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Northcote Town Hall Season

Big congratulations to all who participated in our fabulous Northcote Season. We had nearly 1,200 people attend our four shows – this is way more than double any previous year. Great shows, great season!

And now – what’s next…?



Henry 4 Part 1

We’re re-mounting this production which was part of Moat Festival this year prior to taking it to Perth for a Shakespeare conference. It now features Dr Rob Conkie as Hotspur. If you missed it the first time or would like to se it again there’s two more chances – Friday, September 9th and Saturday, September 10th both at 7:30 in the Union Hall. And it‘s only $5 and there’s no need to book.



Moat Festival 2012

I’ll be heading overseas for most of October this year. That’s normally the time that I chat to those interested in submitting proposals for Moat Festival. So, even though submissions aren’t due until Monday, November 7th I would like to talk to anyone who might be interested in directing a play, dance piece, art installation – whatever. My last day of work before I take off is Friday, September 30th so give me a call and we can book a time to meet.

Auditions will be mid-November.



Bob

Northcote Town Hall Season 2011 - Limbus

Limbus.
By Ryanna Clayton



Limbus- (n.) Latin, meaning edge often perceived as Limbo.


Limbo is described as a cool dark place on the outskirts of what we know as heaven and hell. A place where souls reside and wait, but what are they waiting for? What if Limbo wasn’t some dark foreboding place filled with emptiness? What if it was just a waiting room where people sat, listened and anticipated their number to be called? Limbus is a play exploring life...after life but before the after- life.

When Aqua, a socially inept young woman finds her life has been put to an end she discovers that death is nothing like she thought it would be. She is caught between Penny a 1960’s well dressed starlet with a potty mouth and an addiction to cigarettes. An ill tempered woman who can’t even remember her own name; and Fofo the mute whose inability to talk has driven her to display the characteristics of a through – bred puppy!

Performed by four of the most engaging young female actresses in Australia, Limbus is poised to tickle your funny bones and throw your ideas on life after death over, under and around the table.


PERFORMANCES
Tuesday 23 August 8.30pm – Gala Opening
Wednesday 24 August at 8.30pm
Thursday 25, Friday 26 August at 6.30pm
Saturday 27 August at 10pm

Northcote Town Hall Season 2011 - The Car Cemetery

The Car Cemetery
directed by Megan Jacqueline

written by Fernando Arrabal

‘I can’t sleep, something’s getting in my way.’

‘It must be the steering wheel sticking into your back again.’


A commune of people reminiscent of Tramline 86 reside in a dump yard where once loved vehicles go to die. Living amongst the wreckage of cars and old upholstery, the occupants of the car cemetery live out a blasphemous and subversive rewrite of the passion of Christ.

An eccentric and dark comedy, The Car Cemetery is indicative of peoples’ fractured sense of self, portrayed through the cycles and rituals of the characters relationships.

PERFORMANCES
Tuesday 16 August 6.30pm – Gala Opening
Wednesday 17 August at 6.30pm
Thursday 18 and Friday 19 August at 8.30pm
Saturday 20 August at 10pm

Northcote Town Hall Season 2011 - A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess’s
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

Directed by Ingrid Taylor-Moss and Sophie Petridis
Written by Anthony Burgess

There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.

The molodoy banda of droogs settle for a nochy with a bit of the old in and out, some horrorshow ultra-violence and a bit of moloko plus at the old Korova Bar. But the bolshy times come to an end when Alex punchipunches and kills an old baboochka.

In the stripey hole, Alex is offered the chance to reform his ways through the controversial Ludovico Technique. What happens to little Alex at the rookers of the grahzny doctors blurs the line between nature and nurture, good and evil.

Anthony Burgess’s dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange was written in 1962 and was adapted for stage by Burgess himself in 1987. Famously adapted for film in 1971 by Stanley Kubrick, Burgess’s stage version restores the original controversial ending to the story.

