UOW presents MYSTERIES in the Gallery
7 June 2007
MYSTERIES directed by Janys Hayes. Performed by second year students of Performance. Music and Sound composed and designed by second and third year Sound-Composition & Production students.
Showing: 14-16 June at 7.30pm
Venue: Wollongong City Gallery, corner of Kembla and Burelli Streets, Wollongong
Admission: $15 Concession/$20 Adult
$10 student rush tickets available one hour prior to each performance
Bookings: 02 4221 4889
The University of Wollongong’s School of Music and Drama presents MYSTERIES, a startling combination of music, classical texts and contemporary performance which reflects on the unanswerable questions in life.
As the fourth production of the season, MYSTERIES is the finale of an exciting and successful performance schedule. Previously, the University has enjoyed a successful relationship with the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre who hosted performances of Jim Cartwright’s ROAD and Peter Barnes’ DREAMING. Now, the School of Music and Drama maintains a supportive partnership with the Wollongong City Gallery where it looks forward to presenting this uplifting new work.
Janys Hayes, the director of MYSTERIES, has been associated with the Gallery since her role as co-creator of Hazchem!, a government-funded piece of performance art, hosted by the Gallery in 2001. Janys is currently a lecturer at the University as well as chairperson of Performance Illawarra.
John Monteleone, Acting Director of the Gallery says “Wollongong City Gallery's relationship with the University of Wollongong stretches back to the Gallery's very beginnings and has included a number of collaborative exhibitions and projects, the sharing of ideas and expertise and support for a variety of creative activities including contemporary performance.”
Based on the medieval Corpus Christi mystery cycles, MYSTERIES is a theatrical experiment and a spiritual journey in song and theatre. Incorporating writings by John Milton, Thomas Otway, and the Second Shepherd's Play from the Wakefield Cycle, MYSTERIES leads the audience through galleries accompanied by choral works by Bach and Monteverdi as well as works by contemporary composers, Sarah Hopkins and Patrick Doyle.
The beautiful acoustics and arrangement of the Gallery guarantee that MYSTERIES will be an evening of theatre and music that will set hearts singing. Mysteries will be showing at the Wollongong City Gallery, 14-16 June, 7:30PM. Bookings: 4221 4889.
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