ARGUS Production Program

Winner of the Queensland Premier’s Drama Award 2014-2015

Queensland Theatre Company presents a Dead Puppet Society production

Cast 5–17 May 2015 Bille Brown Studio, The GreenHouse Argus will run for approximately 45 minutes, no interval.

Nathan Booth Puppeteer Laura Hague Puppeteer Matthew Seery Puppeteer Anna Straker Puppeteer Robert Davidson (Topology)

Double Bass/Bass Guitar

Therese Milanovic (Topology)

Pianist/Pedagogue

Christa Powell (Topology)

Violin/Pedagogue

David Morton

Director and Designer

Nicholas Paine

Creative Producer

John Babbage (Topology)

Composer

Jason Glenwright

Lighting Designer

Richard Tulloch Dramaturg Brett Cherey

Sound Engineer

Samuel Maher

Stage Manager

Developed with Brisbane Powerhouse.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Funding support for this project has been provided by The Jim Henson Foundation.

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Welcome Wesley Enoch, Artistic Director

Dear Patron, Supporter and Friend, Part of what we do as a State Theatre Company is to help Queensland artists reach larger audiences, develop new works and resource their ambitions with financial and material support. Companies like Grin & Tonic (Macbeth and The 7 Stages of Grieving), Daniel Evans and The Good Room (I Want to Know What Love is and Oedipus Doesn't Live Here Anymore), Polytoxic (The Rat Trap) and Monsters Appear (A Tribute of Sorts), artists like Matthew Ryan (Brisbane), or Elaine Acworth (Gloria) as well as a huge number of others have benefitted from this support. We are proud to be Queensland's largest investor in local theatre talent and their work.

The Dead Puppet Society is the quintessential Queensland success story. From their work at QUT, Metro Arts, La Boite Theatre Company, Brisbane Powerhouse and Queensland Theatre Company, they are

an example of how a community gathers to support local ideas and talent. Their body of work has been celebrated across the state and toured across the country. QTC has been providing office support and creative development resources to help Dead Puppet Society realise their dreams.

It is a great honour to play a part in helping them realise their vision for their company.

Argus represents a small step on a journey which will see a new work be produced as part of the next Queensland Theatre Company season. Keep an eye out for this amazing new work in 2016.

QTC sees our role as a leader and supporter of Queensland theatre as an important catalyst and explorer of the theatrical landscape of our state.

Working together with the many partners across the state we believe in developing a nurturing ecology where we can create pathways to success,

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share our resources with our artists and advocate for connections with Queensland audiences.

Thanks for your ongoing support of Queensland talent.

Check out Daniel Evans' new work Oedipus Doesn't Live Here Anymore, winner of Queensland Premier's Drama Award.

Love,

Wesley

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Director's Note David Morton

Just like the little creature at the heart of the story, Argus has been on a long journey.

In early 2012, after staging a number of more traditional puppet works, we decided that we wanted to try something different. We wanted to create a show that would embrace the ideas of transformation and illusion that puppets seemed to embody so poetically. We wanted to create a character that wasn’t limited by its physical properties, one that could shift and change. We wanted to find a form of puppetry that could be responsive to the imagination.

After a development with Vena Cava Productions, our initial concept went through story building with Richard Tulloch, was reworked for four performers, and was scored by John Babbage (Topology). The production had its first presentation at the Brisbane Powerhouse in 2013.

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Over the coming year Argus is set to play around the country before heading to the US for tour dates in early 2016. We are delighted to kick this adventure off at Queensland Theatre Company; to see this little creature brought to life again, in such esteemed company, is just wonderful.

This show has been crafted by the hands of so many talented individuals, to each and every one of you, thank you.

We hope that Argus might give you cause to notice the littlest things in our big world, and remember that even they have dreams of their own.

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Composer's Note John Babbage (Topology)

Innocence, love, adventure, despair, triumph. Argus has it all.

Working with the creators, Nicholas and David, has been as much fun as performing the show itself.

The basic storyline had already been conceived; so composing the music was very much like writing a movie score. The scenes were clear, as was the intent of each chapter of Argus’ journey.

I felt my part in the production was to bring life to the characters, enhance each scene, and give the actors more tangible feelings to work with through an emotional narrative. This, I feel, is one of the most important parts of producing a score for any work. The story tells itself, but it is the music that gives the production energy, emotion and life.

When I was studying (do you ever stop learning?), our lecturer made us watch “Indiana Jones” with all of the music removed. The dialogue was still there and the acting excellent, but

every scene seemed hollow and left you feeling nothing.

