Download the dust and us - La Mama Theatre

presents
the dust
and us
May 21 - May 31, 2015
@ La Mama Courthouse
Created by Justine Campbell and Sarah Hamilton
of HUMAN ANIMAL EXCHANGE
Director: Justine Campbell
Composition by Jud Campbell
Music performed by Jud Campbell and Dane Adamo
Set and Costume Design by Owen Phillips
Lighting Design by Matthew Adey – House of Vnholy
Stage Manager/Lighting Operator: Imogen Titmarsh
Sound Operator: Nick Fraser
Image by Sophia Purvis
More info via www.humananimalexchange.com
Blow by blow
I’ve carved out a life
And I’ll keep
Earning a crust
Long as I keep digging
In the dark
Damp and dust.
It’s been a year and a half since Justine Campbell and Sarah Hamilton presented They Saw a
Thylacine at the Melbourne Fringe. The work went on to win the fringe’s Best Performance and
Tiki Tour Ready awards and will be re-imagined later this year as part of Malthouse Theatre’s 2015
season.
The duo formed HUMAN ANIMAL EXCHANGE with the purpose of creating new work exploring
the relationship and struggle between our human and animal instincts, and our exchange with the
natural world.
The Dust and Us explores exploitation of the earth, and how it can come back and bite us on the
bum.
She’s the tenth island, in a chain of islands
In the hairy part of the sea
Off the coast of the island that sits below the mainland
If you get my drift
Little anchors
Stopping the mainland from floating away.
Sarah Hamilton
Sarah is a Melbourne based writer and performer. Her one woman show A Donkey and a Parrot,
directed by Justine Campbell, played at Melbourne and Adelaide Fringe Festivals and at Gilded
Balloon for Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Sarah’s theatre credits as a performer include Girls do
Gertrude! directed by Cheyney Caddy (Black Apple), Surfacing directed by Nate Gilkes and
The Killing Game directed by Greg Stone (Theatre Works/University of Ballart Arts Academy). At
fortyfivedownstairs Sarah performed in Adam J.A Cass plays Oasis, Oasis and One is Warm in
Winter, The Other Has a Better View. At La Mama she acted in Killing Fever (Adam Cass/Lauren
Bailey) and was in readings of Goodbye Princess (Ridiculusmus) and Merrilee Moss’ Oriel directed
by Kim Durban. Sarah recently performed in a play reading of Adam J.A Cass’ latest work Bock
Kills Her Father as part of the VCA Masters of Writing for Performance program. Sarah studied
Acting at the University of Ballarat Arts Academy.
Justine Campbell
A graduate of the VCA, Justine has directed for companies such as Jigsaw and The Street Theatre
in Canberra. Justine wrote and directed Back From The Dead Red which received a Green Room
Award nomination for design. Justine’s professional acting credits include Emma in William Yang’s
Emma’s Dynasty, Big Sister Little Brother (QLD, NSW, VIC tour) Too Hot To Handle (Jigsaw),
QED, Breathing Corpses, Boston Marriage, Berlin Cabaret of Desire (The Street), Summer of the
Seventeenth Doll (Complete Works). Justine has toured throughout South Korea with REM/LATT
performing in Strange Soup, The Little Dragon and Twelve Animals. While in South Korea, Justine
voiced numerous commercials, storybooks and animations. Justine has been invited to be a 2015
participant in the MTC’s Women Directors’ Program. Since 2011 Justine has been a judge on the
Green Room Awards Independent Theatre Panel.
Jud Campbell
Jud Campbell is a singer, songwriter and multi instrumentalist who has performed in various
musical groups for the last 17 Years. As the primary songwriter and vocalist for The Disables, Jud
has performed and toured nationally and internationally also playing on such festivals as the Big
Day Out, Falls Festival, Livid Festival, Soundwave Festival etc. Whilst the Disables also received
high rotation for their recorded works on Triple J they also were honoured with the No 1 song of
the year as voted by listeners of Triple Zed radio in 2006. Jud has also scored soundtracks for tv
and film including for Stephen Kings the Strand and ABC’s Forlorn Gaze for which Jud was also
the creator, writer and actor on the project. Currently Jud is performing and recording regularly as
a solo singer/songwriter and his song “Going Home” was featured in the top 20 songs of the year
as voted for by listeners of 98.9 FM Murri Country radio Queensland. Jud has also recently been
involved composing the music for various campaign videos for candidates in the Victorian and
NSW state elections for the Greens Party Australia and the Wilderness Society.
