The Dragon Program

THE DRAGON

27 JUNE – 26 JULY

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Malthouse Theatre presents

THE DRAGON

By Evgeny Shwarz Adaptation by Toby Schmitz Music & Lyrics by Tripod

Directed by Marion Potts Set & Costume Design Anna Tregloan Sound Design David Franzke Lighting Design Matt Scott Assistant Director Mark Pritchard Fight Choreographer Felicity Steel Video Joel Loxton and Joey Hitten Cast Jimi Bani Tyler Coppin Kim Gyngell John Leary Josh Price Nikki Shiels Tripod (Scott Edgar, Steven Gates & Simon Hall) Stage Manager Tom Webster Assistant Stage Manager Caitlin Byrne Besen Family Artist Program Recipient (Costume Design) Melanie Liertz MERLYN THEATRE 27 JUNE – 26 JULY The Dragon is proudly supported by Sofitel Melbourne On Collins

DIRECTOR’S NOTE The West Wing was once described to me as ‘a fairy tale for adults’. Irrespective of the show, the observation captured our adult need to have fairy tales, to hear about acts of bravery and to project ourselves as heroes: our chests puff up at the thought of injustice and adversity and we imagine that we might actually effect change – that we have a real choice about our destiny.

The ‘fork in the road’ occupied many of our early discussions as a creative team on The Dragon. At one point we contemplated designing one – then we remembered that it’s best not to literalise a metaphor. Lancelot’s first fork in the road materialises as our play begins: one road leads towards a town with a tavern, the other towards a town with a dragon. The geographic choice invokes a moral compass and suddenly the story kicks off.

Lancelot always takes the path of most resistance and of course in our play too, he pursues the braver choice. But this first act of courage influences others. It’s an infectious problem. The townsfolk he meets are begrudgingly drawn into a contemplation of ‘otherness’ – their own fork in the road: to live with what they know or to contemplate an alternative. Why would they do the latter? The economy’s stable, the crime rate is down; ‘where else is everyone so well looked after?’ asks the Quarantined Doctor.

‘But at what moral price?’ (asks our Knight.)

In fairy-tale land, there is an alternative. And so we begin to flesh out our options, feel the freakishly daunting size of our

imagination, reach beyond our immediate grasp. We remember our ‘awesome capacity for moxie’ and are drawn to contemplate another way of being, perhaps even a different leadership model … Is it braver to be the outsider or to accept the outsider?

Laughing at our fears is part of the heroic quest … to assert bravery is to disdain pettiness and confront our weaknesses.

It’s also a function of satire. Cold War antics from Get Smart and 007 right through to contemporary examples of spin doctoring and ‘message management’ have built a fine lexicon for us. Fear and paranoia can be measured by the sophistication of our surveillance techniques. Bouncers, guards, spies, and primitive bugging devices – these techniques all need regular upgrading. Technology gives us some extreme and at times ludicrous options. But are we using the microphone to bug or to broadcast? Are we behind the camera or in front of it?

As confounding as it may be, it’s always good to keep a handle on the ‘comms strategy’ …

In revisiting the Lancelot myth, Shwarz, Schmitz, Bani, Tripod and the rest of us have held the gaze of dragons past and present – Mr Shwarz of course more than any of us. We’ve allowed them to hover within our expressive range and felt the urge to kill them.

Regimes come and go but dragons are always nearby.

Marion Potts

JIMI BANI LANCELOT Jimi most recently performed in Peter Pan (Belvoir); Redfern Now (Blackfella Films & ABC); and Mabo (Blackfella Films & ABC). In 2012 Jimi received the Deadly Award for Actor of the Year for his roles in both Mabo and The Straits. He also received nominations in 2012 for AACTA Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama (Mabo), and a Silver Logie nomination for Most Outstanding Actor in a Television Drama (Mabo). Other nominations include a 2009 Helpman nomination for Best Supporting Actor (Yibiyung), and in 2008, the WA Equity Foundation Nomination for Best Actor (Jandamarra). Other theatre credits include Jandamarra (Black Swan State Theatre Co); Romeo & Juliet (Sydney Theatre Co); Yibiyung (Belvoir); Krakouer (Deckchair Theatre); The Sapphires (Black Swan State Theatre Company/Belvoir). Other television credits include Remote Area Nurses (SBS), and The Straits (ABC). Jimi is a 2007 graduate from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

