Tour news: Peter Brook directs Fugard and Barrie Kosky adapts Poe...
For the latest on Barrie Kosky's adaptation of The Tell-Tale Heart, see If I were artistic director of the Melbourne International Arts Festival...
I’ve dutifully kept this secret for a coupla months -- I’m good like that -- but whenever I do keep professional secrets, I at least like to be the one to blow the lid off the freakin’ story. Well, you’re gonna read all about this very shortly. But at least I can be an hour or two ahead of the wire services and a day ahead of the papers, right? Wrong? Whatever!
Peter Brook’s French language production of Athol Fugard's play Sizwe Banzi is Dead is coming to Australia this year. The tour starts in Melbourne.
Here are the Australian tour dates:
The Malthouse, Melbourne, October 16 - 27, 2007.
Geelong Performing Arts Centre, October 30 & 31.
Bendigo Performing Arts Centre, November 2 and 3.
Adelaide Festival Centre, November 6 - 17.
Sydney Opera House, November 26 to December 16.
If those Melbourne dates look kinda familiar, you’ve probably guessed. The visit is part of the 2007 Melbourne International Arts Festival.
Also part of this year’s festival -- and a Melbourne exclusive -- is Barrie Kosky’s take on Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart. It's at the Malthouse -- which is co-producing -- from October 11 to 20.
You can download an eText of The Tell-Tale Heart at Project Gutenberg.
See also:
* Athol Fugard on ‘Tsotsi’, truth and reconciliation, Camus, Pascal and “courageous pessimism”...
* Power... without power: Athol Fugard’s “unplugged” art
I’ve dutifully kept this secret for a coupla months -- I’m good like that -- but whenever I do keep professional secrets, I at least like to be the one to blow the lid off the freakin’ story. Well, you’re gonna read all about this very shortly. But at least I can be an hour or two ahead of the wire services and a day ahead of the papers, right? Wrong? Whatever!
Peter Brook’s French language production of Athol Fugard's play Sizwe Banzi is Dead is coming to Australia this year. The tour starts in Melbourne.
Here are the Australian tour dates:
The Malthouse, Melbourne, October 16 - 27, 2007.
Geelong Performing Arts Centre, October 30 & 31.
Bendigo Performing Arts Centre, November 2 and 3.
Adelaide Festival Centre, November 6 - 17.
Sydney Opera House, November 26 to December 16.
If those Melbourne dates look kinda familiar, you’ve probably guessed. The visit is part of the 2007 Melbourne International Arts Festival.
Also part of this year’s festival -- and a Melbourne exclusive -- is Barrie Kosky’s take on Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart. It's at the Malthouse -- which is co-producing -- from October 11 to 20.
You can download an eText of The Tell-Tale Heart at Project Gutenberg.
See also:
* Athol Fugard on ‘Tsotsi’, truth and reconciliation, Camus, Pascal and “courageous pessimism”...
* Power... without power: Athol Fugard’s “unplugged” art
Labels: Athol Fugard, Barrie Kosky, eText, Melbourne Festival, news, Peter Brook
posted by Chris Boyd at 11:21 AM
14 Comments:
I was planning to go to New York this October...I'm thinking I may have to delay my trip... Brook & Kosky. I don't think I'd ever let myself miss a duo like that. How, pray tell, did you find out about this one, Mr Boyd?
Hi Chris,
You came close to being the first, but Diane Simmons did mention it on Stage Noise news column the other day. she did get his name wrong though, and the news column suggested that Peter HALL was bringing a Fugard in Oz.
Personally, I thought your news was much more exciting!
cheers,
David
ok, went back to Stage Noise, and that post i read the other day is gone, so there're no facts to check. bummer. that was a good story too. oh well. still i suppose its a easy error, hall/brook. and perhaps there's a news embargo as well that was retrospectively acknowledged. mysteries of the blogosphere...
dw
I can't reveal my source Avi... could get them into trouble and (even worse!) they might clam up!
