Performances: Faculty of Creative Arts @ UOW

A Narcissistic Lampoon

Jason Challinor — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:00:00 UTC +1000

A NARCISSISTIC LAMPOON is a meta-dramatic collage of short scenes in which the art of playwriting is investigated via the avatar of the author, who appears as the central motif in his own play. It presents a hyperbolic critique of art as an institution that is protected by connoisseurs who pre... Read more...

...and His Three Daughters

Jason Challinor — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:00:00 UTC +1000

... AND HIS THREE DAUGHTERS is an adaptation of KING LEAR, which explores what happens to King Lear in his absence. This shifts the focus from Lear as 'character' to Lear understood as a symbol of power. The play attempts to unsettle ideas of good and evil, examining his daughters ... Read more...

Writing in White Ink

Jason Challinor — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:00:00 UTC +1000

But seriously, Feminism can be tricky to talk about with your folks and we're here today to clear up some common misconceptions. Read more...

7 Deadly Sins

Jason Challinor — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:42:00 UTC +1000

Right, Anna? Read more...

Voltage!

Brooke House — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:00:00 UTC +1000

Original short works composed by second and third year Sound, Composition and Music Production (SCMP) students will be performed in the Spring Voltage concert program. Read more...

Loveplay

Brooke House — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:00:00 UTC +1000

In Moira Buffini's LOVEPLAY, the performance ensemble dissects the connections between love, power, sex and spirituality. The playing space is fluid, always settling and unsettling, as scenes transgress - humorously, gracefully, clumsily, or hesitantly - the boundaries of time. Read more...

Ant. & Cleo.

Brooke House — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:00:00 UTC +1000

Shakespeare's tragedy, Antony and Cleopatra, written sometime between 1603 and 1607, has been adapted by Mark Rogers for this production at PACT Space. ANT. & CLEO. explores codes of social power, and their transformation through indulgence in the erotic and the exotic, oscillating ... Read more...

Caucasian Chalk Circle

Jason Challinor — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:00:00 UTC +1000

We begin in ruins. The collectives must reach an agreement on how to rebuild. But how best to make this decision? Whilst pondering notions of ownership, individual and collective rights, justice and human connections, the play begins. The music begins. The scene is set. A time long ago comes t... Read more...

Orestes 3.0

Jason Challinor — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:00:00 UTC +1000

And then my brother
Orestes
murdered our mother.
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Nothing to See Here 2011: Tunnel/ Vision

Brooke House — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:00:00 UTC +1000

Nothing to See Here (2011) Tunnel\Vision presented by FCA Artists Collective is a night of performance and installation created and devised by students in the Faculty of Creative Arts. The works will explore themes that engage with 'vision', and will take place in different ... Read more...

Avalanche in Apartment B

Brooke House — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:00:00 UTC +1000

MARK: He will love and he will drive a car, a good clean car. Green car. Read more...

When the Ashes Fall

Brooke House — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:00:00 UTC +1000

Life is beautiful, really it is. Without it you'd be dead
~Gummo Read more...

Judith

Brooke House — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:00:00 UTC +1000

"Strengthen me, O Lord of Israel, this day!" (The Book of Judith, 13:7-8) Read more...

An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell

Jason Challinor — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:00:00 UTC +1000

The desirous creature grows a field. The domestic creature mows it. This is perhaps, the subject of interrogation in Levy's AN AMOROUS DISCOURSE IN THE SUBURBS OF HELL - the individual as the rope in a tug-of-war between desire and domesticity. The allure of ecstacy contending wit... Read more...

The Love of the Nightingale - Third Year Production

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:28:00 UTC +1000

THE LOVE OF THE NIGHTINGALE by Timberlake Wertenbaker reworks the Procne Philomela myth into a contemporary telling of seduction, desire and tyranny. Read more...

Voltage! 2 concerts, 2 programs

Fri, 27 May 2011 00:47:00 UTC +1000

Original compositions created by second and third year Sound, Composition and Music Production (SCMP) students will be performed in the Autumn VOLTAGE concert program. VOLTAGE, now in its fifth year, showcases the cutting-edge music of the next generation of artists working in music and... Read more...

SHOOT/GET TREASURE/REPEAT - Third Year Production

Thu, 26 May 2011 00:23:00 UTC +1000

'Many are the terrors of the Earth, but nothing is more terrible than mankind'.
The Chorus, 'Antigone' Read more...

Zeitgeist '71 - 2nd Year Production

Wed, 18 May 2011 04:18:00 UTC +1000

Zeitgeist '71 investigates Rainer Werner Fassbinder's formal post-Brechtian theatrical experiments and his cinematic concerns, obsessions and thematics from 1968 to 1971 - and a little beyond. Read more...

Mary Shelley and the Monsters - 2nd Year Production

Wed, 11 May 2011 06:41:00 UTC +1000

Britain's romantic poets stand as emblematic for an age that appreciated the beauty of nature, the mystery of death and the heightened inspiration of romantic love. Tim Robertson's 'Mary Shelley and The Monsters' inverts all of that in a ribald comedy as we follow the l... Read more...

I'm Not Racist, But.....Student Initiated Production

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 04:47:00 UTC +1000

The Body Bizarre - Student Initiated Production

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:58:00 UTC +1000

Black Sambuca and The Girl Who Poured It - Student Initiated Production

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:00:00 UTC +1000

The name originated from a hastily organized 'boys night out' in Wollongong back in early 2007. The night was started by ordering multiple shots of Black Sambuca from a particularly attractive barmaid. Read more...

16 year old me isn't sure he wants to have this conversation

Brooke House — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:00:00 UTC +1000

I try to remember the order I bought them in: that way I hope to write my own autobiography, without having to do anything like pick up a pen. I pull the records off the shelves, put them in piles all over the sitting room floor, look for Revolver, and go on from there; and when I've fi... Read more...

2010 Voltage

Brooke House — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:00:00 UTC +1000

The Faculty of Creative Arts will present the latest in its biannual concert series "Voltage", featuring the 2^nd and 3^rd year Sound, Composition and Music Production students. Read more...

Dream Play - 3rd Year Student Production

Brooke House — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:00:00 UTC +1000

In August Strindberg's famous play written in 1901, the young Agnes, (Indra's daughter) is sent to earth to see if life is really as difficult and painful as it's made out to be. Read more...