PERFORMANCES
Wednesday 17 August at 8.30pm - Gala Opening
Sunday 21, Friday 26 and Saturday 27 August at 8.30pm
Friday 19, Saturday 20, Wednesday 24,and Sunday 28 August at 6.30pm

Northcote Town Hall Season 2011 - Blindness

Blindness

From the novel by José Saramago
Adapted and directed by Bob Pavlich


A contagion has spread through the city inflicting sudden and unexplainable blindness on people. In order to contain the infection and maintain order the government steps in and enforces radical measures to ensure that the blind are restrained.

Isolated from the rest of the world the blind inmates of the asylum struggle to maintain a civil society as they cope with lack of food, the breakdown of basic facilities and the threat from other hostile inmates.

From the novel by Nobel prize winning author Jose saramago, this will be the first time this story has been presented on an Australian stage.

This large cast production has been adapted and will be directed by Bob Pavlich (green room award winner – best direction independent theatre, 2004)

PERFORMANCES
Tuesday 16 August 8.30pm – Gala Opening
Saturday 20, Thursday 25 and Sunday 28 August at 8.30pm
Thursday 18, Sunday 21, Tuesday 23 and Saturday 27 August at 6.30pm

Northcote Town Hall Season 2010

Wake in Fright

from the novel by Kenneth Cook

adapted and directed by Bob Pavlich

“May you dream of the Devil and wake in fright.” An Old Curse

Eager to escape his one-room outback school for the summer holidays, young city teacher, John Grant, heads toward Sydney. Passing through the rough mining town of Bundanyabba, Grant becomes hopelessly stranded, losing his entire wages in a game of two-up and over the subsequent five days sinks into a cycle of drunkenness, hangovers, fumbling sexual encounters and increasing self-loathing. Trapped in a hellish limbo, the once ordinary world of rural Australia becomes the setting for his grotesque and surreal nightmare.

Wake in Fright explores the very real distrust that exists between city and the bush and is an unflinching depiction of Australian masculinity that is as pertinent today as it was when written in 1961.

The 1971film version was lost for twenty years, the footage vanishing in vaults and nearly destroyed, and was only recently rediscovered, restored and re-released in 2009. And now, La Trobe University Student Theatre and Film is proud to present the very first theatrical adaptation of this classic story.

With Beth Myring, David Wright, George Lingard, Jacob Pruden, Kurt Mottershead, Laura Wheelwright, Matthew Bolger-Hobson, Matt Sharawara and Stephen Foster; this production, directed and adapted by the Artistic Director of Student Theatre, will shed new light on this already well-known harrowing tale.

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PERFORMANCES

Tuesday 17 August 8pm – Gala Opening

Thursday 19 August, Wednesday 25 August, and Friday 27 August 8pm

Saturday 21 August and Sunday 29 August 8.30pm

Sunday 22 August and Saturday 28 August 6pm

TICKETS

Full $15 / Concession $10 / Guild $5

Northcote Town Hall Season 2010

Moment on the Lips is the story of the interrelationships of seven women over a two year period. Inspired by Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls, the beautifully observed and insightful A Moment on the Lips won Sydney dramatist Jonathan Gavin the 2003 Philip Parsons Young Playwright of the Year Award.

This isn’t a play about women. This is about the warfare and decay of love and friendship between women and how they survive. With dialogue balancing on the line between unexpected cruelty and humour, A Moment on the Lips ‘fairly crackles with wit and insight’ (The Age).

For the second consecutive year, La Trobe Student Theatre and Film is proud to present its’ critically acclaimed off-campus performance season in Studio One of Northcote Town Hall.

With Elizabeth King, Kaitlyn Trollope, Madeleine Stewart, Meighan Spicer, Sakuna McArthur, Sarah Pratt and Sophie Petridis; and directed by one of La Trobe’s more revered student directors, A Moment on the Lips is poised to thrill and move you this winter.

Friday 20 August, Tuesday 24 August and Thursday 26 August 8pm
Saturday 21 August and Sunday 29 August at 6pm
Sunday 22 August and Saturday 28 August at 8.30pm

TICKETS Full $15 / Concession $10 / Guild $5