GASP! Digital Production Program

Season 2015 launches with

24 Jan – 15 Feb Playhouse, QPAC Tickets on sale Monday, 1 Dec 2014 Touring to: The Arts Centre Gold Coast 20 February Ipswich Civic Theatre 25 February Empire Theatre Toowoomba 28 February Gladstone Entertainment Convention Centre 4 March Mackay Entertainment & Convention Centre 7 March Cairns Civic Theatre 11 March Townsville Civic Theatre 14 March Mount Isa Civic Centre 18 March Nambour Civic Centre 24 March

Queensland Theatre Company and Black Swan State Theatre Company present

Cast 17 Nov – 7 Dec 2014 Playhouse, QPAC Gasp! will run for approximately 2 hours and 10 minutes including a 20-minute interval.

PRODUCTION SPONSOR

Caroline Brazier

Kirsten

Lucy Goleby

Peggy

Damon Lockwood

Phillip

Greg McNeill

Chifley Lockheart

Steven Rooke

Sandy

Wesley Enoch

Director

Christina Smith

Set and Costume Designer

Trent Suidgeest

Lighting Designer

Tony Brumpton

Sound Designer

optikal bloc

Projection Designers

Penny Challen

Design Associate

Daniel Evans

Directorial Associate

Niki-J Price

Movement Adviser

Jodie Roche

Stage Manager

Charlotte Barrett

Assistant Stage Manager

Madolyn Peters

Stage Management Secondment (Rehearsals), QUT

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L-R: Lucy Goleby, Greg McNeill, Damon Lockwood

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Welcome Sue Donnelly

QTC headquarters either through workshops, theatre attendances, tours, meetings, corporate events or shows.

Dear Patron, Supporter and Friend, Can you believe that Gasp! is our last show for the year? I know we frequently say it, but hasn’t this year flown by?

It’s been a hugely successful year for QTC and I wanted to thank you for believing in us and supporting our work.

Over the past three years Wesley and I have set a new direction for QTC. Since then we’ve witnessed significant increases in subscribers, record attendances at shows, over 10,000 young people attending our productions, a major increase in the employment of artists - and in particular of Indigenous and culturally diverse artists - and more people experiencing and enjoying our revamped

Last month we were extremely proud to present Black Diggers in association with Brisbane Festival and QPAC. Over 11,000 people in Brisbane saw the show and a few thousand more people around regional Queensland attended our very first live simulcast. It was incredible.

Finishing off the year with Ben Elton’s comedy Gasp! – a coproduction with Black Swan State Theatre Company - is like the icing on the cake. It’s always good to finish the year with a show that leaves people laughing and I can guarantee you will laugh. Ben is an internationally renowned comic writer, as well as being an Australian citizen, and this is a glorious satire about what Australia could do if we run out of stuff in the ground to mine.

Hopefully by now you’re also aware of our 2015 Season, full of an amazing array of plays from which to choose – or you could take the easy path and subscribe to the 8 Play Package with a 30% discount. For those

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avid theatre attendees we also have six add-ons including the fabulous DIVA series. Next year you can see a QTC show each month and be delighted by the great wealth of talent and the magical stories we’ve assembled for you.

Finally, I want to thank our many partners, donors, sponsors and artists who have assisted us this year as well as you, our audience members, who are the reason we exist.

I hope that you have a safe and happy Christmas and New Year and I look forward to greeting you in a foyer in 2015.

Cheers,

Sue Donnelly, Executive Director

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Message from the Sponsor As Ord Minnett Executive Chairman, I am delighted to welcome you to Queensland Theatre Company’s production of Gasp!

As with the renowned QTC, Ord Minnett is a national icon, and one of the most trusted and highly respected names in the Australian financial services industry.

Ord Minnett’s track record dates back 140 years. We are proud of our Australian heritage and, via our founding firms, have been managing the wealth of investors for generations. Our heritage is testament to the fact that Ord Minnett understands what investors expect from an investment partner – integrity, the highest levels of expertise, superior investment performance and service excellence. Ord Minnett clients realise the value of advice.

