Sunday 13 July 2008
Hush Little Baby
A woman suffering from post-natal depression develops a surprising way of coping with her situation.
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Friday 11 July 2008
Svila
A young woman journeys to Serbia after the war that tore the region apart in the early 1990s. As she travels around, she follows the footsteps of her Serbian-born father, discovering what he experienced there during an earlier war.
Sunday 06 July 2008
The Elephant's Ark
Jaclyn returns reluctantly from her high-powered job in London to the family farm in rural Australia to scatter her mother's ashes. Her mother, Margy, had left the farm over thirty years before with the young Jaclyn, and the two had never been back. Yet Margy had requested that her ashes return there, and so Jaclyn must confront the estranged father she has not seen for so long, and the family secrets that led to Margy's departure.
Sunday 29 June 2008
Swim, Swim Swan Song
Games within a game, a composition within a composition: the play is continuous but constantly changing. Talk, toys, verses and chants, nonsense, ritual, parody and mockery line the path back to childhood in this musical montage. From the nursery to the sports field and in the eternal forests of fairytale, the children are playing.
Sunday 22 June 2008
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An Accidental Guide to Sydney
A radiophonic work by Gail Priest from a text by Caitlin Newton-Broad. Shadowing young urban demi-god Murray, we encounter various characters on the city streets: Circuit Girl, Suit Guy and Unlucky Guy, among others. Our musical and sonic adventure takes us through some of the less salubrious inner city suburbs, on the edge of the CBD and definitely in a state of transition as we witness the playing out of a modern myth.
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