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PLAYWRIGHT
Justin Fleming’s plays include Hammer
(Ensemble Theatre Company), The Cobra,
Harold In Italy, The Ninth Wonder (Sydney
Theatre Company), Moliere’s Tartuffe (The
Hypocrite) (Melbourne Theatre Company) and
The School for Wives for Bell Shakespeare.
His play Burnt Piano (Belvoir, Melbourne
Theatre Company, Ensemble) won the New
York New Dramatists’ Award and the Centaur
Theatre Exchange, Montréal and Coup D’Etat
(Melbourne Theatre Company, Western Canada
Theatre, Bakehouse) won the Banff PlayRites
Residency. The Department Store (Old Fitzroy)
and His Mother’s Voice (Australian Theatre for
Young People, Bakehouse) were both awarded
the Mitch Mathews Award.
Justin’s play Origin was produced at The
Art of Evolution Conference, Courtauld
Institute, London and Soldier of the Mind was
commissioned by The New York Ensemble
Studio Theatre. Shellshock is published by
Phoenix Education.
CAST
TOM LINDSAY
BENSON JACK ANTHONY
MATTHEW LINDSAY/ JACK LINDSAY
JACK FINSTERER
JUNE LINDSAY/ OLD SOLDIER
SANDY GORE
KAZAN/ NARRATOR/ SECURITY GUARD
YALIN OZUCELIK
NURSE/ ADILE GOYMEN/ SOLDIER
FRANCESCA SAVIGE
DIRECTOR
Wayne Harrison AM, is a former artistic
director/CEO of Sydney Theatre Company
(1990-99), creative director of Sydney’s
New Year’s Eve celebrations (2005-07) and
the director of the Closing Ceremony for the
Melbourne Commonwealth Games. He was
co-producer of Gumboots, Tap Dogs, Slava’s
Snowshow and Fosse (Back Row/Clear
Channel Entertainment, Europe).
Recent theatre credits include Young and
Jackson (fortyfivedownstairs), The One Day
of the Year (Finborough Theatre, London),
Letter to Larry (Theatre Nesle, Paris),
Mom’s the Word / For Crying Out Loud (The
Grand Theatre, Ontario), Human Nature
-The Motown Show and The Christmas
Show (The Venetian, Las Vegas), Man in
the Middle (Theatre 503, London), Celebrity
Autobiography and Love, Loss and What I
Wore (Sydney Opera House).
Wayne’s other credits include Australia
Plays Broadway (New York’s Carnegie Hall
and Lincoln Center); Justin Fleming’s Origin
(Somerset House, London and the Art Gallery
of NSW) and Codgers – The Film.
Wayne is the chief creative officer for
Spiegelworld International. His productions
As much as Gallipoli is
ingrained in our national
psyche, a play does not come
from nowhere. It percolates
from the realm of the possible
into the mind of the playwright.
Sometimes, that trajectory
is mercifully direct. In 2013,
Riverside commissioned a play
for the Centenary of ANZAC, with Wayne Harrison as
director. He and I have often collaborated and know
how each other works. Wayne rang me and gave me
one snippet of fact to ignite the process: a soldier
took home a baby tortoise from Gallipoli in 1915 and
that tortoise is still alive. After confirming this snippet
online, I began to build an elaborate fiction. During the
writing process, my partner Fae Brauer alerted me to
Stanley Spencer’s The Resurrection of the Soldiers
at the Sandham Memorial Chapel, Burghclere, which
has an extraordinary detail of a soldier calmly stroking
a small tortoise. Here was an artistic nexus between
Wayne’s idea and the play which, after two workshops,
is what you will see on stage here at Riverside.
I wish to thank Riverside Theatres, Robert Love,
Camilla Rountree, Wayne Harrison, Fae Brauer, Sue
Malvern, Andrew Stephenson, the Estate of Stanley
Spencer, David Stewart, Toni Reiseger, Phoenix
Education, Benson Jack Anthony, Andrea Demetriades,
Jack Finsterer, Sandy Gore, Geraldine Hakewill, Peter
Kowitz, Alastair Osment, Yalin Ozucelik, Francesca
Savige and Sue Wallace for their generous contribution
to the development of the play.
