

Superbly performed by the talented and Green Room Award winning David Tredinnick and directed by SRTW Artistic Director, Aidan Fennessy, '(THE PILOT VERSION OF ...) SOMETHING TO DIE FOR' is spellbinding theatre from a writer at the top of his game.  Not to be missed!

 "Mueller is surely one of the most intelligent, formally adventurous and emotionally brave playwrights now writing in this country."
Alison Croggan, Theatre Notes.

Preview:       Tuesday 23rd of October @ 8pm
 Season:       Opening - Wednesday 24th October @ 8p
                     running until the 4th of November
                     Tuesday to Saturdays @ 8pm
                     Sundays @ 6pm

Playing Nov 9 - 25, 2007

Here Theatre and store room theatre workshop proudly present,

Letters from Animals
by Kit Lazaroo

Winner of the 2005 Wal Cherry Play of the Year Award for 'Asylum' and shortlisted for the 2007 Victorian Premier's Literary Award

 'Letters from Animals' is a parable set one hundred years in the future, in the aftermath of an environmental catastrophe. The river is rising, breaking its banks, seeping into the concrete engineered world of The Development. Animals have been exterminated, and all memory of them is forbidden in this clean new world. The few animals that remain have formed a resistance movement and haunt the populace, waiting on the fringes to be called back into being, sending messages, plotting and dreaming of the day when humans will remember them, allowing them their lawful assembly.

This outstanding production brings together the creative team behind 'True Adventures of a Soul Lost at Sea' (2004), 'The Time is not yet Ripe' (2006, GRA Award Best Ensemble) and 'Asylum' (2007).  The script seeps with poetry, dark humour and desolate visions of a world bereft of animal-kind.  With analogue technology, and language that probes like light through brackish water, this is a disturbing theatrical vision from an astonishing, award-winning playwright.

Cast: Glynis Angell (2006 GRA Award Female Performer, Independent Theatre), Georgina Capper, Nomination, 2004 GRA Award Female Performer, Independent Theatre and HaiHa Le (Nomination, 2006 GRA Award Female Performer, Independent Theatre

Director: Jane Woollard.
Designer: Amanda Johnson.
Lighting Designer: Bronwyn Pringle

Previews:     Friday 9th, 10th, 11th November @ 8pm
Season:   running 13th - 25th November 
                     Tuesday - Sunday @ 8pm 
                         Sundays @ 6pm

Store Room Theatre Workshop thanks our Board of Directors, our Advisory Committee and all our sponsors for their continued support.

Store Room Theatre Workshop acknowledges the assistance of KPMG and the Australia Business Arts Foundation through its volunteering program, advicebank.