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That same commitment to integrity, excellence and superior performance is part and parcel of QTC as they bring the best of the theatre to Queensland and we are proud to be their partner in this endeavour.

As a sponsor, we are excited to be involved with Gasp! This Ben Elton production explores the sometimes absurd satire of big business and highlights QTC’s commitment to providing humorous, entertaining works of art.

I hope you have a great night at the theatre.

Karl Morris Executive Chairman Ord Minnett

L-R: Greg McNeill, Damon Lockwood

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About the Show Imagine a world in which the air we breathe is just another commodity like food and fuel.

Something that can be bought and sold according to market forces.

How much do you think you’d have to breathe? This was the darkly comic premise on which Ben Elton based his first play, the hilarious and critically acclaimed satirical comedy Gasping. First performed in London in 1990, starring Hugh Laurie, it has been revisited by Elton and reimagined for a new century and a new country.

This major rewrite of Gasp! relocates the story to an Australia grown giddy on the resources boom. Corporate powerhouse Lockheart Industries is already making a mint, but too much money is never enough.

Their genius plan to privatise the air we breathe, with the ‘Suck 'n' Blow’ filtering machine is an instant hit and sales soar.

But it splits the planet into the haves and the have-nots – and if you can’t pay, you don’t breathe.

Infused with the sarcastic, sharp wit that made Elton a household name (The Young Ones, Blackadder), the play is a breathtaking, biting, brilliantly funny satire on the heartlessness of big business and the ruthlessness of the advertising industry.

And it’s as relevant and hil’air’ious as ever.

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L-R: Caroline Brazier, Damon Lockwood, Steven Rooke

Writer's Note Ben Elton

Gasping was my first professional play and, like most of my work with the exception of the odd Holocaust novel, it’s a comedy. A comedy which imagines a world where the air we breathe has to be harvested, mined and marketed just like food and fuel and all the other finite natural resources of our planet.

Because let’s face it, the fact that air remains the one single necessity of life which is still free, and consumed equally by rich and poor alike is just a bit of luck really. If somebody could sell it they would.

Now living in Australia as I do, in the midst of an ongoing national debate about our own precious and finite resources, I couldn’t help but be struck by how much of my 25-year-old play was even more relevant today than it was when it was written. And also what glorious tragi-comic theatrical potential there was in the attitudes and excesses of those characters that control the nations’ natural wealth.

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I’m therefore hugely grateful and excited that QTC have offered me the chance to rethink and, partially, rewrite much of my original play for a new century and a new country. For new influences and new inspirations. It’s a rare and real privilege for a playwright to be presented with such an opportunity.

I’m also thrilled that Wesley Enoch was excited to direct the piece. Wesley is a huge talent and an inspired leader of QTC. He was a valuable sounding board for me as I developed the new text and, with his superb designer Christina Smith, has created a brilliant premiere production. I am so grateful to him and all of the world class team here at QTC.

L-R: Damon Lockwood, Greg McNeill

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Director's Note Wesley Enoch

Ben Elton is a comic icon.

The joy of working on this play is the amazing gift Ben has with words. They swirl around you and land on your ear like delicate butterflies that then bore into your head and force you to laugh. He is the Mohammad Ali of comic writers because as soon as his words have stung you with their sting they are off dancing around the ring with the dexterity and mouthy confidence of a prize fighter.

The rehearsal room has been charged with equal parts awe, intimidation and hard work as the task master of text and the god of satire are evoked to excite and express the big ideas.

The role of directing this work has been as much about finding the right rhythms and cadence of the character as it has been about exploring motivations and narrative arcs.

Good comedy falls on your ear with an inevitable sense of set up and punchline, whilst never forgetting to surprise and delight with the unexpected.

