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PAST PRODUCTIONS 2010 The Big Brown Box 'The Big Brown Box' is a high-energy interactive performance that engages the audiences imagination in creative play! Children are invited into a world of adventure where anything is possible, as the characters discover the fun in the everyday! One big brown box holds all the delight and excitement you can imagine! Sure to thrill, surprise and inspire audiences, 'The Big Brown Box' will be enjoyed by all! Before and After Knock Off ‘Before and After Knockoff’ was highly acclaimed for its performance at the New Theatre, Newtown in September 2010 and it’s sold out shows in Bathurst in 2009. Written by James Pike; Bathurst Theatre Company's Vice President, ‘Before and After Knockoff’ shows the brutal consequences of mixing business and family life. It’s the powerful and hard-hitting story of Vaughan, owner of a Central Tablelands concreting outfit, who sacks his son on the advice of a bootlicker employee, damaging his family and business relationships both beyond repair. Emerging playwright James Pike has created a new dialect in this original work, combining the course language of the jobsite with a poetic eloquence. The result is an aesthetic that serves to make Pike’s comment on the working class unshakeably hard-hitting. The production is a collaborative endeavour by a diverse array of Bathurst theatre-makers (both seasoned and emerging) with origins from across the state (including Bathurst locals) and boasts unified support from Bathurst Theatre Company, Local Stages, Arts Outwest and the School of Communication & Creative Industries' Theatre Media course at CSU. Into The Shadows - High school performances! Into the Shadows played in September at the Cleveland Street Theatre in the heart of Sydney as a part of the Sydney Fringe Festival. This production returned to Bathurst and performed at local high schools. Into The Shadows is a contrasting piece of shadow puppetry and live drama that coaxes you into the world of the things that go bump in the night. Meet Simon, one of five grotesque creatures as innocent and fun as the children they terrorise. As we fall in love with them we are immediately faced with the inevitability of their death. Are the human children above simply not believing in them any more, or does something more sinister lurk in the shadows? Soon the line between terror and games becomes as fuzzy as he is and Simon’s world crumbles around him. This one-act piece uses simple language and arresting characters to shake you to the core. The cast and crew are comprised of a small company of graduates and current students of Bathurst’s Theatre/ Media programme. Utilising skills in circus, physical theatre, magic and puppetry, they worked together in a democratic devising process to build the characters and the design of the show. On stage we have our five monsters, Greg Joyce as Simon, Lauren Gemmel as Patience, Zach Jones as Anthony, Lamai Thomson-Long as Cindi, and Tor Hutchinson as Lucas. In the shadows we have Lyndon Franks, Rohan Smyth, Romy Clugston, Tash Steger and Rebekah Kordas. Behind the scenes we have Production Manager Zach Jones, Lighting Designer Lamai Thomson-Long, Producer Zoe Rodwell, publicity by Chris Killham and costume and make-up by Eily Plemming. Original music was provided by Sydney’s psychedelic collective, Captain Kickarse and the Awesomes. Writer/cast director Benjamin Hunter is nineteen years old and this is his directorial debut. Born and bred in the natural beauty and music and theatre underground of the Blue Mountains, Ben now lives in Bathurst, NSW. He is completing his undergraduate study in Charles Sturt University’s Theatre/Media Programme. He created the concept together with fellow student Tor Hutchinson and developed his play using character improvisation research into children in Palliative Care situations. Shadow puppetry director Rohan Smyth has several years training in puppetry, physical theatre, circus and martial arts. He lives in Bathurst where he is completing his Master of Arts Practice as part of Charles Sturt University’s Theatre/Media programme. Out Of The Shadows Productions is an independent production company currently working out of Bathurst is association with Bathurst Theatre Company. Established in late 2009, Out Of The Shadows Productions has created Into The Shadows as its first fringe festival entry, and will also be touring the piece to schools during November. Out Of The Shadows aims to bring unique, diverse theatre and performance skills to the young and old in Sydney’s West and the Central West Of NSW. 2008 CARNIVAL OF FOOLS - Saturday, 13th December Music, dance, parade, circus, puppets large and small, masks, mumming, flags, banners and general shenanigans from the youth theatre members as well as a jumping castle, face painting, fairy-floss, fake tattoo parlour, sausage sizzle, a cake stall, homemade lemonade stand, other youth groups, local dance and circus groups and bands.
The Dress Up Box' - June, August A play specifically devised for pre-school aged children. The two local actors involved in this production toured to local and regional pre-schools. The young audiences were delighted with this play which is about a young girl looking for her wet weather clothes in her dress up box. Before she finds them she is taken on various imaginary journeys inspired by what she finds in the dress up box. Each character the girl meets asks for assistance from children in the audience. 'At The Beach', 30th August Performed by Bathurst Women's Circus: a four minute acrobalance spectacular! performed at 'Cabaret Kite', Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre. 'BLOKE'S don't TALK' - 11th September A series of men's monologues written by local playwright Vince Melton, directed by Michelle Bolt and performed at St Patrick's Sporting Club, Gilmour St, Kelso. These captivating monologues were specifically written to be performed where bloke's hang out.
'The Creatures in the Trees' a co-production with Stuck in the Mud Productions This play for children and families was devised by Sarah Parsons and Ashleigh Seggie, inspired by the stories of Maurice Sendak, including “Where the Wild Things are”. 'ASPARAGUS' - 23, 24, 25 October This play, written by Ray Harding, researched by local historian Rob McLachlan and directed by Bill Blaikie, is based on events and characters in Bathurst in 1940. The play examines the dreams and aspirations of Bathurst through three generations of a Bathurst family and the impact on their lives of war, politics, economic growth and the vision of three significant Australian writers: Dymphna Cusack, Miles Franklin and Xavier Herbert. Included in the list of characters are Robert Gordon Edgell and Ben Chifley. Productions from 2003 to 2007 Adult 'Salome' by Oscar Wilde - Park Hotel 'Show Day' by Robert Hewett - Park Hotel 'The Censor' by Anthony Neilsen - Park Hotel 'Murder in the Cathedral' by TS Eliot - All Saints Cathedral 'Inheritance' by Hannie Rayson - Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre (BMEC) 'Holy Day' by Andrew Bovell - BMEC 'Blokes don't Talk' by Vince Melton - Park Hotel 'The Vagina Monologues' by Eve Ensler - BMEC 'Show Day' by Robert Hewett - Local villages tour 'A Woman's Prerogative' - group devised - Park Hotel 'Summer of the Aliens' by Louis Nowra - BMEC Youth 'The Labouchere File' - Park Hotel 'Beauty Is A Beast' - BMEC 'A Collection of Clown Plays' - BMEC 'School for Clowns' - BMEC and Primary Schools 'Hans Christian Andersen Fairytales Adapted' - BMEC 'The Adventures of a Bear Called Paddington' - BMEC 'Cabaret String' - BMEC 'Do-Bai My Daughter' - Uniting Church Historic Hall
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