Justin Fleming, 2015
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RIVERSIDE THEATRES PRESENTS
A RIVERSIDE PRODUCTION
A NEW PLAY ABOUT GALLIPOLI BY JUSTIN FLEMING
DIRECTED BY WAYNE HARRISON
30 JULY – 8 AUGUST
HERMAN
HIMSELF
CREATIVE TEAM
THANK YOU
RIVERSIDE THEATRES
PLAYWRIGHT
JUSTIN FLEMING
MILES MERRILL
DIRECTOR
WAYNE HARRISON
SOPHIA KOUYOUMDJIAN
AT PARRAMATTA ARTISTS STUDIOS
DIRECTOR
ROBERT LOVE
SET AND COSTUME DESIGN
ANNA GARDINER
HOLGER SCHUMANN
LIGHTING DESIGN
MATTHEW MARSHALL
WAYNE
HARRISON
WRITER’S NOTE
IE
SOUND DESIGN
NATE EDMONDSON
PROJECTION DESIGN
MARTIN KINNANE
PUPPET CREATION AND PERFORMANCE
SUE WALLACE
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER
JONATHAN LLEWELLYN
WAYNE PARK
SIMON GREER
ALLYCE AND MATT LONGMAN
STC LIGHTING
KIRSTY MCGREGOR
NICHOLAS DARE
ORIGINAL MUSIC BY
JOSEPH TAWADROS
AUSTRALIAN THEATRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
PRODUCER
CAMILLA ROUNTREE
STAGE MANAGER
ALISON HEPBURN-BROWN
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
SHANNYN MILLER
PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHY
HEIDRUN LÖHR
SET CONSTRUCTION
THOMAS CREATIVE
SCENIC ART
PIER PRODUCTIONS
TECHNICAL COORDINATOR
SEAN CLARKE
SHOW TECHNICIAN
BROOKE SHELTON
OPERATIONS MANAGER
LINDA TAYLOR
PROGRAM MANAGER
MICHELLE KOTEVSKI
MARGARET GILL
ANIMATRONIC TORTOISE
HANNAH CROSBY
PLAYED BY
JOSEPH TAWADROS – OUD
JAMES TAWADROS – REQ AND BENDIR
JAMES CRABB – ACCORDIAN
JAMES GREENING – TROMBONE
MATT MCMAHON – PIANO
DIMITRI VOUROS – CLARINET
BEN RODGERS – ELECTRIC BASS
BUSINESS MANAGER
PAMELA THORNTON
OUR PARTNERS
PRINCIPAL PARTNER
(GOVERNMENT)
LAURA TURNER
PARTNER
(GOVERNMENT)
SHELLSHOCK
MERCHANDISE
A special edition of
the script will be
available at the bar for
purchase during the
season of Shellshock
for $15 each.
For more information
visit phoenixeduc.com
A selection of music
featured in the play
is also available.
PARTNER
(HOTEL)
PARTNER
(MEDIA)
SHELLSHOCK
PARTNER
Shellshock is a new play commissioned
by Riverside Theatres and partnered by
Crown Resorts Foundation. Supported
by the Australian Government’s Anzac
Centenary and Local Grants Program.
THEATRE
JUSTIN
FLEMING
include Absinthe, Desir, Empire (New York),
Vegas Nocturne (Las Vegas) and Absinthe
(Miami and Las Vegas). The production of
Absinthe at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas is
now in its fifth year.
BENSON
JACK
ANTHONY
TOM LINDSAY
One of Australia’s emerging young actors,
Benson’s television credits include the critically
acclaimed Underbelly Razor and the telemovie
Blood Brothers, both for the Nine Network.
After making his debut on television in The
Mystery of Natalie Wood, Benson appeared
in the teen television series Chatroom Chicks
for ABC and A Gurls Wurld, and the first series
of My Place. He also appeared in the first and
second series of Disney-ABC’s United States
series Legend of The Seeker alongside Craig
Horner, Bridget Regan and Bruce Spence.
More recently, Benson secured one of the
leading roles as Sam in the 2014 short film
Prank. Benson has just completed filming the
Australian comedy drama series 800 Words for
the Seven Network alongside Erik Thomson.
