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2ND ECHO ENSEMBLE

Tasmania’s only integrated performance group, the 2nd Echo Ensemble, is looking forward to touring to the national Awakenings Festival in October. The ensemble is made up of performers both with and without disabilities, supported through Hobart’s Cosmos Inc and Is Theatre.

The group were invited to perform at the national Awakenings Festival last year when the Festival Producer saw their work (If I Jumped, I’d Fly) directed by Finegan Kruckemeyer at the Arts Action’s Amalgamation Festival last year.

“I worked with Cosmos Inc to create the 2nd Echo Ensemble, and then Is Theatre came on board. The invitation to perform at the Awakenings Festival is recognition of the beautiful, high quality work of the ensemble, and also a great opportunity to perform in a national context – gaining exposure and networks so the ensemble can continue to tour and grow” says Director Finegan Kruckemeyer.

Cosmos Inc and Is Theatre are giving local, individual community members an opportunity to support the tour through donations to the 2nd Echo Ensemble.

“The invitation came as a wonderful surprise. It’s a vital next stage in the Ensemble’s development and an opportunity to put a Tassie performance group on the national map” says Lea Brady, Cosmos Inc Program Manager. Donations from $10 to $500 are tax deductible and welcome. All proceeds go directly to the 2nd Echo Ensemble.

TO MAKE A DONATION:

Send a cheque or money order made out to Cosmos Inc to: Cosmos Inc
c/o 56 New Town Rd. New Town 7008

JUNK ROOMS

Many theatre-goers would remember Junk Rooms from its first Tasmanian production eleven years ago: a product of Briarwood and Binning’s Ripe Theatre. Since then the script has had productions in Melbourne, Sydney and Cairns.

Ultimately uplifting, this explicit, courageous and poetic one-woman-show is the intimate story of Jenny Brotten’s painful and disturbing drug addiction. Carefully crafted to balance its sobering subject matter with moments of humour, the production re-unites its original collaborators in a “special edition” production: Stephanie Briarwood as writer and director, Jane Binning as actor and Darren Willmott as technical director.

“The show is courageous, warm and poetic – not the sort of words you’d use to describe a junkie”, said writer/director, Stephanie Briarwood. “But Jenny is spiraling downwards, and on the plummet, she inspects her own life with frank honesty.”

“The writing constantly draws you in, and its humour was surprising that I lost count of how many times the audience laughed out loud. This positive shooting gallery of emotions has you enthralled as it turns itself over revealing surprises and breaking assumptions.” – Review from Cairns Post, 2002

THE ACTION OF THE PLAYWRIGHT: A PRACTICAL PLAY WRITING WORKSHOP WITH TOM HOLLOWAY.

Tom Holloway, Tassie playwright now based in Melbourne, is in Tasmania for the season of his celebrated play Beyond The Neck. The Australian Script Centre is partnering with Tasmania Performs and Tom to bring you this exciting workshop. Work with Tom using exercises learnt from his Royal Court experience, discuss the writing process of his latest play and learn practical writing skills.

Tom was born, and grew up, in Tasmania. In 2007 Tom’s play Beyond The Neck – inspired by interviews with those affected by the 1996 Port Arthur massacre – was one of ten plays out of four hundred entries chosen to be part of The Royal Court Theatre’s International Young Playwright’s Festival in London. This led to him signing with celebrated London theatre agent Mel Kenyon. With the support of The Australia Council for the Arts the play will be produced in Tasmania this September. Also in 2007 he has been one of four male artists involved in the development of the cabaret Only The Lonely, confronting the challenges of male suicide in Australia, supported by Arts Victoria, and a major inspiration for Love My Black Dog. His play Her Name Tattooed on His Fist, Looking Really F%$#King Shit is currently short-listed for the Griffin Theatre Company’s national playwriting award.

When: Saturday 1st of September 11am – 3.30pm
Where: the meeting room, Salamanca Arts Centre Hobart
Cost: Australian Script Centre members FREE / $5 non members
Bookings: Places are limited so book your place by Wed 29th August. Call Essie on 03 6223 4675 or email admin@ozscript.org