by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Alex Galeazzi
Mar 2015 – Apr 2015
Brown’s Mart / Darwin Entertainment Centre
Cast: Kate Worsley, Kyle Walmsley, Kadek Hobman, Kate Wyvill
Set & Costumes: Fiona Bruce
Lighting: Rebecca Adams
Sound / Video design: Panos Couros
Blue Roses curtain drop (music Kate Bush)
Photos: Panos Couros
“Impulse Response” was a 4-hour immersive installation where ceramics, sound, and video converged in a live, elemental dialogue. Master ceramicist Neville Assad-Salha commanded the wheel, shaping large clay forms that grounded the performance, while sound artists Mx Robert Frost and Panos Couros (Atunement) and video artist Liam Somerville (CAPITAL WASTE) amplified the experience. Contact and condenser microphones captured resonances from clay and airborne sounds, crafting an improvised soundscape that responded to the live clay-making process. Video projections intensified these impulses, merging sound, vision, and material into a powerful sensory experience. Audiences roamed freely, enjoyed the bar, and supported Beirut crisis relief through donations. The event was also live-streamed at 7:30 pm Adelaide time (ACDT) on Thursday, 5th December, 2024.
Photos: Liam Somerville
by Sandra Thibodeaux
The Age of Bones is a biting and magical satire set deep beneath the sea!
The Age of Bones traces the story of Ikan, an Indonesian boy who goes fishing one day and fails to return. Fearing the worst, his family hires a famed seafarer to track him down – he finds nothing. Combining Indonesian puppetry, music and digital projection, The Age of Bones follows Ikan’s fantastical story from Indonesia to his eventual imprisonment ‘down under,’ and his fight to get home to his family.
A heartfelt and darkly funny tale inspired by the real-life stories of 110 Indonesian boys allegedly imprisoned in Australian adult prisons for working on refugee boats.
A Satu Bulan, Teater Satu and Performing Lines Co-Production
Writer/Co-Producer: Sandra Thibodeaux
Co-Directors: Iswadi Pratama & Alex Galeazzi
Translator: Kadek Krishna Adidharma
Set Designer: Dann Barber
Original Design: Iswadi Pratama
Costume Designers: Imas Sobariah & Dann Barber
AV Design: Mic Gruchy
Composer/Musical Director: Panos Couros
Lighting Designer: Philip Lethlean
Puppeteers: I Made Gunanta & I Wayan Sira
Production Manager: Rhys Robinson
Stage Manager: Gina Bianco
Lighting Associate: Siobhain Geaney
Producer: Pippa Bailey (Performing Lines)
Performers: Deri Efwanto, Mohammad Gandi Maulana, Imam Setia Hagi, Budi Laksana, Imas Sobariah, Kadek Hobman & Ella Watson-Russell
22 Feb – 5 Mar | AsiaTOPA – La Mama Courthouse, VIC
8 – 11 March | Ainslie & Gorman Arts Centres, Canberra, ACT
15 – 18 March | Australian Theare for Young People, Wharf 1, Sydney, NSW
22 – 25 March, Riverside Theatres, Parramatta, NSW
30 Mar – 9 Apr | Browns Mart Arts, Darwin, NT
Photos: Tristan Hooft and various anonymous
by Tessa Rose
Presented by and produced at Brown’s Mart, Darwin 8 – 26 November 2017
Remounted at Adelaide Fringe Feb-Mar 2022
Director: Alex Galeazzi
Sound Designer: Panos Couros
Cast: Tessa Rose.
‘The Daly River Girl depicts writer Tessa Rose’s personal story, starting from growing up with various non-indigenous [sic] foster families in Perth, Western Australia, an eternity away from her natural mother, family, and Country of Daly River, Northern Territory.
‘Her story speaks from the heart and openly expresses her pain, anger and joy. We follow her journey from adolescence into womanhood, her first love, the cruelty of domestic violence, her resilience to overcome the many obstacles on her own.’
Photos; Glen Campbell
by Alana Valentine
Directed by Alex Galeazzi
Cast: Abigail Austin, Jane Phegan, Elaine Hudson, Rebekah Moore, Jason Montgomery, Peter Flett
In this Southern gothic fantasia, writer Alana Valentine uses the life of famed American novelist Carson McCullers, author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and The Member of the Wedding, friend of Tennessee Williams and dinner companion of Marilyn Monroe, to weave a tale of individuality battling the constraints and prejudices of small town conservatism.
Loosely biographical, the play follows Carson’s journey through Southern freak shows, New York drag bars and Parisian cemeteries, as she explores her identity, creativity and sexuality. SINGING THE LONELY HEART is a humorous and poignant study of sacrifice and triumph, told in a compelling magic realist production style.(Poster Photography by Waded, Production Photograph Bob Seary).
“This is theatre as good as it gets; ready for any major stage, here or overseas. … Moving, compassionate, tough, taut and terrific!” Brad Syke, Sydney Stage Online
“Transports us with something theatrical and magical … one of the most artistically polished and consistent productions I’ve seen at the New” Martin Portus, Sydney Star Observer
20 July to 5 August 2006
by Tony Kushner
New Theatre
16th May – 24th May, 2008
Cast: Abigail Austin, Laurence Coy, Elaine Hudson, Angus King, Ray Chong Nee, Beejan Olfat, Tyran Parke, Jane Phegan
Directed by Alex Galeazzi
Assistant Director: Neil Gooding
Set design: Brigid Dighton
Lighting design: Michael Schell
Sound design: Panos Couros
Projected image design: John Henry Martin
Voice and Dialect Coach: Simon Stollery
Costume design: Alice Morgan
Riverside Thetare Parramatta
11-21 February 2009
Cast: Akos Armont, Abigail Austin, Ray Chong Nee, Laurence Coy, Anthony Gooley, Gianluigi Carelli, Elaine Hudson, Tyran Parke, Jane Phegan
Directed by Alex Galeazzi
Set design: Brigid Dighton
Lighting design: Michael Schell
Sound design: Panos Couros
Projected image design: John Henry Martin
Costume design: Alice Morgan
Photos: Kristen Elsby
Producer: Kylee Kay
Video : Steven Kirkby (animator), Brett Hall (producer) Digital Pulse
Sound Design/Composition: Panos Couros
Actor: Jane Phegan
Photos below: Kristen Elsby
