Necessary Targets
16 - 18 October 2008
Four Performances Only!
Writer: Eve Ensler
Director: Tessa Leong
With Elizabeth Adeyemi, Alisa Fedele, Alexandra Hardy, Jennifer Medway, Theresa Mullan, Danielle Sobesiak, Tasha Vasos
FCA Performance is proud to present the first of two works showcasing the University Of Wollongong’s 3rd year graduating students for 2008 at PACT Youth Theatre, Sydney’s leading contemporary performance space for young people and emerging artists.
When two American women – one a trauma counsellor and the other, a psychiatrist from New York – cross the world to treat a group of Bosnian women, survivors of the civil war in the former Yugoslavia, the stage is set for an emotional and confronting collision between wildly divergent life experiences.
Playwright Eve Ensler, internationally renowned for The Vagina Monologues, was inspired in this her second play, by her experiences in Bosnia interviewing women war refugees, dealing with the aftermath of war. It is their stories, “their insane humanity in the face of catastrophe, their staggering refusal to have or seek revenge," Ensler writes, "that fuelled me and ultimately moved me to write this play”.
This is a play that seeks to uncover the differences and bridge the distances across ages, experience, continents and cultures. The political becomes entirely personal as worlds collide, each woman sharing their stories in the wake of very different experiences of adversity.
Beyond the bombs and the fighting that dominate our television screens, are those who survive. These are personal accounts of women left behind when the fighting is over and the battle to survive has just begun. The war may be over, but Necessary Targets is shocking in the vividness of the experiences it presents, inspiring in its depiction of female solidarity, and courageous in its celebration of humanity despite the devastation of war.
Performed and designed by the University of Wollongong graduating students of 2008, under the direction of Tessa Leong, graduate of Flinders Drama Centre Directing Course, 2006. Directing credits include Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphosis (2006), and Philippe Blasband’s Nathalie Ribout (2007).
Season: Thursday – Saturday, 16 - 18 October @ 8pm nightly; Saturday matinee @ 2pm
Venue: PACT Theatre, 107 Railway Parade, Erskineville 2043
Tickets: $20 full, $15 concession, $10 students, $14 Groups (10 or more)
Bookings: MCA Tix: 1300 306 776 or www.MCA-tix.com (A $1.50 booking fee applies)
Proudly presented by
FCA Performance
Faculty of Creative Arts
University of Wollongong
For general inquiries about FCA Performances contact 02 4221 3996 or see http://www.uow.edu.au/crearts/performances/index.html
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