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State Theatre Company of South Australia is the state's flagship professional theatre company performing an annual season of classic and contemporary Australian and international theatre works at its main performance home – the Dunstan Playhouse. The Company is a major community and cultural resource for all South Australians and is vital to artistic life in the state.
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Tuesday 6 (NWS), 6.30pm Odeon Theatre The Ham Funeral
Wednesday 7 (DWS), 10.30am Odeon Theatre The Ham Funeral
Monday 19, 9.30am Group Presentation Skills workshop
Monday 26, 9.30am Brecht workshop
Monday 2, 10am–12pm Teacher workshop
Tuesday 10–Friday 13 Adelaide Festival Centre Work Experience
Monday 7, 9.30am Building a Character workshop
Thursday 10 (DWS), 10.30am Dunstan Playhouse The Glass Menagerie
Tuesday 15 (NWS), 6.30pm Dunstan Playhouse The Glass Menagerie
Wednesday 16 (DWS), 10.30am Dunstan Playhouse The Glass Menagerie
Wednesday 30, 10.30am & 1.30pm Space Theatre War Mother
Thursday 31, 10.30am & 1.30pm Space Theatre War Mother
Friday 1, 10.30am Space Theatre War Mother
Tuesday 5, 10.30am Keith Michell Theatre, Port Pirie War Mother
Wednesday 6, 10.30am Port Augusta High School, Port Augusta War Mother
Thursday 7, 10.30am Middleback Theatre, Whyalla War Mother
Friday 8, 1.30pm Nautilus Theatre, Port Lincoln War Mother
Tuesday 12, 1.30pm Golden Grove Arts Ctr, Golden Grove War Mother
Thursday 14, 1.30pm Shedley Theatre, Elizabeth War Mother
Friday 15, 1.30pm Hopgood Theatre, Noarlunga War Mother
Tuesday 19, 10.30am Goolwa Theatre, Goolwa War Mother
Wednesday 20, 1.30pm Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre, Mt Gambier War Mother
Friday 22, 1.30pm Chaffey Theatre, Renmark War Mother
Monday 2–Friday 6 Flinders University Young Playwrights Award
Tuesday 17 (NWS), 6.30pm Dunstan Playhouse Pinocchio
Thursday 19 (DWS), 10.30am Dunstan Playhouse Pinocchio
Tuesday 24 (DWS), 10.30am Dunstan Playhouse Pinocchio
Wednesday 25 (DWS), 10.30am Dunstan Playhouse Pinocchio
Thursday 26 (DWS), 10.30am Dunstan Playhouse Pinocchio
Thursday 23 (DWS), 10.30am Dunstan Playhouse Top Girls
Tuesday 28 (NWS), 6.30pm Dunstan Playhouse Top Girls
Wednesday 29 (DWS), 10.30am Dunstan Playhouse Top Girls
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Adelaide Railway Station, Station Road, Adelaide SA 5000 PO Box 8252, Station Arcade, Adelaide SA 5000 t. (08) 8415 5333 f. (08) 8231 6310 e. [email protected]
www.statetheatrecompany.com.au
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GOVERNMENT PARTNERS MAJOR PARTNERS
EDUCATION PARTNER
PARTNERS TRUSTS & FOUNDATIONS
CREATIVE PARTNERSState Theatre Company of SA is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
E D U C A T I O N
PRESS CONFERENCE
By H A R O L D P I N T E R
A MOTHER
By F R A N C A R A M E & DA R I O F O,
translated by E D E M E R Y
SWITCH
By M A R J O L I J N VA N H E E M S T R A ,
translated by R I N A V E R G A N O
3 SONGS
By B E R TO LT B R E C H T & H A N S E I S L E R ,
translated by J O H N W I L L E T T: The Song of a German Mother,
On Suicide, The Flower Garden
DIRECTORC AT H E R I N E F I T Z G E R A L D
CAST INCLUDESE I L E E N DA R L E Y
DURATIONApprox 1 hr (no interval)Suitable for Years 10–12
Two Actors. Two Nobel Laureates. Three plays, and a fresh new voice from the
world of Dutch theatre. With a pinch of Brecht thrown
in for good measure.
Every day we are confronted by images of violence and war, civilian uprisings and terrorist acts. What drives people to commit such desperate acts,
whether patriotic, anti-government or by acting alone?
War Mother is an answer to the cry from young people to try to understand the violence and fear that surrounds us in
our everyday psyche and lives. Instead of weapons of war and mass destruction—we use the weapon of theatre and hope.
Featuring mothers, explosives, a Minister of Culture, a hint of humour, some hard cold
facts and a terrifying but all too familiar world. War Mother is sixty
minutes of intense scrutiny of humankind, motherhood, our
relationship with power, the State, war, terrorism and repression.
