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BEST
PRODUCTION
BARBARA LOWING
MATILDA AWARDS
GROUNDLINGS AWARD
MATILDA AWARDS
2013
2013
2013
BEST INDEPENDENT
PRODUCTION
GOLD MATILDA
BARBARA LOWING
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION
BY AN ACTRESS
GROUNDLINGS AWARD
2013
“DESERVES ITS ACCOLADES”
THE COURIER-MAIL
“GRIPPING AND
INCREDIBLY MOVING”
XS ENTERTAINMENT
“BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN
AND EXPERTLY CRAFTED”
GREENROOM
A THRILLING CONTEMPORARY WORK OF
LOVE IN A TIME OF REVOLUTION
ELLENBELLOO.COM
DANE ALEXANDER
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO
SOUND DESIGN OR COMPOSITION
GROUNDLINGS AWARD
2013
MOTHERLAND
PRESENTER’S INFORMATION
Kerith Atkinson and Peter Cossar in the 2013 production of Motherland
Contents
COMPANY PROFILE ....................................................................................... 3
ABOUT THE SHOW......................................................................................... 3
PERFORMANCE SPECIFICS.......................................................................... 9
AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT .......................................................................... 10
MARKETING .................................................................................................. 11
PRODUCTION DETAILS ............................................................................... 15
CONTACTS.................................................................................................... 17
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COMPANY PROFILE
Ellen Belloo is Caroline Dunphy and Katherine Lyall-Watson working
together to create new Australian work that combines text and contemporary
performance. Caroline is a director and performance maker with decades of
experience working in physical and avante garde theatre. Katherine is a
playwright with a long history in theatre and a passion for words, writing and
story. Together, they produce works that tell intriguing stories in new and
exciting ways.
Ellen Belloo formed in 2012 when Caroline and Katherine first worked
together and realised that they shared a common vision and the determination
to make it happen. In 2013 they co-produced Motherland (shortlisted for the
Patrick White Playwrights’ Award), which went on to win awards at the Matilda
Awards and the Groundlings Awards. This year they have received Arts
Queensland funding to work on another new play, Tinder (shortlisted for the
Queensland Premier’s Drama Award).
Ellen Belloo aims to explore hybrid and contemporary form as well as tell new
stories that place women in the centre of the action.
ABOUT THE SHOW
SHOW SYNPOSIS
Sweeping through the Russian Revolution, World War II, and Brisbane
history, Motherland is an epic new work of historical fiction, informed by actual
events.
Caroline Dunphy uses contemporary theatre techniques to turn the text into a
dance of actors, music and lighting. The performers never leave the stage and
they change characters with subtle shifts of body and voice rather than any
costumes or props.
In Motherland, three women, exiled from their homelands, find their lives are
woven together across continents and decades. Nelle Tritton, the Brisbane
wife of a deposed Russian prime minister forms a close friendship with Nina
Berberova, who is exiled in Paris. The woman who would tell their story is
Alyona, a Russian curator whose dreams of a new Australian paradise are
crushed by bankruptcy and the Fitzgerald Inquiry.
Shortlisted for the Patrick White Playwrights’ Award, Motherland is a tapestry
of friendship, displacement, home, and identity – a finely-crafted story of the
casualties of love, ambition, and politics.
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AWARDS
BEST INDEPENDENT
PRODUCTION
BEST PRODUCTION
GROUNDLINGS AWARD
MATILDA AWARDS
2013
2013
2013
MATILDA AWARDS
BARBARA LOWING
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION
BY AN ACTRESS
GROUNDLINGS AWARD
2013
BARBARA LOWING
GOLD MATILDA
DANE ALEXANDER
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO
SOUND DESIGN OR COMPOSITION
GROUNDLINGS AWARD
2013
PLAYWRIGHTS’ AWARD
BEST NEW
AUSTRALIAN WORK
2013
2013
PATRICK WHITE
BEST NEW PLAY
GROUNDLINGS AWARD
MATILDA AWARDS
CAROLINE DUNPHY
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION
BY A DIRECTOR
GROUNDLINGS AWARD
2013
PETER COSSAR
2013
DAVID WALTERS
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION
BY AN ACTOR
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION
TO LIGHTING DESIGN
GROUNDLINGS AWARD
GROUNDLINGS AWARD
2013
2013
Best Independent Production – Matilda Awards 2013
Best Production – Groundlings Awards 2013
Gold Matilda – Barbara Lowing (Matilda Awards 2013)
Outstanding performance by an actor – Barbara Lowing (Groundlings
Awards 2013)
Outstanding sound composition – Dane Alexander (Groundlings Awards
2013)
Finalist – Patrick White Playwrights’ Award 2013
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Motherland’s first production was in October 2013 at Metro Arts, Brisbane,
where it was co-produced by Metro Arts and Ellen Belloo. It featured the
following cast and creatives:
PLAYWRIGHT Katherine Lyall-Watson
DIRECTOR Caroline Dunphy
CAST Kerith Atkinson, Peter Cossar, Barbara Lowing, Daniel Murphy
and Rebecca Riggs.