There is a saying that comedy is harder to perform than tragedy. The demands of comedy are infinite as you have to portray all the emotional truth of a tragedy but there is no fudging the timing.

Comedy is an ensemble task with straight characters and funny characters working in a complex dance of build-up and knock down. There is no joke if the set-up is fumbled and no reward if the punchline is compromised. Comic casts are full of the push and pull of the script and how best the actors can deliver their role to help realise the vision of the writer.

It’s wonderful to work with such a great team of artists who have had to survive with me pulling out the metronome in rehearsals to dictate pace and rhythm, creating choreography for movements on stage and imagining how the set could possibly work as we pushed couches and tables around the rehearsal room. This is their greatest talent, to imagine the impossible and to still find the joy in the work.

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Thank you to Queensland Theatre Company and Black Swan State Theatre for the amazing support in getting all this together.

Love Wesley.

Greg McNeill

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Thirst for Air Baz McAlister

No one has tried to privatise air ... yet. But Nestle Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe did, in a 2005 interview, raise the question of whether water should be privatised.

“Water is, of course, the most important raw material we have today in the world. It’s a question of whether or not we should privatise the normal water supply for the population.

“One opinion, which I think is extreme, is represented by the NGOs, who bang on about declaring water a public right and the other view says water is a foodstuff like any other, and like any other foodstuff it should have a market value.

Personally, I think it’s better to give foodstuff a market value.”

As far as we know, there’s no shadowy corporation called Lockheart Industries trying to buy up all our air. But strangely enough, in Canada, there’s a Lockhart Industries that will sell you air. Air conditioning, that is. Doug Lockhart’s company in Duncan, British Columbia, has been manufacturing heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems since 1981.

In China, an industrialised country smothered by pollution, ‘fresh air stations’ are springing up in some of the worst-hit cities. These stations are stocked with bags of free fresh air, where city-dwellers can hook themselves up to oxygen masks and breathe easy. Takers in Zhengzhou got to breathe air sourced from the idyllic 4500m Laojun Mountains in Yunnan province.

Multi-millionaire Chinese philanthropist and recycling businessman Chen Guangbiao is known for his attentiongrabbing stunts, and in January 2013, he focused the eyes of the world on China’s pollution problem when he gave away 10 million cans of air in 10 days. “If we don’t act in the next 10 years, our descendants will have to carry oxygen tanks and wear masks all the time” he told reporters.

The first real-life ancestor of the ‘Suck 'n' Blow’ was patented in 1901 by British engineer Hubert Cecil Booth (1871-1955).

After seeing a demonstration of carpet-cleaning in which dust was blown away with

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compressed air, Booth reasoned that sucking in the dust instead would be a much more economical way to clean. The vacuum cleaner was born.

A character in Jules Verne’s 1870 novel Around the Moon talks of ‘a curious establishment, with rooms of oxygen, where people whose system is weakened could for a few hours live a more active life.’ In polluted 1980s Tokyo, ‘Oxygen Bars’ sprang up where people could do just that. Now known as O2 bars, ‘sansa bars’ or aroma bars, the concept has spread around the world, with bars offering purified and scented oxygen sucked through a hose for around $US1 a minute.

L-R: Lucy Goleby, Damon Lockwood

Designer's Note Christina Smith and Penny Challen

Imagine a world that is a not too distant future … or perhaps an alternate reality that is familiar to us. Mining has reached its limit, profits have dried up and magnates seek the next resource to plunder in the name of progress.

In designing this fast moving comedy, the pace of ‘progress’ became a driving force in the design. The space needed to create adaptive spaces that move with a bat-paced comic book feel. Combining slick lines and a white space, the set is a container that holds the various locations within. The look is inspired by corporate images of ultra-modern sixties offices, Maxwell Smart and cone-ofsilence style ‘lockdowns’. It is hygienically sparse and hermetically sealed.

Along with sliding floors, the worlds change rapidly with the set behaving as a giant James Turrell like lightbox. The back wall, a rear projection screen, enables us to jump to any location, and any time.