CONTAINS VIOLENT THEMES
FANCY YOURSELF THE NEXT WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, CARYL CHURCHILL
OR SAMUEL BECKETT ?
Put pen to paper to enter your one-act play into the Flinders UniversityYoung Playwrights
Award. All scripts are read by a panel of experts, with the winning entrant receiving a unique prize
pack including a week of script development with a professional director and actors before
seeing it performed onstage.
Entrants must be aged 25 years or under. Entries close Friday 1 June 2012. Full terms
and conditions available on our website.
THE HAM FUNERAL
B y PAT R I C K W H I T E
A young poet moves into a squalid rooming house run by the basement-bound Mr and Mrs Lusty, a bloated, gluttonous pair. When her husband dies abruptly, Mrs
Lusty announces a grand funeral featuring a lavish feast, “an ‘am funeral”, in his honour. Driven
by her incontinent appetite, she attempts to seduce the young
poet at her husband’s wake, with comically tragic consequences.
THE GLASS MENAGERIE
B y T E N N E S S E E W I L L I A M S
Set in St. Louis in the 1930s, The Glass Menagerie is a ‘memory play’ about the Wingfield family:
Tom, who is torn between his obligation to his family and his desire to break away from
the suffocating embrace of his mother, Amanda and his shy
and crippled sister Laura, whose memory he will never escape.
The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams’ evocation of loneliness and lost love, is one of his most powerful and moving plays, an
unforgettable American classic.
PINOCCHIO
Created by R O S E M A R Y M Y E R S with writer J U L I A N N E O’ B R I E N
This is your call to misadventure from a back-chatting, wooden
headed kid with a nose that won’t stop growing. It’s Pinocchio,
earning the right to live as a real boy and chart his own course in a world of puppet celebrity.
Based on the classic story by Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio will
be a witty, gothic, rocking, music theatre spectacular, a mix of old time theatre fun in a very
contemporary celebration of the ‘whatever’ generation.
TOP GIRLS
B y C A R Y L C H U R C H I L L
Set in Margaret Thatcher’s England in the early 1980s, where power dressing and giant shoulder
pads were all the fashion, Caryl Churchill’s stark and unflinching
portrayal of the sacrifices women make to get to the top is still
stingingly relevant.
Marlene is an ambitious career woman who has just been appointed head of the Top Girls Employment Agency.
This aesthetically daring, politically provocative play
tells the story of the firm and Marlene’s rise to power.
CONTAINS COARSE LANGUAGE
S u e t wor s ops
Student workshops
There have been so many changes in the educational world over the past few years. The SACE curriculum has changed, we are moving towards a national curriculum and social media is influencing people like never before, with our teaching practices re-shaping and evolving to keep up.
However, one thing will always remain the same—imagination. Theatre is about bringing that imagination to life, taking us to fantastical places and igniting the passion within.
Over the last four years we have seen our Education Pro- gram grow and evolve. In 2011 over 6,500 students attended performances and workshops throughout the State and the feedback we have received is inspiring.
“The students ‘buzzed’ all the way home.”
LISA
“I loved it. What a great script, good acting and direction—what a treat for regional high schoolers.”
SUE
We hope to continue chall-enging and inspiring young minds with our 2012 program. Our Education show, War Mother, is a compilation of short, hard-hitting plays by Dario Fo and Franca Rame, Harold Pinter and Marjolijn van Heemstra with songs by Bertolt Brecht, that present diverse political and social views of the human condition.
Our popular Day With State performances bring contemporary and classic themes from writers such as Patrick White, Tennessee Williams and Caryl Churchill with new work by Rosemary Myers and Julianne O’Brien.
We will also continue to evolve our workshop program based on the changing curriculum.
So in 2012, where will your imagination take you?
Robyn BrookesEDUCATION MANAGER
Catherine FitzgeraldASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
I am delighted to welcome you to the intensely thought-provoking 2012 regional educational tour, War Mother.
ElectraNet is proud to once again support State Theatre Company—as the Program Partner for the 2012 regional educational tour—to help boost the active engagement of students from across the State in exciting live theatre. Such valuable learning opportunities develop students’ vital creative and cultural expression and encourage the pursuit of artistic excellence.
As South Australia’s electricity transmission specialist, ElectraNet seeks to support a wide range of communities in areas where our electricity transmission assets are located. To this end, we trust that this year’s regional tour of SA will prove to be a valuable learning experience for all involved.
Please enjoy!
Ian Stirling CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, ELECTRANET
www.electranet.com.au
“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
JEAN GENET
“Writing has ... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.”
HENRIK IBSEN
Teacher workshop
Teacher workshop
MULTIMEDIA AS PART OF THEATRE LANGUAGE
The world of technology is having a great impact on our world, particularly amongst young people,
opening up many opportunities for theatre making. This workshop will explore how we incorporate multi-media as part of the narrative of a play.
