The Reading Room program is no longer being run.
Instead we are focusing on creative development through our new initiative Store Room Theatre Workshop and our Associate Artist program.
Read on for more details!
WORK IN DEVELOPMENT
A Mile in her Shadow
Associate Artist: Robert Reid - writer
We follow the central character, True, as he deals with the intricacies of everyday life through the prism of the psychological condition known as Dissociative Disorder. With disarming objectiveness, humour, pain and honesty, Robert Reid takes us on the fractured journey of a soul attempting to find connection, love and meaning in a world that becomes increasingly foreign and unreal. “If you stare into the abyss long enough, the abyss stares back into you.” One in five Australians suffers from a mental illness and this play gives us a window into one such life. Drawn from the writers own personal experience of the disorder, A Mile in her Shadow is an uplifting and brave exposure of a new and barely understood medical condition.
Entertainment
Associate Artists:
Luke Pither – visual artist/choreographer
Todd MacDonald - performer/director
Entertainment is an ongoing exploration examining both the political and social body of performance making, subversively questioning the fundamental human desire to be 'entertained'. This visual performance work will be composed of a series of related productions and projects presented over a three year period using a diverse array of mediums and influences; installation, dance theatre, investigative forum, anthropology, architecture, narrative text, and visual arts to examine how entertainment informs or reflect our world.
Monologue
Associate Artist: Ross Mueller - writer
One man meets David Hare.
One woman meets Harold Pinter.
These two monologues further explore the themes begun in Mueller’s groundbreaking work, Construction of the Human Heart, which garnered four green room award nominations for its 2005 season at The Store Room and played to sell-out audiences at Malthouse Theatre in 2006. Stay tuned for the second and third acts in this trilogy of work that examines grief, loss, love, and art from the pen of one of Australia’s most gifted new writers.
Lot
Associate Artist: Clare Bartholomew - performer/creator
At a large ‘Hillsong’ Church in the suburbs of Sydney huge crowds gather. Their mission: to spread the good news of the Bible. But just how do you explain biblical stories of rape, incest, human sacrifice and slavery to those seeking salvation? With original music and lyrics, naturally!
Performed by the creators of the 2006 comedy festival hit Die Roten Punkte, Lot revisits a classic biblical story with all the care, frivolity, disdain, wonder, fascination and hilarity that it deserves.
Letters from Animals
Associate Artist: Kit Lazaroo - writer
In a city one hundred years from now, animals have been exterminated and their names meticulously expunged from human vocabulary. In an effort to constrain the public mind through fear, government agents methodically weed out the 'resistance' who secretly hold onto their animal memories. Yet the ghosts of these creatures still lurk deep within minds and souls; sinister, warped and beautiful spirits begging to be named so that they may return to existence. A moving, poetic, haunting tale combining puppetry and live performance from the extraordinary imagination of the 2005 Wal Cherry Play of the Year winner - Kit Lazaroo.
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