Sep 25

The Laramie Project – Ten Years Later – 4 – 14 Oct – Higher Ground

Image by Calen Vanstone

HIGHER GROUND Inc. presents a production by EARLY WORX  in theatre and art

The South Australian premiere of – THE LARAMIE PROJECT – TEN YEARS LATER

In 1998 Matthew Shepard, a young gay man, was brutally bashed and left to die just outside his home town of Laramie, Wyoming. Later than year The Tectonic Theatre Project traveled to Laramie, interviewing hundreds of people in the town about Matthew’s murder, and created, from their words, ‘The Laramie Project’.

In 2008 Tectonic returned to Laramie to see what, if anything, had changed in ten years.

‘Ten Years Later’ is the result of what they found.

Every word of ‘Ten Years Later’ is verbatim – the real words, of real people, directly affected by the murder of Matthew Shepard. The play contains intimate confessions from residents of Laramie – including the police officers who were first on the scene, Matthew’s lecturers and the University of Wyoming and many others – as well as both of Matthew’s murderers, and his mother Judy – once reclusive, now a public figure and aggressive advocate of gay rights and hate crimes legislation.

Going beneath the surface facts of the murder and its aftermath ‘Ten Years Later’ asks if and how we, as individuals and as societies, progress in the wake of brutality. The conclusions will shock you, touch you, and perhaps inspire you to change yourself.

Directed by award winning Adelaide director Charles Sanders and starring a plethora of Adelaide’s best young and emerging performers: Matilda Bailey, Joshua Battersby, Laura Brenko, Amy Victoria Brooks,  Nic Krieg, Sara Lange, Tamara Lee, Eddie Morrison, and Nathan Porteus

Strictly Limited Season
Oct 4-6 & 10-14 @ 7:30pm
Higher Ground Theatre
A$24, C$19, FB$17
Bookings: (08) 8410 5599

Sep 24

Arts In Adelaide – Ed 1 – 24 Sept

ARTS IN ADELAIDE

EDITION 1 – 24 Sept

Well, after working for months on this project, to get a new arts program up on the so-called ‘community’ channel 44, the fine, fine people there dudded us and the program meant to go to air last Thursday week never happened.

So, we will put what we can up on Youtube so the Adelaide arts audience is not denied the opportunity of a local arts program.

Here it is at: Direct Youtube Link

Sure, its a little clunky because of the various links between sections for Ch 44 but we will get things going a bit better for our next program out next week.

Anyway, web links to the items featured are:

OzAsia Festival – CLICK HERE

Zyke – CLICK HERE

Lane Hinchliffe and The Front – CLICK HERE

Fred Williams – Infinite Horizons – CLICK HERE

We would love to hear what you think about this show and what you think of the initiative to get an arts program going, so please let us know by messaging us here or at editor@kryztoff.com.

Enjoy and thanks again, the fine, fine team at Channel 44.

Sep 24

Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen – Regal Theatre (ex Chelsea) – Details

SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE ON SCREEN SEASON 2012

Shakespeare’s Globe is releasing three of its theatre productions to cinemas.
The Globe on Screen season launches globally this autumn and includes All’s Well That Ends Well, Much Ado About Nothing, and Doctor Faustus. Originally staged at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2011, the three productions are shown in their entirety on screens in hundreds of local cinemas. Offering a truly distinctive cinema experience and the very best seat in the house, this season is a wonderful opportunity to enjoy the unique charm of the world famous Globe Theatre and these critically acclaimed performances.

Globe on Screen harnesses the magic that draws people to the home of Shakespeare year after year. The three titles in this limited season give cinema audiences around the world a thrilling, up-close experience of the Globe from the comfort of their seat.

The Regal Theatre, Kensington Park and the Trak Cinemas, Toorak Gardens

will play host to these very special performances, not to be missed, so book now!

Alls Well That Ends Well –Sun Sept 30 2pm @ The Trak Cinema

Much Ado about Nothing – Sat Oct 13 @7pm @ The Regal Theatre

Dr Faustus – Sat Oct 27 @ 4pm @ The Regal Theatre

Website: www.globeonscreen.com

Bookings Now Open! Please contact: the box office @

The Regal Theatre, Kensington Park 8431 5039

& Trak Cinema 8332 8020

www.trakcinema.com.au

Sep 24

Guru: Green Room Short Film Winners

Guru: GreenRoom Short Film Competition Announces Winners

Pardesi, a film directed by Danielle Tinker about two would-be used car salesmen, won first prize at last week’s Guru: GreenRoom Short Film Competition in front of a full house at the Mercury Cinema.