So often music is just taken for granted and many people just expect it to be there; not just in movies, but in everyday life - from television, video games, radio to stage productions.

With Argus, I didn’t want this to be the case. I wanted the music to change the way the actors felt and to affect how they thought about each scene.

Argus, the main character, was my starting point in composing for the show.

He is a beautiful, honest, simple and gentle soul. To reflect this, his theme is a simple three-chord motif with an innocent and childlike melody that can be performed with a range of emotions: joy, reflection, sadness and deep love. This makes it challenging and rewarding to play as simple melodies are often the hardest to perform well.

Composing this score has given me the opportunity to write music that I never thought I would ever write: a pirate jig, an industrial,

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discordant mash-up and even a chase scene.

Topology and myself are passionate about collaborative work as it drives us to think outside of our comfort zone, challenges us to truthfully convey the emotional intent of our music and, most importantly, builds new friendships. Working with Dead Puppet Society on Argus has achieved all of these things and has been truly fulfilling.

To quote jazz legend Miles Davis: “It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.”

Take a bit of magic home

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MAKE YOUR OWN PIN WHEEL MAKE YOUR OWN PIN WHEEL

MATERIALS MATERIALS

INSTRUCTIONS INSTRUCTIONS

1 pipe cleaner pipe cleaner 11 stick 1 stick You could use a popsicle

1. Decorate the inside of your pin wheel.

1. Decorate the inside of your pin wheel.

2. Sticky tape or glue down the corners 2. with Sticky tape orinto gluethe down the corners the dots centre. with the dots into the centre.

3. Cut a hole where marked in the middle.

3. Cut a hole where marked in the middle.

4. Wrap a pipe cleaner around a stick.

4. Wrap a pipe cleaner around a stick.

5. Pull the pipe cleaner through the 5. hole Pull the andpipe tie acleaner knot. through the hole and tie a knot.

You could use a popsicle stick or a chopstick, stick or ayou chopstick, anything like. anything you like.

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BACK OF YOUR PIN WHEEL

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JELLYFISH BIRD

MAKE YOUR OWN HAND PUPPET When Dead Puppet Society were creating Argus they wanted to make simple puppets that were easy to use.

SWAN

They are so easy you can make them. Best bit? You don’t need anything but your hands!

TURTLE

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Biographies David Morton DIRECTOR/DESIGNER

Nicholas Paine CREATIVE PRODUCER

Queensland Theatre Company: As Designer: Trollop. Other Credits: Dead Puppet Society: As Director/ Designer: The Harbinger (coproduction with Critical Stages and La Boite Theatre Company), The Wider Earth (co-production with St. Ann’s Warehouse), Last Tree in the City (co-production with Artslink Queensland), Argus (co-production with Brisbane Powerhouse), The Timely Death of Victor Blott (coproduction with Metro Arts); Little Grey Wolf (co-production with Brisbane Festival and The Garden of Unearthly Delights). Positions: Associate Artist, Queensland Theatre Company 2014. Training: Doctor of Philosophy, Bachelor of Creative Industries (Drama) with Hons, Queensland University of Technology.

Queensland Theatre Company: Debut. Other Credits: Dead Puppet Society: As Producer: The Harbinger (co-production with Critical Stages and La Boite Theatre Company), The Wider Earth (co-production with St. Ann’s Warehouse), Last Tree in the City (co-production with Artslink Queensland), Argus (co-production with Brisbane Powerhouse), The Timely Death of Victor Blott (co-production with Metro Arts); Little Grey Wolf (co-production with Brisbane Festival and The Garden of Unearthly Delights). Positions: La Boite Theatre Company: Program Manager; Performance Space 122: Programming Associate; Backbone Youth Arts: Producer and Administrator; Brisbane Festival: Project Assistant. Training: Master of Creative Industries (Creative Production and Arts Management), Bachelor of Creative Industries (Drama), QUT .

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John Babbage (TOPOLOGY) COMPOSER/ SAXOPHONIST

Jason Glenwright LIGHTING DESIGNER

Queensland Theatre Company: The Marriage of Figaro. Other Credits: As Musician: Brisbane Festival / Queensland Music Festival: Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre: Ocean’s Skin; Expressions Dance Company: R&J; Dead Puppet Society: Argus (Powerkidz );The Brodsky Quartet (UK), Terry Riley (USA), Abhinaya Theatre Company- India, Taikoz, Kate Miller-Heidke, Katie Noonan, The Kransky Sisters, Christine Anu, Trichotomy, William Barton, Grant Collins, Ghent Festival (Belgium), Singapore Arts Festival, Salihara Arts Festival (Jakarta), Darling Harbour Jazz Festival, Sydney Olympics Arts Festival. Awards: Aria Nomination - Best Classical Album (2014) Share House; APRA/AMC Nomination – Excellence In Music Education (2014); APRA Award – Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music (2010); Best Performance

By An Ensemble Sydney Olympics Arts Festival (2000).