A couple of years back before a visit to the Sydney Festival, a tired and sick Shen Wei revealed that he was bringing his company to Melbourne two years in a row.
At that stage, the first visit was still under wraps. But, hell, I had it from the horse's mouth. So I gleefully revealed the first.
Out of some damn fool sense of honour though, I kept the secret of the return visit. And, guess what? It was cancelled!!
Or perhaps it was rescheduled... [cue spooky Bernard Herrmann-esque music and imagine Homer walking backwards out of the room] heh!
I must say, David, I do like the correctability of blogs. I prefer to find my own mistakes and typos and howlers -- hmmm, must find that silly misspelling of Mummenschanz and fix it -- but Hall versus Brook... that's just too funny. (It would be like getting Baz Luhrmann and Baz Kosky confused!!)
BTW, I'm guessing the lid will be blown on the Malthouse shows at today's season launch. The Melbourne Festival announcement is merely co-operating with "collegial organisations".
There's a mighty big difference between Hall and Brook!
Ohmigod, Alison, a simultaneous comment/thought! I'm gonna have a cigarette after that!!
hi all,
i went and visited the MIAF site, and the press release was posted dated yesterday. so its all official now, and probably in print today.
dw
Ohmigod, Alison, a simultaneous comment/thought! I'm gonna have a cigarette after that!!
Careful now, you could become a hapless addict just like me. Before long, you'll be chained to a keyboard writing fantasy novels, and there'll be no hope for you. (A good day today - 3000 WORDS - it's like labour, every 1000 words is another 1000 words I don't have to write... but by God, I swear that this is the first and last novel series I will ever write...)
Found it in a Google cache. Dina Simmonds wrote:
Opera House Bound?
Living legend English stage director Sir Peter Hall is forsaking his long-time home in France for a while to oversee a new staging of apartheid era South African classic Sizwe Banzi is Dead.
The two-hander broke new ground, politically and theatrically, when first staged in 1972, also under Hall's direction. It was written by Athol Fugard in conjunction with his two then-unknown performers, Winston Ntshona and John Kani, and told the story of how a poor migrant worker circumvented the apartheid system by assuming the papers of a dead man.
Now Brook is revisiting the play in a new London production and, the rumour goes, it will tour. The backstage cat says we should be looking at the Sydney Opera House’s theatre schedules for the coming year ...
Did you notice "Now Brook is revisiting the play" in the last paragraph?
It's Diana, guys, by the way. :-) Easy enough to cock up a name.
Good work on the scoop, Chris.
I was checking out the Lincoln Center Festival program the other day and found this tidbit in the press release which seems to confirm that Shen Wei's second visit to MIAF was postponed rather than cancelled and he'll return in 2007. "In 2007, the company will perform at leading halls on five continents, including [. . .] Melbourne [. . .]." The quote can be found here on p34. It doesn't confirm which work he'll be bringing but my money's on Second Visit to the Empress.
A monthly whip around theatre compay websites can reveal a lot. Recent Australian festival seasons by Theatre du Soleil, NYC Players, Forced Entertainment, Romeo Castellucci (twice!) and (I think) Lone Twin were all posted many weeks before any official announcements were made. There's plenty of fodder out there for scoopers.
asp
Thank-you, one and all, for your diligent snooping. You're all girly swots! (That's high praise, k?)
And Alison, if I thought the demon nicotine would help me write faster and better... I'd say: fuck my lungs!
What's that line?
Give up smoking, you'll live longer!
No. It just feels longer.
And the more recent variant...
Men who get married live longer!
Ahem. (Or do I mean 'Amen'?)
Thanks for the scoop, C.B. I saw Brook's Ubu Roi when I was a child studying French at M.U. (that would be over 25 years ago.)
What a terrific bungle that editing is, Anon. The Age spelled Kerryn Goldsworthy's name wrong the other week, also on their book blog they've misspelled Jason Steger's name in their first entry. But at least they had both parts of the name more or less in place to begin with.
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