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Welcome Note Artistic Director

SAM STRONG Dear QTC Audience, This is an unusual welcome for me. At the time I write this, I haven’t seen a performance of Bastard Territory or Motherland. Indeed, I won’t see either show until an audience does. This is because both are pre-existing pieces that had seasons elsewhere before being programmed by my predecessor. As an exacting Artistic Director, presenting a work you have never seen is an unnerving proposition. As an audience member, it is precisely as it should be.

One of the most wonderful experiences you can have in a theatre is seeing a new story unfold in front of you for the first time. The moment when the lights go down at the start of a new play has a pregnant expectation quite distinct from the moment when the lights go down on a play you already know.

It’s this freshness – this immediacy – that keeps us coming back to new stories, and why the creation of new work is at the centre of what we do at QTC.

L-R: Benhur Helwend, Lauren Jackson, Peter Norton in Bastard Territory.

Of course, Bastard Territory and Motherland are not strictly brand new stories. Both of these plays have had very successful seasons already. Bastard Territory was a revelation for Darwin and Cairns audiences when it premiered in 2014, selling out multiple shows. Motherland had a critically acclaimed premier season at Metro Arts in 2013.

QTC reviving these plays gives a wider Brisbane audience the chance to experience them. It also embodies the vital role QTC plays in Queensland Theatre’s ecology. You will already have heard me talk about our interest in cultivating the career pathways of artists. These revivals attend to the development pathways of works, letting them evolve, grow and deepen across multiple incarnations. The result is that our experience as an audience is refined and intensified along with the shows.

I look forward to going on the journey of Bastard Territory and Motherland with you.

See you as the house lights go down on both shows.

Sam

L-R: Kerith Atkinson, Peter Cossar in Motherland.

QUEENSLAND THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS A JUTE THEATRE COMPANY PRODUCTION

6-16 APRIL 2016

Bille Brown Studio 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane Bastard Territory will run for approximately 3 hours, including two 20-minute intervals.

Warning: Strong language, simulated smoking, adult concepts. The use of photographic or recording equipment is not permitted inside the theatre.

jute THEATRE COMPANY

A ground breaking co-production between Knock-em-Down Theatre, Browns Mart and JUTE Theatre Company. Tour supported by The Playing Queensland Fund and arTour, initiatives of the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, part of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet. JUTE Theatre Company acknowledges the financial assistance of the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, and the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Cover Photography: David Kelly

CAST Benhur Helwend

Russell/Marius/Pita/Cliff

Lauren Jackson

Lois

Suellen Maunder

Nanette

Peter Norton

Neville (Younger)/Alistair

Steven Tandy

Neville (Senior)

Ella Watson-Russell

Cleo/Tinneka/Aspasia

CREATIVES Stephen Carleton

Playwright

Ian Lawson

Director/Dramaturg

Kris Bird

Designer

Sean Pardy

Lighting Designer

Guy Webster

Sound Designer

Peter Matheson

Dramaturg

Angela Burchett

Stage Manager

Carli Griffin

Assistant Stage Manager

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Director’s Note IAN LAWSON “Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.”

– TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

At once a sweeping family saga and an astute observation of Australia’s social-political history, Bastard Territory spans time periods, countries and realities. Yet it is grounded in the simple need of a man for answers that make sense of his past, affirm his present and enable a future. Riddled with personal fault lines that overlap and combine to form a fragile crust, Russell must endure and embrace the seismic shifts that are unleased upon him if he is to catch his chance at finding truth.

I have been very fortunate to help develop and direct a number of Stephen’s plays over the years that have been keenly based in real locations with unresolved histories. Stephen uses these locations as antagonists; paralleling and amplifying the protagonist’s struggles, while bringing a scale to his stories that provided breath-taking perspective. It makes for theatre that is both intimate and grand. Bastard Territory is no different; in fact, it is one of his finest works, if not his finest. Combining his idiosyncratic and flawed characters, complex plotting and thematic adventure with unapologetically theatrical grandeur (magic even), Stephen has created something very special – I think Tennessee Williams would approve.

I want to take this opportunity to congratulate and thank JUTE and Browns Mart for championing Bastard Territory and new work in general.

Without a commitment to telling stories from our own backyard, Australia’s cultural life would be much the poorer and our theatre largely irrelevant.

It is a rare event in theatre to get a second opportunity to work on a piece such as this. My thanks go out to a superbly talented cast who have been so generous during the short rehearsal period, embracing the chance to dig deeper and re-imagine rather than just remount. Finally, thank you to the team who breathed life into the world of this wonderful play.

I hope it sweeps you up, up and away.

L-R: Suellen Maunder, Peter Norton, Ella Watson-Russell, Lauren Jackson, Benhur Helwend.

L-R: Benhur Helwend, Ella Watson-Russell.

BASTARD TERRITORY BIOGRAPHIES

Stephen Carleton

Playwright Stephen Carleton is a Brisbanebased writer. He was the winner of the 2004/5 Patrick White Playwrights’ Award for Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset. The play also won the New York New Dramatists’ Award, and was shortlisted for an AWGIE, and the Queensland Premier’s Drama Award. It has been produced

by Queensland Theatre Company, Griffin Stablemates, Darwin Theatre Company and JUTE in Cairns.

