The Drover's Wife Untold - 2012 Season

 

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Director, Dramaturg – Robert Draffin
Writer Actors – Paul Robertson, Claire
Nicholls, Georgie Durham.
Videographer – Ivanka Sokol
Music Composition – Tom Carlyon
Image – Jakob Schmitt

A woman, left alone, in an alien landscape ever burning or washed away continues an unending dance of denial against the mysterious shadow of a country that will enter her with a love ancient and powerful enough to crumble even the fiercest resistance. Fire and ice battle to the inevitable conclusion in a world struggling to coexist with the old and powerful spirit of a land outside of European comprehension.

A choric journey of Gothic proportion, darkly beautiful, immense, rearing majestically but
ultimately diving into depths of horror. The Drover Wife Untold is a piece of theatre combining poetry, video and musical composition.

Oedipus - A Poetic Requiem

Adapted from Ted Hughes’ evocative translation, Liminal Theatre performed two versions of Oedipus - A Poetic Requiem, in 2008 and 2009. As part of the 2008 Melbourne Fringe Festival, an unassuming suburban garage was recreated as a beautiful, intimate theatre space for our first season, while in 2009 the work was performed at our new studio within the J-Studios precinct.

This recipient of the 2008 Green Room Awards for Best Production and Best Direction) imagines Oedipus performed by four women actors, captured in the depths of a plague, unleashing a prophetic world that gives life to death.

Oedipus - A poetic requiem was directed by Mary Sitarenos and will be performed by Jo Smith, Georgie Durham, Claire Nicholls and Ivanka Sokol, with lighting by Damian ‘Mimmo’ Lentini and sound by Chris Wenn.

Ivanka Sokol, recipient of  the 2007 Audio Visual Green Room Award for Liminal Theatre and Performance’s production of The Damask Drum, creates the moving landscape for this evocative work.

Antigone: The Descent Across the Bridge of Acheron

Into the archaic depths of the Underworld, prying the chasm between the stark light of interrogation and the plunging darkness of the abyss.

Liminal Theatre, recipient of the 2008 Green Room Awards for Best Direction and Production (Oedipus - A Poetic Requiem) now breathe life into the story of Oedipus’ child Antigone, inspired by Bertolt Brecht’s translation.

Directed by Mary Sitarenos and performed by:

  • Paul Robertson
  • Georgie Durham
  • Terry Yeboah
  • Samir Malik
  • Ousmane NGom
  • Jo Smith
  • and Claire Nicholls

Ivanka Sokol, 2007 Audio Visual Green Room Award winner for the Liminal production Damask Drum, creates the moving images for this evocative work.

Sound Design: Chris Wenn
Lighting: Damian ‘Mimmo’ Lentini
Costumes and Photography:Marilyn Jeanette

The Damask Drum

The Damask Drum - a journey into death and desire.

Presented in Liminal’s temporary accomodation in Abbotsford, the 2006 adaptation of Mishima’s text and the original Noh play Aya No Tsuzumi by Zeami continued Liminal Theatre’sresearch into:

  • The Contemporary Noh plays of Mishima Yukio (1925-1970).
  • The traditional 13th century Noh plays that Mishima drew on.
  • The writings of Japanese actor and playwright Zeami Motokiyo (1363-1443) on actor training.
  • The philosophy and practice of Indonesian director and Liminal collaborator Sardono Kusumo.
  • The tension between live performance and digital images.

Liminal wove the source material into a poem about a ghost inhabiting a macabre and empty world of desire, unable to escape death.A man caught in a never-ending cycle of awakening in the memory of an unobtainable woman. A story suspended in a gap between two worlds; the deep pool of our yearnings and cold winds of our isolation.

The Damask Drum was the second production in the Mishima in the City Project
 
Director: Robert Draffin
Film: Ivanka Sokol
Set design: Ina Indira Shanahan
Lighting design: Luke Hails
Sound design and music performance: Jethro Woodward
Costume design: Jessie Willow Tucker
Stage management: Richard Whitehouse
Publicity: Mandy Hildebrand

Performers: Alan Knoepfler and Mary Sitarenos
Film acting, voices and stage business: Paul Robertson / Raffaele Rufo / Claire Nicholls