Season 2011
All productions are in the Little Theatre, University of Adelaide, and commence at 7.30pm.
Bookings: Phone 8303 5999 or Online bookings
November
Last Time Out: To the Power of Three - 2 nights only!
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"I married you for six million dollars" ... or so says the morally bankrupt character 'Ted' in what will be the Last Time Out for the Guild in 2011.
To the Power of Three continues on from First Time Out, our annual new writing project where a small group of Theatre Guild actors interpret new writing, submitted by students and not necessarily written for the stage, and turn it into a theatrical event.
But this time round, we have 3 directors, who have created 3 independent plays from submissions by students of the University of Adelaide, Flinders University and University Senior College.
Exploring themes of life, love, death and betrayal, To the Power of Three promises to provide another intriguing and entertaining night at the Little Theatre.
WARNING: Contains some strong language
THURSDAY 24 & FRIDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2011, 7.30pm
Little Theatre, The Cloisters (off Victoria Drive), University of Adelaide
Tickets $10.30 from www.trybooking.com/YUX or $10 on the door (cash only and subject to availability)
October
Sat 1, Tue-Sat 4-8 & 11-15
THE PILLOWMAN by Martin McDonagh
Directed by Megan Dansie
Not all fairy tales have a happy ending ...
(contains adult themes and strong language)
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"The first duty of a storyteller is to tell a story ..."
But what if that story is so repellent, so against the natural order of things, that it imposes something on the reader that cannot be wiped away?
Katurian, a seemingly innocent writer of short stories grimmer than Grimm, is being interrogated by two police officers somewhere in a totalitarian dictatorship. But why? Could it be because children are being murdered and maimed in very similar circumstances to those in his macabre fairytales?
Is art imitating life or life imitating art? What responsibility does a writer take when fiction becomes fact?
McDonagh's blacker than black comedy poses many questions as it takes the audience on a daring white knuckle ride into the power of storytelling.
You'll be horrified, thrilled and even laugh at this award-winning play by the celebrated writer of In Bruges.
Winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play
Winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play
Cast members: Robert Bell, Tony Busch, Bart Csorba, Gary George, Steve Marvanek, Lucy Sutherland and Kate Vanderhorst.
August
Sat 6, Tue-Sat 9-13 & 16-20
MACBETH by William Shakespeare
Directed by Michael Eustice
Featuring Brant Eustice as Macbeth and Amanda Shillabeer as Lady Macbeth
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A bloody great night out!
Love and bloody murder collide in Shakespeare's Macbeth; an electric tale of 'love gone bad'.
The Macbeths, tempted by the prophecies of three mysterious witches, are plunged into a nightmarish world of evil, deceit, madness and murder. Savage events unfold as they struggle to conceal their crimes and deal with the reality, guilt and consequences of their actions.
More than 400 years after it was written, Macbeth continues to shock, fascinate and thrill.
Cast members: Amanda Shillabeer, Andrew Dowling, Brant Eustice, Eddy Knight, Emily Branford, Geoff Dawes, Hannah Dimmock, Jamie Wright, Joseph Storer, Joshua Coldwell, Karen Burns, Lucy Sutherland, Mari Nield, Matt Scales, Mick Pepler, Michael Kumnick, Rebekah Kraft, Sarah Cullinan, Simon Davey, Tom McCann and Tony Sampson.
How far will you go in the name of love?
May
Sat 14, Tue-Sat 17-21 & 24-28
A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE by Arthur Miller
Directed by John Graham
Set design by Ole Wiebkin, Costume design by Ben Galbraith
Lighting by Richard Parkhill
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Eddie Carbone never expected to have a destiny ...
Eddie Carbone is a hardworking Italian-American longshoreman living in a lower working class neighbourhood of Brooklyn with his wife Beatrice and niece Catherine. They lead a simple but happy life until Beatrice's exotic Sicilian cousins arrive one night and turn their world upside down. Loves and loyalties are tested as the new arrivals settle in leading to a catastrophic climax. Was it inevitable or did Eddie have the power to alter "the bloody course"?
Written and set at the height of the post-war illegal immigration boom, Arthur Miller's 'A View from the Bridge' is a taut drama of Greek proportions that explores the themes of law and justice, trust and betrayal, innocence and sexual awakening but most of all, loyalty and honour.
Arthur Miller is regarded as one of the greatest dramatists of the twentieth century and 'A View from the Bridge' was recently revived to great critical acclaim both on Broadway and in London's West End.
"... has a power that leaves audiences gasping" The Scotsman, January 2011
Director John Graham has assembled an outstanding multicultural cast of exciting new talent and faces familiar to Adelaide audiences comprising of Charlotte Batty, Lauren Barnes, Joshua Coldwell, Geoff Dawes, Marcin Holownia, Tom Kontogonis, Sharon Malujlo, Steve Marvanek, Domenic Panuccio, Jack Robins and featuring Nigel Tripodi as Eddie Carbone.
February
Thursday 24 & Friday 25
THE MALCONTENT by John Marston
Directed by Alex Kirk
Dreams, dreams, fantasies, tricks ...
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