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2007 Performance Archive
 OEDIPUS WRECKS  (25 - 27 October)
Directed by Chris Ryan
"Queen says...the boy needs therapy!"
Dubbing this new interpretation of the Oedipus myth a 'clubfoot mashup', Chris Ryan throws a series of perspectives into the mix. Oedipus Wrecks is a detective story and a learning play for the Polis. We watch this upwardly mobile guy avoiding his past while not being particularly happy with the present state of things. What exactly is he running away from? Clouded by envy and fear, will he ever see how his actions so deeply wound those he holds close?
Director Christopher Ryan is a founding member of The Sydney Front and an active collaborator with Version 1.0 and the Performance Space at Carriageworks.
 FEWER EMERGENCIES (25 - 27 October)
By Martin Crimp Directed by Geordie Brookman "...things are improving, things are improving day by day..."
Legendary playwright Martin Crimp takes aim at the culture of contentment, greed and the post 9/11 West. Eight anonymous voices come together in an undefined time and place to ask the question: are appearances more important than reality?
Director Geordie Brookman holds credits as a writer, dramaturg and director. He has been Affiliate Director for Sydney Theatre Company, Director for Company B and is currently a board member for the World Interplay festival.
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VOLTAGE (23 - 24 October)
Sound-Composition and Music Production Festival
The Faculty of Creative Arts, School of Music and Drama is pleased to present the next festival of sound in 2007’s new and innovative music production schedule.
The festival is the second of the Voltage concert series. Presented over two nights, Voltage includes the graduation concert from 3rd Year Sound-Composition and Production students, as well offering a sneak preview of 2nd year students in their first major showcase
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| THE JUNGLE (17 - 20 October )
By Louis Nowra
Directed by Tim Maddock
Performed by Second Year Performance Students
The Jungle is a peep-show, brutally exhibiting the desperate human lives of those subsisting in Sydney’s seedy under-belly. Louis Nowra, creator of Cosi and Summer of the Aliens, draws out the grit for a night on the town from the back-alleys to the corporate high-rise and strips naked the foundations of human corruption and dependence. Welcome to the Jungle.
Venue: Bruce Gordon Theatre, Illawarra Performing Arts Centre.
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GHOST CITY ( 4 - 6 October 07)
By Gary Owen
Directed by Kate Gaul
Performed by First Year Performance Students
Cardiff: 331 000 people, 150 miles west of London and the capital of Wales: A mother struggles with artificial intelligence. Members of post-nationalist extreme hip-hop collectives verbally murder patriotic grannies. This is fucking Cardiff, mun. Gary Owen, Cardiff-born creator of The Drowned World, articulates beautifully the frank charisma of this urban wasteland, presenting a panoramic photograph of existence.
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WHAT WAS WOOD BECAME ALIVE (21 - 24 February 07)
Texts by Peter Handle and the THEA390 Ensemble
Directed by Chris Ryan
This special Orientation Week presentation is about a young man, captive for sixteen years who finds himself in the spotlight.
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Taiwanese performance artist Shih-Hue Tu from Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan (26 February 07)
Following her appearance at the Queer Asian Sites, International Conference of Asian Queer Studies in February, Taiwanese performance artist Shih-Hue Tu from Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan will present a public performance in Wollongong on Monday 26 February.
About the artist:
Shih-Hue Tu received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College (New York) in 1997. Since 1998 she has continued her career in Taiwan as a writer, director, producer, and performer.
"In 2004, she worked with Spilt Britches in the Taiwan Women Festival and wrote and performed in a lesbian play. She was awarded the British Council Arts Scholarship of 2001, and the 2004 International Artist-in-Residence in Australia organized by Taipei Artist Village. Her first text collection, "A Breakfast for One", was published in 2002 and "A Voyage to the Island ~ A Solo Operetta" was published and produced in 2003. She is one of the commissioners of Gu-Ling St. Avant-Garde Theatre in Taipei as well as an instructor at the Theatre Dept. of Taipei National University of the Arts.
“Queer Asian Sites, An International Conference of Asian Queer Studies”: has been convened by the AsiaPacifiQueer Network and Trans/forming Cultures at University of Technology, Sydney, in conjunction with the “Queer Space: Centres and Peripheries” conference at UTS on 20-21 February 2007. ...“Queer Asian Sites” will showcase cutting-edge research on gay, lesbian and transgender communities across Asia."
