Brothers Wreck (2018) Program

8 – 23 JUN

SEASON 2018

8 – 23 JUN MERLYN THEATRE

UNPRETENTIOUS, PLAIN-SPEAKING AND GENEROUSLY SALTED WITH HUMOUR – SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY / Jada Alberts

COMPOSITION & SOUND DESIGN / Kelly Ryall

CAST / Nelson Baker Lisa Flanagan Trevor Jamieson Leonie Whyman Dion Williams

ASSOCIATE ARTIST / Adena Jacobs STAGE MANAGER / Josh Sherrin

VOCAL COACH / Suzanne Heywood

LIGHTING DESIGN / Chris Petridis

Some scenes in this production make reference to mental illness, self-harm and suicide. If this production raises any issues for you, please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 (24/7). Further resources are also available at lifeline.org.au.

For more information about mental illness, contact beyondblue on 1300 224 636, go to beyondblue.org.au or talk to your GP, local health professional or someone you trust.

A Malthouse Theatre and State Theatre Company South Australia production.

Key image photography by James Hartley.

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ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER / Matilda Woodroofe

SET & COSTUME DESIGN / Dale Ferguson

OUR INTEGRITY, OUR LEGACY, AND OUR VERY SURVIVAL DEPEND ON ONE ANOTHER. SEASON 2018

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JADA ALBERTS This play in part, is a love letter to my family. A family (like all Indigenous families in this country) that has endured far more than they should have.

Indigenous Australians live daily with the sickly effects of that devastating force, most commonly known as colonisation. Its effects are ever-present and all around us. You may have the luxury of not seeing it all the time. We do not.

Let me make no mistake. The effects are absolutely evident in the rate at which Indigenous Australians take their own lives. In some parts of Australia, those rates are the highest in the world, up to twenty times the national average.

When I first began to write this play, I felt compelled to do something.

People I loved were suffering.

It is not often that Indigenous people aren’t being tormented by something, but this was different.

This time, people I loved had been witness to something devastating.

The loss they felt was horrific and so traumatic, it would alter the course of their lives.

I couldn’t watch people I love become statistics. When devastation was at our door again, I had to do something. I was in fear again.

This time, I feared the depression would spread.

I imagine, for some Australians, it may be second nature to think that tragedy won’t happen to you.

But this is not something Indigenous Australians have the luxury to dream. I realised one day (as every Indigenous child does), that the white world that I knew had stuck a target on my back. That it was only a matter of time before I succumbed to that which this country had prepared for me—The destruction of my mind and my body. The destruction of my culture.

When the moment came, I sat across from my cousin and I could say nothing. I mumbled and stared at the floor. I found it impossible to say anything. I remember, the echo of institutions I’d found myself in as a young, impressionable teenager— somewhat alone—well… they taught me to say nothing. They encouraged me to say nothing. I watched as the trauma of suicide and grief threatened to pull at the threads of my tightknit family, and truthfully, I was terrified.

Every day since that moment I have tried to rally against that doom.

To learn how not to live in fear.

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A NOTE FROM THE WRITER & DIRECTOR

So I began to write what would later become this play. I wrote because I thought my family needed me. The deeper the play took me, the more I realised that it was I, in fact, that needed them.

Part way through, I realised that I’d forgotten something. My mothers, my grandmothers, my great grandmothers had taught it to me, but somehow I’d forgotten: all we have is each other. Our integrity, our legacy, and our very survival depend on one another.

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This has to be true of our two cultures. Black Australia has lived with intergenerational trauma and inequality for so long. We have talked about it, pleaded so often our voices are hoarse. What will it take for Australia to rally around us? What will it take for Indigenous Australians to be heard?

I’d like to thank the extraordinary team of individuals that helped put this work together. I feel very lucky to get to work with, and to learn from, such incredibly talented humans. In particular, to the cast—Lisa, Trevor, Dion, Leonie and Nelson—watching you work and helping you find these characters over the last few weeks has been a great, great pleasure.

Thank you for your patience, your courage and your dedication.

I’m very, very proud of what we’ve made together.

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Jada Alberts WRITER & DIRECTOR

Nelson Baker CAST

Lisa Flanagan CAST

Jada is an actor, writer and director from the Top End of Australia. She was born on Larrakia country. In 2013, she received the Balnaves Foundation Indigenous Playwright’s Award. Her debut work Brothers Wreck received nominations for a Sydney Theatre Award, the Nick Enright Prize and a 2015 AWGIE Award. In 2016 she received the inaugural Mona Brand Emerging Writer Award.

