The Stirling Players Inc Present 'Collaborators'
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Fri 03 Oct 2014 - Sat 18 Oct 2014
The Stirling Players Inc. Present 'Collaborators'
Once again
Stirling Players are fulfilling their commitment to producing new and challenging theatre productions, which have not been presented in South Australia before.Their latest production,
Collaborators, written by John Hodge, directed by
Megan Dansie is another Australian first. It premiered at The National Theatre in London in 2011, and won the Olivier Award for
Best Play in 2012.Inspired by history, John Hodge's dark comic drama is a macabre and disturbing commentary regarding the playwright, Mikhail Bulgakov, whose writing was regularly censored or banned for opposing Bolshevism. Ironically, another of his plays
White Guard, Stalin saw 15 times and considered it one of his favourite plays.
Bulgakov is engaged to write a play to celebrate Josef Stalin's 60th birthday. This caustic commentary explores the pressure of fear, wit and entertaining satire to focus on the flexibility of the human spirit to find comedy in the most fearful circumstances.
Hence, a bizarre "collaboration" begins.
In 2011,
Collaborators was described by
London's National Theatre as "blistering... a lethal game of cat and mouse through which the appalling compromises and humiliations inflicted on any artist by those with power are held up to scrutiny". ""We want our audiences to have a great night out, something to think about as they leave the theatre, and debate over in the coming days," said Lori Nielsen, of the Players' Publicity Team. "Entertainment, yes, but we also like our audiences to experience a more complex and sometimes disturbing truth.&
#8232 ;Over the past two years alone, we have presented plays which have dealt with stresses on Australian rural families in Inheritance, the questionable nature of modern parenting in
God of Carnage, rights and freedoms of ageing parents in
Mr Bailey's Minder and now rights and freedoms of another kind - those of artists in a dictatorship in
Collaborators".&
#8232 ;&
#8232 ;Nielsen added, "
Collaborators is our third Australian premiere in two years, after sell-out productions of Lady in the Van in 2013 and Compleat Female Stage Beauty in 2012".Both
Compleat Female Stage Beauty and
Collaborators have been directed by Megan Dansie, an AdelaideTheatre Guide Curtain Call and SA Critics Circle Award Winner for her productions of
The Pillowman and
Richard III for the Theatre Guild.
Following her award winning productions of
Richard III and
The Pillowman, she produced
Romeo and Juliet for The Theatre Guild. Her production of
Richard 111 for The Theatre Guild was recently acclaimed at the annual ATG awards.Nielsen said, "Megan specifically chose The Stirling Players as the company she wanted to work with on these productions knowing our ethos and our ability to meet the challenge of mounting, casting, staging and costuming these large productions with our talented and cohesive production team.Although based in the historic Stirling Community Theatre we draw directors, cast, crew and audiences from all over Adelaide.
In the past three years we have won or been nominated for the ATG Curtain Call Awards for every one of our productions."
Collaborators at the
Stirling Theatre, Gary George plays Bulgakov,
Peter Davies, the Russian dictator, and
Sharon Malujlo, the dissident's wife, Yelena.
Miriam Keane, Philip Lineton, Matt Houston, Alex Antoniou, Steve Marvanek, Brendan Clare, David Lockwood, Sam Rogers, Joshua Coldwell, Angela Short and
Lauren Scarfe complete the cast.When: Fri & Sat 3,4, 10, 11, 17, 18 Oct. at 8.00 pm
Sun 5 & 12 Oct. at 4.00 pm.Backstage tour after the 5 Oct matinee. Where: Stirling Community Theatre, Avenue Road, Stirling Cost: Adult $20, Conc. $16 Groups of 10 $14 Phone: Stirling Players' Ticketing 0414 075 413 Website: www.stirlingplayers.sct.org.au
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!date 03/10/2014 -- 18/10/2014
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