Presented by Director and Playwright Rosemary Myers (The Wizard of Oz, The Fugitive, Girl Who
Cried Wolf and Pinocchio)
10am–12pm
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DAY WITH STATE
DAY WITH STATE
DAY WITH STATE
Workshops on
demand
Workshops
on
demand
Workshops on
demand
THIS EDUCATION INITIATIVE SENDS PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS INTO SCHOOLS
PROVIDING PRACTICAL WORKSHOPS TO STUDENTS FROM YEARS 9–12 .
Workshops run for two hours and can be tailored to your students’ background and
experience. Choose your preferred date and time, subject to the availability of the artist.
Group Size: Maximum of 25
ACTING TECHNIQUES
Students will be taken through practical exercises exploring and demonstrating a number of techniques and skills used for a range of acting methodologies. The students may also explore other acting related tasks such as text analysis, preparing for auditions
and the realities of the industry.
OBJECTIVE MOVEMENT
This workshop will look closely at body language and creating movement-based action. Participants will work with text and physical vocabulary to learn
movement techniques and scene work through self-devised theatre methods.
DO YOU WANT A WORKSHOP IN ANOTHER AREA?
We have a range of artists who can offer a workshop in a specialist field such as: The Actor’s
Voice, Set/Costume Design, Fight Choreography, Absurd Theatre, Butoh, Stanislavsky and Laban.
REGIONAL WORKSHOPS
Our Associate Director can facilitate a three hour in-school workshop based on the themes surrounding our Education show, War Mother.
Dates will be negotiated during Term 1.
Our teacher subscription package, including tickets and pre-show subscriber briefings is designed
around the four Day With State shows;
THE HAM FUNERAL
PAT R I C K W H I T E
THE GLASS MENAGERIE
T E N N E S S E E W I L L I A M S
PINOCCHIO
R O S E M A R Y M Y E R S & J U L I A N N E O’ B R I E N
TOP GIRLS
C A R Y L C H U R C H I L L
Teachers participating in this program can receive a Certificate of Attendance for up to 17 hours
training and development, acknowledging learning outcomes and hours of participation, which may count towards their professional development.
Other subscription packages can be negotiated with the Education Manager.
Teachersubscription
Teachersubscription
GROUP PRESENTATION SKILLS
This workshop will provide practical advice and hands-on skills creating either a devised performance
or a script presentation. Explore how knowledge and understanding can be expressed imaginatively
in a variety of dramatic forms.
BRECHT
What made Brecht’s work so extraordinary and influential? What is epic theatre?
What techniques did Brecht use to alienate his actors from their characters and the audience?
Through practical examples students will understand the cultural, historical and political
contexts that influenced Brecht’s work.
BUILDING A CHARACTER
Using a variety of acting and directing tools including physical language, voice, observation
techniques and costume, this workshop will investigate and break down the process of
character development. Through practical hands- on exercises, students will gain a wide range of
valuable skills that will support their drama studies.
Student workshops
Work experience
Work experience
DO YOU WANT TO BE AN ACTOR? THINK YOU’ VE GOT THE CREATIVITY
OF A DESIGNER? WHY NOT FIND OUT MORE ABOUT IT. . .
Our group work experience week offers Year 10–12 students an in-depth look into the activities of a professional theatre company. The program gives students the opportunity to explore the various departments that work
together as a team to produce theatre, from the rehearsal room to workshop, wardrobe, publicity
and marketing. Limited to 20 students.
Applications open January 2012.
( WEEK 1 OF TERM 1 SCHOOL HOLIDAYS)
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STATE THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS DAY TIME PERFORMANCES SPECIFICALLY FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.
Each performance is followed by a post-show Q&A session with the Director, creative team and the cast. Upon booking,
teachers will receive a comprehensive study guide.
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ODEON THEATRE
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DUNSTAN PLAYHOUSE
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DUNSTAN PLAYHOUSE
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DUNSTAN PLAYHOUSE
SUPPORTED BY
SUPPORTED BY
A NOTE FROM OUR 2012 PROGRAM PARTNER, ELECTRANET
Adelaide Railway Station Station Road, Adelaide SA 5000
PO Box 8252 Station Arcade, Adelaide SA 5000
t. (08) 8415 5333 f. (08) 8231 6310e. [email protected]
www.statetheatrecompany.com.au
YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS
AWARD
YOUNGPLAYWRIGHTS
AWARD
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1 9M A R
8M AY
7M AY
2 6M A R
2 8M A R
ALL PERFORMANCES COMMENCE AT 10.30am
“The theatre is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.”
AUGUSTO BOAL
SPACE THEATRE
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METROPOLITAN & REGIONAL TOUR
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