Malthouse Theatre at The CUB Malthouse
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JUNE 10 – JULY 2
By Marius von Mayenburg
Translated by Maja Zade
Direction Benedict Andrews
With Gillian Jones, Robert Menzies, Hamish Michael, Bojana Novakovic, Greg Stone and Alison Whyte
Set and Costume Design Anna Tregloan
Lighting Design Paul Jackson
Composition and Sound Design Max Lyandvert
Set in an unnamed, half-destroyed city where every ruin is speculated for its market value, Eldorado reveals a metropolis decayed to the core. In this raven black fable a man tells a single lie and risks everything he loves and believes in. As his life crumbles, so too do
the foundations of an external world built on mythical visions of gold sinking fast into history’s bloody catacombes.
Marius von Mayenburg exploded out of
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At the forefront of a new, international theatre, von Mayenburg writes with an anatomist’s precision, a coroner’s efficiency and the humour of an undertaker about the inseparable nature of our private and public lives.
“Benedict Andrews is one of the original imaginations of Australian Theatre… in an artform that needs to be both popular and pragmatic, Benedict manages to remain that rare thing: a poet” Neil Armfield’s citation for Benedict Andrews on being awarded the 2005 Individual Prize of the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards
The Session
JUNE 14 – JUNE 25
Written and performed by The Ennio Morricone Experience: Patrick Cronin, Graeme Leak, Boris Conley and David Hewitt
With Steph O’Hara and Stephen Taberner
Direction Barry Laing
Lighting Design Gina Gascoigne
Sound Design Steph O’Hara
Set and Costume Consultant Emily Barrie
Over the last five years, The Ennio Morricone Experience has won a huge following, locally and internationally, for their unique take on Morricone’s Spaghetti Western film music. Malthouse Theatre is
proud to co-present the premiere season of the ensemble’s new theatre work, The Session.
Five musicians and a recording engineer are physically trapped in a sound recording studio. Like a live Masterclass documentary about the creation of a sound score to an unseen film, they work against the clock to create the ultimate master take. The Session reveals the often bizarre idiosyncrasies and sublime performance synergies of a session musician’s world.
Created and performed by The Ennios and directed by Barry Laing (Telefunken), The Session is a unique theatrical event by one of
“That the musicians perform…with the gravity of a Mozart symphony only serves to make The Ennio Morricone Experience all the funnier.” The Guardian,
“The Ennios create brilliant musical arrangements… with musical standards of the highest order.” The Age
La Douleur
JUNE 29 – JULY 23
After the story by Marguerite Duras
Translated by Barbara Bray
Adapted by Laurence Strangio
in collaboration with Caroline Lee
Direction Laurence Strangio
Performed by Caroline Lee
Following the runaway success of Caroline Lee and Laurence Strangio’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace, Malthouse
Theatre is delighted to reprise their production of La Douleur, Marguerite Duras’ mesmerising portrait of wartime
The torment which informs the novel, La Douleur, was the capture and imprisonment of Duras’ husband by the Gestapo. Against all odds, he survived periods in
Gandersheim and
elegy - played with uncanny immediacy and emotional intelligence by Lee - is confined to a purgatory of anticipation.
As she waits for news of her husband’s death in the trenches, she grows even more terrified of the hope that he might yet live. She is defined by this waiting, paralysed by the threat of hope.
With a climax that is both shocking and life-affirming, La Douleur is a testament to a love that goes beyond passion to encompass the very soul of fraternite.
“La Douleur is another outstanding collaborative dramatisation from Strangio and Lee.” The Age