SET DESIGNER Annie Robertson
LIGHTING DESIGNER David Walters
COMPOSER & SOUND DESIGNER Dane Alexander
DRAMATURG Kathryn Kelly
PRODUCER Danielle Shankey
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BIOGRAPHIES
KATHERINE LYALL-WATSON Writer
Katherine was shortlisted for the 2013 Patrick White
Playwrights’ Award for Motherland. She was a finalist in
the 2008/09 Queensland Premier's Drama Award for her
first play Tinder, which was also selected for a
Playlab/Varuna Fellowship. Her second play, Rosie
Little's Cautionary Tales for Girls (an adaptation of the
novel by Danielle Wood), was read at the National Play
Festival, 2010. Katherine has a long history in theatre
having worked as an actor, director and theatre reviewer
before starting playwriting. She has a doctorate in philosophy from the
University of Queensland.
CAROLINE DUNPHY Director
Caroline has worked over the past 18 years as an
actor, director and teacher, working with theatre
companies nationally, international screen experience,
and as an acclaimed performance maker – including
with the Brides of Frank (which she co-founded).
Caroline is dedicated to developing innovative
performance, having studied in training methodology
and philosophical practice with Frank Theatre. She’s
also trained with Ellen Lauren, Tadashi Suzuki, and
Anne Bogart. 2013 has seen Caroline working on several projects as actor,
director and co-creator with Metro Arts and she’s come to Motherland straight
from The Wizard of Oz for Brisbane Festival and La Boite.
DANE ALEXANDER Composer & Sound Designer
Dane has been producing, composing and performing music with the
acclaimed DeepBlue Orchestra since 2006 (winner of the 2009 APACA award
for ‘Excellent Audience Response’). Dane’s career has seen him compose
and perform shows at theatres and festivals nationally and internationally,
including: Oz Fest 2012, Delhi and Mumbai; 2012 QPAC Out Of The Box
Festival (The Flying Orchestra); 2012 Taiwan Lantern Festival, Lugang; 2010
World Expo in Shanghai, China; as well as multiple headlining national tours.
Recently, Dane composed for the La Boite, The Danger Ensemble coproduction of The Wizard Of Oz. He is currently undertaking a PhD at QUT.
KERITH ATKINSON Actor: Nelle
Kerith has performed in ten productions with
Queensland Theatre Company and has also performed
for La Boite Theatre Company, Kooemba Jdarra, Three
Sisters Productions, Theatre Activ8, and 4MBS Classic
Productions, among others. Her film and television
credits include Reef Doctors, Terra Nova, All Saints,
Water Rats, Farscape and the feature films, Girl
Clock and The Last Man on Earth. She has most
recently completed filming on Mako: Island of Secrets,
which screens on Channel Ten. Kerith is also a popular voice over artist and
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proud Equity member, currently serving on the Qld Branch Council & National
Performers Committee.
PETER COSSAR Actor: Chris and Kerensky
In 2013, Peter has appeared in Motherland (Ellen
Belloo), Medea (Zen Zen Zo), Fly In Fly Out (Debase
Theatre Company) and in the film Parer’s War. Peter
has performed with Queensland Theatre Company, La
Boite, Opera Queensland, Zen Zen Zo, Out of the Box,
Theatre UpNorth, the Philharmonic Orchestra, Street
Arts and Access Arts. Peter trained as an actor at QUT
Academy of the Arts and, since graduating, the bulk of
his work has been in physical theatre and developing
new plays. Peter has been a proud Equity member since 1992 and is
currently serving on the Qld Branch Council.