His play The Narcissist had extended seasons for La Boite Theatre Company in 2007 and for Sydney Theatre Company in 2008, and has been published and reprinted by Playlab Press. It was also shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award (Drama category) in 2008.

Stephen is co-Artistic Director of Knock-em-Down Theatre, a company that produces live shows in Queensland and the Northern Territory, and has written and produced plays that have been toured in the Across the Top initiative with KeDT in conjunction with JUTE since 2004. He currently convenes the Drama major at The University of Queensland, where he teaches courses in playwriting and dramaturgy, Australian Drama, and theatre history.

Ian Lawson

Director / Dramaturg Queensland Theatre Company: As Director: 1975 (Creative Development). As Assistant Director: Broken Glass, After the Ball. Other Credits: As Director: Playlab/ACGC: Hotel Beche de Mer; Playlab: Blue Bones; Glenn Street: Hopelessly Devoted; JUTE: Bastard Territory, What Are the Odds?; QMF: Radio Plays; UQ: The Revenger’s Tragedy; World Theatre Festival: Black Queen Black King (Rehearsed Reading); La Boite Theatre Company: Alive at Williamstown Pier, My Love Had a

Black Speed Stripe, Urban Dingoes, Creche & Burn, Last Drinks, The Narcissist (also with STC), Summer Wonderland, The Danger Age, The Spirit of the Land, The Pineapple Queen; La Boite Theatre Company/ Caloundra Civic Centre: After January, 48 Shades of Brown; QUT: Six Characters in Search of an Author; QAC: A Doctor In Spite of Himself; Pride Festival: Forbidden Tongues & Trade Secrets; Green: The Maids, Jerusalem, Oleanna, The Misanthrope, Cheapside, The Big Picture, The Vagina Monologues.

As Playwright/Director: SIT: Argonautica. As Associate Director/ Designer: QMF: Bobcat Dancing, Bobcat Magic. As Designer: La Boite Theatre Company: The Mayne Inheritance. As Dramaturg: QTC, La Boite, Brisbane Powerhouse, Playlab, JUTE, Playwriting Australia, Zen Zen Zo, Shake&Stir, Arts Centre Gold Coast, University of Queensland.

As Director/Script Editor: Screen Queensland: The Writer’s Room, Low Budget Feature Initiative. Awards: Matilda Award – Best Production (The Narcissist), Queens Trust – Young Australian of the Year, Anderson Consulting Scholarship. Positions: Associate Director – La Boite Theatre Company, Artistic Director/ CEO – Playlab, Australia Council – Peer Assessor, Zen Zen Zo – Board Member.

Kris Bird

Designer Queensland Theatre Company: Debut. Other Credits: Darlinghurst Theatre Company: Our Country’s Good; Darwin Community Arts: Romeo Hearts Juliet, Safe Harbour, Melodrama; Darwin Festival: Highway of Lost Hearts; Darwin Theatre Company: The Cripple of Inishmaan; Browns Mart Productions: Marbles, The Lion Tamer; Darwin Theatre Company: Slow Falling Bird, God of Carnage, The Adventures of Namikili.

Training: Bachelor of Architecture (Hons), UNSW.

Sean Pardy

Lighting Designer Queensland Theatre Company: Debut. Other Credits: Darwin Theatre Company: Highway of Lost Hearts, Marbles, Head Full of Love, The Adventures of Namakili, I AM MAN. For Companies: Darwin Festival, Corrugated Iron Youth Arts, Shop Front Theatre for Young People, Critical Stages, Darlinghurst Theatre Company, Monkey Baa Theatre.

Guy Webster

Sound Designer Queensland Theatre Company: The Seagull, Brisbane, The Button Event, The Effect, Venus in Fur, Kelly, Orphans. Other Credits: La Boite Theatre Company: As You Like It, Ruben Guthrie, I Love You Bro, The White Earth, The Narcissist, Kitchen Diva, Summer Wonderland, Last Drinks, Creche and Burn, Urban Dingoes; Lisa O’Neill: The Pipe Manager, The Pineapple Queen; Dance North/Lisa Wilson: Torrent; shake & stir theatre co: Dracula, Wuthering Heights, Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts, Tequila Mockingbird, 1984, Animal Farm, Statespeare; Brisbane Festival: Alice 21; Zen Zen Zo: Vikram And The Vampire; State Library of Queensland: Teacup Sonata, I Cherish This, The Unexpectedly Mind Boggling Adventure; Transmute Collective: Intimate Transactions, Transact, Liquid Gold, Transit Lounge; Matrix Theatre: 1347, The King and The Corpse; Wilde Applause: Operacus, Circopera; Red Shoes: Under Today; Institute Of Contemporary Art (London): Shifting Intimacies.

Awards: Prix Ars Electronica, Interactive Art, Honourable Mention for Intimate Transactions.

Lauren Jackson

Peter Norton

Dramaturg

Lois

Neville (Younger) / Alistair

Queensland Theatre Company: Emerging Writers Program, Queensland Premier’s Drama Award.

