THE SYDNEY FRINGE ARTIST REGISTRATIONS
Artist registrations for The Sydney Fringe 2012 open on 1 March.  There will be a Sydney Fringe Artist Registration Launch on March 2 at Venue 505. Click HERE for more info.

BRISBANE FESTIVAL’S UNDER THE RADAR CALL OUT
Do you have a brave new artistic idea or work that should be explored while supported within an International Arts Festival? UNDER THE RADAR is calling for 2012 applications. Applications close 1 March 6pm (QLD time). Click HERE for more info.

CRACK THEATRE FESTIVAL CALL OUT
Crack is calling for artist proposals for this years festival 27-30 September, as part of This is Not Art, Newcastle NSW. Applications close midnight 16 March 2012. Click HERE for more info.

DIRECTOR WANTED
Sunnyfield Inner West Day Option Program is looking for an actor/director to work with 10 people living with an intellectual disability or acquired brain injury.  In a paid position that begins planning in March, the director/actor will be working along side Gaye Fleming Community, Cultural and Arts Coordinator, Sunnyfield Support team and managers. For more information please contact Gaye Fleming on 0418 490291 – g.fleming@sunnyfield.org.au

For more information please visit our site HERE

Have a wander of the artists working studios, enjoy an eclectic exhibition of our residents’ work, and enjoy a drink and the BBQ in our beautiful warehouse space. 

There’ll be informal artist talks from 2pm-3.30pm, with our six month residents Team Mess, current Performing Arts resident Gavin Clark, and Visual Arts resident Sarah Breen Lovett. 

Hope to see you there!
FraserStudios Open Day – Sunday 31 July

The Theatre Board of the Australia Council and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts are once again offering an opportunity for selected Australian artists to participate in New Visions / New Voices, an intensive week long script development workshop, culminating in a weekend festival of showings for industry professionals. New Visions / New Voices will be presented by the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC from 14 to 20 May 2012.

For the 2012 New Visions / New Voices festival, we will support two opportunities for Australian artists’ involvement:

• a two person writer/director team
• an independent dramaturg

Application forms and guidelines are attached to this email or can be found on the Australia Council website.

The deadline for proposals is Monday 1 August 2011. All applicants must speak with staff at the Theatre Board of the Australia Council prior to applying. Please contact Tija Lodins on 02 9215 9117 t.lodins@australiacouncil.gov.au

Please forward these guidelines through your networks as appropriate.

If so you are not alone.

Below is a letter for Kym Hanna who has put together a survey in the attempts to gain more information for a study that will help establish a theatre network structure in NSW.

Click to complete survey HERE:

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Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to call upon your participation in a study that will assist in the establishment of a Theatre Network that is based in NSW.   At this stage, we need to collect important baseline information for this purpose.

In February this year, a meeting was held with members of the theatre community at the Performance Space, in order to canvas opinions about setting up a NSW Theatre Network.

It was agreed at this meeting that before doing so, that a scoping study should be initiated. Consultant Kim Hanna (whom many of you will know from his years with the Australia Council) has been engaged to undertake this project, with modest funding support from Arts NSW.

Your participation in this survey will assist in the provision of credible data that will inform future developments.

This is an important time to focus on a NSW Theatre Network. The groundswell of community interest has created an opportunity to build on that energy and to link a NSW network with the national body, Theatre Network Australia.

The due date for completion of this survey is 5pm Friday 17^th June. It should take no more than 5 minutes of your time.

If you any further enquires please contact Kim Hanna at nswtheatrenetwork@gmail.com

Thank you for your participation and please feel free to pass this email onto your relevant networks, before you complete the survey.

Click to complete survey:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6XH78F7

“True West will be looking for fresh ideas that demonstrate strong vision, brave investigations, inspiring writing and innovative staging concepts,” explained Riverside Theatres Producer Camilla Rountree. Each production will be assisted with a financial and marketing package for presentation from August for a two‐week season each in Raffertys Theatre at Riverside Theatres. Preference will be given to those productions with a base in or strong connection to the greater west.  The program encourages all forms of performance: new Australian plays, drama and comedy, multi media and hybrid theatre forms, devised performance, music theatre or physical theatre that is text based and culturally specific works.