KATHRYN KELLY Dramaturg
Kathryn Kelly is a freelance dramaturg who works in text-based theatre,
dance and contemporary performance. Credits include productions with the
Queensland Theatre Company, La Boite Theatre Company, Out of the Box
Festival QPAC, JUTE (Cairns), Crossroads Theatre (Mackay), Cahoots
Theatre Projects (Toronto) and Theatreworks (Melbourne) as well as
independent companies Polytoxic, Umber Productions, Dyson Industries and
Zen Zen Zo. Kathryn has dramaturged for the National Play Festival, the
Regional Theatre-makers Festival, the Australian Script Centre, and was the
Executive Director of Playlab from 2004-2008, publishing 24 new Australian
plays. She is now completing a PhD at the University of Queensland.
BARBARA LOWING Actor: Nina
Barbara has performed in many productions for
Queensland Theatre Company, including The China
Incident, Toy Symphony, Prisoner of 2nd Ave, Hamlet (a
co-production with South Australian Theatre Company),
Away (a co-production with Griffin Theatre Company),
The Memory of Water and Navigating (a co-production
with Melbourne Theatre Company). She has also
performed with Dead Puppet Society, Empire Theatre,
South Australian Theatre Company, and La Boite
Theatre Company. She received a Matilda Award for Best Actress for Away
(2006), a Goldie for Best Commercial Voiceover Artist – Female (2005/6). She
was also a Montana International Documentary Film Festival Voiceover
Winner in 2010 and 2005.
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DANIEL MURPHY Actor: Khodasevich and Sasha
Daniel’s acting credits include Taming of the
Shrew and Amadeus for 4MBS; Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof, Hamlet, Away, Hitchcock Blonde, The Real
Inspector Hound/Black Comedy, The Forest, Taming of
the Shrew and Three Sisters (Queensland Theatre
Company); Red Cap, The Dance of Jeremiah,
and There Goes the Neighbourhood (La
Boîte); Blackbird (23rd Productions); The 25th Annual
Putnam County Spelling Bee (Oscar); and many others
over 30 years, collecting two Matilda awards. His film and TV credits
include Singularity, Devasdating, Reef Doctors, Mabo, K9, FARMkids,
Cool, Paperback Hero, Flipper, Pacific Drive, Fire II, Time Trax and the voice
of The Real Macaw. He has also written plays, screenplays, TV scripts, and
the award-winning comic Platinum Grit.
REBECCA RIGGS Actor: Alyona
Rebecca has decades of experience as a stage
performer for Bell Shakespeare Company,
Queensland Theatre Company, Darwin Theatre
Company, Kooemba Jdarra, La Boite and TN! She has
played Juliet, Viola and Lady Macbeth and has
appeared in many modern Australian plays including
the musicals Summer Rain and Boy from Oz, Sex
Diary of an Infidel, Man from Mukinupin and Luck of
the Draw. Fans of science fiction know her as the
irrepressible Commandant Mele-on Grayza in the Saturn Award winning
Farscape and she has also appeared in many Australian television series
including Backberner, All Saints, Day of the Roses, Medivac and Fire.
ANNIE ROBERTSON Set Design
Annie Robertson is an artist and emerging theatre designer. Originally trained
in fine art, Annie has expanded her practice to theatre design with a resulting
conceptual approach that operates in both disciplines. Recent projects
include production design for The Brisbane Writers Festival, designer for Miss
Saigon in Somerset, England, assistant designer for The Glass Menagerie at
La Boite, model/prop maker for Total Dik at the Queensland Theatre
Company, and art finisher for Salon at the Judith Wright Centre of
Contemporary Arts.
DAVID WALTERS Lighting Design
For the past 35 years David has worked as a professional Lighting Designer
in Iceland and Australia. His work experience spans lighting designs for
opera, theatre, children’s theatre, ballet, dance, puppetry, circus, son et
lumières, exhibitions, major events and architectural and landscape
installations. In recent years he has designed for the Queensland Theatre
Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, State
Theatre Company of South Australia, La Boite, Company B, Opera
Queensland, The Powerhouse, QUT, QPAC, Zen Zen Zo and Bell
Shakespeare Company.
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REQUIRED LOGOS:
Motherland was developed with the support of Metro Arts and premiered as part of The Season of the
Independents 2013.
Motherland was supported by the Judith Wright Centre’s Fresh Ground artist-in-residence initiative,
made possible through Arts Queensland.
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PERFORMANCE SPECIFICS
Daniel Murphy and Barbara Lowing in the 2013 Metro Arts Production of Motherland
DURATION
90 minutes – no interval
SUITABLE VENUES
Motherland is suited to black box theatres where the audience looks down on
the stage and for proscenium arch venues.
MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PERFORMANCES PER WEEK
7 performances
MINIMUM BREAK BETWEEN PERFORMANCES
180 minutes
LICENCING AGREEMENTS
Motherland is copyright to the playwright, Katherine Lyall-Watson. 10%
royalties from all performances go to the playwright.
APRA OBLIGATIONS
Gross Box Office Statement is due to be completed and returned within 30
days of final performance. (APRA royalties comprise 2% of gross box office.)
TOURING PERSONNEL
The touring party consists of 8 people.
Name
Barbara Lowing
Kerith Atkinson
Rebecca Riggs
Peter Cossar
Daniel Murphy
?
Role
Actor - Nina
Actor - Nelle
Actor - Alyona
Actor – Kerensky & Chris
Actor – Khodasevich & Sasha
Tour Manager
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?
Geoff Squires
Stage Manager
Lighting technician
PERFORMANCE HISTORY
Year
Venue
2013
Metro Arts
Number of
performances
15
AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT
OVERVIEW
Because Motherland is based on real events and real people, audiences are
fascinated to find out where fact ends and fiction begins. The Q&A session
held during the Metro Arts season was very popular and had to be drawn to a
close due to time, rather than any lack of questions. Audience members also
regularly chose to stay behind after the show to try to talk to the actors and
find out more. There is clearly a real hunger for engagement post show and
Ellen Belloo is happy to offer a Q&A session as a regular event at the end of
each performance.
Nelle Tritton – photo courtesy of the Tritton family
Ellen Belloo is also putting together information and archival material for a
foyer display that can be set up quickly and that can share historical
photographs, newspaper articles and mementos. A video montage will also
show interviews with key creatives describing the process of writing and
creating the production.
Interested venues could engage their communities to bring in items of their
own from the era (WWII) and display these alongside the Motherland display.
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DESCRIPTION / DETAILS
As well as the Q&A sessions and foyer displays, it may be possible
(depending on distance and availability) for the writer to offer workshops on
writing from real life. Workshops would be 3 hours in duration and participants
would be required to bring writing materials.
Participants would learn practical skills in writing real stories and the
workshop would cover research, writing and getting approval. (Katherine
Lyall-Watson has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Queensland
and her doctoral project was on writing from real life.)
COST
Workshop with writer: cost = $500 to the presenter (for venues more than a 2hour drive from Brisbane, flights/transport will also need to be included)
Foyer displays = $0
Q&A = $0
MARKETING
MARKETING COPY
One line
Award-winning drama encompassing world war, revolution, love and
betrayal.
Short
Winner of best independent production (Matilda Awards) and best overall
production (Groundlings Awards) and a finalist in the Patrick White
Playwrights’ Award, Motherland is a play about three remarkable real
women, including Nelle Tritton – the Brisbane socialite who married Russia’s
deposed Prime Minister, Alexander Kerensky, and helped him escape from
the Nazis in the Second World War. Told in a heightened, physical way where
sound, lighting and movement create a dance through the story, Motherland
covers decades, continents, revolution and World War as it explores issues
of home, belonging, love and loss.
Extended
Winner of best independent production (Matilda Awards) and best overall
production (Groundlings Awards) and a finalist in the Patrick White
Playwrights’ Award, 'Motherland' blends epic storytelling and strong
physicalisation. Caroline Dunphy has a long history in contemporary theatre
and directs Katherine Lyall-Watson’s text with rigour and fierceness. The cast
of senior artists have more than a century of professional work between them
and Barbara Lowing won two awards for her performance.
'Motherland' is based on the lives of three real women (one Australian and
two Russians) as they seek to find places for themselves in a world that is in
turmoil. The play spans the twentieth century, three continents, World War
and revolution. It is also the story of a love between two women that couldn’t
be named or celebrated because of the era in which they lived.
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Nelle Tritton was born and raised in Brisbane but was obsessed with all
things Russian. She moved to Europe where she met, worked for and then
married the exiled Russian Prime Minister, Alexander Kerensky.
Nina Berberova was a Russian writer exiled from her homeland and living in
Europe at the time of WWII. She was also a woman who described herself as
having two sexes: walking the streets of Paris at night, dressed as a man.
Alyona was a Russian historian and museum curator who met an Australian
businessman while she was preparing an exhibition on Nina’s life. She was a
single mother, lured to Australia with the promise of endless Pizza Hut and
sunshine, only to discover that the Fitzgerald Inquiry was in full force in
Queensland and her husband’s business was bankrupt.