In 2015 she was Associate Artist at Belvoir, collaborating with Anne-Louise Sarks to co-write Elektra/Orestes. She was also dramaturg on Nakkiah Lui’s Kill the Messenger. In 2016-2017 Jada was Intersticia Writing Fellow with Bell Shakespeare and directed Title and Deed for Belvoir. She was also assistant director for Windmill Baby, The Glass Menagerie (Belvoir), and Three Sisters (STC). Stage credits include The Shadow King (Malthouse Theatre); This Heaven, Yibiyung (Belvoir); Hipbone Sticking Out (YijilaYala/ BighART); Frost/Nixon, The Birthday Party (MTC); Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui (Darwin Festival); Saltbush (Insite Arts). Screen credits include Wake in Fright, Rush (Channel 10), Redfern Now, Cleverman (ABC) Wentworth (Foxtel) and the feature film Red Hill (Screen Australia).

A graduate of WAAPA, Nelson Baker is a young Nyikina man, a descendant of the Mardoowarra. He burst onto screens with his breakout performance in ABC’s The Warriors.

Hailing from Broome in Western Australia, Nelson now lives and works in Melbourne, expanding his skills as a performer, writer and photographer. His background has influenced his unique view of modern Australia and enables him to interpret cultural stereotypes and moral principles with complexity. He is excited to be making his professional theatre debut at Malthouse Theatre in Brothers Wreck.

With numerous credits to her name, Lisa Flanagan is best known for her outstanding portrayals of ‘Clarence’ in the Paul Goldman feature Australian Rules and ‘Anna’ in Sarah Watt’s Look Both Ways. Her other film credits include Spike Up, Touch, The September Project, Opal Dream, Queen of Hearts and most recently the feature film Strangerland alongside Hugo Weaving and Nicole Kidman. On television Lisa has appeared in the award winning TV series Redfern Now as well as Promise Me, The Code, Gods of Wheat Street (ABC1), City Homicide, All Saints (Channel 7), Glitch and Double Trouble directed by Wayne Blair (Channel 9). On stage Lisa has performed the one-woman show 7 Stages of Grieving (STCSA/ STC) Parramatta Girls (Belvoir), My Girragundji (Canute Productions), and The Sapphires (MTC/Belvoir).

Recent roles include Aussie Rangers, Kiki and Kitty, and The Wrong Kind of Black (ABC iView).

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Trevor Jamieson CAST

Leonie Whyman CAST

Dion Williams CAST

Trevor is an actor, dancer and musician known for his extensive work in Australian film, television and on stage. Theatre credits include: The Season (Tasmania Performs/ Melbourne Festival).

STC: The Secret River (STC/ Perth Festival), Storm Boy (with Barking Geko), Nyuntu Ngali (with Windmill Productions). Big hART: Namatjira (Malthouse Theatre/Belvoir), Hipbone Sticking Out, Ngapartji Ngapartji (Sydney Festival/Belvoir/Adelaide Cabaret Festival/Dreaming Festival QLD/Art at the Heart Alice Springs/ Perth Festival/ Melbourne Festival), Anangu Backyard (Adelaide Arts Centre).

Black Swan: Yandy, Plain Song, Corrugation Road, Merry-GoRound in the Sea, Bran Nu Dae. Stalker Theatre Company: Burning Daylight, Crying Baby (with Marrugeku/Darwin Festival).

Deck Chair Theatre: King for this Place. Film credits include: Thalu: Dreamtime is Now, Storm Boy (Screen Australia), Boys in the Trees (Mushroom Pictures), Around the Block (Kick Pictures), Rabbit Proof Fence (Jabal Films).

TV includes; Cleverman, My Place (ABC3), The Secret River, Three Acts of Murder, Heartland (ABC), Lockie Leonard (Channel 9). Short film: You’re Not Playing That!, Done Dirt Cheap, Mobile, Weewar, My Bed Your Bed. Documentaries: The Death of the Megabeasts, Subi Shorts.

Leonie is an actor, dancer singer and musician. A trained tap, ballet and jazz dancer from the age of three, she joined the Millibah Aboriginal Dance Group at the Hunter School for Performing Arts. This was followed by her 2012 debut with the NSW Public Schools Aboriginal Dance Company, mentored by Bangarra Dance Theatre.

As a musician, she has performed in various concert bands and is a student of guitar and voice. Leonie has worked extensively in television, playing a lead role in the ABC’s My Place (2011), appearing in two seasons of Redfern Now (2012-2013) and took on the lead role of Lily in ABC’s Ready for This (2015).

She is also a regular guest on Black Comedy and will appear in Nakkiah Lui’s upcoming short Brown Lips.

Proud Aboriginal actor and comedian Dion Williams is of Waradjuri and Wakaman descent and hails from Echuca in country Victoria.