CAITLIN BYRNE ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Caitlin graduated from Charles Sturt University with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Theatre Media. Her recent theatre credits include Pompeii, L.A., Happy Days, Tame and Happiness (Malthouse Theatre); Half-Real (Malthouse Theatre/The Border Project); and Thyestes (Malthouse Theatre/The Hayloft Project). Other credits include The Nest, A Garden of Money (The Hayloft Project); Life’s A Circus (Magnormos Productions); Melburnalia 2 (White Whale Theatre); List of Invisible Things (Scratch Theatre); Yummy (Susan-Ann Walker and Sally Bourne Cabaret); As You Like It (Winterfall Theatre); The Pyramid (3 to a Room Productions/Midsumma Festival); and Once We Lived Here (Bryant & Frank Productions).

TYLER COPPIN CHARLES Tyler is a Graduate of NIDA and performs regularly for the major theatre companies, as well as independents, one-off projects and internationally. Most recent credits include the movie Predestination (directed by the Spierig Brothers and starring Ethan Hawke); The Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; and since 1993, Puck in Baz Lurhmann’s acclaimed production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Opera Australia. For Melbourne Theatre Company: A Behanding in Spokane, Ruby Moon, and His Girl Friday. Awards include a Helpmann for his performance in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Melbourne Theatre Company/Sydney Theatre Company); and the coveted Edinburgh Fringe First Award for his play LyreBird (Tales of Helpmann).

DAVID FRANZKE SOUND DESIGN David’s recent theatre credits include Pompeii L.A. (Malthouse Theatre); Intimacy, Holiday and Song (Ranters Theatre); How High The Sky (Polyglot Theatre/Melbourne International Arts Festival); Elling (Melbourne Theatre Company); Hell House (Back to Back Theatre); Ward B (Xenia Hanusiak); Australia Day (Melbourne Theatre Company/Sydney Theatre Company); Aviary (BalletLab); and Dictionary of Imaginary Places (Anna Tregloan).

KIM GYNGELL THE MAYOR Kim Gyngell’s illustrious career in theatre, television and film has given us memorable performances.

From Col’n Carpenter to gritty M (Macbeth), to theatre productions like Art, Kim’s range is inspiring. Some of Kim’s theatre highlights include Pillowman, Ninety, Art, Festen, The Hypocrite and Twelfth Night for Melbourne Theatre Company, and It Just Stopped for Belvoir, as well as Sylvia, Metamorphisis and The Caucasian Chalk Circle for Sydney Theatre Company.

On television Kim has constantly proven his versatility, from programs such as Underbelly, The Games, Backberner, Full Frontal, The Librarians, Very Small Business and Wilfred, to his most recent appearance in Lowdown 2 and The Straits. Kim’s film credits include Nightmares and Dreamscapes, The Hard Word, The Wog Boy, Love and Other Catastrophes, Evil Angels and most recently Salvation.Kim’s awards include the 2005 St Kilda Film Festival for Best Actor, The Writer; 2001 Helpmann Award Nomination for Best Actor, Art; 2001 Green Room Award Nomination for Best Ensemble, Art; 1998 St Kilda Film Festival for Best Actor, Sunday Hungry; 1998 Green Room Award Nomination for Best Actor, Twelfth Night; 1997,1996,1995 & 1994 Collective Logie for Most Popular Comedy Program Full Frontal; and a 1990 Logie Nomination for Most Popular Comedy Personality – Col’n Carpenter.