News footage, skylines and

hospital interiors are rapidly displayed. Clean, pop-like graphics burst into the space.

For Image Control, I looked to the much celebrated Google Sydney offices, where childlike art and playful space has been embraced by the corporate world. Intended to promote creative thinking, but in reality, a smoke and mirrors of innocence applied to a marketing world that is anything but.

The shiny material and block primary colours of these environments are in stark contrast to Peggy’s world.

Natural and vintage, her home is a museum of collected pieces.

Nothing is new, but all of it is loved. Peggy's space shows us another side to the world of Gasp! Real people who consume – or rather, choose not to. As Peggy is drawn further into Phillip’s world, we see her's change too.

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Boldly drawn characters are larger than life. Kirsten is part amazon, part tiger. Structured tailoring, animal prints and bold colour help display her character. Peggy is decidedly retro chic, with her feet dabbling in a world she doesn’t belong to. Phillip grows into his burgeoning career, and is progressively more shiny and slick.

L-R: Damon Lockwood, Lucy Goleby

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Biographies Ben Elton

Ben Elton is a hugely successful and influential stand-up comedian, scriptwriter, playwright, librettist and novelist whose work includes some of the funniest and most successful comedies of our time.

WRITER

Ben’s sitcom credits include The Young Ones, Happy Families, Thin Blue Line and Blackadder, collectively winning five BAFTAs, an EMMY, a British Comedy Award and Jury Awards at Reims. His own hit television shows include Saturday Live, The Man From Auntie (winner of the 1991 Royal Television Society Writers Award) and The Ben Elton Show. In 2007, Ben Elton was awarded the Special Golden Rose D’Or at The International Television festival in Lucerne Switzerland for his lifetime contribution to the Television Arts.

In 1988, Ben completed his first novel Stark. He has subsequently written a further 14 novels, five of which were Number 1 sellers while a further seven made the Top 5. They include 1996 Crime Writers Association of Great Britain Gold Dagger Award for Fiction winner Popcorn and the 2002 WH Smiths People’s Choice Fiction Award winner High Society.

Having studied Drama at Manchester University, Ben’s original ambitions were theatrical. He has written three hit West End plays: Gasping (1990), Silly Cow (1991) and Popcorn (1996, winner of TMA Barclays Theatre Award for Best New Play, the Olivier Award for Best Comedy and nominated for seven Moliere Awards).

In 2000, Ben wrote and directed the romantic comedy Maybe Baby starring Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson. Also in 2000, Ben collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber on the musical The Beautiful Game, which won the London Critics Circle Award for Best New Musical. His second musical, We Will Rock You won the 2003 Theatregoers Choice Award for Best New Musical and an Olivier Award. It is still running in London. Recently Ben collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber on the story for the Phantom of the Opera sequel, Love Never Dies.