Dion’s acting career began when he won the role of ‘Marlon’ in Chris Lilley’s comedy series, Angry Boys.

He has since performed on large scale drama series including the The Time of Our Lives and Redfern Now (ABC). Most recently he played the lead role in the Channel 9 mini-series Gallipoli. Brothers Wreck is Dion’s stage debut.

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Dale Ferguson SET & COSTUME DESIGN

Chris Petridis LIGHTING DESIGN

Kelly Ryall COMPOSITION & SOUND DESIGN

Malthouse Theatre: Away, Timeshare, Night on Bald Mountain, The Riders, Dance of Death. STC: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Don’s Party (with MTC), Summer Rain, Howard Katz, Great Expectations, A Cheery Soul (with Belvoir St Theatre), The Girl Who Saw Everything, Sylvia. Belvoir: Sami in Paradise, The Blind Giant is Dancing, Radiance, Brothers Wreck, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Neighbourhood Watch, The Seagull, Measure for Measure, The Power of Yes, Antigone, Peribanez, Exit the King, The Marriage of Figaro.

West End: The Judas Kiss. MTC: Di and Viv and Rose, Born Yesterday, Skylight, The Weir, The Speechmaker, The Crucible, Top Girls, Don Parties On, Life Without Me, August: Osage County, The History Boys, The Drowsy Chaperone, The Seagull.

Lyric Opera Of Chicago: The Magic Flute. Welsh National Opera: Ariadne Auf Naxos, The Marriage of Figaro (with Opera Australia). Houston Grand Opera: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Awards: Tony Award nominations in 2009 for Exit the King, 2010 Helpmann Award (August: Osage County), five Green Room Awards (Away, Night on Bald Mountain, A Cheery Soul, The Seagull, Molly Sweeney).

Chris is a lighting and video designer. A graduate of the Technical Production course at the Adelaide Centre of the Arts, Chris has worked in theatre, dance, and live events across Australia and internationally. Chris has worked with STCSA on The Club, Mr Burns, Red Cross Letters, Eh Joe (for the Beckett Triptych), Gorgon, Masquerade, The Kreutzer Sonata, Maggie Stone and Little Bird. Other works include Angelique (Is This Yours); Long Tan (Brink Productions); Deluge (Tiny Bricks); The Beginning of Nature, Ignition 2016 (Australian Dance Theatre); Touched (Restless Dance Theatre); The Mouse, The Bird and The Sausage (Slingsby Theatre Company); Beep, Grug and the Rainbow, Big Bad Wolf and Story Thieves (Windmill Theatre Company); Never Did Me Any Harm (Force Majeure); Quiet Faith (Vitalstatistix); Bitch Boxer (Someone like U); MALMÖ (Torque Show); Half Real, Ludwig’s Fleck and Flecker (The Border Project); Muff (five.point.one) as well as a multimedia performance project for Country Arts SA called If There Was A Colour Darker Than Black I’d Wear It.

Kelly is an award-winning composer, musician and sound designer for theatre, dance and film. Compositions for stage include: Edward II, The Shadow King (incl. Barbican tour), Dance of Death, One Night the Moon, The Trial (with STC) On The Misconception of Oedipus (Malthouse Theatre); Di and Viv and Rose, Hay Fever, Three Little Words, Double Indemnity, Peddling, Rupert, The Crucible, Return to Earth, God of Carnage (MTC); Boys Will Be Boys (STC); Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, Tartuffe, Henry IV, Macbeth, Julius Caesar (Bell Shakespeare); The Boys, Dreams in White, and Don’t Say The Words (Griffin Theatre); Title and Deed, Nora, Hedda Gabler, Kill the Messenger (Belvoir); Scenes from of Marriage (QTC); You Animal, You (Force Majeure); Animal (Theatre Works); The Bacchae (Melbourne Festival/Dark MOFO); 10,000 Small Deaths (Dance Massive); Team Of Life, Flesh and Bone, Sundowner (KAGE); Pieces For Small Spaces (Lucy Guerin Inc); and Piece For Person and Ghetto Blaster (Nicola Gunn). Film: Cherry Season, Eye Contact, Tomorrow, Stasis, Lois, One Night, Finale, Meat, Sandwich. Awards: Winner of four Green Room Awards and a Melbourne International Arts Festival Award.