JOHN LEARY HENRY Since completing his studies at Theatre Nepean, John’s theatre credits include His Girl Friday (Melbourne Theatre Company); Peter Pan (Belvoir); Julius Caesar (Sydney Theatre Company); The Book of Everything, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Marriage of Figaro and Cloudstreet (Belvoir); Realism (Melbourne Theatre Company); The Marriage of Figaro (Queensland Theatre Company); Dealers Choice (Albedo Theatre); Don’t Stare too Much and The Rules

of the Game, Dealers Choice (Darlinghurst Theatre); and Lord of the Flies (Stable Mates). In 2006 John co-wrote and performed in The Suitors at the Old Fitzroy Hotel for Easily Distracted, which won the Phillip Parsons Young Playwright of the Year Award. John’s film and television credits include Red Dog directed by Kriv Stenders, Where the Wild Things Are directed by Spike Jonze, The Elegant Gentleman’s Guide to Knife Fighting, Offspring (Nurses), Tough Nuts 2, Woodley, All Saints, Double The Fist, Tracy McBean, Kangaroo Creek Gang, White Collar Blue, Cushion Kids, Backberner, Water Rats, Wildside and A Country Practice.

MARION POTTS DIRECTOR Marion is Malthouse Theatre’s Artistic Director.

She has worked with many of the country’s finest theatre companies and was most recently Bell Shakespeare’s Associate Artistic Director, creating its development arm Mind’s Eye. Marion was Resident Director for Sydney Theatre Company from 1995-1999. She curated the 2003 National Playwrights’ Conference, was a chairperson of World Interplay and a member of the Theatre Board of the Australia Council. Marion received the Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2006. For Malthouse Theatre, Marion has directed Hate, Wild Surmise, Blood Wedding, Meow Meow’s Little Match Girl and its return season at the Southbank Centre in London, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Sappho... in 9 fragments, and Venus & Adonis (with Bell Shakespeare). Other theatre directing credits include: King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, Othello (Bell Shakespeare); The Wonderful World of Dissocia, Playgrounds, Volpone, Don Juan, Life After George, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Crucible, Navigating, Del Del, Closer, The Herbal Bed, What Is The Matter With Mary Jane?, Pygmalion, Where Are We Now?, The Café Latte Kid, The Blessing, Two Weeks With The Queen (Sydney Theatre Company); Grace (Melbourne Theatre Company); Equus, The Torrents, Gary’s House, A Number, The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? (State Theatre Company of South Australia); Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset (Queensland Theatre Company).

JOSH PRICE NORMAN/KIRKVERBY/ENSEMBLE A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Josh’s theatre credits include The Histrionic (Malthouse Theatre/Sydney Theatre Company); Menagerie (NEON Festival – MTC/Daniel Schlusser Ensemble); The Dollhouse (Daniel Schlusser Ensemble); Delectable Shelter (The Hayloft Project); Elektra (Fraught Outfit); Life is a Dream (Storeroom); Something Natural but Very Childish (Dirty Pretty Theatre); The Wives of Hemingway (Side Pony/Weeping Spoon); Wittenberg (Red Stitch); Provocateur: The Rebellious Text (Red Stitch/ Melbourne Festival); Peer Gynt (VCA); and the music theatre works Margaret Fulton: Queen of the Dessert (Present Tense/ Theatreworks); and The Lovebirds (Melbourne Festival). Film and TV credits include Underbelly: Infiltration, City Homicide, Australia On Trial, The Nurses and John Doe.

MARK PRITCHARD ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Mark is a theatre maker who trained at the VCA (Directing), PACT, and the University of Wollongong.

He is co-director of NO SHOW, whose works include: The Séance, Unfinished Business, Outside Line and Shotgun Wedding. Mark’s other directing credits include 4000 Miles (Red Stitch Actors Theatre); The Ruffian on The Stair (VCA); and Timon’s Daughter (Tamarama Rock Surfers). As Assistant Director he worked on The Economist (MKA); The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later (Red Stitch); The Winter’s Tale (VCA); Bustown (atyp); and Queen C (BSharp). Mark undertook a Besen Family Artist Placement in Dramaturgy with the Malthouse earlier this year.

TOBY SCHMITZ WRITER Toby graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1999 and since then has become an accomplished actor, writer and director for theatre, television and film. Toby’s written work includes: I Want to Sleep With Tom Stoppard; fifteen and then some; Cunt Pi; This Blasted Earth: A Christmas Miracle with Music; Capture the Flag and Ghost Stories (Tamarama Rock Surfers); Lucky (Australian Youth Theatre/ La Mama); Chicks Will Dig You!, dreamalittledreamalittle, and Pan (BSharp). Toby’s writing for TV includes: Think Tank, Lucky Dragon, Bargain Coast and Shaken Not Stirred. As a director Toby’s credits include: Capture the Flag, Ghost Stories and Work In Progress (Tamarama Rock Surfers); This is How it Goes (Darlinghurst Theatre); and Boys Life (Sydney Fringe Festival).