Other Credits: Aislan Tracks; Blue Cow Theatre Company; Griffith University: The Boathouse Project; Brink Productions; Canberra Youth Theatre; Creative Regions; Darwin Theatre Company; JUTE Theatre Company; Kite Theatre Company; Knock-Em-Down Theatre; Kooemba Jdarra; Lampshade Shop; Sydney Festival: Legs on the Wall; M&J Productions; Metro Arts; Mooghalin Theatre: Yellamundie Festival; Mudlark Theatre; National Institute for Dramatic Arts; Norpa; Northern Rivers Writers Centre; Perth Theatre Company; Queensland Performing Arts Centre: Out of the Box Festival (2004); Real TV; Red Dust Theatre Company; Red Hot Arts; Riverside Theatre; Street Theatre; Stages.

Awards: AWG Hector Crawford Award (2015).

Queensland Theatre Company: The Odd Couple, Macbeth. Other Credits: Imprint Theatricals: Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche; Zen Zen Zo: Medea: The River Runs Backwards, Vikram and the Vampire, Bolshoi Ballet: La Corsaire, La Boite Theatre Company: Holding The Man, Mixed Company: Secret Bridesmaids’ Business, Opera Queensland: Carmen. Film: E-Motion Documentary, The Hunters Club.

Short Film: God I Love You, Million Dollar Toes, Forever, Winkman P.I, Change in Fortune, After the Fall, Douglas Adams Eat Your Heart Out, Ruby. Television: Illusion Five, The W.A.S.P.S Nest (pilot), Schadenfreude (pilot). Awards: Matilda Nomination – Best Emerging Artists – Secret Bridesmaids’ Business (2011).

Training: Royal Shakespeare Company National Theatre, London; Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance Performance), QUT.

Queensland Theatre Company: Debut. Other Credits: Complete Works Theatre Company: Life of Galileo; Knock-Em-Down Theatre/ JUTE/Browns Mart Productions: Bastard Territory; One of a Pair/3rd Room Theatrical: [Disordered] Action of the Heart; Brisbane Arts Theatre: Closer, Equus, The Accrington Pals; Over the Top Theatre (UK): Deception, Illusion and Nate; Play With Your Food: A Little Bit of Insurance; Nash Theatre: The Sum of Us; Centenary Theatre: Rope; Pentimento Productions: Beautiful Souls. Film: Undead, The Constable, Roof Top. Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting), QUT.

Benhur Helwend

Suellen Maunder

Neville (Senior)

Russell / Marius / Pita / Cliff

Nanette

Queensland Theatre Company: Debut. Other Credits: Knock-EmDown Theatre/JUTE/Browns Mart Productions: Bastard Territory; Humour Foundation; Clown Doctor.

As Musician: Blackbirds (Splendour in the Grass, Byron Bay Blues and Roots Festival) As Solo Artist: Blue Mountains Ukelele Festival, Mandorah Ukulele Folk Festival, Spruke, Melbourne Ukulele Festival, Cairns Ukulele Festival; Albums: There’s No Place Like Homo.

Positions: Lismore Theatre Company: Vocal Coach, Assistant Director.

Training: Bachelor of Dramatic Art (Acting), NIDA.

Queensland Theatre Company: Bag O’ Marbles (co-production with JUTE Theatre Company). Other Credits: JUTE Theatre Company: Bastard Territory, Flutter, CrackleSnapPop, The Chicken Play or Marmalade and Egg, Victor and Sass, Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset, Gods of Spicy Things, Tiptoe, Hamlet, At Sea, Staring Up, Rosa, The Dreams Project, Is My Lipstick on Straight?; Cairns Civic Theatre: Love Child, Slave, Latitudes.

Positions: Artistic Director/CEO – JUTE Theatre Company; Associate Artist – Queensland Theatre Company (2013-2015); Board Member – Playing Australia, Theatre Board of the Australia Council, QPAC.

Steven Tandy

Queensland Theatre Company: Happy Days, Romeo & Juliet, 25 Down, Loves Labours Lost, Who Cares?, Love For Love, The National Health, Juno and the Paycock, Expresso Bongo, The Badly Behaved Bunyip, The Man, The Spirit Fish and The Rainbow Snake. Other Credits: La Boite Theatre Company: Amigos, Last Drinks, Summer Wonderland, James and Johnno, The White Earth; Twelfth Night: Dad's Army, Run For Your Wife, The Rocky Horror Show, " 'Allo 'Allo"; Nimrod Street: The Speakers; Marian Street Theatre: What If You Died Tomorrow?, See How They Run, When We Are Married; New England: Who Was Harry Larsen?; Riverina: The Threepenny Opera; Perth National Theatre: No Names, No Pack Drill; The Ensemble: Time and Time Again, Noises Off; Gold Coast Arts Centre: Pyjamas in Paradise; Crossbow: Anne of The Thousand Days, Shadowlands; Harvest Rain Theatre Company: Jesus Christ Superstar, Aladdin and the Mysterious, Magical Lamp, The Wizard of Oz, Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma!; Melbourne Theatre Company: Translations, Three Sisters, The Winter's Tale, The Maid's