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Josh Sherrin STAGE MANAGER

Adena Jacobs is a theatre director and the Artistic Director of independent company Fraught Outfit. In 2014-15 she was Resident Director at Belvoir, and in 2012 she was Female Director in Residence at Malthouse Theatre. In September 2018, Adena will direct Strauss’s Salome for the English National Opera in London. Directing credits include The Howling Girls, Exil (Sydney Chamber Opera/Carriageworks), Book of Exodus – PT I & II (Theatre Works), The Bacchae (Melbourne Festival/ Dark MOFO), Antigone (Malthouse Theatre), Wizard of Oz, Oedipus Rex, Hedda Gabler (Belvoir), Persona (Theatre Works, Malthouse Theatre, Belvoir), On the Bodily Education of Young Girls (Neon/MTC), Elektra (The Dog Theatre), This is for You (La Mama) and Cleansed (Studio45/VCA). As a dramaturg, she has recently worked on The Dark Chorus (Lucy Guerin Inc), RE-MAKE (Chunky Move) and Blue Wizard (Belvoir). Adena graduated with a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) from Melbourne University, and has a Master of Theatre Practice from VCA.

A NIDA Graduate, Josh started as a freelance stage manager in 2007 working for many major theatre companies and festivals in Australia.

In 2010 Josh became the Production Coordinator at Chunky Move where he toured as the Stage Manager on several shows, both nationally and internationally. He then went on to work for Strut & Fret for five years as the Touring Company Manager for the shows: Cantina, Limbo and Limbo Unhinged, which toured across the globe.

Notable seasons include: London Wonderground Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Sziget Music Festival (Budapest), Sao Paulo Circus Festival, Tollwood Festival (Germany), Montreal Circus Festival and the Letni Letna Circus Festival (Prague).

In 2017 Josh became the Producer of Limbo and Limbo Unhinged at Strut & Fret, producing seasons at: Brisbane Festival, Sydney Opera House, Spiegeltent Hobart and Spiegeltent Wollongong.

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Matilda Woodroofe ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Matilda is a performance designer with a diverse body of work spanning theatre, dance, performance art, television and film. In her final year of a Fine Arts degree in Production Design, Matilda worked for the first time with the Sisters Hayes, as the design assistant on Walking into the Bigness (Malthouse Theatre).

Matilda has worked with a myriad of performing arts companies across Melbourne and Sydney including Sydney Theatre Company, Victorian Opera, Melbourne Theatre Company, Arena Theatre Company and Bangarra Dance Theatre. She also completed a year long Emerging Artist placement with The Rabble in 2016. Her work in film and TV includes Cleverman and Get Krack!n for ABC and feature length dance film, Spear, an Arenamedia, Brown Cab and Bangarra Dance Theatre production. She has recently finished working as part of the wardrobe team for Madman Production Company’s feature documentary, 2040, exploring what our planet’s future might look like if already available environmental solutions were incorporated into the mainstream.

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Adena Jacobs ASSOCIATE ARTIST

Suzanne Heywood VOCAL COACH

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Since 1996 Suzanne has worked as a freelance dialogue, dialect and acting coach in theatre, film and television. Theatre work includes Blood Wedding, The Shadow King, Time Share, Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man (Malthouse Theatre). The Crucible, M Butterfly, Racing Demons, Great Expectations, The Other Place, Buyer and Cellar and Disgraced (MTC). Girl Talk (Hit Productions). Yes Prime Minister (YPM International).

Bad Jews (Vass Productions).

She has also worked as a vocal and acting coach on various major musicals including Sunset Boulevard, Dirty Dancing, High School Musical, Jersey Boys, King Kong and The King and I. She has also coached the dancers of The Australian Ballet Company and Chunky Move. Notable projects for TV include The Slap, Mystery of the Hansom Cab (ABC), Neighbours (Channel 10) Childhoods End (Syfy), Olivia Newton John: Hopelessly Devoted to You (Channel 7). Film work includes Heartbreak Kid, The Ripper, Dead Letter Office, Wee Jimmy, This Dying Breed, The Eye of the Storm, Underground and Now Add Honey.

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NAKKIAH LUI’S FEROCIOUS NEW COMEDY WILL HAVE YOU ON THE EDGE OF YOUR SEAT FROM START TO FINISH.

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BL ACKIE BL ACKIE BROWN: THE TRADITIONAL OWNER OF DEATH 5 – 2 9 J U LY On a dig in the Australian outback, archaeologist Dr. Jacqueline Black unearths a mystical skull from a hidden mass grave. It talismanically transforms her into arse-kicking indigenous superhero Blackie Blackie Brown.

Her mission: to track down every last descendant of the men who killed her ancestors and have her revenge. It ain’t about forgiveness.

It ain’t about reconciliation. This is about Blackie Blackie Brown: The Traditional Owner of Death.

WRITTEN BY / Nakkiah Lui

DIRECTION / Declan Greene

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A Malthouse Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company production.

SCENE & HEARD

As Melbourne endured a month’s worth of rain in two days, our production team began testing equipment to make it rain inside the theatre.

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