JACK
FINSTERER
MATTHEW LINDSAY,
JACK LINDSAY
Jack has worked extensively in theatre, film
and television. Most recently he has been
seen in Winter, The Dr Blake Mysteries and as
Edgo in the soon to be released feature Is This
the Real World. Other credits include Kokoda,
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Mr and Mrs
Murder, Dangerous, Big Reef, City Homicide,
Rush, In Her Skin and Strange
Fits of Passion.
His theatre credits include shows Beneath
Heaven (The Keene / Taylor Theatre Project),
Disturbing the Dust, Jungfrau (Malthouse),
Romeo and Juliet (Elston Hocking & Woods),
Don’t Say the Words, The Emperor of Sydney,
The Woman with Dog’s Eyes (Griffin Theatre
Company), Cyrano de Bergerac, Third World
Blues and Titus Andronicus (Sydney Theatre
Company). This is Jack’s first show with
Riverside Theatres.
SANDY
GORE
Prisoner, A Country Practice, Newly Weds and
Rafferty’s Rules. Her film credits are Now Add
Honey, Australia, Evil Angels, Lorenzo’s Oil,
Undercover and Paws.
On stage she has in excess of forty-five
leading credits to her name. Recent theatre
appearances include Calpurnia Descending,
Uncle Vanya, Under Milk Wood (Sydney Theatre
Company), Small & Tired (Belvoir St Theatre),
Parramatta Girls (Riverside Theatres), Becky
Shaw (Ensemble Theatre), The Taming of
the Shrew (Bell Shakespeare Company) and
Travelling North (HIT Productions). She is most
proud of creating roles in new Australian plays
for leading playwrights David Williamson, Ray
Lawler, Alex Buzo and Nick Enright.
YALIN
OZUCELIK
KAZAN, NARRATOR,
SECURITY GUARD
Yalin recently performed with Richard
Tognetti and The Australian Chamber
Orchestra in Reflections on Gallipoli. He
played Le Bret in Cyrano de Bergerac for the
Sydney Theatre Company for which he
received a Sydney Theatre Awards
nomination. Additionally, he played Cyrano
in Sport For Jove’s outdoor production of the
same play, receiving Best Actor in a Leading
Role (Independent Production) at the 2014
Sydney Theatre Awards).
Some other theatre credits include
The Importance of Being Earnest (State
Theatre Company South Australia), Vere/
Faith (State Theatre Company South Australia,
Sydney Theatre Company), This Is Where We
Live (Just Visiting, Griffin Independent), Henry
IV and King Lear (Bell Shakespeare), A Beautiful
Life (Matrix, La Boite).
He recently filmed across two television series,
Deadline Gallipoli (Matchbox Pictures) and
Gallipoli (Endemol Australia) which have aired
in Australia this year.
NATE
EDMONDSON
SOUND DESIGN
ANNA
GARDINER
SET AND
COSTUME DESIGN
A West Australian Academy of Performing
Arts graduate, Anna has designed for
numerous productions across Sydney
including costume design for Into the Woods
(Rob Guest Endowment); Romeo and Juliet,
As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew,
Macbeth, Hamlet, The Tempest, Twelfth
Night, Cyrano De Bergerac (Sport for Jove).
Her design work includes This Fella, My
Memory (Moogahlin Performing Arts); A Year
with Frog and Toad, Camp, Dark Voyager,
Absent Friends, Educating Rita, The Shoehorn
Sonata and Ladies in Lavender (Ensemble
Theatre); Rooted (Don’t Look Away); Twelfth
Night, The Crucible, Merchant of Venice (Sport
for Jove); Henry V (Bell Shakespeare); Blood
Brothers (Enda Markey Presents), Orphans
(Redline Productions), The Unknown Soldier
(Monkey Baa).
Anna has received nominations for the
Sydney Theatre Awards for The Taming of
the Shrew and Cyrano De Bergerac (Sport for
Jove) and the Greenroom Award for Henry V
(Bell Shakespeare). She was awarded Best
Stage Design of a Mainstream Production for
Henry V (Bell Shakespeare) at the 2014
Sydney Theatre Awards.
