REVOLT. SHE SAID. REVOLT AGAIN. - June Season of Student Productions 2021

STUDENT PRODUCTIONS June 2021 nida.edu.au/june-2021

WELCOME I would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands on which we learn and tell stories, the Bidjigal and Gadigal people of the Eora nation.

We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander elders past and present who have cared for land, water and story on these lands for generations. We also recognise the work and strength of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, workers and creatives within the NIDA Community.

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It gives me enormous pleasure to welcome you to another outstanding June Season of Student Productions at NIDA. The focus on digital and emerging technologies is now embedded in NIDA’s core practice as we commit to creating and nurturing the world’s best storytellers and unlocking the power of the performing arts across stages, screens, future media and beyond.

These four, fully-staged NIDA productions tell stories that will surprise and shake. With live cinema, an urban mystery, an urgent demolition and a flagship partnership – this is a season of shapeshifting.

Change is in the air. Certainties are challenged. The past and present collide.

Eat Me is a series of four short new Australian plays in one night, devised and produced in a unique collaborative process with NIDA, Sydney Theatre Company’s Emerging Writers Group, and Contemporary Asian Australian Performance (CAAP) with leading writers and directors. Metamorphosis is a big and bold interpretation of a classic Franz Kafka, directed

by NIDA Course Leader Dr Benjamin Schostakowski. We’re delighted to welcome Kate Champion back to NIDA, directing Hilary Bell’s confronting Perfect Stranger, where the world of audience and performer collides in a revolving world. Award-winning Heather Fairbairn disrupts accepted modes of storytelling with Alice Birch’s exposure of patriarchy REVOLT. SHE SAID. REVOLT AGAIN. This season gives all our students the opportunity to push boundaries and engage with industry representatives, agents, theatre and event companies, film, and television producers.

The state-of-the-art performance spaces they work in, as well as the experts they have access to at every step of the creative process, are what makes NIDA one of the world’s top performing arts educators.

It is fantastic to see the outcomes of the hard work of the incredible group of talented and passionate students and practising artists from diverse backgrounds and from all over Australia.

We couldn’t present any of these high-calibre productions without support from the Australian Government, our Principal Partner for Property Services ARA, our Major Partners Technical Direction Company and Canon Australia, our Corporate Partner YouTube, our Supporters Tempus Two, Young Henrys, Media Super and Screen Australia, our Legal Services Supporter Kay & Hughes, our Event supporter Fourth Wall and the trusts and foundations and the generous individuals who make up our donors and supporters.

We hope you enjoy these live productions.

– Liz Hughes, CEO

June Season of Student Productions 2021 Rehearsals

REVOLT. SHE SAID. REVOLT AGAIN.

By Alice Birch Directed by Heather Fairbairn NIDA Theatre, Studio Theatre 9–12, 15,16 June, 7.15pm 16 June, 1pm Running time 80 minutes REVOLT. SHE SAID. REVOLT AGAIN. will be performed in one act with no interval.

We live in a time in which – across the globe – those who hold power are beginning to be brought to account. A time in which Australia is having its own moral reckoning with misogyny in our parliament. A time in which toxic, capitalist structures that serve a few whilst oppressing the rest are being exposed and questioned. A time in which those attempting to redistribute power are colliding with those clinging on to dominance – as seen in the clashes between protestors and riot police at women’s marches in the UK and Mexico. A galvanising time. A time of change. Although written in 2014, REVOLT. SHE SAID. REVOLT AGAIN. is a play for these times.

Alice Birch’s play disrupts accepted modes of storytelling by deconstructing language, character, and form. Inspired by Alice Birch’s provocation that this play should not be well behaved, we have applied the concept of disruption to all production elements – much credit to the students for rising to this challenge.

This production exposes the patriarchy as a fabrication – a grossly absurd fabrication at that. The patriarchy is not a given. It is not an immutable way of life. It is a construct, and, therefore, can be deconstructed.