Part of this year’s OzAsia Festival, Guru: GreenRoom Short Film Competition invited emerging young filmmakers to enter a short film inspired by the festival’s Indian theme. Winning film, Pardesi, tells a story of two teenagers, who are hoping to sell their old automobile for an exorbitant price to an Indian gentleman. Their plans are railroaded when this gentleman invites them in for an Indian feast and his family’s generous hospitality is forced upon them. Their crash course in Indian culture changes their perception for the better.

Jacinta Thompson, OzAsia Festival Director and judge, said ‘Pardesi was an incredible film that taught us the value of cultural understanding within Australia, which is what this competition is all about’. Danielle Tinker was awarded a 5D Mark II DSLR camera and $1000 courtesy of ANZ.

Second prize, was awarded to Tom Stewart & Daniel Wilks for Call The Guru a comedy about what to do when disaster strikes. Third prize went to Christopher Hocking and Nick Milde’s contemplation on the passage of time through one’s life, You’re Not A Young Man Anymore. These filmmakers received equipment hire courtesy of the Media Resource Centre and Adelaide Cinémathèque passes courtesy of the Mercury Cinema. Pardesi was also awarded $500 courtesy of GreenRoom for winning the People’s Choice Award. The judges were most impressed with Levi George’s If You’re Here With Me and awarded him an annual Adelaide Cinémathèque pass as a Special Jury Prize.

Amelia Dougherty, GreenRoom Coordinator said “It was excellent to see how different young filmmakers responded to the theme of ‘Guru’ to create some fantastic short films. GreenRoom is all about supporting young people interested in the arts, so we are really excited to be able to provide an opportunity like this for young filmmakers to get creative and have their films screened in front of a large audience during OzAsia Festival.”

Adelaide Festival Centre’s GreenRoom program offers members aged 16-30 access to cheap tickets, workshops and great events. Guru:GreenRoom Short Film Competition was organised by the members of the GreenRoom 2012 Advocacy Program, which offers hands-on experience to emerging arts administrators.

If you’re between the ages of 16 and 30 and are interested in keeping in touch with events such as Guru: GreenRoom Short Film Competition, join Adelaide Festival Centre’s Greenroom program by visiting www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/greenroom.

Sep 24

Bakehouse Theatre Upcoming Shows – The Call & Controlled Crying

Here is information on two upcoming shows at the Bakehouse:

The Call

11 Oct 2012 – 27 Oct 2012

Presented by:

Junglebean

Pricing:

Adults $25, Conc $22, Fringe Benefits $20, Groups (6+) $20, Previews $12

Duration:

100 minutes (no interval) – Mainstage at 8pm

Funny, disturbing and bitter sweet

The Call is an enthralling drama about a young man looking to escape a suburban life.

“I thought that when I grew up everything would be a lot clearer, that it would make sense…”

Gary stares into the eyes of a chook. After laying twenty thousand eggs and spending an entire life inside a tiny cage, she’s facing the chop.

Gary has had a confined life too—most of it spent looking for girls, stealing cars and wagging school. Now it’s become a succession of dull, dirty and dangerous jobs.

But Gary yearns for something that can make sense of life for him—give it meaning. He hears the call. One that roars inside him. A call of the wild, a call to arms, a call to prayer, a call of adventure…

Two Previews:-  Thursday October 11,  Friday October 12th all Tickets $12

Opening Night  Saturday October 13th.

Season continues Wednesday to Saturday until October 27.

All evening shows at 8pm.

Matinees:- Wednesday October 17th at 1pm; Wednesday October 24th at 1pm.

High School Bookings please contact Renee at info@junglebean.com.au

Credits:

Writer: Patricia Cornelius
Director: David Mealor
Cast: Nic English, Renee Gentle, Guy O’Grady, Tim Overton
Designer: Kathryn Sproul
Lighting and Sound: Ben Flett
Stage Manager: Stephen Moylan
Production Manager: Hjalmar Svenna

Controlled Crying

11 Oct 2012 – 27 Oct 2012

Presented by:

BlackBox@the Bakehouse

Pricing:

Adults $22/Conc. $18/ Fringe Benefits $18/Students $15/Previews $15

Duration:

110 mins – (Studio Theatre at 8pm)

The humour, drama, struggles and pitfalls of raising a family

“Few sounds provoke a visceral reaction quite like the cry of a baby”

-Professor Kringelbach, Neuroscientist, Oxford University

As parents, though we might move heaven and earth in order to spare our children the slightest sorrow, it can be argued that it is as much our role to allow them to learn how to cry as it is to protect them from the very troubles that provoke their tears. The impossible balancing act of parenthood. In the midst of the intimate darkness of the marital bed,  Libby and Oscar play out the odyssey that is the raising of Millie, through a series of deft scenes spanning a quarter of a century, with all the angst, humour, pettiness and sheer profundity that is marriage and the raising of a child.