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Wesley Enoch DIRECTOR

Queensland Theatre Company: As Director: Black Diggers (co-production with Sydney Festival), Design For Living, Trollop, Mother Courage and Her Children (co-production with Queensland Performing Arts Centre), Managing Carmen (coproduction with Black Swan State Theatre Company), Head Full of Love, Elizabeth, Bombshells, Fountains Beyond, The Sunshine Club, Black-ed Up, Radiance (co-production with Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts). As Writer: The Sunshine Club. As Actor: One Woman’s Song. Other Credits: As Director: Sydney Theatre Company: The 7 Stages of Grieving, Black-ed Up, The Cherry Pickers; Company B: The Man From Mukinupin (co-production with Melbourne Theatre Company), Yibiyung, Black Medea (coproduction with Malthouse Theatre), The Sapphires (co-production with Melbourne Theatre Company and remounted co-production with Black Swan State Theatre Company), Paul, Parramatta Girls, Capricornia, Conversations With The Dead, The Dreamers, Stolen; Erth: Nargun & The Stars (co-direction, co-production with Sydney Festival); Gondwana (co-production with Queensland Performing Arts Centre); Queensland Performing Arts Centre: Red Earth, Blue Water (Associate Director); Nyurin Ga (Associate Director), Boat (for KITE Arts Education and Out of the Box Festival); Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts: The 7 Stages of Grieving, Bitin’ Back, The Dreamers (co-production with Brisbane Festival), Murri Love, Little White Dress (co-production with Queensland Performing Arts Centre and Out of the Box Festival), A Life of Grace and Piety (co-production with Just Us Theatre Ensemble), Changing Time (co-production with Salamanca Theatre Company), Up the Ladder (co-production with Melbourne Workers Theatre/Festival of the Dreaming); Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company: Waltzing The Wilarra; Performing Lines/Sydney Festival: I Am Eora; Browns Mart Theatre/ Jute Theatre/Totem Theatre: Head Full of Love; Malthouse Theatre: One Night, the Moon; Ilbijerri Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Cooperative: Rainbow’s End, Shrunken Iris; Windmill Performing Arts/Adelaide Festival/Brisbane Festival/Sydney Festival/Perth International Festival: Riverland; Legs on the Wall: Eora Crossing; Playbox Theatre: Stolen; Bell Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet; The Melbourne Workers’ Theatre; 1975. As Writer: The 7 Stages of Grieving (co-written with Deborah Mailman), Little White Dress, A Life of Grace and Piety, Black Medea, The Sunshine Club, Grace, The Story of the Miracles at Cookie’s Table. Positions: Artistic Director, Queensland Theatre Company 2010 - present, Trustee, Sydney Opera House 2006-2013, Associate Artistic Director, Company B 2007 - 2010, Artistic Director Australian Delegation, Festival of Pacific Arts 2008, Director, My Skin My Life, Opening 23

Ceremony, Melbourne Commonwealth Games 2006, Artistic Director, Ilbijerri ATSI Theatre Co-op 2003-2006, Resident Director, Sydney Theatre Company 2000-2001, Artistic Director, Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts, 1994-1997. Awards: The Patrick White Award – The Story of the Miracles at Cookie’s Table, Helpmann Awards – Best Play and Best New Australian Work The Sapphires, Helpmann Award – Best Presentation For Children Riverland, Deadly Award – Best Direction The Sunshine Club, Matilda Award - Best Direction The Sunshine Club, Queensland Performing Arts Centre Award - Contribution to Theatre.

Christina Smith SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER

Queensland Theatre Company: Other Desert Cities (co-production with Black Swan State Theatre Company), Mother Courage and her Children (co-production with Queensland Performing Arts Centre), The Female of the Species. Other Credits: Black Swan State Theatre Company: As You Like It, A Streetcar Named Desire, Rising Water, Much Ado About Nothing, The Year of Magical Thinking, National Interest (co-production with Melbourne Theatre Company), The Swimming Club (co-production with Melbourne Theatre Company); State Opera of South Australia/New Zealand Opera: La traviata; Melbourne Theatre Company: Elling, Clybourne Park, The Seed, A Behanding in Spokane, Boston Marriage, Blackbird, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Clean House, Things We Do For Love, The Daylight Atheist, Honour; Malthouse Theatre: Porn.Cake, Black Medea; Sydney Theatre Company: Troupers; Bell Shakespeare: The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Ilbijerri: Rainbow’s End; Playbox: Julia 3, Ruby Moon, Svetlana in Slingbacks, Post Felicity, Inside 01; Red Stitch: Jesus Hopped the A Train; Neonheart Theatre: The Eskimo; Victorian Opera: The Turn of the Screw, cosi fan tutte; New Zealand Opera: Madame Butterfly. As Costume Designer: Black Swan State Theatre Company: Blackrock; Melbourne Theatre Company: Realism, Humble Boy, Proof, Sweet Bird of Youth, Three Days of Rain; The Australian Ballet: Personal Best; Victorian Opera: The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni; West Australian Ballet: The Nutcracker. As Set Designer: Black Swan State Theatre Company: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night; Melbourne Theatre Company: Boy Gets Girl. As Installation Artist: Scenic elements for the Tim Burton exhibition at ACMI, Circa theatrette installation at the National Museum of Australia. Positions: Part of design team for 2006 Commonwealth Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies. Awards: 2005 Green Room Award – Theatre Design Honour, The Daylight Athiest and Julia.