Training: Diploma in Jazz (Queensland Conservatorium Of Music – 1986).

Queensland Theatre Company: As Lighting Designer: I Want to Know What Love Is, A Tribute of Sorts, The Removalists, Faustus (coproduction with Bell Shakespeare), Water Falling Down, The Little Dog Laughed, Thom Pain (based on nothing). Other Credits: Griffin Theatre Company: A Hoax (coproduction with La Boite); La Boite Theatre Company: A Midsummer Nights Dream, Pale Blue Dot, Ruben Guthrie, Julius Caesar, The Kursk; Expressions Dance Company: While Others Sleep; shake & stir: Romeo and Juliet, Wuthering Heights, The Tempest, Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes and Dirty Beasts, Tequila Mockingbird, Out Damn Snot, 1984, Animal Farm; Queensland Music Festival: Drag QueensLand; Harvest Rain Theatre Company: Cats, Guys and Dolls, Blood Brothers, Oklahoma!, The Wizard of Oz, Hairspray, Jesus Christ Superstar, Songs For A New World, Cinderella, Joseph, Peter Pan, The Sound of Music, A Midsummer Nights Dream; JUTE: Is My Lipstick on Straight, Stewed, Delirium, Soph and the Real World, At Sea Staring Up, The Shining Path, Cake; Gardens Theatre: Gaijin; Zen Zen Zo: Therese Raquin, The Tempest; La Boite Indie: The Truth About Kookaburras, My Name Is Rachel Corrie, Blackbird; Metro Arts: Dead Cargo, Trolley Boys, Tender, The Pillowman, My Night With Harold, Bronte; Debase: Chasing The Lollyman, Snagged, 13

Popping Lead Balloons; Oscar Theatre Company: Boy & Girl, Next to Normal, [title of show], The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Positions: Queensland Theatre Company Emerging Artist 2010. Awards: Gold Matilda – Body of Work (Lighting Designer) – 2013, Groundling Awards - Best Lighting Design 2010, 2012 and 2013, Dell’Arte awards – Best Lighting 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014. Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Technical Production), QUT.

Richard Tulloch DRAMATURG

Nathan Booth PUPPETEER

Queensland Theatre Company: Debut. Other Credits: Toe Truck Theatre: Year 9 Are Animals; National Theatre, WA: Kaspajack; Theatre of Image: The Happy Prince, Belvoir Company B and Kim Carpenter’s Theatre of Image: The Book of Everything; CDP Productions: The 13-, 26- and (upcoming) 52-Storey Treehouse plays. Film: FernGully II: The Magical Rescue. Television: Bananas in Pyjamas, Playschool, The Miraculous Mellops, Petals, Gloria’s House, Hoopla Doopla!. Awards: AWGIE awards, Best Play for Children - Hating Alison Ashley, Stella and the Moon Man, Snow on Mars, Body and Soul, Talking to Grandma While the World Goes By. Queensland Theatre Company: Debut. Other Credits: Festival of Australian Student Theatre: The Living Atlas; QUT: As We Come Undone, The Little Prince; Underground Productions: Speaking Freely; Lost Boys Theatre Company: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. As Producer: The Suicide Ensemble: The Reality Event. As General Manager: Vena Cava Productions 2014 Season. Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drama), QUT.

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Laura Hague PUPPETEER

Matthew Seery PUPPETEER

Anna Straker PUPPETEER

Queensland Theatre Company: Debut. Other Credits: Dead Puppet Society: Argus (co-production with Brisbane Powerhouse); QUT: Lysistrata, Decathected, The Laramie Project, Alopecia: The Other Caucasian Chalk Circle; Vena Cava Productions: Of Little Matter, Don’t Think; ToneBlack Productions: The Alice Project; Little Grasshoppers: Zelda: The Untold Story; Rocketboy Ensemble: Predrinks; Short+Sweet Festival: Orgasma and the Intergalactic Sky Cock; Metro Arts: 9, 999 Days of Olivia (development). Awards: Beenleigh Festival of One Act Plays – First Place for Evil Shall Not Triumph!, Best Director in Youth Section. Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drama), QUT. Queensland Theatre Company: Debut. Other Credits: Dead Puppet Society: As Production Manager: Argus. As Assistant Production Manager: The Harbinger; La Boite Theatre Company: As Stage Manager: ><R&J. As Lighting Technician: Home Turf; Metro Arts: As Stage Manager: Fewer Emergencies.