Show dates: (all shows at 8pm)

11th, 12th, 13th October

17th, 18th, 19th, 20th October

24, 25th, 26th, 27th October

Credits:

Written by Ron Elisha
Directed by Ellonye Keniry
Featuring Graham Self

Sep 23

OzAsia – Martial Arts Trilogy Tan Dun – The Festival Theatre – 5K

This years Adelaide OzAsia Festival includes a very special treat, the exclusive Australian Premiere of Tan Dun’s Martial Arts Trilogy which comprises three concerti: the cello concerto Coughing Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the violin concerto Hero, and the piano concerto The Banquet all conducted full of energy by the very animated composer Tan Dun, who said that he has been looking forward to bringing this work to Australia and his first visit to the fine arts city of Adelaide.

Martial Arts Trilogy features Tan Dun’s musical compositions for three films, Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Feng Xiaogang’s The Banquet and Zhang Yimou’s Hero. The music and instruments come to life being played live in front of the images on the screen which adds a new level of richness and emotion to the music which is usually secondary in support of the images.

Tan Dun, a conceptual and multifaceted composer/conductor has made an indelible mark on the world’s music scene with a creative repertoire that spans the boundaries of classical music, multimedia performance, and Eastern and Western traditions.

The concerti feature Natsuko Yashimoto, Violin, Xiaoxia Zhao, Guqin, Jiayi Sun, Piano and Li-Wei, Cello who are impressively  supported by the superb Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.

An amazing performance which literally brings alive the films emotions, so enjoyable conducted by the composer himself Tan Dun.

Kryztoff Rating   5K

Sep 22

OzAsia – Fire & Water – Space Theatre – 4K

Fire & Water, two solo recitals by Xiaoxia Zhao on Guqin and Li-Wie on Cello. Both performers featured in Tan Dun’s “Martial Arts Trilogy”.

Xiaoxia Zhao, who began her Guqin studies at the age of nine and studied with the prestigious Guqin player Professor Li Xiangting and graduated with a Master’s Degree with Honors in 2009 from the Central Conservatory of Music with Honors, has earned international attention besides being well known in China. Her performances include the Beijing Olympic Games, the Paralympics, Tokyo Symphony Concert in Japan and Los Angeles Mid-autumn Concert in the US. Now treating us here in Adelaide for a short time during the OzAsia Festival. The Guqin, the most revered of all Chinese musical instruments, literally translated “ancient stringed instrument” is a plucked seven-string instrument of the zither family with origins dating back 5000 years.

Xiaoxia Zhao performed 3 famous pieces of the “Mysterious Scores of Qin” which included “Flowing Water”, “Three Variations of Plum Blossom” and “Guang Ling Verse” which was written to praise Nie Zheng’s great courage, who murdered the Emperor to seek revenge for his father and committed suicide afterwards, and is considered as one of the most important Qin pieces.

Li-Wei, an exclusive Universal Music China Artist who since his success at the 11th Tchaikovsky International Competition and went on to win first prize at the 2001 Naumburg Competition in New York, has performed throughout the world.

Li-Wei performed 3 parts of the “Sonata for Solo Cello” by George Crumb, “Fantasia: Andante espressivo e con molto rubato”, “Tema pastorale con variazioni”, Toccata: Largo e drammatico – Allegro vivace” as well as “Yi1: Intercourse of Fire and Water” by Tan Dun.

Kryztoff Rating   4K

Sep 21

OzAsia Festival – Peer Gynt – Dunstan Playhouse – 4K

Norway’s most widely performed play is a demanding piece of theatre requiring a wide array of scene locations and a rugby sized team of actors. Korea’s Yohangza Theatre Company adds to the issues to be resolved in a performance by bringing the tale into the 21st century. They do a quite superb job.

Jung-Ung Yang’s Yohangza specialises in experiments with physicality, image and space and his Peer Gynt brings all the company’s skills and talents to the fore, making the Playhouse stage one large sand pit, with a clear Perspex telephone booth size cubicle sitting in its midst and the whole reflected off a giant, multi-panelled angled mirror at the rear.

From the dark recesses of the trolls’ world to the excesses of Egypt, Peer Gynt himself is played quite superbly by Haekyun Cheong in a masterful display of stamina and the full gamut of emotions – his performance alone is quite worth the price of admission.

His supporting cast and Yang’s direction keep this near-on three hour saga humming along. The aforementioned mirror often works brilliantly to not only keep horizontal play in view but as a secondary, aerial detached view of the drama playing itself out. The costumes are bright and convincing, with the trolls scene a highlight.

Of course, the sub/sur/side titles are a challenge to sustaining concentration but if that French Streetcar debacle of the Festival in March has put you off such thespian challenges, steel yourself for this is quite stunning theatre.

Sure, Yohangza’s rendition is probably not for first timers but this Peer Gynt is quite extraordinary.

