Pompeii L.A. Program

POMPEII, L.A.

16 NOVEMBER – 9 DECEMBER

Malthouse Theatre presents

POMPEII, L.A.

By Declan Greene

Directed by Matthew Lutton Set & Lighting Design Nick Schlieper Costume Design Mel Page Composition and Sound Design David Franzke Associate Lighting Design Tom Willis Besen Family Artist Recipient (Direction) Zoey Dawson Performed by David Harrison Belinda McClory Tony Nikolakopoulos Luke Ryan Anna Samson Greg Stone Stage Manager Lisa Osborn Assistant Stage Manager Neole Goss MERLYN THEATRE 16 NOVEMBER – 9 DECEMBER Pompeii, L.A. is proudly supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation.

Rehearsal photography by Lachlan Woods

Los Angeles is a city that shouldn’t exist. It is physically and figuratively built on unstable ground: tectonic plates, tar pits, drained river beds. The role it plays in our cultural imagination – its glamorous, sun-drenched celluloid veneer – is in constant tension with the social dysfunction that grumbles beneath it.

Mass homelessness, mass addiction, police violence, race riots, earthquakes, earthquakes, and even more earthquakes...

It is a city on the brink, with its status endlessly played out in blockbuster disaster films, from Earthquake (1974) to Battle: Los Angeles (2011). One such movie is the $90 million Tommy Lee Jones action flop Volcano (1997) – a disaster in nearly every sense – which has weaved its way quite deeply into the fabric of this piece.

This wasn’t where Pompeii, L.A. started, though. The origins of this play are in the suicide of 90s child star Jonathan Brandis. Not the surprise of his death, but just the opposite.

The blunt, instant, brute familiarity. Brandis was just another embodiment of Hollywood’s child-star super-narrative. A young life enumerated as pure capital, inflating rapidly, then declining just as fast. Playing out all the clichés: police arrests, family feuding, substance abuse, obscurity, failed come-backs, and, eventually, death. Pompeii, L.A. focuses on the fall of one unnamed ex-child-star. He is lost, and sometimes hidden, in the dream of Los Angeles. A rapidly shifting world where the line between fiction and non-fiction, memory and fantasy, rehearsal and performance, are all hopelessly blurred – and the sprawling

freeways are jammed with celebrity car crashes (James Dean, Dana Plato, Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Byrnes – even Haley Joel Osment in July 2006).

Over the five years that this play has been developed, elements of the work have come to seem almost prophetic. In many ways, the lives of these child-stars resonate with the troubling events we have witnessed in the Western world over the last few years. All the tropes are there: a livelihood inflated to the point that it can no longer support itself, an economy built on the exploitation of our most vulnerable people. With the GFC, the American debt-ceiling crisis, the London riots, climate change, the increase in extreme weather events, there is a very real sense that perhaps we are reaching the apex of Western civilization – growing too large to support our own weight – that the inevitable end to a life of pure consumption is that we consume ourselves. The challenge now is to reverse the tide, before the first eruption. That, or we just kick back and start buying lots of sunglasses.

DECLAN GREENE AND MATTHEW LUTTON

ZOEY DAWSON

NEOLE GOSS

BESEN FAMILY ARTIST RECIPIENT (DIRECTION)

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER

Zoey’s recent theatre credits include, as playwright, The Unspoken Word is “Joe” (MKA/La Mama), as director The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (ZLMD Shakespeare/fortyfivedownstairs), as performer, The Economist (MKA), I Know There’s A Lot Of Noise Outside But You Have To Close Your Eyes (I’m Trying To Kiss You) and Shotgun Wedding (No Show/Next Wave). In 2012, she was awarded the Melbourne Festival Discovery Award for The Unspoken Word is “Joe”.

DAVID FRANZKE SOUND DESIGNER David’s previous work with Malthouse Theatre includes Intimacy and Holiday (with Ranters Theatre), Venus & Adonis, The China Incident, The Pitch, BLACK, The Spook, La Douleur, A View of Concrete, The Odyssey, Drink Pepsi, Bitch! and The Proscenium. David’s previous work with Playbox Theatre Company includes Myth, Propaganda & Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America, The Fat Boy, God’s Last Acre, Svetlana in Slingbacks, Yanagai! Yanagai!, Post Felicity, Falling Petals, Blak Inside, Inside 01 and Still Angela.

Other recent theatre credits: Elling, The Joy of Text, The Grenade and August: Osage County (Melbourne Theatre Company), Hell House (Back to Back Theatre), Ward B (Xenia Hanusiak), Australia Day (Melbourne Theatre Company & Sydney Theatre Company), Aviary (BalletLab), Dictionary of Imaginary Places (Anna Tregloan), and The Wonderful World of Dissocia (Sydney Theatre Company).

