Showcase 2014
- Authors: Durban, Kim
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Play
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- Description: Peformed 6-8 November, 2014 Post Office Box Theatre, Ballarat, Australia 12-13 November, 2014 MTC Southbank Theatre, Melbourne, Australia Music Theatre directed by Sara Grenfell Staging/Choreography by David Wynen Musically Directed by Robyn Womersley
The Tempest
- Authors: Durban, Kim
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Play
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- Description: Performance of 'The Tempest' at the Helen Macpherson Smith Theatre, University of Ballarat, 13 June - 17 June 2012. Directed by Kim Durban.
The antipodes
- Authors: Durban, Kim
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Play
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- Description: Performance by third year performing art students at the Ballarat Arts Academy at the Ballarat Mining Exchange Helen Macpherson Smith Theatre, 31st May, 2007- Running time - 2hrs 34 mins
- Description: Directed by Kim Durban
City wit
- Authors: Durban, Kim
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Play
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And the world goes round
- Authors: Bourne, Tracy
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Play
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- Description: Play held in Melbourne Directed by Tracy Bourne
Kiss Me, Kate
- Authors: Durban, Kim
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Play
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- Description: Live performance of 'Kiss Me, Kate' directed by Kim Durban, Princess Theatre, Melbourne. 24 November - 3 December 2006. Research Background: Companies all over the world have produced this American musical. Research Contribution: This original Australian production used an innovative approach to the aesthetic of the play-within-a play The Taming of the Shrew, which is normally set in Shakespearean dress. In this version the players were set in the Art Deco/Jazz era, causing a series of innovative approaches to, and thus a shift in audience perception of character, costume, design, choreography and instrumentation. Research Significance: The significance of this research is that it proved the authenticity and theatrical flexibility of the material and provided sophisticated benchmarks for artist training. Durban's dramaturgical approach also supported the script and introduced the work of the regional Arts Academy to Melbourne audiences through a unique partnership with Melbourne's Princess Theatre. Its value is attested to by the following indicators: cast members have gained employment with national and international arts companies including MTC and Wicked (Asian Tour). Design team members have worked on the Australian Ballet and Moomba. The production was extensively attended and reviewed.
Kiss Me, Kate
- Authors: Wynen, David
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Play
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- Description: (Choreography & Staging by David Wynen) New choreography and interpretation of movement for Cole Porter's musical Kiss Me Kate. This work was in the field of dance and theatre performance. Most specifically music theatre. The research that underlies such a project relates to the brief given to a choreographer by the project's Director. This brief included making my dance work historically referenced as well as in line with the physical design of the piece. This had to encompass a set and aesthetics using shapes and references relating to Cubism and Deco design movements. My research question relates to fulfilling such criteria whilst supporting a project designed to graduate and showcase our Music Theatre students to the industry. Its research component relates to historic referencing, and educational and professional outcomes. Reviewed in The Age December 2006.
Laramie project
- Authors: Hall, Ross
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Play
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- Description: Producer of play- The Laramie project
- Description: 2003007052
Running with pigs
- Authors: Bourne, Tracy
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Play
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- Description: Play -Writer, Producer, Performer of live performance -Running with pigs
- Description: 2003007023
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
- Authors: Durban, Kim
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Play
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- Description: Live performance of 'Twelfth Night by William Shakespear' directed by Kim Durban, Post Office Box Theatre, Ballarat. 14 - 18 June 2006. Research Background: Companies all over the world have produced this Shakespear play which enjoyed its first production by the Arts Academy. Research Contribution: This original Australian production used an innovative approach to the aesthetic of the play in 3 ways - first, by representing the characters using multiple actors who shared the lines and the part, second by using a peer actor to work alongside the graudate company and provide a professional role model and third by using a sculptor, a painter and a theatre designer as collaborators on the design setting. Research Significance: The significance of this research is that it proved the authenticity and theatrical flexibility of the material and provided sophisticated benchmarks for artist training. Durban's dramturgical approach also intersected with current Shakespeare scholarship and introduced the play to a regional audience. Its value is attested to by the following indicators: Cast and creative members have gained employment with national and international arts companies, including Steven Spielberg's 'The Pacific'.
Special Study of Tennessee Williams
- Authors: Hall, Ross
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Play
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- Description: '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.
Tenebrae Trilogy Parts I and II
- Authors: Hodgson, Tom
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Play
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- Description: Performance by Tom Hodgson in 'Tenebrae Trilogy Parts I and II', Sydney Town Hall, Sydney, Australia. March 2005 and April 2006. A collaboration between physical theatre company Force Majeure and The Song Company. Both internationally recognized for their excellence and fearless approach to performance. Research Contribution: Intensive workshop and improvisation period investigating all possibilities and limits of movement when performed simultaneously with Carlo Gesualdo's intricate score. Research into singing techniques and limits of body position whilst moving. Development of choreographic material morphing singers and dancers into a collective movement experience. The research has led to further collaborations between the two companies and also a new approach in their individual work. The significance of this research is that it overcomes traditional physical and staging barriers relating to performance of complex, historical compositions. Its value can be attested by the following indicators: its success both artistically and in ticket sales, the creation and completion of the third and final part of the Trilogy, its attendance by an extremely broad audience demographic and greater understanding of how singing technique can be adjusted to facilitate greater movement during performance.
Goodnight Desdemona, Good morning Juliet
- Authors: Durban, Kim
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Play
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My Buninyong home
- Authors: Bourne, Tracy
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Play
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- Description: Play performed at Ballarat. Writer, Producer, Performer -
Scenes from an execution
- Authors: Durban, Kim
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Play
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- Description: Producer
- Description: 2003007048