The artists applying for True West must share a passion to present exciting and challenging work of excellence. All projects submitted for production must have significant relevance to the west of Sydney. This can be demonstrated by the themes contained in the work, relevance to cultural groups represented in the west, through the work having been devised or developed in the area or through the core artists being based in or having a strong connection with the greater west.

“There are many elements that will be taken into consideration for inclusion with the True West season,” said Camilla Rountree.  “Such as quality and originality of scripts and ideas, past creativity and an established track record in the creation of new work. We aim to support a lively theatre body that enjoys a sense of ownership of Raffertys Theatre as a space where their work is welcomed, supported and appreciated”.

Supported by a grant from Arts NSW and supplemented by Riverside Theatres, True West is also sponsored by the Sydney Morning Herald.

“Riverside Theatres is committed to the ongoing support of new work with emerging artists and creative teams,” said Riverside Theatre Director Robert Love.  “With True West we hope to discover and launch great works for the future.”

The three productions chosen for True West will each have up to ten performances over two weeks between held from August to November 2011. The announcement of the successful companies to take part in True West 2011 will be on 23 May 2011.

For more information and applications forms are available from the Riverside Theatres’ website.  Applications close on 29 April 2011.

www.riversideparramatta.com.au

Application enquiries:

Camilla Rountree

Producer Riverside Productions

P O Box 3636

Parramatta NSW 2124

P: 02 8839 3398

M: 0412 708 112

E: rountree@ozemail.com.au

Media enquiries:

Michelle Guthrie

MGM Management

P: 02 8399 1613

M: 0412 547 297

E: michelleguthrie@mgmmanagement.com.au

Performers, writers & devisors

Freya Sant and Kate Sherman

Director, writer & devisor

Michael Pigott (Flight Path Theatre)

Set Designer Tom Bannerman Lighting Designer Stephen Hawker

Composer and Sound Designer Stuart Hunter

Today is a day like no other…. May thinks that August is a fish, she believes she has an upside down tree in her chest and she wipes up their puddle they have been caring for the last 17 years. When they realise the watering holes have dried up the women are forced to embark on a journey away from their comforts and into the terrifying desert.  In a moment of desperation they fish in a tiny pool of spit and uncover a mighty storm and grief as big as the heart of a whale.

Once Under a Sky is a whimsical yet energetic tale of two fisherwomen who journey from their seaside village to arid desert. An enticingly poetic venture into the unknown, with unique physicality and magical deftness of touch by the 2 performers, Freya Sant and Kate Sherman in collaboration with Michael Pigott..

This innovative new work has been in development for three years. It has been created during a number of self funded developments as well as a residency at Legs on the Wall’s Feet First emerging artist program.

Originally inspired by the European Clown tradition this play has been moulded around the story of fisherwomen from a tiny seaside town in New Zealand, Once Under a Sky is a magical combination of storytelling, physical theatre and absurdist elements. Director Michael Pigott is the perfect match for this production with his vivid imagination and physical approach to direction. Once Under a Sky beautifully creates a surreal and provocatively poetic reality for the audience to indulge in.

Ms Sant has the disarming physical qualities of a vast array of technique that includes circus and a mentoring in Bodyweather by the De Qunicey Co. Her partner, Kate Sherman, similarly, with a NIDA and Legs On the Wall background brings energy and a raffish good humour and earnest energy, physical and intellectual to her creation… The language of the writing is mesmerizing.

- Kevin Jackson

ONCE UNDER A SKY

The Old Fitzroy Theatre – Cnr Cathedral St and Dowling St Woolloomooloo

Previews: 17^th & 18^th May 2011

Dates: 17^th May – 4^th June 2011

Opening Night: Thursday 19^th May 2011

Performances: Tues-Sat, 8pm and Sunday 5pm

Tickets: $33 Full, $25 Concession, $40 Beer, Laksa and Show , $21 Preview and Cheap

Tuesday, $29 Beer, Laksa and Show (NO booking fee)
Bookings: www.rocksurfers.org or 02 8019 0282

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TOOTH OF CRIME a play with music by Sam Shepard

Directed by David Harmon

Revolution. Warfare. Rock n Roll…

In a futuristic American wasteland where heavily armed rock gods clash violently in the streets for fame and power, aging rocker Hoss comes face to face with a ruthless gypsy named Crow. Trapped in his fortress, Hoss is a marked man, the prey of a true genius killer with a new sound and ethos, whose arrival threatens to strip Hoss of everything he has fought for.