BASTARD TERRITORY BIOGRAPHIES

Peter Matheson

BASTARD TERRITORY BIOGRAPHIES

Tragedy; J.C. Williamsons: The Circle; Australian Theatre for Young People: Old Queen Cole; Bondi Pavilion: When Did You Last See My Mother?; 4MBS Classic Players: Amadeus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Ansata: The Abdication of Queen Elizabeth II, Henry Lawson Readings; As Director: Busybody, The Night of the Iguana, Don's Party, You Can't Take It With You, Peggy For You, Deadly Nightcap, Bouncers, Travelling North. Film: Gettin' Square, The Horseman, Girl Clock!, Jog's Trot, Hurricane Smith, Mercy Mission, Rough Diamonds, Talkinb Back at Thunder. Television: The Sullivans, Sea Patrol, Mortified, All The Rivers Run, The Fremantle Conspiracy, Misery Guts, Pacific Drive, Paradise Beach, H2O: Just Add Water, Spyforce, Earthwatch, The Don Lane Show, Mike Walsh Show.

Positions: Co-Founder of Victorian Green Room Awards for Excellence in Theatre. Awards: Gold Matilda Award Last Drinks. Training: NIDA, Graduate in Acting (1971) and Directing (1995).

Ella Watson-Russell

Cleo / Tinneka / Aspasia Queensland Theatre Company: Debut. Other Credits: ArtBackNT: Donate Life; Knock-Em-Down

Theatre/JUTE/Browns Mart Productions: Bastard Territory; Browns Mart Productions: The Lion Tamer; JUTE Theatre Company: Soph and the Real World, At Sea, Staring Up, Night; Jack in the Box: Munted; Darwin Festival: Andante, The Sound of Waiting; Darwin Theatre Company: Midsummer Night’s Dream, Jerusalem, Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset, Counting Icebergs; La Mama: Shhhh!; Optic Nerve Performance Group: Five Kinds of Silence, YES. Film: Balibo, Seizure, Dave Plus One, Smokers Are People Too. Training: Bachelor of Dramatic Arts (Acting), VCA.

Angela Burchett

Stage Manager Queensland Theatre Company: Debut. Other Credits: Brisbane Powerhouse: Cool Britannia; Metro Arts: This Child; Delirium Comedy Group: True Stories; Something: Red Cordial Love; Griffith University: DNA, Ship of Fools and Dog on Jetty. Training: Bachelor of Arts: Contemporary Performance and Applied Theatre (Film), Griffith Universtity. Awards: Griffith Awards for Academic Excellence in 2013 and 2014.

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Carli Griffin

Assistant Stage Manager Queensland Theatre Company: Debut. Other Credits: As Stage Manager: The Danger Ensemble: CALIGULA; Danse Noir; Woodford Folk Festival; Ignatians Musical Society: The Last Five Years. As Assistant Stage Manager: Art Centre Gold Coast: Jesus Christ Superstar. As Production Stage Manager: An Old Fashioned Production Company: The Oasis – A New Musical. As Assistant to the Production Manager (Internship): Opera Australia: Anything Goes. As Stage Management Secondment: Queensland Ballet: Peter Pan. As Stage Manager Internship: QUT: Robotronica. Assistant Stage Manager Secondment: Expressions Dance Company: The Red Shoes.

Training: Bachelor in Fine Arts (Technical Production), Queensland University of Technology.

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QUEENSLAND THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS AN ELLEN BELLOO AND CRITICAL STAGES PRODUCTION

BY KATHERINE LYALL-WATSON

20-30 APRIL 2016

Bille Brown Studio 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane Motherland will run for approximately 90 minutes – no interval.

Warning: Contains some loud noises, strong language and adult themes. It is recommended for audiences over the age of 15.

The use of photographic or recording equipment is not permitted inside the theatre.

This project is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. Motherland was developed with the support of Metro Arts and premiered as part of the season of the independents 2013.

Motherland was supported by Judith Wright Centre's Fresh Ground artistin-residence initiative made possible through Arts Queensland. City of Brisbane.

Cover Photography: David Kelly Photography: Al V Caeiro

CAST Kerith Atkinson

Nell Tritton

Peter Cossar

Chris/Alexander Kerensky

Barbara Lowing

Nina Berberova

Daniel Murphy

Vladislav Khodasevich/Sasha

Rebecca Riggs

Alyona

CREATIVES Katherine Lyall-Watson

Playwright

Caroline Dunphy

Director

Penny Challen

Designer

David Walters

Lighting Designer

Annie Robertson

Associate Designer

Dane Alexander

Composer/Sound Designer

Kathryn Kelly

Dramaturg

Patricia Miller

Stage Manager

Tim Cummings

Production Manager

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Director's Note CAROLINE DUNPHY In 2013 Motherland was a newly written script, which Katherine Lyall-Watson was in the process of redrafting when she first asked me to read it.

The lives of three real women (one Australian and two Russians) and their search to find a place for themselves in a tumultuous world sparked my initial interest in this monumental piece. The play’s events, which span the twentieth century, three continents, World War II, the Russian Revolution and Queensland’s Fitzgerald Inquiry, were brilliantly overwhelming and posed a great staging challenge that fuelled me as a director.

L-R: Peter Cossar, Daniel Murphy.

I came up for air and was immediately immersed in our collaborative world with a fine team of local actors to work into the depths of Motherland's core.

It’s a rare and special experience to hear the voices of five mature actors on stage.