Awards include the Patrick White Award (2002) for Lucky, and the Australian National Playwrights Award (2004) for Chicks Will Dig You!. In 2007 Toby was shortlisted for the Philip Parsons Young Playwright’s Award and in 2011 Capture the Flag toured nationally with Playwriting Australia. In 2012 Toby appeared as an actor in The Wild Duck for Malthouse Theatre.

MATT SCOTT LIGHTING DESIGN For the past 19 years Matt has as worked as a lighting designer for all of Australia’s leading performing arts companies including: Malthouse Theatre, Bell Shakespeare, Queensland Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir, Victorian Opera and Opera Australia. He has twice received the Helpmann Award for Lighting.

Matt returns to Malthouse Theatre having previously deigned the lighting for A Commercial Farce. His other most recent credits include: Nixon In China (Victorian Opera); Madame Butterfly (New Zealand Opera); Henry IV (Bell Shakespeare); Chitty Chitty Bang

Bang (TML Enterprises); Elling, His Girl Friday, Red, The Seed, Tribes, The Importance of Being Earnest and Clybourne Park (Melbourne Theatre Company); Eat, Pray, Laugh – Barry Humphries’ Farewell Tour (Dainty Group); Don Pasquale (Opera Australia/Tokyo Art Foundation); and Don Giovanni (Oz Opera).

NIKKI SHIELS ELSA Nikki Shiels is one of Australia’s most promising young actors. Nikki graduated from VCA in 2009 where she won the Richard Pratt Memorial Scholarship for an Outstanding Actor in their Second Year of Training. Shortly after graduating, Nikki performed as Mary Queen of Scots in Malthouse Theatre’s 2010 production of Elizabeth – Almost By Chance A Woman, as well as the lead role of Madeline in Auspicious Arts Projects’ Madeline. Also in 2010, Nikki filmed a key role in Fred Schepisi’s film The Eye of the Storm opposite Geoffrey Rush and Charlotte Rampling. Later the same year, Nikki appeared in Robyn Nevin’s production of Don Parties On for Melbourne Theatre Company.

For television, Nikki scored a recurring guest role in Channel 9 series RUSH IV in mid-2011. Later that year, Nikki was an understudy in Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest. 2012 saw Nikki back onstage in MTC’s production of Top Girls, a performance well received by critics, and in 2013 Nikki starred in MTC’s production True Minds.

ANNA TREGLOAN SET & COSTUME DESIGN As designer of staging and costumes for theatre, dance and circus, and as installation artist and director, Anna Tregloan has collaborated with a large number and eclectic mix of companies and artists. Her work has toured extensively both nationally and internationally and she has been privileged to receive several state and national awards including

the John Truscott Award for Excellence in Design for Theatre and in 2010 an Australia Council Theatre Fellowship. Companies she has worked with include Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare, Ranters Theatre, Playbox Theatre Company, Legs on the Wall, Arena Theatre Company, Back to Back Theatre, Danceworks, Handspan, Chunky Move, Finucane and Smith, Lucy Guerin Inc., Belvoir, Force Majeur, Circus Oz and numerous productions with Malthouse Theatre (including The Odyssey, Journal of a Plague Year, Eldorado, Venus and Adonis, Wild Surmise and BLACK, which she also directed). She is an artist at the performance company The Association of Optimism.

TRIPOD (SCOTT EDGAR, STEVEN GATES & SIMON HALL) THE DRAGON & OTHER CHARACTERS Fixtures of the international comedy scene, musical comedy group Tripod have just completed a twoyear national tour of Men of Substance, including seasons at the Sydney Opera House and Arts Centre Melbourne. 2010-12 saw Tripod develop and premiere Tripod versus the Dragon as Artists in Residence at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, and then tour the piece nationally as well as to London, Edinburgh, and Wroclaw, Poland. Tripod are regulars on the music festival circuit, having played the Falls Festival, Woodford Folk Festival, the Port Fairy Folk Festival, the Apollo Bay Music Festival, and the Queenscliff Music Festival. Tripod’s TV credits include the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala, Adam Hills Tonight, The 2011 Logie Awards (with Eddie Perfect), Skithouse and The Sideshow.

