A Comedy of Errors
- Authors: Pratt, James
- Date: 2019
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- Description: Performed 11th September-15th September 2019 By William Shakespeare Presented by the Third Year Acting Company Farce: a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterisation and ludicrously improbable situations. Yep that’s it. Two sets of twins, a wife a sister and a dad condemned to death and heaps of mistaken identity. A ‘comedy’ that speaks to us today about gender, power and the patriarchy. Director: James Pratt Venue: Helen Macpherson Smith Theatre, Camp Street Campus
And the world goes round
- Authors: Bourne, Tracy
- Date: 2006
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- Description: Play held in Melbourne Directed by Tracy Bourne
Bronte
- Authors: Hall, Ross
- Date: 2019
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- Description: 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
City wit
- Authors: Durban, Kim
- Date: 2007
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Ebbingtide
- Authors: Hall, Ross
- Date: 2014
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- Description: 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.
Garden City Weeded
- Authors: Durban, Kim
- Date: 2017
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- Description: Performance of 'Garden City Weeded' at the Helen Macpherson Smith Theatre, Federation University of Australia, 6th-13th April 2017. Directed by Kim Durban.
Goodnight Desdemona, Good morning Juliet
- Authors: Durban, Kim
- Date: 2004
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Heathers : The Musical
- Authors: Smith, Alister , Wengrow, Martine
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Musical , Play
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- Description: 3rd October-12th October 2019 Book, music and lyrics by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O’Keefe Based on the film written by Daniel Waters By arrangement with ORiGiN™ Theatrical on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. Presented by the Third Year Music Theatre Company Heathers The Musical is the darkly delicious story of Veronica Sawyer, a brainy, beautiful teenage misfit who hustles her way into the most powerful and ruthless clique at Westerberg High: the Heathers. But before she can get comfortable atop the high school food chain, Veronica falls in love with the dangerously sexy new kid J.D. When Heather Chandler, the Almighty, kicks her out of the group, Veronica decides to bite the bullet and kiss Heather’s aerobicised ass - but J.D. has another plan for that bullet. Director: Alister Smith Musical Director: Martine Wengrow Venue: Helen Macpherson Smith Theatre, Camp Street Campus
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.
Ladies in Black
- Authors: Searle, Tamara , Mitsikas, Ana
- Date: 2019
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- Description: Performed 24th October-28th October 2019 Book by Carolyn Burns Music and lyrics by Tim Finn Based on the novel The Woman in Black by Madeleine St John Presented by the Second Year Music Theatre Company A scrumptious coming of age musical set in the 1950's. Teenager Lisa joins the staff of a fashionable department store while she waits for her exam results. Over a summer that changes her life, she befriends the colourful characters of the women's clothing department. Each is on the precipice of change - facing independence, working for a living and what it means to be a woman. Director: Tamara Searle Musical Director: Ana Mitsikas Venue: Helen Macpherson Smith Theatre, Camp Street Campus
Laramie project
- Authors: Hall, Ross
- Date: 2006
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- Description: Producer of play- The Laramie project
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Margaret of Anjou
- Authors: Durban, Kim
- Date: 2018
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- Description: 26th April-5th May 2018. Experience the Ballarat premiere of Shakespeare's most feminist play. Written to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death (2016), Margaret of Anjou could change the way we see Shakespeare. As Margaret matures from feisty princess to scheming queen, we see a female role that is an ‘Everest’ on a par with King Lear.
MOMO : a play with music adapted from the book by Michael Ende, Music by Rick Chew, book and lyrics by Anthony Crowley
- Authors: Chew, Rick , Crowley, Anthony
- Date: 2022
- Type: Text , Visual art work , Play
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- Description: Once upon a time, a young orphan girl appears in the local amphitheatre. The townsfolk, at first perplexed, soon discover that Momo has a special power, the gift of listening. Before long, Momo has transformed the whole community, children play more, people argue less and her friends Beppo Roadsweeper and Guido Guide visit every day. But all that is about to change. Beyond the outskirts of town a dark force is gathering. The Men In Grey and their sinister time saving bank are in need of new customers, and no one in town is safe. Wednesday 2nd November @ 7:00pm Thursday 3rd @ 7:00pm Friday 4th November @ 2:00pm & 7:00pm Saturday 5th November @2:00pm & 7:00pm Ticket available:https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/momo-tickets-379439462647
My Buninyong home
- Authors: Bourne, Tracy
- Date: 2004
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- Description: Play performed at Ballarat. Writer, Producer, Performer -
My Favourite Year
- Date: 2017
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- Description: My Favorite Year Book by Joseph Dougherty Music by Stephen Flaherty Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens Licensed exclusively by Music Theatre International (Australasia). All performance materials supplied by Hal Leonard Australia. The Second Year Music Theatre Company at FedUni's Arts Academy presents My Favorite Year. Director Sara Grenfell Musical Direction by Alistair Smith Witness the future of Australian musical theatre tackle this tuneful Broadway score by the Tony Award-winning team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, and a snappy book by Joseph Dougherty. My Favorite Year is a classic musical comedy with a heart of gold. It’s 1954, and Benjy Stone, freshman writer on TV’s King Kaiser Comedy Cavalcade, is assigned the daunting task of baby-sitting veteran Hollywood swashbuckler Alan Swann while he's doing a live guest appearance on the show. The effort to keep the reckless Swann off the booze and out of the papers during the rehearsal week nearly drives Benjy to the brink. But when he's given an unexpected glimpse into Swann's broken heart, Benjy begins to discover a thing or two about life and love. In addition to Benjy Stone and Alan Swann, the show is filled with juicy roles for comic actors, from the overbearing Belle Carroca (played in both the original film and in the Lincoln Center production by Lainie Kazan) to the acerbic comedy writer Alice Miller, the role which garnered Andrea Martin a Tony Award. Based on the motion picture of the same name that first premiered in 1982, the original movie starred Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker and Jessica Harper. The studio season at the Arts Academy allows audiences to experience lesser-known and surprising theatre works and to witness our Arts Academy training in progress.
Peer Gynt
- Authors: Campbell, Justine , Wicks, David
- Date: 2014
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- Description: Justine Campbell’s wild and scatological version brings Peer Gynt crashing into our modern world. Translated by Colin Teevan and R. Farquharson Sharp. Cast:-Beckerleg, Amanda Billing, Andrew Brotz, Mitchell Foers, Sarah Gee, Elliott Gulinello, Salvatore Hancock, Sasha Knevett, Susannah Mason, Luke Masterman, Daisy Meyer, Cyril Somers, Madeleine Thiesz, Hannah Vagg, Tara Vettos, Eleni Wolff, Honor Yencken-Forde, Isabelle
Running with pigs
- Authors: Bourne, Tracy
- Date: 2006
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- Description: Play -Writer, Producer, Performer of live performance -Running with pigs
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Scenes from an execution
- Authors: Durban, Kim
- Date: 2002
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Shane Warne the Musical
- Authors: Gould, Casey , Di Somma, Luke
- Date: 2019
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- Description: Performed 25th October-29th October 2019 Book, lyrics and music by Eddie Perfect Presented by the Second Year Music Theatre Company Shane Warne: The Musical is a musical comedy by Eddie Perfect based on the life of Australian cricketer Shane Warne. A wild, funny and outrageous musical romp through the life and times of one of the world's greatest cricketers.The show spins us through the bowler's controversy-laden career and roller-coaster personal life set to soul, rock, opera and gospel music. Director: Casey Gould Musical Director: Luke Di Somma Venue: Helen Macpherson Smith Theatre, Camp St Campus