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Following on from a very successful inaugural play, 'From Little Things', the Australasian Chinese Theatre (ACT) is helping Frank Moore who has adapted Yu Jihui1s book - Zhang Da Li and the Village of Big Easters - into a play to be produced by La Mama August 13-24th . Only 10 shows. Wed & Sun 6.30pm, Thu-Sat 8pm. For more information contact Moni at gbs002@ozemail.com.au or Frank at frankmoore31@hotmail.com
FROM LITTLE THINGS...
FROM LITTLE THINGS, is the inaugural production of the
Australasian Chinese Theatre Company. The ACT has
a mission to create and produce intrinsically cross-cultural
performances with elements borrowed and fused from Australasian/English
and Chinese traditions, ancient and modern.
FROM LITTLE THINGS, is a tale of wonders, a story of two lovers living in the same country yet inhabiting different worlds. A haunting and layered piece which explores the collision of modernity and the past, home and culture and what it means to be a human, a lover, a son, a daughter, an Australian.
Traversing back and forth in time, us, the audience, is taken on a spellbinding journey, through memories and myths. All brought vividly to life using elements of martial arts, dance, storytelling, music and song. We visit battle fields in ancient China, the gold fields of Bendigo, present-day Melbourne and the many decades in between.
We watch as through re-discovering the
stories of their ancestors, these lovers weave their disparate
lives together to create a new shared history and a deeper understanding
of the basic humanity which connects us all. We see
them buckle under the weight of history and stand tall in the
knowing that it is, From Little Things that big things grow.
Written and directed by award winning
theatre maker Aurora Kurth.
Performed by Aurora Kurth and Joshua Erwin.
Produced by Moni Storz.
6 Shows only!
Thursday to Saturday. 1st of May - 10th of May.
Thursday and Friday @ 8pm; Saturday @ 6pm.
Northcote Town Hall,189 High Street,
Northcote.
Tickets: $20 Full/ $15 Concession.
Tickets availible at the door. Cash only!
Bookings - 0410 490 270.
All profits go to the Mirabel Foundation. www.mirabelfoundation.com
The Mirabel Foundation was established in 1998 to assist children
who have been orphaned or abandoned due to parental illicit drug
use and are now in the care of extended family (kinship care).
ACT !!!! Australasian Chinese
Theatre Company is here!
ACT owes its name to Jeffrey, our brilliant man in ACCS. My idea for bridging the Chinese and Australian communities (apart from teaching Chinese) is to have a theatre company which features Chinese and English performances. I wrote Our Man in Beijing several years ago and had it performed for that purpose. I saw our theatre company as using Chinese and Australians to create a bridge that will enable greater intercultural understanding and appreciation of each other's culture.
ACT will have its first 'project manager' a lively actress, singer and composer appropriately named Aurora. Dawn. Yes, ACT will be the dawn of probably the first theatre company in Australia with a specific vision of being intercultural Chinese and Australian.
ACT's first performance will be premiered
1st May 2008. Aurora Kurth is already well known to many Melbournians
with her own shows. She is now entrusted with a mission to use
her talent which is essentially "dinky di Aussie" to
reach out to a wider global community. Welcome aboard, Aurora.
May your journey be peaceful, Yi lu peng an, Aurora.
An Update On Actors And Supporting Cast - 14th November 2007
Aurora arrived in Langkawi a month ago.
Locking herself up in one of the rooms, she called on her muse.
After days of writing insanely, she is now almost finishing her
first draft of the play to be premiered in Melbourne on May lst,
2008!
Upon arrival at the airport, she was met by Ivy aka Alison LyfordPike,
wannabee rock star, singer, song writer, and model. Ivy's many
hats include being Pondok's assistant manager, limo driver, prettiest
busker on the shores of Langkawi when Phil and Moni were tripping
each other up in Turkey. Ivy spent three months here in Moni's
artists' retreat and is now part of the act of ACT since performing
live in Penang with Aurora who became temporarily sane when a
short holiday was mentioned.
Chris, our choreographer/dancer from the UK (who was finally
found lurking in the lost and found luggage section) turned out
to be an Adonis, and promptly threw himself on the floor taking
all of us with him in a contact dance routine. We are now fully
"contacted" and rewired thanks to him.
David, chef from Melbourne's EQ Café Bar arrived yesterday,
promising to cook up a storm in our retreat's kitchen with only
a bread knife, two gas BBQ stoves (one of which does not work,
and intermittent gas supply that may or may not hiss out of blocked
spouts ah well, we can always eat dog meat tartare..round a camp
fire and chew coconut husks
PS: Auditions will be held for ACT's first play in February in
Melbourne. Please contact Aurora at rory@aurorakurth.com
if you are interested in taking part in this play.
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