As Assistant Stage Manager: Motherboard Productions: 지하 Underground. As Associate Director: Festival of Australian Student Theatre: FAST 2014, FAST 2015. As Artistic Director: Vena Cava Productions: 2014 Season. Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drama), QUT. Queensland Theatre Company: Debut. Other Credits: Dead Puppet Society: The Harbinger (coproduction with Critical Stages and La Boite Theatre Company), The Wider Earth (co-production with St. Ann’s Warehouse), The Timely Death of Victor Blott (co-production with Metro Arts); Cirque Du Soleil: Totem; Erth Visual & Physical Incorporated: Fish Out of Water; St Rita’s College: Annie The Musical; Metro Arts: This Child; Anywhere Theatre Festival: Sans Love, Haven. Film: Star Cross’d Jammers. Television: Pipsqueaks.

Awards: Matilda Nomination - Best Supporting Female Actor The Harbinger. Training: Bachelor of Creative Industries (Drama), QUT. 15

Robert Davidson (TOPOLOGY) DOUBLE BASS/ BASS GUITAR

Therese Milanovic (TOPOLOGY) PIANIST/PEDAGOGUE

Queensland Theatre Company: Long Dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Journey into Night, The Marriage of Figaro. Other Credits: Topology: (founding member) Ten Hands; Share House; Difference Engine, Big Decisions; The Kransky Sisters: The Meeting, Tunes from the Tube; Katie Noonan: Blue; Brodsky Quartet: Il Sogno: Company B: The Marriage of Figaro; Expressions Dance Company: R&J; ABC: Q&A, ABC Radio National, ABC Classic FM, Queensland Ballet, Olympics Arts Festival, Singapore Festival, Canadian Jazz Festivals, Sydney Festival, Adelaide Festival, Darwin International Guitar Festival, Qld Music Festival, Sydney Festival, Sydney Spring Festival, Melbourne Festival, Bargemusic New York, London Independent Film Festival, Sydney Symphony, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Adelaide Symphony, Melbourne Symphony, ABC, TaikOz, Woodford Festival. Awards: APRA Classical Music Award, ARIA Award nomination.

Queensland Theatre Company: Debut. Other Credits: As Performer: Topology: (from 2009) Brisbane Festival, Queensland Music Festival, national tours, performances in Singapore, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Belgium, ABC recordings, collaborations including Brodsky Quartet, Grant Collins, Kransky Sisters. Chamber Music: Muses Trio, Australian Piano Duo Festival, Collusion: Musica Viva Country Wide, Musica Viva in Schools. Positions: Associate Faculty with the Golandsky Institute (USA), only certified Taubman teacher in Australia, Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference (Keynote Speaker 2011), MTAQ, QCGU, UQ. Training: Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, PhD, Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University.

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Christa Powell (TOPOLOGY) VIOLIN/PEDAGOGUE

Brett Cheney SOUND ENGINEER

Samuel Maher STAGE MANAGER

Queensland Theatre Company: Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Marriage of Figaro. Other Credits: Topology: (founding member) Ten Hands, Share House, Difference Engine, Big Decisions;The Kransky Sisters: The Meeting, Tunes from the Tube; Katie Noonan: Blue; Brodsky Quartet: Il Sogno; Expressions Dance Company: R&J, Where The Heart Is; Muses Trio, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra, Southern Cross Soloists, Queensland Ballet, Queensland Theatre Company, Ensemble 24, Olyver Gypsy Ensemble (London), Carol Lloyd’s It Takes Two Band, Shirley Bassey, Led Zepellin, Rod Stewart, Hugh Jackman’s Boy From Oz, Bolshoi Ballet; The Whitlams, Anthony Warlow. Training: Bachelor of Music (Hons), Master of Music (PerformanceResearch), Emmanuel Hurwitz (London).

Awards: APRA Classical Music Award, ARIA Award nomination.

Queensland Theatre Company: Debut. Other Credits: Topology: Tunes from the Tube, Ten Hands, Share House, Difference Engine, Big Decisions, Healthy, Airwaves, Lucid Dreaming; Katie Noonan: Blue; Brodsky Quartet: Il Sogno; Expressions Dance Company: When Time Stops; The Red Shoes; R&J, Camerata of St. John's; Women In Voice; The Raindog Orchestra; Pearly Black; John Rodgers; Annie Lee; Christine Johnston; Tara Simmons; Little Birung.

