Performance Dates
6 Feb 2006 – 12 Feb 2006February 2006
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Details
Addressfortyfive downstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Theatre @ Risk presents a week-long festival of new works, ideas and discussions.
MON 6TH FEB, 7:30pm
A staged reading followed by a forum
FUTUR DE LUXE by Igor Bauersima
Translator: Daniel Brunet
From acclaimed Swiss playwright Igor Bauersima, comes a thrilling new play about HitlerÂ’s finger, EinsteinÂ’s brain, plastic surgery, and the shattering consequences of the emergence of genetic cloning in the later part of the 20th century.
“Almost like a Beckett for today, artful and complex, simple and humorous.” Süddeutsche Zeitung
WED 8TH FEB, 7:30pm
A staged reading followed by a forum
WAY TO HEAVEN by Juan Mayorga
Translator: David Johnston Director: Victor Bizzotto
The heart of Europe, 1942. Children playing, loversÂ’ tiffs, a deserted train station and a ramp rising towards a hangar. This is what you can see, but what should the Red Cross RepresentativeÂ’s report say? A subtle, complex and lyrical examination of the complexities of complicity in dark times
“A compelling, cunningly constructed play” The Independent
THURS 9th FEB, 7:30pm
A staged reading followed by a forum.
ID by Antony Sher
Director: Yvonne Virsik
It takes two to tango. Prime Minister and assassin. Corpse and culprit. Man and tapeworm. In 1966 Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid was stabbed to death in the South African House of Assembly by Demetrios Tsafendas, a parliamentary messenger
‘A compelling portrait both of a complex character and a crazed nation.' – The Guardian
SAT 11TH FEB, 4pm
A staged reading followed by a forum
MIDNIGHTÂ’S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie
Adapted for the stage by Salman Rushdie, Simon Reade & Tim Supple
Director: Polash Larsen
Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, 15 August 1947, the midnight of India's independence, and found himself mysteriously 'handcuffed to history' by the coincidence. Through Saleem's extraordinary gifts we are drawn into a fascinating family saga set against the vast, colourful background of the India of the 20th century
"One of the most important books to come out of the English speaking world in this generation". New York Review of Books
ONE WAY STREET by David Greig
Director: Chris Bendall
Performer: Simon Kingsley Hall
An original solo play taking a guided tour through the troubled history of the former East Berlin from the 1930s through to the collapse of the Berlin Wall. A struggling political journalist writes a travel guidebook of the city and ends up taking a tour through his own colourful history. Wonderfully comic and highly theatrical, the play explores the intertwining relationships of memory, place, land and history.
"David Greig is the most consistently interesting, prolific and artistically ambitious writer of his generation" Scotsman
Designers: Isla Shaw, Nick Merrylees, Kelly Ryall, Kirrilly Brentnall
Performances:
Tues 7th Feb 8pm
Fri 10th Feb 8pm (with post-show Q & A)
Sat 11th Feb, 8:30pm
Sun 12h Feb, 5pm
20th Century CLOSE UP - A Festival of New International Writing about the century past.
6th – 12th February @ fortyfivedownstairs
Online Bookings: www.theatreatrisk.com
FORTYFIVEDOWNSTAIRS
Address
45 Flinders Lane
Melbourne
Melways Reference: 43 K8
Booking website: http://www.theatreatrisk.com
MON 6TH FEB, 7:30pm
A staged reading followed by a forum
FUTUR DE LUXE by Igor Bauersima
Translator: Daniel Brunet
From acclaimed Swiss playwright Igor Bauersima, comes a thrilling new play about HitlerÂ’s finger, EinsteinÂ’s brain, plastic surgery, and the shattering consequences of the emergence of genetic cloning in the later part of the 20th century.
“Almost like a Beckett for today, artful and complex, simple and humorous.” Süddeutsche Zeitung
WED 8TH FEB, 7:30pm
A staged reading followed by a forum
WAY TO HEAVEN by Juan Mayorga
Translator: David Johnston Director: Victor Bizzotto
The heart of Europe, 1942. Children playing, loversÂ’ tiffs, a deserted train station and a ramp rising towards a hangar. This is what you can see, but what should the Red Cross RepresentativeÂ’s report say? A subtle, complex and lyrical examination of the complexities of complicity in dark times
“A compelling, cunningly constructed play” The Independent
THURS 9th FEB, 7:30pm
A staged reading followed by a forum.
ID by Antony Sher
Director: Yvonne Virsik
It takes two to tango. Prime Minister and assassin. Corpse and culprit. Man and tapeworm. In 1966 Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid was stabbed to death in the South African House of Assembly by Demetrios Tsafendas, a parliamentary messenger
‘A compelling portrait both of a complex character and a crazed nation.' – The Guardian
SAT 11TH FEB, 4pm
A staged reading followed by a forum
MIDNIGHTÂ’S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie
Adapted for the stage by Salman Rushdie, Simon Reade & Tim Supple
Director: Polash Larsen
Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, 15 August 1947, the midnight of India's independence, and found himself mysteriously 'handcuffed to history' by the coincidence. Through Saleem's extraordinary gifts we are drawn into a fascinating family saga set against the vast, colourful background of the India of the 20th century
"One of the most important books to come out of the English speaking world in this generation". New York Review of Books
ONE WAY STREET by David Greig
Director: Chris Bendall
Performer: Simon Kingsley Hall
An original solo play taking a guided tour through the troubled history of the former East Berlin from the 1930s through to the collapse of the Berlin Wall. A struggling political journalist writes a travel guidebook of the city and ends up taking a tour through his own colourful history. Wonderfully comic and highly theatrical, the play explores the intertwining relationships of memory, place, land and history.
"David Greig is the most consistently interesting, prolific and artistically ambitious writer of his generation" Scotsman
Designers: Isla Shaw, Nick Merrylees, Kelly Ryall, Kirrilly Brentnall
Performances:
Tues 7th Feb 8pm
Fri 10th Feb 8pm (with post-show Q & A)
Sat 11th Feb, 8:30pm
Sun 12h Feb, 5pm
20th Century CLOSE UP - A Festival of New International Writing about the century past.
6th – 12th February @ fortyfivedownstairs
Online Bookings: www.theatreatrisk.com
FORTYFIVEDOWNSTAIRS
Address
45 Flinders Lane
Melbourne
Melways Reference: 43 K8
Booking website: http://www.theatreatrisk.com
Bookings
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