Neole has most recently completed the Australian tour of Annie (Gordon Frost Organisation) as Assistant Stage Manager. In 2010, she was Assistant Stage Manager on Spring Awakening (Sydney Theatre Company) and Stage Managed the tour of Burnt (Sydney Theatre Company). In 2009, Neole was an Assistant Stage Manager on Wizard of Oz (Windmill Theatre), Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Sydney Theatre Company) and Metro Street (State Theatre Company of South Australia). Neole has also toured around Australia as a Stage Manager with Emily Loves to Bounce and Mr McGee and the Biting Flea (Patch Theatre Company).

DECLAN GREENE PLAYWRIGHT As a writer, Declan’s recent works for Malthouse Theatre include Moth (with Arena Theatre Company) and Tame. Moth has also had seasons at the Brisbane Powerhouse, the Sydney Opera House, and will be presented in Washington in 2012 by PlayWriting Australia & the National New Play Network Showcase. He has been awarded the Malcolm Robertson Prize, the Max Afford Playwrights Award, an R.E. Ross Playwright’s Development Award, the Green Room Award for Best Original Writing, and the AWGIE for Theatre for Young Audiences. Directing credits include The Unspoken Word is “Joe” for MKA/La Mama. He is one half of DIY theatre duo Sisters Grimm (with Ash Flanders), and has co-written and directed shows including Little Mercy and Summertime in the Garden of Eden. In 2013, Sisters Grimm will present work at Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, and Griffin Theatre.

DAVID HARRISON

BELINDA MCCLORY

ACTOR

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In 2011, David graduated from the Fulltime Actors Program at 16th Street Actors Studio. Stage credits to date include Oliver! for IMG, Camelot for The Production Company, the title role in Ben 10 Live touring Asia and the Middle East, and The Aliens for Red Stitch under the direction of Nadia Tass. Screen credits include Tangle, Neighbours, Snake Tales, the feature Fatal Honeymoon, as well as commercials and short films. Pompeii, L.A. marks David’s Malthouse Theatre debut.

MATTHEW LUTTON DIRECTOR Matthew is an Associate Artist (Direction) at Malthouse Theatre. Past works for Malthouse Theatre include On the Misconception of Oedipus, Die Winterreise, The Trial and Tartuffe. For Sydney Theatre Company, Matthew has directed The Duel and The Mysteries: Genesis. For Belvoir, Tom Holloway’s Love Me Tender. And for Griffin Theatre Company, Don’t Say the Words. From 2002 to 2012, Matthew was the Artistic Director of Perth-based company ThinIce, for whom he directed Antigone and The Red Shoes, and from 2003 to 2006 he was Associate Director of Black Swan Theatre Company, where he directed Mishima’s The Lady Aoi and Woyzeck. In 2011, he directed the world premiere of Miroslav Srnka’s new opera Make No Noise for the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and in 2012 Richard Strauss’s opera Elektra for West Australian Opera, ThinIce, Opera Australia and the Perth International Arts Festival. In 2013, he will direct The Bloody Chamber and Dance of Death for Malthouse Theatre, and Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman for New Zealand Opera.

A Victorian College of the Arts graduate, Belinda has worked extensively in theatre, film and television. Her most recent production for Malthouse Theatre was in The Trial. Other theatre credits include Gross und Klein (including European Tour), The City, Concussion, Emergency Sex, Motel and Holy Day (Sydney Theatre Company), The Modern International Dead (Griffin Theatre), Love Me Tender (Griffin Theatre/Belvoir/ThinIce), 2000 Feet Away and Jesus Hopped The A Train for (Belvoir), The Rover, Macbeth, Sweet Bird of Youth, Boy Gets Girl, The Ghost Writer, Frozen, Proof and Queen Lear (Melbourne Theatre Company). She also appeared in The Odyssey (Malthouse Theatre) and in Rapture and Honour (Playbox Theatre Company). She has won both a Green Room Award and a Helpmann Award for her theatrical work and was the recipient of the SBW Playwright’s Award for her screen adaptation of Patrick White’s The Eye of the Storm. Her TV work includes Kath and Kim, All Saints, Blue Heelers, Corridors of Power and Janus. Film credits include Redball, Hotel de Love, darklovestory, Mullet, Life, Acolytes, The Matrix and X.