Alongside his work with Tripod, Scott Edgar works as a writer and illustrator for games and animation, including on Exchange Student Zero for the Cartoon Network and Double Happy versus the Infinite Sadness for Monkeystack Animation.

Steven Gates’ television credits include Blue Heelers, House Husbands and Upper Middle Bogan. Most recently, Steven co-wrote an episode of It’s a Date! for the ABC which will air later this year. Steven is also a passionate sound designer.

Over the past two years, Yon (Simon Hall) has performed his Green Room-nominated solo show Mandaddy at venues including Chapel off Chapel, The Astor in Perth and The Butterfly Club.

THOMAS WEBSTER STAGE MANAGER Thomas is a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. His Stage Management and Production Management credits include: Hate (Malthouse Theatre); And All Things Return to Nature Tomorrow and Aviary - Suite of the Bird (BalletLab); Barassi the Stage Show (Jager Productions); Good Evening (Token); Meow Meow’s Australian Tour (Live Nation); St Kilda Festival (2009-2012); Atheneaum Theatre (2008-2012); and Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Thomas has toured comedy acts around Australia, including Jason Byrne, Jennifer Coolidge, Alan Davies and Julia Morris.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS Simon Westcott (Chair), John Daley (Deputy Chair), Frankie Airey, Michele Levine, Ian McRae, Sarah Morgan, Thea Snow, Sigrid Thornton, Kerri Turner, Leonard Vary.

Artistic Director Marion Potts Executive Producer Jo Porter Associate Artist (Design) Paul Jackson Associate Artist (Direction) Matthew Lutton Associate Artist (Writing) Van Badham Company Managers Lucy Birkinshaw

Nina Bonacci Associate Producer Josh Wright Administrator Narda Shanley Finance Manager Mario Agostinoni Finance Administrator Liz White Finance Assistant Connie Stella Marketing & Communications Manager Lisa Scicluna Media Manager Maria O’Dwyer Digital Strategy & Marketing Coordinator Chloe Gordon Communications Coordinator Jennifer Smith Graphic Designer Rick Milovanovic Development Manager Jaclyn Birtchnell Philanthropy Manager Nicole Punte Development & Marketing Assistant Hiroki Kobayashi Ticketing Manager Emma Howard Ticketing Assistant Lauren White Youth & Education Program Clare Watson Executive Assistant Emily Fiori Audience Development Consultant Jason Tamiru Building Manager Peter Mandersloot Bar Manager Cherry Rivers Front of House Managers Tristan Watson

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Production Manager David Miller Technical Manager Baird McKenna Operations Manager Dexter Varley Head Electrician Stewart Birkinshaw Campbell Head Mechanist Andy Moore Theatre Technician Nathaneal Bristow Head of Wardrobe Amanda Carr Wardrobe Assistant Chloe Greaves Workshop Supervisor David Craig Steel Fabricator Goffredo Mameli Scenic Artist Patrick Jones Props Master Ross Murray

(lifetime recognition) Front of House/Bar Staff Leeor Adar, Matt Adair, Jacqui Brown, Ben Carollo, Mimi Catterns, Kathryn Delaney, Tom Dent, Carla Di Stefano, Alice Dixon, Graham Downey, Tanja George, Christian Grant, Kate Gregory, Kathryn Joy, Bridie McCarthy, Ian Michael, Anna Nalpantidis, Daniel Newell, Ruby Nolan, Syrie Payne, Kliment Poposki, Beck Rafferty, Claire Richardson, Sanne Rodenstein, Phoebe Taylor, Jade Thomson, Lee Threadgold Box Office Staff Abbey Barnes, Liz Bastian, Paul Buckley, Mark Byrne, Dan Giovannoni, Kate Gregory, Suzie Hardgrave, Michelle Hines, Ian Michael, Fiona Wiseman, Liz White Malthouse Theatre would like to acknowledge the people of the Kulin nation on whose land this work is being presented.

Malthouse Theatre would also like to acknowledge the ongoing support of its volunteers.

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