Timeframes and locations collide and interweave as the actors play multiple
characters, switching between them with barely a moment to draw breath.
With a cast of five and a running time of 90 minutes, 'Motherland' is fastpaced, passionate theatre that will appeal to a wide audience with its
theatrical depiction of true stories.
MARKETING SUMMARY
Media releases are available from Ellen Belloo.
Brisbane newspapers picked up on the historical aspect of the story and ran
interview pieces and photographs prior to the production.
Motherland’s premier production attracted groups of seniors coming in
groups from retirement homes as well as groups of university students. The
age range attending the production went from 15 to 93 years. The
contemporary form of the production broadened its appeal and gave a new
perspective to performing real lives and history.
MEDIA QUOTES
“a most intelligent, and beautifully shared story” Xanthe Coward, XS
Entertainment
“deserves its accolades” James Harper, The Courier-Mail
“The best plays sweep you up, visually and emotionally, and drop you down
amongst the action. They’re so engaging you can’t escape. They’re so
spectacular you don’t want to. The newest production on my Best Plays list
is the phenomenal Motherland.” Weekend Notes
“Motherland marks the beginning of a new era of Australian playwriting” XS
Entertainment
“a new and daring way of constructing a play” – Alison Cotes, Crikey
“Motherland is the most elegant, most sophisticated theatrical work we’ve
seen in Brisbane in years” - XS Entertainment
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“Beautifully written and expertly crafted, a gem of a play that weaves the epic
and the personal and creates the kinds of roles actors long to play.”- Kate
Foy, Greenroom
“Dunphy’s inspired direction is faultless” – XS Entertainment
AUDIENCE REVIEWS
Patrick B:
My partner and I saw the play last night and we were blown away. […] the
commitment of everyone involved in the production was apparent in the
staging and performance, which to me was flawless. […] A great piece of
theatre that I hope goes on to receive the exposure and acclaim it truly
deserves. Don't miss it!
Jessica Loudon:
Every now and then, you see a show and you realise that it was so
momentous, so important to our theatre community that, in the future,
people will ask if you saw it and you will be able to say "I was there."
Kerry-Anne Farrer:
The best theatre is where nothing is extraneous to telling the story and it’s
the layers that keeps on resonating. Thank you Motherland for the reminder
of why I love good theatre - Bravo!
Karen Anderson:
This show needs to be seen around the country, at major theatres.
Judy Hainsworth:
Good theatre is tonic for the soul! Thank you Motherland.
Lucinda Shaw:
Beautiful rich theatre by authentic and passionate artists.
COLLEAGUE RECOMMENDATIONS
Lewis Jones, Program Manager, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts:
“Motherland is living proof that the best theatre is not about bells, whistles or
big name stars. This is simply the best drama I have seen all year.”
Brian Lucas:
“An amazing piece of work, full to the brim with heart, brains and guts.”
Christen O’Leary:
“This is a cast who stand together and commit from the first breath to the
last. This is a cast united...where everyone knows what ship they are on and
where that ship is sailing. This is a cast working. Truthfully. In every moment.
And never resting on the laurels of their considerably impressive careers.
“And this ship sails smoothly because Caroline Dunphy is a master. […] Her
subtle shift from the epic to the intimate is masterful. This is a director with a
delicate and detailed touch. The playwright and cast are in very safe hands
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here...and they know it.”
Baz Mcallister:
“Peopled by compelling characters brought to life by a skilled
cast, Motherland is a gripping, intricate tale that delicately teases its
fascinating interwoven stories out of Brisbane’s hidden history.”
VIDEO LINKS
http://vimeo.com/92098500
IMAGES
Photographs displayed here: http://ellenbelloo.com/2014/02/15/motherlandphotos-and-press/
High resolution versions available from [email protected]
MARKETING MATERIALS
Flyers and posters will be prepared.
Broadcast quality footage is also available along with a 3-minute trailer that
can be edited down for a TVC.
Behind the scenes interviews are also available.
CONTENT WARNINGS / AUDIENCES TO AVOID
Motherland contains some loud noises, strong language and adult themes. It
is recommended for audiences over the age of 15.
SPONSOR OR OTHER ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Motherland was developed with the support of Metro Arts and premiered as part of The Season of the
Independents 2013.
Motherland was supported by the Judith Wright Centre’s Fresh Ground artist-in-residence initiative,
made possible through Arts Queensland.