Bringing Motherland's extraordinary women out of the shadows of history and interweaving their stories needed great care and precision. Working closely together with a sensitive design team allowed us to explore the nuances of movement, sound, light and contemporary design to build the epic world and allow the rich and muscular writing to transport the audience.

I’m thrilled that Motherland continues to resonate on many levels and that these women’s intimate stories stand the test of time with courage and integrity.

L-R: Kerith Atkinson, Peter Cossar.

L-R: Rebecca Riggs, Peter Cossar.

Q&A with Motherland author

KATHERINE LYALL-WATSON How did you come to be involved in the Motherland story?

How did you decide what leads in the research to follow in order to create the story?

I'd just finished the Queensland Premier's Drama Award reading for my play Tinder and ThreeSisters Productions had come to see it. They approached me to see if I'd be interested in writing a play for them and introduced me to Elena Volkova, a Russian researcher who had come to them with the idea for a play about Nell Tritton. I was hooked from the moment I first heard about Nell and Kerensky!

That was really tricky! Basically, I followed the leads that excited me. There were so many directions I could have taken (and so many early drafts following various threads that turned into dead ends) - for instance, Nell had another marriage before Kerensky. She was married to a Russian opera singer who was apparently a womaniser and alcoholic. I loved writing him and had a lot of fun in their scenes, but in the end I had to make the hard choice to cut him from the play as his scenes with Nell didn't advance the story (they were a fascinating detour but if I'd kept going with all the fascinating detours I'd have ended up with a seven hour play! - or a mini series!)

A lot of facts for the story were gathered from Elena Volkova, also known as Alyona. Were you able to meet with any other decedents of the original characters who could provide further information?

I met with a nephew of Nell's, but he had only met her a couple of times when he was a boy and he wasn't able to tell me much about her or Kerensky. Interestingly, neither Nell nor Nina had any children, so their lines stopped with them. Elena was my main source of living information and I loved finding out about her fascinating life. As soon as I met her, I knew she had to be part of the play and I was so grateful when she agreed to have Alyona modelled on her.

Did you find it hard to draw the line on the research and story?

Absolutely! I kept finding out new things that I wanted to include, but there's a point where you have to stop and use what you have rather than keeping on researching.

There's a lot of information that I found out after I'd drawn that line which would have made Motherland a very different play.

It's why I now call it a work of historical fiction based on fact.

Are there any other interesting facts that you discovered while doing the research for Motherland?

Nell went to Somerville House.

Her name was Lydia Ellen Tritton and she changed it to NellĂŠ, I think because she wanted to be more exotic. She later dropped the last e and changed it to Nell but also went by the name Therese while she was overseas. It was hard tracking her as she used so many different names. She also published a terrible book of poems when she was still young - but I imagine if any of us looked at the sorts of poems we wrote in our teens, we'd cringe at their sentimentality.

Her family owned the Tritton Furniture Emporium and were very wealthy. She danced with the Prince of Wales at Cloudland but was smitten with all things Russian. I think she found herself when she travelled overseas and was free of the constraints that were naturally present in Brisbane in the 1920s.

Kerensky and Nell

Nell Tritton April 26 1919

Khodasevich and Nina

Alyona in Russia

Nina Berberova

Kerensky greeting troops

Fred and Leila Tritton

Trittons home in Clayfield

MOTHERLAND BIOGRAPHIES

Katherine Lyall-Watson

Playwright Katherine is a co-founder of Belloo creative. Her play Motherland was shortlisted for the 2013 Patrick White Playwrights’ Award and won Matilda and Groundling Awards for its 2013 production at Metro Arts. Motherland tours nationally in 2016 with Critical Stages. Katherine was a finalist in the 2008/09 Queensland Premier’s Drama Award for her first play Tinder, which was also selected for a Playlab/ Varuna Fellowship. Her second play, Rosie Little’s Cautionary Tales for Girls, was selected for the Graduate Program in the National Script Workshop and read at the National Play Festival, 2010.

Katherine has a Ph.D in playwriting and was an Associate Artist at Queensland Theatre Company from 2014-15. She is currently working on HANAKO, The Blue Boat and The Gloaming with Belloo creative, Threads that Bind – a Manx Tale with Accord Productions and The Offshore Project with The TENT. Katherine has a long history in theatre having worked as an actor, director and theatre reviewer before starting playwriting. She is the current chair of Playlab.

Caroline Dunphy

Director Queensland Theatre Company: I Want To Know What Love Is, Love Puke. Other Credits: ARC Australian Research Council: The Return (coproduction with Griffith University), The Danger Ensemble: The Wizard of Oz (co-production with La Boite and Brisbane Festival), Loco Maricon Amor; The Good Room: I Should Have Drunk More Champagne (co-production with Metro Arts); Metro Arts: Hanako; Frank Theatre: Up Jumped the Devil, Ophelia, Salome, Tragedy of Oedipus, Romeo and Juliet, Voodoo Macbeth, Doll 17, A Midsummer Night's Romeos, Frank Theatre Expo, Season of the Doll, Taikoz, Heavy Metal Hamlet; The Brides of Frank: ‘Til Death Do Us Part, In Stitches Comedy Festival, After Dinner Mince; La Boite Theatre: Post Office Rose (co-production with Dogs

in the Roof), Zig Zag Street, The John Wayne Principle, Away; QUT: The Goat Project; White Rhino Productions: Don’t Start Too Much; Brisbane Festival: Rashomon; Brisbane Powerhouse: Codger, Rodin’s Kiss. Film: Drive Hard, Clara, Holding On, The Activist, Waste. Television: Mortified, Jeopardy III, Jeopardy II, Fat Cow Motel, Fire 2.