A fusion of live music, video, intense language and movement, the play burns with the kind of incendiary energy that Sam Shepard (True West, Fool for Love) is known for. This new production by a young and emerging team will be part rock concert, part poetry slam, part death match. It will be straight up revolution and insurgency, open warfare, head to head till one’s dead.

Starring Akos Armont, Martelle Hammer, Matthew Hardie and Jim Gosden.

SEASON: 2 – 25 June 2011 @ atyp Studio 1

Its March and the Independent Theatre Seasons for 2011 are now truly launched and under way. There is some exciting seasons this year. This year BSharp has gone but The Independent Theatre has a full season and The Seymour Centre has received funding and are putting together and exciting new independent season downstairs while Under The Wharf is stronger than ever.

Check out a List of the Independent Theatres and their 2011 Seasons.

GRIFFIN INDEPENDENT:

THE OLD FITZROY THEATRE:

UNDER THE WHARF:

THE NEWTOWN THEATRE:

THE SEYMOUR CENTRE DOWNSTAIRS SEASON: – STAY TUNED

THE DARLINGHURST THEATRE:

The recently paroled Oshoosi Size finds an uneasy home with his older brother Ogun. Ogun, straight living and hard working, feels both a duty and resentment in protecting his permanently innocent younger brother. With the arrival of the charming and sinister Elegba, an ex-con with his own claims of brotherhood, a delicate stability is threatened and fraternal ties tested.

Accompanied by live traditional West African music and featuring a vibrant contemporary score, McCraney is a bold new voice in the international theatrical landscape. Widely hailed for his raw prose and subject matter, McCraney has won numerous writing awards including the 2007 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award from the Vineyard Theater and a 2007 Whiting Writing Award. McCraney was the International Writer in Residence for the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2008 – 2010 and was last year made a member of the prestigious Chicago-based Steppenwolf Theatre Company.

The Australian premiere of this hip and formally imaginative new drama, which introduces local audiences to McCraney for the first time, is directed by Imara Savage – fast becoming one of Sydney’s most sought after emerging directors. Savage was an Affiliate Director at Griffin Theatre in 2010 and most recently directed a highly acclaimed season of Fool For Love (Sam Shepard) for Belvoir B Sharp. Recently announced as this year’s Director in Residence at Bell Shakespeare, Savage says, “This is Shakespeare meets The Wire”.

After a long campaign to secure the rights, Savage is delighted to present this piece at The Stables Theatre in Sydney after acclaimed seasons at the Public Theatre in New York and The Young Vic in London.

“Intense love and painful memories combine in fraternal scenes of astonishing emotional depth and beauty”

- The Telegraph, UK.

“Absorbing and emotionally resonant”

-       New York Times.

‘The greatest piece of writing by an American playwright under 30 in a generation or more’

-       Chicago Tribune.

Director: Imara Savage

Assistant Director: Amy Simmons

Designer: David Fleischer

Lighting: Verity Hampson

Sound: Caitlin Porter

Live Music: Miriam Lieberman

Cast: Marcus Johnson, Anthony Taufa, Meyne Wyatt

Previews: 23, 24 March, 2011

Season: 26 March – 16 April, 2011

Matinee: 16 April, 2011

Venue: SBW Stables Theatre,10 Nimrod St, Kings Cross

Prices: Full $30; Seniors $26;
Concession/Preview/Matinee $23;
Group$26; Under 30 $26 (Monday-Thursday)
$15 Rush tickets available every Monday evening*

*Monday Rush supported by Foxtel

All tickets unsold one hour prior to performance are $15 (max 2 tickets per person)

Booking: 02 8019 0292 or www.griffintheatre.com.au

Griffin acknowledges the generosity of the Seaborn, Broughton and Walford Foundation in allowing it, since 1986, the use of the SBW Stables Theatre rent free, less outgoings.

For all media enquiries please contact: IP Publicity, Ian Phipps on 0419 977 649 or ian@ippublicity.com.au, Karla Bramanathan on 0431 424 922 or karla@ippublicity.com.au

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