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TEACHER’S RESOURCES
Ellen Belloo is happy to facilitate and compile teacher’s resources for venues
that require them. Motherland is not envisaged for classes younger than
grade 10.
PRODUCTION DETAILS
TECHNICAL SUMMARY
• Playing space is a minimum 8m wide by 6m deep. For larger venues
the stage will need to be contained by masking: flat black legs, borders
and a flat black smother. A black floor is required.
• The set consists primarily of two suspended trapezoidal frames (very
light) with dimensions approx 1.5m X 2.0m X 2.5m. These can be
suspended either from a flying system or dead hung from a grid.
• In addition there are 4 small benches (moved by the actors) and
minimal props.
• The show will tour its own show control for lights and sound
• The show incorporates the use of live flame.
• The show running time is 90 minutes with no interval.
EXAMPLE SCHEDULE
• 1 hour to unload and rig set
• 5 hours to rig and focus lights and set up sound
• 1 hour to check lighting and sound plot
• 2 hours to tech the show with actors, lights and sound
Total bump in time is 8 hours excluding meal breaks
CREW REQUIRED FROM VENUE
• 1 mech for 1 hour
• 2 electrics for 5 hours
• 1 sound for 1 hour
• FOH staff as required by venue
Motherland will tour a stage manager, a head LX and a tour
manager/production manager. The intention is for the stage manager to
operate sound and the touring head LX to operate lights.
STAGE
• Playing space is a minimum 8m wide by 6m deep. For larger venues
the stage will need to be contained by masking: flat black legs, borders
and a flat black smother. A black floor is required.
• The set consists primarily of two suspended trapezoidal frames (very
light) with dimensions approx 1.5m X 2.0m X 2.5m. These can be
suspended either from a flying system or dead hung from a grid.
• In addition there are 4 small benches (moved by the actors) and
minimal props.
Ellen Belloo to supply
Frames, wires and clamps for suspending them.
4 benches
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All props
Venue to supply
Masking (if required)
LIGHTING
Ellen Belloo to supply
•
•
•
•
1 X Lighting board
2 X Martin Mac 250+ moving lights (+ 1 X spare)
8 X 12V 50W MR16 birdies c/w fused transformers
24 X 6V 30W pin spots
Venue to supply
• 4 X wide angle zoom profiles c/w fine break up gobos
• 24 X Zoom profiles (beam angles and wattage will be determined by
the size of the venue)
• 12 X Fresnels c/w barndoors (wattage will be determined by the size of
the venue)
• 1 X 2KW Fresnel c/w barndoor
• 16 X LED PARs (or equivalent)
• 4 X 3m booms (preferably pre-rigged?)
• All necessary 240V looms/cabling + DMX cabling
• A minimum of 48 X 10A dimmers
• All necessary colour (some show colour will be toured).
SOUND
OPERATION
• QLab on Macbook Pro
• Motu Soundcard (5 outputs used)
MIXER
Required for operation:
• 5 x line inputs
• LR output
• 3 x auxiliary outputs
MAINS
• Venue PA
SFX SPOT SPEAKERS
• 2 x 15” PA speakers (on ground side stage in wings)
• 1 x 12” PA speaker (at back of auditorium)
• 1 x 8” studio monitor or foldback speaker (on ground upstage center)
(no stands required)
Ellen Belloo to supply
• QLab on Macbook Pro
• Motu Soundcard (5 outputs used)
• 2 x 15” PA speakers (on ground side stage in wings)
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• 1 x 12” PA speaker (at back of auditorium)
• 1 x 8” studio monitor or foldback speaker (on ground upstage center)
Venue to supply
• Venue PA
• Mixer with:
5 x line inputs
LR output
3 x auxiliary outputs
WARDROBE
All costumes are on stage throughout the show as the actors never leave the
stage.
Ellen Belloo to supply all costumes.
Venue to supply two dressing rooms (one is manageable but two is
preferable).
FREIGHT NOTES
Touring elements will arrive by truck. Access to a loading dock preferred.
CRITICAL ISSUES
A sheet of paper is set alight in the play. It’s put out in a bucket treated with
fire retardant and filled with sand. Members of the cast and crew have been
trained in fire safety.
CONTACTS
Katherine Lyall-Watson – Producer (programming/publicity/technical) –
[email protected] 0404802800
Caroline Dunphy – Director and co-producer - [email protected]
0412109399
Dane Alexander – Sound designer (technical) - [email protected]
0424199385
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