TONY NIKOLAKOPOULOS ACTOR Tony has had an impressive career as an actor, director, writer and producer. As an actor he has appeared in productions such as The Spook (Malthouse Theatre), Hamlet and August: Osage County (Melbourne Theatre Company), Wog Story (Thirdcosta Productions), Roulette (Ranters Theatre Company), Court Yard of Miracles (State Theatre Company of South Australia), Café Rebetika (National Tour), Honeymoon in Hellas (Kali Techni Productions), Waiting for Godot (ACT 7 Theatre Company), Death Watch (La Mama), Beat The Savage Drum (Dodd Street Theatre), Let Gypsies (St Martin’s Theatre). As a director, he has directed over 100 productions for the Children’s Performing Company of Australia

over the past 20 years. He has lectured for 6 years at Rusden/ Deakin University in Drama. Tony’s television credits include Reef Doctors, The Dr Blake Mysteries, Time of Our Lives, The Pacific, Underbelly, All Saints, Pirate Island “Lost Treasure of Fiji”, Little Oberon, Jason, Holly’s Heroes, The Murray Whelan Series, Scooter Secret Agent, Stingers, Blue Heelers, State Coroner, SeaChange, Janus and Embassy. Film credits include The Independent, The Extra, Tom White, The Wannabes, Kangaroo Jack, The Wog Boy, Head On, Life. Short film credits include Drop, Alice, Name Day, The Director, Seaborne, AD Hope, Mother’s Day, Smith Street and Bad Language.

LISA OSBORN STAGE MANAGER Lisa works as a freelance Stage Manager and Production Manager in theatre and on arts events.

Her recent Production/Stage Management credits include The Story of Mary MacLane by Herself for Ride On Theatre/ Performing Lines; The Trilogy Presentation (Amplification, Miracle and Above) for BalletLab at MONA FOMA. Her Stage Management credits for Malthouse Theatre include On the Misconception of Oedipus, Blood Wedding, Opera XS: Another Lament (with Rawcus/Chamber Made Opera), The Wild Duck (with Belvoir), Baal (with Sydney Theatre Company) and Sappho…in 9 Fragments. Other credits include: When The Rain Stops Falling (Brink Productions); Me and My Shadow (Patch Theatre Company); Man Covets Bird (Slingsby Theatre Company); G, Devolution and Ignition (Australian Dance Theatre); Three Sisters, Metro Street, Attempts on Her Life, The Female of the Species, Triple Threat, Noises Off and The Government Inspector (State Theatre Company of South Australia); Cake (Ladykillers); Boom Bah!, Afternoon of the Elves, Two Weeks with the Queen and Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge (Windmill Theatre); Beautiful Words (Oddbodies Theatre Company). Lisa has also worked in a range of roles on events including WOMADelaide, The Helpmann Awards and the Melbourne Commonwealth Games 2006 Cultural Festival.

MEL PAGE COSTUME DESIGNER Since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts, Mel has designed set and costumes for Medea and Old Man (Belvoir) and The Apocalypse Bear Trilogy (Stuck Pigs Squealing/Melbourne Theatre Company/ Melbourne International Arts Festival). As Costume Designer, Mel has designed Strange Interlude, As You Like It and The Promise (Belvoir) Les Liasions Dangereuses and Pygmalion (Sydney Theatre Company), Baal (Malthouse Theatre/Sydney Theatre Company), Vs Macbeth (The Border Project/Sydney Theatre Company), The Suicide, The Only Child, Spring Awakening (B Sharp/The Hayloft Project), The Nest (The Hayloft Project). As Set Designer Mel has designed Spicks and Specktacular (ABC/Token Events) and Noye’s Fludde (Victorian Opera).

LUKE RYAN ACTOR Luke has appeared in numerous Malthouse Theatre productions, including A Commercial Farce, Tartuffe, OT: Chronicles of The Old Testament and The Spook. Other theatre credits include Clybourne Park and The Ugly One (Melbourne Theatre Company), Waikiki-Hip (Sydney Theatre Company), Criminology (Malthouse Theatre/Arena Theatre Company), Concussion (Sydney Theatre Company/Griffin Theatre), Missing Link (Arena Theatre Company) and Small Metal Objects (Back to Back Theatre). In 2013, Luke will rejoin Back to Back Theatre for tours to the US and Canada with their Helpmann Award-winning production, Ganesh Versus the Third Reich. His television credits include ABC’s The Dr Blake Mysteries, Outland, Bed of Roses and Valentine’s Day, as well as the recurring role of Gideon Addison on City Homicide. He has appeared in the films Numurkah, The Desealer (MIFF 2006) and The Marey Project (MIFF 2005), among others. Luke wrote and starred in the short film Dave’s Dead, which has screened at film festivals around the world including MIFF 2012 and the Sydney Film Festival.

