Post by Talissa on Apr 28, 2006 10:42:32 GMT 11
After breaking Box Office records in 2005, St Martin's Youth Arts Centre is delighted to present an encore season of Anthony Crowley's The Wild Blue as the company's first major work for 2006. A mesmerizing combination of story and song interweaved with monologues, dance, puppetry, physical theatre and audio visual elements The Wild Blue is an ensemble musical theatre work that has touched thousands of theatre-goers.
This inspiring work utilises the ritual of skydiving and transforms it into a physical and textual metaphor to explore how a range of individuals live with and overcome fear. Transforming the act of leaping from a plane into a metaphorical dreamscape where humanity confronts its most prevalent fears both intimate and global, The Wild Blue is a wild musical ride. This new production features an ensemble of fourteen fresh and exciting young artists.
The Wild Blue cast are also the band in this production, playing a range of instruments that serve to underscore the action of the show. This is a unique vehicle for these young actors as it dives head first into issues ranging from "coming out" to terrorism, the love of cows through to infertility.
The Wild Blue was a last-minute addition to the St Martin's 2006 Season when it was announced as part of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority's 2006 Playlist for VCE Drama (Unit 3) late last year. For the first time in its 26 year history St Martin's Youth Arts Centre is honoured to have one of its major theatre productions listed on the VCAA's Drama Playlist.
The Wild Blue tackles traditional musical theatre head-on, launching this unusual collective of young Melbourne artists well beyond barricades, chandeliers and arena spectaculars. Edgy, surreal and poetic, it features an original score of nineteen songs inhabiting a world on stage which is inspired by the artist Magritte.
In an industry dominated by franchised imports The Wild Blue is contemporary, provocative, irreverent and undeniably Australian.
The Wild Blue has been created and directed by St Martins' Artistic Director Anthony Crowley - winner of the 2003 Wal Cherry Award, 2005 New Dramatists Award and short-listed for the 2005 Premier's Literary Awards. Anthony recently returned from a three week residency with New Dramatists New York, where two of his award-winning plays The Frail Man and Shadow Passion received public readings by a cast featuring some of New York's finest actors including Lynne Cohen (Munich), Piter Marek, Richard Topol and Francesca Lozano.
THE WILD BLUE a musical by Anthony Crowley
DIRECTOR/DESIGNER: Anthony Crowley
MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Amanda Hodder
CHOREOGRAPHY: Charmaine Gorman and Alister Smith
VENUE: Randall Theatre @ St Martin's
44 St Martins Lane, South Yarra
DATES: Wed 26 April - Sat 6 May: 8pm;
Tues 2 May: 6pm;
Wed 3 May: 1pm and 8pm
(NB: No shows Sunday or Monday)
TICKETS: $19.50 Full/$17.50 Conc/$16.00 Members
BOOKINGS: 9252 0760
This inspiring work utilises the ritual of skydiving and transforms it into a physical and textual metaphor to explore how a range of individuals live with and overcome fear. Transforming the act of leaping from a plane into a metaphorical dreamscape where humanity confronts its most prevalent fears both intimate and global, The Wild Blue is a wild musical ride. This new production features an ensemble of fourteen fresh and exciting young artists.
The Wild Blue cast are also the band in this production, playing a range of instruments that serve to underscore the action of the show. This is a unique vehicle for these young actors as it dives head first into issues ranging from "coming out" to terrorism, the love of cows through to infertility.
The Wild Blue was a last-minute addition to the St Martin's 2006 Season when it was announced as part of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority's 2006 Playlist for VCE Drama (Unit 3) late last year. For the first time in its 26 year history St Martin's Youth Arts Centre is honoured to have one of its major theatre productions listed on the VCAA's Drama Playlist.
The Wild Blue tackles traditional musical theatre head-on, launching this unusual collective of young Melbourne artists well beyond barricades, chandeliers and arena spectaculars. Edgy, surreal and poetic, it features an original score of nineteen songs inhabiting a world on stage which is inspired by the artist Magritte.
In an industry dominated by franchised imports The Wild Blue is contemporary, provocative, irreverent and undeniably Australian.
The Wild Blue has been created and directed by St Martins' Artistic Director Anthony Crowley - winner of the 2003 Wal Cherry Award, 2005 New Dramatists Award and short-listed for the 2005 Premier's Literary Awards. Anthony recently returned from a three week residency with New Dramatists New York, where two of his award-winning plays The Frail Man and Shadow Passion received public readings by a cast featuring some of New York's finest actors including Lynne Cohen (Munich), Piter Marek, Richard Topol and Francesca Lozano.
THE WILD BLUE a musical by Anthony Crowley
DIRECTOR/DESIGNER: Anthony Crowley
MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Amanda Hodder
CHOREOGRAPHY: Charmaine Gorman and Alister Smith
VENUE: Randall Theatre @ St Martin's
44 St Martins Lane, South Yarra
DATES: Wed 26 April - Sat 6 May: 8pm;
Tues 2 May: 6pm;
Wed 3 May: 1pm and 8pm
(NB: No shows Sunday or Monday)
TICKETS: $19.50 Full/$17.50 Conc/$16.00 Members
BOOKINGS: 9252 0760