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Trent Suidgeest LIGHTING DESIGNER

Queensland Theatre Company: Other Desert Cities (co-production with Black Swan State Theatre Company), Managing Carmen (co-production with Black Swan State Theatre Company).

Other Credits: As Lighting Designer: Black Swan State Theatre Company: Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Dust, The House on The Lake, Midsummer [a play with songs], The Importance of Being Earnest, The Motherf**ker With The Hat, Boy Gets Girl, Arcadia, The White Divers of Broome, When The Rain Stops Falling, Ninety, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (with Graham Walne), The Sapphires (co-produced with Belvoir), The National Interest (co-produced by Melbourne Theatre Company); The HotBed Ensemble: pool (no water), The Dark Room: Sydney Festival: I Am Eora; Yirra Yaakin: Waltzing The Wilarra; Barking Gecko: Jasper Jones; Duck, Death and the Tulip, The Amber Amulet, Fatty Wombat; The Production Company: Kismet, The King and I; Perth Theatre Company: An Oak Tree; Steps Youth Dance Company: Try Hard, Compact Dance, Moonwebs and Scorched Thongs; Strut Dance/Alice Lee Holland: Tiny Little Tragedies; Aimee Smith: Borderline, Wintering; Buzz Dance: Genie(us). As Set and Lighting Designer: Black Swan State Theatre Company: Shrine, Death of a Salesman; Steps Youth Dance Company: Fights & Flights. As Lighting Design Secondment: Billy Elliot: The Musical (Broadway), Les Miserables (Broadway), Installations: Jackman Furness Foundation of Performing Arts Launch; PIAF: Festival Gardens 2012. Positions: Panellist, DCA Young People and the Arts Funding 2009-2012, WAAPA Board 2007- 2008. Grants: 2010 Artstart Grant, 2014 Australia Council Creative Professionals.

Training: WAAPA, 2008.

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Tony Brumpton SOUND DESIGNER

Penny Challen DESIGN ASSOCIATE

Queensland Theatre Company: As Sound Designer: Black Diggers (coproduction with Sydney Festival), Australia Day, Design For Living, Other Desert Cities (co-production with Black Swan State Theatre Company), Managing Carmen (co-production with Black Swan State Theatre Company), Pygmalion, No Man’s Land (co-production with Sydney Theatre Company), Sacre Bleu!, Macbeth (coproduction with Brisbane Festival), Fat Pig, The Little Dog Laughed, The Crucible, God of Carnage (co-production with Black Swan State Theatre Company), I am My Own Wife, Private Fears in Public Places, Absurd Person Singular, The Removalists, Waiting for Godot, Hurry Up and Wait (co-production with deBase Theatre Company), Eating Ice Cream With Your Eyes Closed, Beckett x3, Maxine Mellor’s Mystery Project (co-production with State Library of Queensland). As Co-Sound Designer: The August Moon, Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome: A Shakespeare Commentary (co-production with Bell Shakespeare Company), Stones in his Pockets. Other Credits: Composer/Sound Designer: Dead Puppet Society: The Harbinger, The Timely Death of Victor Blott; I-Pin Lin’s productions: Bamboo, Harmony, 4orces and 1984–2005; QUT Dance: Current, Fade Away, Accented Bodies, Altered States. Positions: Associate Artist/Head of Audio, Queensland Theatre Company (2011), Emerging Artist, Queensland Theatre Company (2010), Tone Black Productions (Company Owner), Lecturer – QUT. Queensland Theatre Company: Debut. Other Credits: As Designer: Opera Queensland: La bohème; 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; The Gate Theatre: Hair; Royal Shakespeare Company: Taming of the Shrew; The Arches, Glasgow: To the Moon; American Repertory Theater, Boston: Oliver Twist. As Associate/Assistant Designer: Royal Shakespeare Company: Hamlet, The Histories Cycle, Hecuba, Twelfth Night, Spanish Golden Age Season, As You Like It; Royal Opera House: Salome, Orphee, Owen Wingrave; West End: Cabaret; English National Opera: Gaddafi, Carmen; National Theatre: Market Boy; Hamburg Staatsoper: Billy Budd, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Television:

