An expansion of the idea of the dumb-show, the notion is to create a number of scenes that when experienced as a whole, communicate the larger narrative of the play.
ThinIce with Mind’s Eye and their creative collaborators are interested in shattering the play and watching the individual shards, all of which overlap, from different points of view and will use a variety of theatrical languages to create the world of Elsinore.
This creative development in supported by the Australia Council through their Interconnections Initiative. The workshop will be conducted in Perth.
MATTHEW LUTTON
Matthew is a Perth-based theatre-maker and director. His directing credits include, for ThinIce, The Duel (with Sydney Theatre Company), Antigone (Perth International Arts Festival 2009), Red Shoes (Artrage 2007), The Goose Chase, The Gathering, Bed and The Bald Prima Donna; The Mysteries: Genesis for Sydney Theatre Company; Don’t Say the Words for Griffin Theatre Company; Tartuffe for Malthouse Theatre; The Lady Aoi for Black Swan Theatre Company (Perth International Arts Festival 2007); and Woyzeck, The Visit, Striptease and Mountain Language for BSX-Theatre.
As assistant director, he has work with Neil Armfield (Company B), John Pierre-Mignon (Sydney Theatre Company), Lindy Hume (West Australian Opera) and Tom Gutteridge (Black Swan Theatre Company).
In 2006 he was Black Swan Theatre Company’s Associate Director and from 2003 was Artistic Director of their BSX-Theatre program. He is currently the Artistic Director of ThinIce.
Matthew received Best Production at the Perth International Fringe Festival 2003 for The Bald Prima Donna, Best Production at the 2005 Equity Guild Awards for The Visit, a Young People and the Arts Fellowship from ArtsWA (2007), was awarded Young West Australian of the Year for Arts in 2005, and was recently appointed to the Theatre Board of the Australia Council for the Arts.
In 2008 Matthew received a commission from Aldeburgh New Music in the UK to create a new contemporary opera with Czech composer Miroslav Srnka.
Matt Lutton is working with co-collaborators Eamon Flack and Tom Holloway on the further development of this project in association with Mind's Eye.
EAMON FLACK
Eamon Flack was born in Singapore and grew up there, as well as in Darwin and Brisbane. He finished his BA at the University of Queensland in 2000 and trained as an actor at WAAPA from 2001 to 2003.
Since graduating he has worked as an actor, director, writer and dramaturg for Bell Shakespeare’s Mind’s Eye, ThinIce, Company B Belvoir, STC, Perth International Arts Festival, Griffin Stablemates, PlayWriting Australia, the Ensemble Theatre, ArtRage, deckchair, the Old Fitz and Darlinghurst Theatre.
He founded Bob Presents, a loose collective of theatre-makers. He adapted and directed Gorky’s Summerfolk for Bob Presents in May and will direct A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Bob Presents and B Sharp later this year. His adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone was directed by Matthew Lutton for ThinIce and the Perth International Arts Festival in 2009.
He will be directing Beckett’s The End in 2010 for Company B Belvoir where he is the Artistic Associate.
TOM HOLLOWAY
Tom Holloway was born and raised in Tasmania. He completed one year of a Bachelor of Music in composition at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music before completing a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in English at the University of Tasmania.
His short play The Bus was first produced in 2004 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It was also produced at St Martins International Festival of Young Writing in Melbourne in 2004 and Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2005. The Bus was adapted for radio and aired on ABC Radio National in 2006.
In 2006 Tom studied in London at the Royal Court Theatre’s Invitational Writers’ Program. Beyond the Neck, inspired by interviews with those affected by the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, was one of 10 plays chosen to be part of the Royal Court Theatre’s International Young Playwrights’ Festival in London in 2007. The play had a sell-out season in Tasmania in September 2007, won the 2008 AWGIE Award for Best Stage Play, was published by Playlab Press and will be produced in Sydney in 2009 for B Sharp at Company B.
Tom’s play Don’t Say the Words, inspired by the Greek tragedy Agamemnon by Aeschylus, was co-produced in 2008 between the Tasmanian Theatre Company and Griffin Theatre Company to great critical acclaim. The play was shortlisted for the 2009 NSW Premier’s Play Award along with the 2009 Young Vic/Theatre503 Season award in London and was published by Currency Press in 2008.
Tom was the playwright in residence at Red Stitch Actors Theatre in Melbourne from 2007-08. Red Sky Morning, which won the 2007 R E Ross Trust Development Award and received further development funding from Arts Victoria and The Australia Council, was commissioned and produced by Red Stitch Actors Theatre in Melbourne and described as ‘Play of the Year’ by the Sunday Age. Red Sky Morning was nominated for the 2008 Greenroom Award for Best New Writing for the Australian Stage and Best Production. The play will receive another season in 2009 with Full Tilt and The Victorian Arts Centre in Melbourne and recently had a reading in London.
Tom is currently working on commissions for Melbourne Theatre Company and a research project for the Tasmanian Theatre Company. Tom is also writing the libretto for a new opera The Secret Life of Words for the Aldeburgh in London.
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