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Performed 17th October-21st October 2019 By Polly Teale Presented by the Second Year Acting Company In 1845 Branwell Brontë returns home in disgrace, plagued by his addictions. As he descends into alcoholism and insanity, bringing chaos to the household, his sister write.... Polly Teale’s extraordinary play evokes the real and imagined worlds of the Brontës, as their fictional characters come to haunt their creators. Director: Ross Hall Venue: Post Office Box Theatre, Camp St Campus
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Musical Director, Rainer Pollard A New Australian Work. A group of Irish girls sail on a boat around the wide belly of the world to a young country whose name they can barely pronounce – Australia. Each has a story to tell; one will. Set against a backdrop of the Irish potato famine, Ebbingtide is a story chronicling the capacity of the human spirit to endure, survive and remember.
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'Special Study of Tennessee Williams', directed by Ross Hall, consisted of 5 live performances held at the Post Office Box Theatre, Ballarat during October 2005. The production was undertaken by 2nd Year students within the undergraduate acting program at UB and constituted in-depth research into the area of naturalistic American theatre in the wake of Stanislaski's influenct on the Group Theatre. Specifically, research focussed on two rarely performed pieces by the playwright Tennessee Williams: Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer. The work exposed the viewing public to material now, in the main, unfamiliar to contemporary Australian audiences. It also focuses perfroming students on material which is now culturally and socially foreign to them, with a special focus on performance within a Black Box mode: theatre stripped of conventional set and costume machinery, and, along with many other performance projects, constitutes part of my ongoing research with respect to theatrical representation in contemporary Australian pedagogically-based theatre.