Positions: Board Member QTC, 20032006.

Penny Challen

Designer Queensland Theatre Company: As Designer: Happy Days. As Design Associate: Gasp! Other Credits: Judith Wright Centre: Doll; Opera Queensland: La Boheme; La Boite Theatre Company: The Glass Menagerie, Water Wars; Artslink Queensland: Sarah’s Heavy Heart; Bush Theatre (UK): When You Cure Me, Bites; Battersea Arts Centre: Under the Earth; Oval House Theatre; Qabuka; Soho Theatre: Protection (costumes); The Gate Theatre: Hair (costumes); Royal Shakespeare Company: Taming of the Shrew (schools touring); The Arches, Glasgow: To the Moon; American Repertory Theater, Boston: Oliver Twist (costume).

Television: The Events (UK). Positions: Trainee Resident Designer, Royal Shakespeare Company. Training: Bachelor of Fine Art, QCA; Bachelor of Dramatic Arts (Design), NIDA.

David Walters

Fuente Ovejuna, Salonika, The Venetian Twins. Other Credits: Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, State Theatre Company of South Australia, Bell Shakespeare Company, QUT, QPAC, Jute, Handspan, Playbox, La Boite Theatre Company, Rock‘n’Roll Circus, Nimrod, Company B, Expressions, Queensland Ballet, Australian Ballet, Opera Queensland and Zen Zen Zo. In Iceland he has lit for the National Theatre, the National Opera and the Reykjavik City Theatre.

Positions: Adjunct Associate Professor in Drama at QUT. Awards: Matilda Awards/Commendations in 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008 and 2012.

Annie Robertson

Associate Designer Queensland Theatre Company: As Designer: Debut. As Model/Prop Maker: Total Dik. Other Credits: As Designer: Miss Saigon Somerset, England. As Assistant Designer: La Boite Theatre Company: The Glass Menagerie. As Art Finisher: Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts: Salon. Positions: Brisbane Writers Festival: Designer.

Dane Alexander

Composer/Sound Designer

Queensland Theatre Company: As Designer: Debut. Other Credits: La Boite Theatre Company: A Doll’s House, The Wizard of Oz (co-production with The Danger Ensemble and Brisbane Lighting Designer Festival); The Danger Ensemble: Queensland Theatre Company: Quartet, The Hamlet Apocalypse, Children of War; Motherboard Productions: Ladies in Black, Brisbane, Boston <Shimchong>: Daughter Overboard!, Marriage, Gloria, Macbeth, Australia 대홍수 Deluge, Or Forever Hold Your Day, Venus in Fur, End of the Rainbow, Peace; Ellen Belloo: Motherland; Romeo & Juliet, Pygmalion, Grimm Thomas Larkin and Troy Armstrong Tales, The August Moon, Rabbit Hole, Management: Sex With Strangers; The Glass Menagerie, The Memory of Little Dove Theatre Art: Evangeline; Water, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Deep Blue Orchestra: Who Are Who?, Molly Sweeney, Chilling and Killing My The Dream, The Orchestra Unleashed, Annabel Lee, The Skin of Our Teeth, deep blue – the orchestra re-imagined; Vertigo and the Virginia, Long Day’s Raw Dance Company: Full Metal Racket Journey into Night, Amy’s View, Master (co-production with Grant Collins), Class, After the Ball, Summer Rain, Urban Wonderland, Funky Beats; Metro Arcadia, The Hope of the World, Money Arts: Lesser Gods; QUT: Robotronica, and Friends, Gilgamesh, The Man Unstable Acts: The Goat Project; from Mukinupin, A Different Drummer, Awards: 2015 Del Artè Charts; 2013

Dramaturg Queensland Theatre Company: Polytoxic Dance Theatre: The Rat Trap. Other Credits: La Boite Theatre Company: Sunnytown; Umber Productions: Water Wars (co-production with La Boite Theatre Company); Polytoxic Dance Theatre: The Rat Trap; Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre: Sub Con Warrior 1, Wicked Bodies (co-production with La Boite Theatre Company); Brisbane Powerhouse: The Pipe Manager (co-production with Lisa O’Neill); JUTE Theatre Company: 7 Deadly Australian Sins; Crossroad Arts: Melik Mo Honey. Positions: Executive Director of Playlab (2004-2008); Associate Lecturer at QUT. Training: Bachelor of Arts (Honours) University of Queensland: PhD Candidate.