www.facebook.com/judcampbellmusic
Dane Adamo
Dane is 30 years of age, and has been a musician for 20 years. He has played in numerous bands
and has toured nationally and internationally. Dane has recorded to solo EPs.
www.facebook.com/daneadamoandthehaunted
Matthew Adey – House of Vnholy
Matthew Adey is a production designer and theatre artist from Melbourne, Victoria. He works
under the moniker House of Vnholy specialising in the creation of live performance, set and lighting
design, installation and sculpture. HOV investigates the distillation of the visual image, spatial
and temporal relationships with a bold aesthetical approach and an open mind to collaboration
and experimentation across a variety of disciplines. HOV’s collaborations in theatre include MKA’s
Double Feature at Neon MTC, Red Stitch’s Grounded with Kirsten Von Bibra The Motion of Light
on Water by Elbow Room, Next Wave’s Shotgun Wedding by No Show, Attempts On Her Life with
Tanya Dickson, and I Am The Wind by TurtleLab/Public Front. Collaborations in dance include
Shian Law’s Personal Mythologies and Body Obscure Object, Atlanta Eke’s Body of Work, Natalie
Abbott’s MAXIMUM, Melanie Lane’s MERGE, Sarah Aiken’s Three Short Pieces, Lilian Steiner’s
Noise. Quartet. Meditation, Phantom Limbs & Luke George’s TRTH+FNTSY and Jo Lloyd’s 24 Hour
Noise. HOV recently received the VCA Graduate Mentorship with Phillip Adams of BalletLab for a
new performance installation, MONO - premieres in Melbourne in August.
www.houseofvnholy.com
Owen Phillips
Owen Phillips is a Melbourne-based set and costume designer who graduated from NIDA with a
Bachelor of Dramatic Art (Design) in 2011. Career highlights include I’ll Eat You Last for Melbourne
Theatre Company, Sisters Grimm’s The Sovereign Wife for MTC Neon, the Helpmann Award-winning Sweet Charity for Hayes Theatre Co. and the subsequent national tour, Psycho Beach Party
for Little Ones Theatre, The Myth Project: Twin (MTC Neon/Arthur), Wael Zuiater: Unknown (Theatre Works/Next Wave), Terrence McNally’s Master Class (Left Bauer Productions), Gaybies for
Darlinghurst Theatre Company, La Cage Aux Folles (The Production Company) and Straight (Red
Stitch Actors Theatre). Owen’s designs have been nominated for multiple Green Room Awards and
a Sydney Theatre Award. Owen is a recipient of the Australian Council’s ArtStart Grant for 2015.
www.owenphillipsdesign.com
Imogen Titmarsh
Imogen is a freelance stage manger currently based in Melbourne. In 2011 she graduated from
Queensland University of Technology majoring in Technical Production. Since graduating she has
worked for Queensland Music festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival and Melbourne Fringe Festival. She
has worked in several independent productions in both Melbourne and Brisbane.
Thank you
Adam Cass, Caitlin Dullard, Nick Fraser, Evan Thomas, Kyle Morris, Sophia PurvisVince Morro,
all of the wonderful staff at La Mama, and of course all of our dear families and friends who have
supported us, and helped us to collect glass!
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Our sincerest thanks to the many volunteers who generously give their time in support of La Mama.
La Mama’s Committee of Management, staff and its wider theatrical community acknowledge
that our theatre is on traditional Wurundjeri land.
The La Mama community acknowledges the considerable support it has received in the past
decade from Jeannie Pratt and The Pratt Foundation.
La Mama is financially assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council – its
arts funding and advisory body, the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria - Department of
Premier and Cabinet, and the City of Melbourne through the Arts and Culture triennial funding
program.