Kryztoff Rating  4K

Sep 20

OzAsia – Kodo & TaikOz – Her Majesty’s Theatre

OzAsia being an Australian festival celebrating Asian culture so what better way of doing that than by a collaboration of Australian and Asian performers. So fittingly then that Kodo, the oldest taiko (drum in Japanese) group in the world, and who never have worked with another taiko group since their debut at the ’81 Berlin Festival joined forces with Australia’s oldest taiko group, TaikOz who are based in Sydney and was co founded by Riley Lee in 1997.  Lee, who is a grand master of the traditional shakuhachi bamboo flute, had been the first non-Japanese performer to join Sado no Kuni Ondekoza, “the Demon Drummers of Sado Island”, who later formed the group Kodo.

It’s interesting to note that Kodo in Japanese has two meanings, firstly “heartbeat” as well as “children of the drum” and this performance sure comes with a great heartbeat thanks to an immense amount of energy these performers put into their drumming. It’s an amazing rhythm that really deserves to be felt not just heard.
Besides the taiko drumming several other traditional Japanese musical instruments are included such as the fue, Japanese for flute.

It doesn’t take long for the energy to electrify the audience, who certainly deserved an encore after a roof raising appreciation for the unrelenting performers.

Lee describes the pounding performance as “contemporary, but grounded and strengthened by very old traditions”.

Certainly a pity that this wonderful collaboration is only in Adelaide for 2 nights.

Kryztoff Rating   4K

Sep 17

The Illusionists – Festival Theatre stage on New Year’s Eve – Preview

The Illusionists

Modern-day Magician Dream Team ignite

Festival Theatre stage on New Year’s Eve

A bevy of the world’s hottest magicians will descend upon Adelaide audiences for the first time at the Adelaide Festival Centre with The Illusionists exploding onto the Festival Theatre stage in a spectacular opening on New Year’s Eve (31 December 2012) and running until 12 January 2013.

The Festival Theatre will be transformed into a magicians playground for a family-friendly show which will see five internationally acclaimed illusion gods (with more acts to be announced) all joining forces to ignite the stage as they take magic into the 21st century and beyond with unprecedented illusions, jaw dropping levitations, thrilling escapes and mind reading all set to enthral audiences.

They include The Anti-Conjuror Dan Sperry who has been described as David Copperfield meets Marilyn Manson, and is the only illusionist to be awarded the title of most original magician on Fox’s ‘World Magic Awards’ he specialises in “show illusions”. Brett Daniels is the Grand Illusionist internationally recognised for his exciting style of cutting-edge illusion he is a “mega illusionist”. Kevin James aka The Inventor specialises in magic inventions and ground breaking illusions his style is anything but conventional and his unique comedy and magic have gained him a reputation as a world class visual artist. The Trickster is Jeff Hobson and is one of the most in-demand comedy magicians working today. And last but by no means the least magical Andrew Basso is The Escapologist who will put on a display featuring his bone –squeezing techniques demonstrating his amazing psychological and mental control over his body.

This group of world class performers take their cue from the showmanship of the great illusionists of the past such as Harry Houdini and pair it with a new and updated contemporary aesthetic and set and costume design lend the genre a theatricality and artistry that has rarely been seen before.

The Illusionists Director and Grand Illusionist Brett Daniels said “It is a privilege to be involved in The Illusionists – a show that unites these performers from around the world. They are at the top of their game and the audience are going to be left speechless when they see some of the things these artists are able to achieve”.

Audiences will witness a nail-biting Russian roulette, jaw dropping acts of levitation, mind-reading, disappearances and escapes for the Adelaide Festival Centre’s first comprehensive exploration of the genre of magic. From The Magic Circle and Hollywood’s Magic Castle to Harry Potter and the rising inclusion of magicians on prime time TV such as Australia’s Got Talent, the world of illusion and intrigue has long captured the public imagination. This production will present a rare opportunity for audiences of all ages to see the grand masters of illusion at work in one spell-binding production.

Adelaide Festival Centre CEO and Artistic Director Douglas Gautier says “This is a real coup for the Adelaide Festival Centre, it is a spectacular show that comes fresh to us from a sell-out season at the Sydney Opera House. Get set to be entranced and astonished, don’t miss this once in a life time opportunity”.

What: The Illusionists

Venue: Festival Theatre

When: Season runs from 31 December 2012 – 12 January 2013

Princi Cost: Premium $105, A Res $99, B Res $79, C Res $69 A Res Conc  $79, B Res Conc $69, Family (4 tickets 2 adults/2children) $290, Groups 6 or more save, Early Bird Offer: Book by 26 October purchase 10 tickets and get one FREE

Suitable: 8+ years

Bookings Bookings: BASS 131 246 or www.bass.net.au