Queensland Theatre Company: As Stage Manager: Debut. As Technician: The 7 Stages of Grieving, Gasp!, The Effect, Gloria, The Mountaintop, Australia Day, Black Diggers, Design for Living, 1001 Nights, Venus in Fur, The Pitch and The China Incident, Bombshells, Elizabeth, Managing Carmen, Pygmalion, Sacre Bleu!, No Man’s Land, Fractions, I Feel Awful, Betrayal. Other Credits: Dead Puppet Society: As Assistant Sound Designer: The Harbinger (2011, 2012). As Technician: The Harbinger (Tour); Toneblack: Slide Night, Freeze Frame, Infinite Infinites, Speaking in Tongues. Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Technical Production), QUT. 17

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The best is yet to come Argus will be the fifth production QTC has staged in 2015, marking five productions in five months. In addition, we have toured three shows across Australia. It has been hectic on Montague Road at the QTC headquarters and things won’t be slowing down any time soon.

The second half of 2015 will feature nine productions and some of our most ambitious work.

Queensland Premier’s Drama Award winner, Oedipus Doesn’t Live Here Anymore by Daniel Evans will be the most explosive work to play in the Bille Brown Studio in the last few seasons. We can guarantee you will leave the theatre with something to talk about.

The cast is prepping for Country Song, learning lyrics and even instruments. Michael Tuahine faces a big job as he walks in the shoes of the legendary Jimmy Little at the Cremone Theatre.

Our DIVAs will again be stepping onto the spotlight from July. Home, Happy Days, Grounded and Rumour Has It will blow you away. It will also be the first time we will open the door to our newest performance space, Studio 2. Situated next to the Bille Brown Studio, this intimate space will seat approximately 90.

In August, we will put on our biggest cast this season on stage when 10 of Brisbane’s finest work together in our Actors' Studio production of Chekhov’s The Seagull. The cast will be heavily involved in the development of this work with Daniel Evans, who will be directing and adapting the piece.

QTC’s Resident Director, Jason Klarwein, has spent most of the year behind-the-scenes. In October, he will return to the stage with Tama Matheson for Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple.

Finally, to finish Season 2015 with a bang, our first musical in over a decade will take over the Playhouse. Composed

by Tim Finn and directed by Simon Phillips, Ladies in Black is set to be a blockbuster production.

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Acknowledgements A heartfelt thanks to Sandra Gattenhof who has supported the development of Argus as Creative Consultant from the beginning.

Troy Armstrong Whitney Eglington Liam Haworth Benjamin Newth Samuel Whatley The original students from Vena Cava Productions who participated in the original development of Of Little Matter.

To ensure that patrons enjoy the performance, management asks you to note: • Cameras, tape recorders and paging devices should not be used inside the auditorium.

• Switch off alarms and mobile phones prior to the performance.

• A single cough measures approximately 65 decibels of sound. The use of a handkerchief helps greatly to soften the sound.

The management reserves the right to refuse admission, also to make any alterations to the cast which may be rendered necessary by illness or other unavoidable causes.

Patrons are advised that Bille Brown Studio has EMERGENCY EVACUATION PROCEDURES, a FIRE ALARM system and EXIT passageways. In case of an alert, patrons should remain calm, look for the closest EXIT sign in GREEN, listen to and comply with directions given by the inhouse trained attendants and move in an orderly fashion to the open spaces outside the venue.

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PATRON His Excellency the Honourable Paul de Jersey AC Governor of Queensland MEMBERS OF THE BOARD Richard Fotheringham (Chair) Julieanne Alroe (Deputy Chair) Kirstin Ferguson Erin Feros Simon Gallaher Peter Hudson Elizabeth Jameson Nathan Jarro ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Wesley Enoch EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Sue Donnelly Executive Assistant: Tammy Sleeth Resident Dramaturg: Louise Gough Resident Directors: Jason Klarwein and Andrea Moor Programming Manager/ Senior Producer: Katherine Hoepper Producer (New Work and Development): Shari Irwin Artistic Coordinator: Samantha French Touring and Regional Program Coordinator: Christine Johnstone Producer (Education and Youth Programs): Heidi Irvine Programming Project Officer: Laurel Collins Indigenous Mentor: Janine Matthews Chief Financial Officer: Michael Cullinan Systems Accountant: Roxane Eden Finance Officer: Robin Koski

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