Kerith Atkinson

Nell Tritton Queensland Theatre Company: The Lost Property Rules, An Oak Tree, Pygmalion, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Vincent in Brixton, A Christmas Carol, The Works, Let the Sunshine (play reading tour, Noosa); QTC Education: Young Playwrights Awards 2004-2006, Exploration of the Caucasian Chalk Circle. Other Credits: La Boite Theatre Company: The Operator; Theatre Activ-8: Dear Charlotte, Black Christmas; Three Sisters Productions: Bronte; Ellen Belloo: Motherland; Casting Couch: Lovepuke; Someone: Dark Heart; Theatre North: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; La Boite Theatre/Independent: Colder; 4MBS: The Tempest, Prometheus Unbound, Amadeus; Kooemba Jdarra: Njunjul The Sun. Film: Last Man On Earth, Girl Clock, Walking Off, The Storyteller. Television: Mako: Island of Secrets, Reef Doctors, Terra Nova, All Saints, Farscape, Water Rats.

Barbara Lowing

Vladislav Khodasevich/Sasha

Queensland Theatre Company: Brisbane, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (coproduction with Black Swan State Theatre Company), Hamlet, Away, Nina Berberova Hitchcock Blonde, Real Inspector Hound/Black Comedy, The Forest, Queensland Theatre Company: The Blood and Thunder Adventure on The Seagull, Australia Day, The Hurricane Peak, Inject-ED Brecht, The Pitch & The China Incident, Toy Taming of the Shrew, Three Sisters Symphony, Prisoner of 2nd Ave, and The Works. Other Credits: Ellen Hamlet (a co-production with South Belloo: Motherland; Harvest Rain: Australian Theatre Company), Away Aladdin, Love’s Labour’s Lost; 4MBS: (a co-production with Griffin Theatre Taming of the Shrew, Amadeus; Side Company), The Memory of Water, The Effect: Three Sisters; 23rd Productions: Works, Cooking With Elvis, Top Dogs, Blackbird; Oscar: The 25th Annual Antigone, Navigating (a co-production Putnam County Spelling Bee; The with Melbourne Theatre Company), Forward Movement: The Laramie Explosions, The Gift of the Gorgon, The Project; La Boite Theatre Company: Red Barretts of Wimpole Street, Les Liaison Cap, The Dance of Jeremiah, The Final Dangerueses. Other Credits: Ellen Bow, There Goes the Neighbourhood, Belloo: Motherland; shake & stir theatre The Tempest; Kooemba Jdarra: Yarnin’

MOTHERLAND

Kathryn Kelly

co: Tequila Mockingbird; Dead Puppet Society: The Harbinger; Empire Theatre: April’s Fool; South Australian Theatre Company: November; Aspire Theatre Arts: The Passion; 23rd Productions: My Night With Harold; Queensland Arts Council: Tales My Mother Told Me, A Doctor in Spite of Himself, Federation Show; La Boite Theatre Company: The Peter Removalist, Closer (a co-production with Genre Theatre Company), First Cossar Asylum, The Taming of the Shrew, The Matilda Women; Dogs on the Roof/ Metro Arts: Three Points of Contact; Brisbane Festival: Ozone; Green Chris/Alexander Kerensky Theatre Company: The Misanthrope; Performers Independent Theatre: Queensland Theatre Company: Monkey Macbeth; Gary Penny Productions: Top See, Monkey Do, The Satire Project Silk; Hole in the Wall: The Alchemist, – The Tunnel. Other Credits: 4MBS: Hamlet. Television: Mako Mermaids, The Comedy of Errors; Metro Arts: The The Family Law, Stringers, Heroes2, Seagull; Ellen Belloo: Motherland; Zen Medivac. Training: WAAPA. Positions: Zen Zo: Medea, Man Who Sold the Vocal and Acting Coach – Expressions World; Debase Theatre Company: Fly In, Dance Company, ACPA, Voice Over Tutor Fly Out; La Boite Theatre Company: Holy – University of Southern Queensland.

Days, Mekelele Ukelele; Motherboard Awards: Matilda Awards - Gold Matilda Productions: Or Forever Hold Your (2013), Best Actress Away (2006), Peace; Pentimento Productions: The Matilda Nominations – Best Actress, Truth About Kookaburras; Umber The Memory of Water (2005), Cooking Productions: Risk; Brisbane Festival: With Elvis (2002), Holy Lies, Unholy Alice 21; Twelfth Night Theatre: ‘Allo Truth (2002). Goldie – Best Commercial ‘Allo; Matrix Theatre: 1347; Opera Voiceover Artist – Female (2005/6).

Queensland: Agrappina; Renegade Montana International Documentary Productions: The Surgical Table, Film Festival – Voiceover Winner The Drums of Thunder. Film: Parer’s War, Lost Years (2010). Screening Award Deception, Mr Reliable. Television: A Montana CINE 2nd Annual Film Festival Romance in Five Minutes Over a Cup – Voiceover Winner (2005). of Coffee, Pacific Drive. Positions: MEAA Council (QLD Branch), Alternate Daniel National Performers Conference Murphy and Federal Council, Equity member since 1992. Training: Bachelor of Arts (Drama), QUT. Positions: Emerging Artist, Queensland Theatre Company (2005); In-School Workshop Facilitator, Queensland Theatre Company; Queensland Representative, National Performers Committee; Vice President, QLD Equity MEAA; MEAA member (1998-current).

Training: QUT Academy of the Arts.