ANNA SAMSON ACTOR Anna graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2010. Following graduation she joined Red Stitch as a 2011 ensemble member, where she played Zoya in their production of Ruben Guthrie written and directed by Brendan Cowell, and Rose in Joanna Murray-Smith’s Day One. A Hotel. Evening. In 2012, Anna played Phoebe in The Heretic (Melbourne Theatre Company) directed by Matt Scholten and performed in After All This (Elbow Room). For television, Anna appeared as the character of Natalie in the series Conspiracy 365. While at the VCA Anna was the recipient of the John Tallis Award for Drama.

NICK SCHLIEPER SET & LIGHTING DESIGNER Nick Schlieper has worked for all the major performing arts companies in Australia, and works regularly in Europe and the USA. Upcoming projects include Uncle Vanya (Norwegian National Theatre); Otello (Cape Town Opera); Fury, The Maids, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Sydney Theatre Company); Tosca (Opera Australia).

Recently Nick has designed the set and lighting for Face to Face and lighting for Uncle Vanya in New York, Big and Little in London, Paris and Vienna (Sydney Theatre Company); The Marriage of Figaro (Opera Australia); Every Breath and Death of a Salesman (Belvoir Street Theatre); Love Never Dies (Really Useful Company). His set and lighting design for Baal was seen at Malthouse Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company last year, for which he won 2 Sydney Critics Awards. His international work includes Billy Budd and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hamburg State Opera); The Hostage (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Government Inspector (Wales); Armut, Reichtum, Mensch und Tier and The Ginger Man (Hamburg); Kasimir und Karoline and Lea’s Hochzeit (Vienna); U.F.A. Revue (Berlin and Kennedy Centre Washington); Michael Kramer and Ein Florentinerhut (Berlin);

Michael Bogdanov’s productions of Macbeth and Peer Gynt (Munich); Hedda Gabler and A Streetcar Named Desire (New York). Nick has received 6 Green Room Awards, 4 Sydney Critics Awards and 3 Helpmann Awards.

GREG STONE ACTOR Greg’s theatre credits include A Golem Story and Eldorado (Malthouse Theatre), Queen Lear, Clybourne Park, Life Without Me, Poor Boy, Blackbird, Love Song, Madwoman of Chaillot, The Pillowman, Cloud Nine, The Seagull, A Little Night Music, Assassins and Angels in America (Melbourne Theatre Company), Baby Teeth (Belvoir), The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Stones in His Pockets and Merrily We Roll Along (Sydney Theatre Company), Don’s Party (State Theatre Company of South Australia), Wars Of The Roses (Bell Shakespeare), Julia 3, Myth Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America, Rapture, A Return to the Brink, Miracles and Good Works (Playbox Theatre Company), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Life x 3 (Black Swan State Theatre Company), All the Black Dogs and McNeil (Griffin Theatre), and The Berry Man (Hothouse Theatre). Greg’s film credits include Sunset Six, Swerve, Oranges and Sunshine, Van Diemen’s Land, Boytown and The Bank, and for television, Winners & Losers, Devils Dust, Lowdown, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Underbelly, Neighbours, City Homicide, Librarians, Blue Heelers, MDA, Stingers, Marshall Law, Halifax f.p., State Coroner and SeaChange. Greg is a graduate of NIDA. He received a Helpmann and a Green Room Award for Stuff Happens (Belvoir). Greg was Artistic Associate of Playbox Theatre Company in 2004.

TOM WILLIS ASSOCIATE LIGHTING DESIGN Tom has previously worked with Malthouse Theatre as a lighting designer on The Plague Dances (with Four Larks) and the Helium 2012 production Pale Blue Dot (OpticNerve Performance Group). He has also designed DasSHOKU SHAKE! (Yumi Umiumare), Lu’arn (Melbourne International Arts Festival), The Ugly One and The Pigeons (Griffin Theatre Company), Money Shots (Sydney Theatre Company), Undine, Peer Gynt and Orpheus (Four Larks), Dying City and Purgatorio (Hoy Polloy), Sweeney Todd, Rhinoceros, The Unilateral Experiment, Insurgency and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (Union House Theatre). He has been an associate/ assistant lighting designer for Baal (Malthouse Theatre), Assembly (Chunky Move), The White Guard, The Serpent’s Teeth and The Year of Magical Thinking (Sydney Theatre Company), Measure for Measure (Belvoir), Moonlight & Magnolias and Realism (Melbourne Theatre Company), and L’incoronazione di Poppea (Victorian Opera).

SPECIAL THANK YOU Pompeii, L.A. was first developed with director Daniel Schlusser and dramaturg Christian Leavesley as part of PlayWriting Australia’s National Script Workshop in July 2010. It was further developed as part of Sydney Theatre Company’s Rough Drafts program in November 2010 (co-supported by the R.E. Ross Trust Playwright’s Development Awards).

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