MATTHEW
MARSHALL
Nate has had the pleasure of working with
many of Australia’s forefront theatre and dance
companies, including Sydney Theatre Company,
Force Majeure, Belvoir, Sydney Dance
Company, Bell Shakespeare, Malthouse, Griffin,
Darlinghurst Theatre Company and Australian
Theatre for Young People, as well as many
acclaimed independent production companies
both nationally and internationally. Further to his
theatre work, Nate also produces music for
short films and advertising, lectures and
mentors students at the National Institute of
Dramatic Art, Australian Institute of Music
Dramatic Arts, Actors College of Theatre and
Television and Wesley Institute. He also consults
on many theatrical and musical productions
annually across Sydney.
SUE
WALLACE
PUPPET CREATION AND
PERFORMANCE
Sue Wallace has worked with the Sydney
Puppet Theatre for 30 years as a performer,
writer, director and puppet maker
and continues to be fascinated by the
extraordinary art of puppetry.
Performing extensively around Australia and
at festivals and events overseas, her solo
show Nella’s Wings was given a Special
Children’s Award at the Harmony World
Carnival of Puppetry in Bangkok in 2014.
Sue is the Artistic Director of ImaginArta - the
Australian Puppet Centre and in August this
year ImaginArta will open a permanent venue
in the Southern Highlands with the support of
the Wingecarribee Shire Council.
LIGHTING DESIGN
FRANCESCA
SAVIGE
NURSE, ADILE GOYMEN,
SOLDIER
A National Institute of Dramatic Art graduate,
Sandy is a well-known face on Australian stage
and screen.
Francesca’s theatre credits include Girl in
Tan Boots (Griffin), Away, The Importance of
Being Earnest, The Female of the Species,
The Crucible (Queensland Theatre Company)
and numerous productions with Sport for
Jove, including All’s Well That Ends Well
and A Doll’s House for which she received
Sydney Theatre Award nominations.
Sandy’s television credits include Rake, Grass
Roots, Brides of Christ, Farscape, Murder Call,
Her screen appearances include Packed
to the Rafters and Home and Away.
JUNE LINDSAY/
OLD SOLDIER
Francesca has been awarded grants by Arts
Queensland, the Ian Potter Cultural Trust,
The Winston Churchill Fellowship and in
2015 will travel to London as a recipient of a
Globe International Actor’s Fellowship.
Matthew Marshall, a graduate from the West
Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2001,
is in demand for his dynamic lighting designs
for theatre, opera, events and dance. His
credits include La Cenerentola (New Zealand
Opera), Velvet (Adelaide Fringe), Iphigenie En
Tauride (Pinchgut Opera), New Breed (Sydney
Dance Company), Day One, A Hotel, Evening
(Black Swan State Theatre Company), The
Language Of Living (The New Zealand Dance
Company), This Is Our Youth (Sydney Opera
House), and the Helpmann Award winning
Smoke And Mirrors by iOTA and Craig Ilott
(Sydney Festival/Speigeltent International).
A prolific composer and sound designer,
MARTIN
KINNANE
PROJECTION DESIGN
Martin has designed for theatre and events
both nationally and internationally. He has lit
many productions including Six Dance Lessons
in Six Weeks and End of the Rainbow
( Ensemble Theatre), Love Loss and What I
Wore and Celebrity Autobiography (Sydney
Opera House) and Shakespeare’s R&J and Just
Macbeth (Bell Shakespeare Company). Other
lighting credits include The Hatpin, Love Song,
LoveBITES, Bang, Belongings and Unholy
Ghosts (White Box Theatre), Fairy’s Wings,
Worry Warts, Bugalugs Bum Thief and Sprung
(Monkey Baa), Satango and The House On The
Lake (Griffin Theatre Company), Sunset
Boulevard and Promises, Promises (The
Production Company) and Letter To Larry
(CheepUk in the Theatre Nesle, Paris).