However, this play deals with more than gender and gender politics. It’s about Choice.

Autonomy. Agency. Identity. Power. Control.

And watermelon.

– Heather Fairbairn, Director

Presented by NIDA BFA Design for Performance, BFA Costume, BFA Properties and Objects, BFA Scenic Construction and Technologies, BFA Technical Theatre and Stage Management, MFA Directing and final year BFA Acting students.

Company

Female A Female B Female C Male A Male B Director Assistant Director Set Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer and Composer

Libby Kay Olivia Bourne Hannah Julii Anderson Ashan Kumar Alfred Kouris Heather Fairbairn* Alexei Ymer-Welsby Angelina Meany Phoenix McKay Sybilla Wajon Kaitlyn Crocker

Voice Coach Laura Farrell*

Production Stage Manager

Deputy Stage Manager

Assistant Stage Manager

Construction Supervisor

Costume Supervisor

Properties Supervisor

Head Electrician

Sophia Wallace Bella Thompson Bernadett Lőrincz Jordan Magnus-McCarthy Matthew Hinton Samantha Manning Rachel Hallett Pip Morey

Costume Assistant

Costume Design Assistant

Costume Maker

Props and Cabinetry Assistant

Cabinetry Assistants

Set Design Assistant

Ceiling Operator

Technical Assistants

Delan Woods Lou Flowers Maeve Durkin Connor Palmer Hunter Depalo Zachary Portelli Jessi Seymour Tommaso Patelli Joel Montgomery

Grace Sackman

*Guest artist

Thank you to the students’ mentors: Matt Cox (Lighting Design), Phil Downing (Sound Design), Cameron Menzies (Head Electrician), Eva Tandy (Stage Management).

Graduating students 2021 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting)

G abriel A lvarado

H annah Julii A nder s on

Fly nn B arnard

Julie B et tens

O liv ia B ourne

S haw C ameron

R yan Ennis s

A my Joyce

Libby Kay

A lfre d Kouris

A shan Kum ar

A ri Ma za Long

Charlot te L uc a s

Philip Ly nch

Wern M ak

B raydon May

Riley McNam ara

A lyona Pop ova

Harrison Q ua s t

C onnor Reilly

Mem a Munro

Chris t y Tran

Eb ony Tucker

Adolphus Wayle e

L ucy Jauris to

S am antha Manning

S iobhan Nealon

A ngelina Meany

H ayden Relf

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Costume)

Elsb eth C ameron

B ethany Hew it t

O ri His er

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Design for Performance)

S oham A pte

B lake He dley

Hannah Tayler

H annah Yardley

A my Jack s on

Pho eni x Mckay

Is ab ella S altearn

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Properties and Objects)

Hunter D epalo

Danielle G uyot

Rachel Hallet t

Is ab ell de L aurentis

Zo e M anning

Rhyanna M ar tinus s en

Z achar y Por telli

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Scenic Construction and Technologies)

C atherine Imer

M at thew Hinton

Z achar y W hite

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Technical Theatre and Stage Management)

Elif A kgul

Is a ac B arron

K aitly n Cro cker

S ophie Jone s

Leia Lois a

Alex Makaronopoulos

Jo el M allet t

K r ys telle Q uar term ain

Jame s Rawlings

S aint Clair

Nathan Sandy

Z achar y S aric

Mellit a Ver tigan

Trillian V ieira

Sy billa Wajon

S ophia Wallace

Rik iah L izarraga

A my S ole

A lexei Ymer-Welsby

Master of Fine Arts (Directing)

Eve B e ck

Madeleine D iggins

S amuel Jing

STUDENT PRODUCTIONS JUNE 2021

STUDENT PRODUCTIONS JUNE 2021 NIDA employs a wide range of industry professionals on both a part-time and casual basis who teach students across all the courses. NIDA would like to acknowledge and thank all members of staff who have shared their expertise with the 2021 students.

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