BIOGRAPHIES BIOGRAPHIES

Groundlings, 2009 APACA Excellent Audience Response (Deep Blue Orchestra). Positions: Electronic Music Director with Deep Blue Orchestra; Sessional Lecturer at QUT. Training: Bachelor of Music, Master of Creative Industries, PhD Candidate, QUT.

MOTHERLAND BIOGRAPHIES

Up; Matrix: The King and the Corpse!; green: Cheapside, Oleanna, Jerusalem, The Misanthrope; QFF: Boadicea; Toadshow/QPAT: Phantoad of the Opera, SherWoodstock; Stagebox: Tomfoolery. Films: Devasdating, Day of the Deadline, Singularity, Cool, The Real Macaw, Paperback Hero. Television: Mabo, Reef Doctors, K9, FARMkids, Flipper, Pacific Drive, Fire II, The Tanker Incident (Heart of Fire), The Einstein Code, Time Trax, 37 Skit Row, A Glass of Water. Awards: Matilda Awards – Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role The Dance of Jeremiah, Best Performance Oleanna, Abigail’s Party, There Goes the Neighbourhood.

Rebecca Riggs

Alyona Queensland Theatre Company: Summer Rain, The Blood and Thunder Adventure on Hurricane Peak, Christmas at Turkey Beach, The Last Yankee, Feunte Ovejuna, Seven Little Australians, Gilgamesh, The

Man from Mukinupin. Other Credits: Bell Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Macbeth; Twelfth Night Theatre Company: Bedroom Farce; La Boite Theatre Company: Sex Diary of an Infidel, Cosi, Road, Perceptions; TN Theatre Company: The Mikado; Grin and Tonic Theatre Troupe: Desdemona and Othello; Crossroads Theatre: Wuthering Heights; ToadShow: Phantoad of the Opera; Edge Theatre: Bloody Poetry; Kooemba Jdarra: Luck of the Draw; Darwin Theatre Company: Twelfth Night, Dust Off Vietnam Television: Farscape, Alien Cargo, The Day of the Roses, Medivac, Fire, Backberner, All Saints.

Patricia Miller

Stage Manager Queensland Theatre Company: Debut.

Other Credits: La Boite Theatre, Queensland Ballet, Empire Theatre, JUTE Theatre, Tropic Line, Metro Arts, 4MBS Classic FM and Brisbane City Council, ontour onstage - Qld ARts Council and arTour. Training: Bachelor

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Tim Cummings

Production Manager Queensland Theatre Company: Debut.

Other Credits: As Lighting Director: Red Chair: Flamenco Fire; Debase Production: Chasing the Lollyman and Skitch Tease; Imaginary Theatre: Tashi; Topology: Sharehouse. As Lighting Designer: Debase Production: Furze Family Variety Hour. AsProduction Manager / Lighting Director: Onyx Productions, 360 Allstars. Training: Traineeship, Entertainment & Technical Event College.

PATRON His Excellency the Honourable Paul de Jersey AC Governor of Queensland MEMBERS OF THE BOARD Richard Fotheringham (Chair) Elizabeth Jameson (Deputy Chair) Kirstin Ferguson Erin Feros Simon Gallaher Peter Hudson Nathan Jarro ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Sam Strong EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Sue Donnelly Executive Assistant: Tammy Sleeth Programming Manager/Senior Producer: Sophia Hall Artistic Coordinator: Samantha French Producer (New Work and Development): Shari Irwin Touring and Regional Program Coordinator: Christine Johnstone Producer (Education and Youth Programs): Heidi Irvine Programming Project Officer: Laurel Collins

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Indigenous Reference Group: Nathan Jarro (Chair), Adam James, Angela Leitch, Paula Nazarski, Todd Phillips, Michael Tuahine National Artistic Team: Jimi Bani, Wayne Blair, Margi Brown-Ash, Marcel Dorney, Christie Evangelisto, Kat Henry, Nakkiah Lui, Annette Madden, Renee Mulder, Lucas Stibbard Front of House (The GreenHouse): Anita Hughes, Cillian McDonald, Cinnamon Murphy, Ellen Tuffley, Georgia Knight, James Gatling, Jermaine Beezley, Kate Hardy, Leisha Du Bois, Madeline Moore, Michael Veal, Nathan Hollingworth, Sally Lewis FOUNDING DIRECTOR Alan Edwards, AM, MBE (1925 – 2003) Queensland Theatre Company is a member of Live Performance Australia.

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About Ellen Belloo Ellen Belloo was formed in 2013 to create new Australian work that combines text and contemporary performance. Their philosophy is to bring people, stories and talent ‘out of the shadows’. Ellen Belloo aims to find new ways of exploring text and space via the medium of the human body and to create contemporary performance with heart and muscle. The company comprises four women with decades of experience in theatre, film, and writing: Caroline Dunphy (director and performer); Katherine Lyall-Watson (writer); Kathryn Kelly (dramaturg); and Danielle Shankey (producer). Ellen Belloo’s first work was Motherland, premiering at Metro Arts in 2013. Their new work Hanako premieres at the Brisbane Powerhouse in 2016. Two further works, The Gloaming, and The Blue Boat, are currently in development. For more information on Ellen Belloo and to see other work developed by the company, visit www.belloocreative.com

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