Work beyond the theatrical includes the Hamer
Hall Opening Celebrations in 2012; East
Timor’s Independence Day Celebrations for the
United Nations; Absinthe, Desir and Empire
for Spiegelworld in New York, Las Vegas,
Miami, Australia, New Zealand and Tokyo;
and the Papal Ceremonies at World Youth Day
2008. Martin is possibly best known for his
spectacularly theatrical lighting of the Sydney
Harbour Bridge (the Bridge Effect) from 2000 to
2007 for NewYears Eve, which has brought him
international renown.
JOSEPH
TAWADROS
ORIGINAL MUSIC
Born in Cairo, Egypt and resident of Australia
since 1986, Joseph Tawadros has
established himself as one of the world’s
leading Oud performers and composers. With
12 ARIA nominated albums to his name - the
last three winning Best World Music Album at
the 2012, 2013 and 2014 ARIA Awards Joseph regularly appears in concert halls and
at festivals throughout Europe, America, Asia
and the Middle East, collaborating with
internationally acclaimed artists including
Zakir Hussain, Béla Fleck, John Abercrombie,
Lior, Richard Tognetti and the Australian
Chamber Orchestra. In 2014 Joseph received
the Premier’s Medal for Arts And Culture (NSW).
Joseph’s unique compositions and
spectacular virtuosity have not only
increased the Oud’s presence in mainstream
culture, but earned him recognition in the
Arab world, as a guest of the Damascus
International Oud Competition and Istanbul’s
inaugural Oud festival.
CAMILLA
ROUNTREE
PRODUCER
Camilla was the Riverside Producer for twelve
years. Her productions included the awardwinning Rainbow’s End, Parramatta Girls,
RU4ME, All The Blood and All The Water,
Codgers, Shakespeare’s R&J, King Lear,
Hamlet, Madam Butterfly and Carmen. She
also ran True West Theatre, Riverside’s
independent theatre seasons and programed
main stage, music and education programs
for Riverside.
Camilla produced Into with dancer Kathryn
Dunn and choreographers Francis Rings and
Narelle Benjamin and directed Slamming
(Sydney Festival). She directed and co-wrote
with John Turnbull Birth Of The Cool (Sydney
Festival at Riverside, Edinburgh Fringe Festival,
Rhurfestspiel, Germany, Melbourne Festival),
which was nominated as Best Cabaret
Production in the Sydney Theatre Awards.
Camilla was co-producer for the opening
of Luna Park, Sydney including Sunset
Boulevard in Concert and the Luna Park
Opening Concert. She was Producer for
Sydney Theatre Company Foundation Events
and Associate Producer for Sydney Theatre
Company productions including Dein Perry’s
Steel City and Lush. She is currently working
as a free-lance producer across a range of
new projects.
ALISON
HEPBURNBROWN
STAGE MANAGER
Alison worked as a Stage Manager for the
Ensemble Theatre: Last Of The Red Hot Lovers,
Brooklyn Boy, The Sunset Limited, And The
Cow Jumped Over The Moon, Tuesdays With
Morrie, The Thank You Dinner, Death Of A
Salesman, Derrida In Love, Are You There, I Get
The Music In You – An Evening With Jan Van De
Stool, End Of The Rainbow, The Violet Hour and
Kimberly Akimbo. For Griffin: Wicked Sisters,
Presence, Black And Tran and Rabbit.
For Company B: Svetlana In Sling Backs,
Conversations With The Dead, Our Lady Of
Sligo. Richard 3rd - Siren Theatre Company. Fox
and Bugalugs Bum Thief for Monkey Baa. At
Riverside King Lear, Codgers, Who Killed Mario
Lanza, Ru4Me and Parramatta Girls.
SHANNYN
MILLER
ASSISTANT
STAGE MANAGER
Shannyn is a Technical Production Graduate
from the National Inistute of Dramatic Art and
is thrilled to be a part of this exciting new
production of Shellshock.
Her credits include Fly Away Peter (Sydney
Chamber Opera), Pillow Talk (Spectrum Now/
Sydney Theatre), The Australian Subscription
Television and Radio Association Awards, Aida
(Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour), Mardi Gras
After Party (Fourth Wall Events), Bianco Del
Rio’s Comedy Special (Sydney Theatre), The
Corinthian Creative Development (Australian
Theatre for Young People), Australian Event
Awards, So You Think You Can Dance (Channel
10) and The Voice (Channel 9).