Featuring international Keynote speakers, the conference ends on Friday 23 February with a presentation by Taiwanese performance artist Shih-Hue Tu on butch, femme and “neutral” lesbian identities in modern Taipei.
Full “Queer Asian Sites” conference details, including confirmed speakers and registration information, can be found on the conference website: http://apq.anu.edu.au/qas/ “Queer Asian Sites” is being convened in partnership with the 2007 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
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 Towards the Inaudible …Music with delicious and spicy overtones (26 April)
The presentation of original music written by UOW DCA candidate, Michael H Dixon, featured the talents of several well known Sydney and Wollongong musicians.
An experienced musician himself having held several principal positions in Queensland for over 2 decades, Michael currently freelances on horn and will feature in this concert playing the xenophone. This unique diamond-shaped xenophone was built by UOW PhD Candidate, Christian van der Vyver and is housed at UOW.
Read more >
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SOOT HAPPENS : a smouldering portrait of fear, sex and spontaneous
combustion ( 9 - 12 May)
1st Year Student Production
Directed by Drew Fairley
The fresh energetic flavour of Soot Happens has been the product a workshop process directed by Drew Fairley in collaboration with first year Performance and Sound – Composition and Production students.
Drew Fairley was the recipient of the New York International Fringe Festival award for excellence in both comedy and drama for his co-devised production of Mongrel and was more recently the co-creator of The No Chance in Hell Hotel (showing at IPAC in May) and the international smash hit comedy Bangers and Mash. Drew has graced the UOW performance course with his professional insight, adding to the outstanding array of industry professionals who have worked with and inspired the BCA students.
Read media release >
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 ROAD (24 - 26 May)
3rd Year Student Production
By Jim Cartwright
Directed by Tim Maddock
On a road down-graded by a political slump, the people roam the streets in an unconscious search for a kick…
ROAD IS: An illuminating comedy, high on pills and booze: a discourse about the loss of young life.
Initially commissioned for the Royal Court Theatre in London, Jim Cartwright has won the illustrious Samuel Beckett Award and also the George Devine Award for this unique and beautiful work.
The University of Wollongong presents an articulate, uncouth ROAD and makes no request for forgiveness.
Read Media Release >
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DREAMING (30 May – 1 June)
2nd Year Student Production
By Peter Barnes
Directed by Syd Brisbane
“Dreaming is the kind of play that demonstrates the difficulty of distinguishing between a giggle and a scream in your own throat.” Guardian.
The University of Wollongong presents DREAMING: an epic tale that illustrates the tandem nature of creation and obliteration and the juxtaposition of laughter and death.
In DREAMING, Peter Barnes presents a facetious view on war, honour, dishonour and materialism through the presence of achingly beautiful poetic imagery.
View Media Release >
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VOLTAGE (1 & 2 June)
Sound - Composition & Production, 3rd year students final concert of this session.
Friday
New works by 3rd year students
Saturday
Paul Elwood, Visiting Artist, with staff & students
View Media Release >
View photos from concert >
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 MYSTERIES (14 - 16 June) 2nd Year Student Production
Directed by Janys Hayes
MYSTERIES is a startling combination of music, classical texts and contemporary performance which reflects on the unanswerable questions in life.
Based on the medieval Corpus Christi mystery cycles, MYSTERIES, staged at the Wollongong City Gallery, is a theatrical experiment, 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 the contemporary composers, Sarah Hopkins and Patrick Doyle. MYSTERIES is an evening of theatre and music that will set hearts singing. Held at the Wollongong City Art Gallery.
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 RECITAL (17 & 18 June) June 17 - Open dress rehearsal
June 18 - Concert
Performers include Lotte Latukefu mezzo soprano, Lisa Nolan soprano, Lisa Baraldi piano and students from the School of Music and Drama.
Program includes:
Aaron Copland - Old American Songs
Robert Schumann - Woman's Life and Love
Monteverdi- Ariadne's Lament
R. Strauss- from De Rosenkavalier Trio
Mozart- from Cosi fan tutte duet
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