Thyestes
- Title:
- Thyestes
- Dates:
- September 16 - October 3, 2010
- Venue:
- The Tower, The CUB Malthouse
At the family table, revenge is a dish best served hot. Written, designed and constructed within the confines of The Malthouse Theatre’s Tower, The Hayloft Project’s Thyestes intersects the grand mythology of Greek and Roman source texts with a twenty-first century perspective. A contemporary renovation of Seneca’s bloodthirsty revenge play, incorporating Hayloft’s trademark striking design [...]
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The Suicide
- Title:
- The Suicide
- Dates:
- 18 March - 11 April 2010
- Venue:
- Belvoir St. Downstairs Theatre
The cast and crew of The Only Child returns to B Sharp with The Suicide. The world is in the midst of a huge environmental and economic crisis. Semyon Semyonovich can’t find a job and he’s stuck living with his mother-in-law. When, in a heated argument, his wife refuses him a slice of sausage for [...]
Yuri Wells
- Title:
- Yuri Wells
- Dates:
- February 12 - March 13, 2010
- Venue:
- The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Adelaide Fringe Festival
WINNER Adelaide Fringe Performance Award (Melbourne Fringe Festival) 2009
Melbourne Dramatists’ New Writing HIGH COMMENDATION 2009
“This is a creepy monologue, deftly performed by Melbourne actor Benedict Hardie…. Yuri Wells will sneak up on you days later, sending a shiver up the spine.” FOUR STARS – The Advertiser
“… a beautiful piece of theatre, created with deeply thought artfulness and craft … I thought this show utterly enchanting … Remembering of course that spells have their darker side.” – Alison Croggon
B.C.
- Title:
- B.C.
- Dates:
- November 30 - December 19, 2009
- Venue:
- the Arts Centre, BlackBox
In our fifth and final production for 2009, Simon Stone directs Rita Kalnejais’ irreverent renovation of the Immaculate Conception. In a recognisable modern world of lounge rooms, food courts, bus stops and dinner tables, divine impregnation is the last thing you’d expect. B.C. depicts Mary, still living with her parents, as a young hairdresser with a romantic interest in store clerk, Joseph.
The Only Child
- Title:
- The Only Child
- Dates:
- September 17 - October 11, 2009
- Venue:
- B Sharp: Belvoir St Downstairs
We’re following up our 2008 B Sharp season of Spring Awakening with The Only Child, a new play written by Simon Stone with Thomas Henning, inspired by Henrik Ibsen’s 1894 play Little Eyolf. Since the accident that injured their child, Alfred and Rita’s marriage has degenerated into a mess of recriminations, sexual frustration and misdirected fury. Then one day their son goes missing. What follows is this young couple’s sometimes shocking, sometimes hilarious struggle to stay together despite the odds. The Only Child is an unflinchingly honest, bittersweet look at the complicated terrain of a modern relationship.
3xSisters
- Title:
- 3xSisters
- Dates:
- April 24 - May 10, 2009
- Venue:
- Meat Market, 5 Blackwood St, North Melbourne
2009 Green Room Award Nominations (Theatre – Companies) Best Production Male Supporting Performer – Joshua Hewitt Set Design – Claude Marcos Lighting Design – Danny Pettingill 3xSisters is a playful and inventive deconstruction of Chekhov’s elegiac tale of love, despair and the longing for change, seen through the eyes of three of Melbourne’s best young [...]
Spring Awakening
- Title:
- Spring Awakening
- Dates:
- April 24 - May 10, 2009
- Venue:
- Meat Market, 5 Blackwood St, North Melbourne
Spring Awakening is The Hayloft Project’s acclaimed version of Frank Wedekind’s 19th century masterpiece of teenage sexual awakening, named Best Independent Production of 2008 by Sydney’s Sun Herald. The original play’s frank treatment of adolescent sexuality was labelled pornographic, it was banned for almost a century after it was written and its author was jailed for [...]