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The Events (UK). Positions: Trainee Resident Designer, Royal Shakespeare Company. Awards: The Patrick White Award – The Story of the Miracles at Cookie’s Table, Helpmann Awards – Best Play and Best New Australian Work, The Sapphires, Helpmann Award – Best Presentation For Children, Riverland, Deadly Award – Best Direction, The Sunshine Club, Matilda Award – Best Direction, The Sunshine Club, Queensland Performing Arts Centre Award – Contribution to Theatre. Training: Bachelor of Fine Art, QCA, Bachelor of Dramatic Arts (Design), NIDA.

optikal bloc PROJECTION DESIGNERS

Queensland Theatre Company: The Mountaintop. As Video Artists: Theatre Residency Week 2013. Other Credits: As Video Designers: Opera Queensland: Dirty Apple; shake & stir theatre co: Wuthering Heights, 1984; La Boite Theatre Company: Pale Blue Dot; The Arts Centre Gold Coast: Jesus Christ Superstar; Metro Arts: He’s Seeing Other People Now (co-production with Melanie Wild and Anna McGahan); We Should Have Drunk More Champagne (co-production with The Good Room); HHO Events for the Canberra Centenary: Seven Sisters Songlines; Opera Queensland: As Projection Realisers: La Bohème; As Video Producers: Brisbane City Council, Brisbane Marketing, Creative Foyer, Empire Theatre, Event Cinemas, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, La Boite Theatre Company, Luke Kennedy, Metro Arts, Mixtape Theatre Collective, Opera Queensland, Queensland Theatre Company, shake & stir theatre co, the little red company, The Ten Tenors, Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre. As Technical Service Providers: ArtsLink Queensland, Ben & Jerry’s Openair Cinemas, Caroline Dunphy, Dansing Pty Ltd, Griffith University, Metro Arts, Opera Queensland, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, Redland Arts Council, The Good Room, University of Southern Queensland. Film: As Editor: QPIX: Blood Hollow, Tender. Television: Endemol Australia/Nine Network: Big Brother 2013 – 2014.

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Daniel Evans DIRECTORIAL ASSOCIATE

Caroline Brazier KIRSTEN

Queensland Theatre Company: As Director: The China Incident. As Director/Deviser: I Want To Know What Love Is (co-production with The Good Room). Other Credits: As Director: The Good Room: Rabbit, Single Admissions; Griffith University: Superfamousnobodies, Wide Awake & Wasted, Oedipus The King, DNA, Here Goes Nothing, Face To The Wall, Antigone, Totally Epic & Utterly Lame, Big Hair In America. As Writer: Vodka Cranberry Soda, Never For Ever, The Lady Of The House Of Love, Ivy Shambitt & The Sound Machine, Opening A Fuzzwollop’s Frame Of Mind. As Writer/ Director: the little red company: How To Make Snow; The Good Room: Holy Guacamole; Metro Arts Independents: The Reunion (with Rebecca Meston). As Co-Deviser: The Nest: Eve; The Good Room: Where We Begin, I Should Have Drunk More Champagne.

Television: Producer: Southern Star: Big Brother 2009-2014.

Writer: SBS: Eurovision Song Contest 2009/10. Positions: Co-Founder: The Good Room; contributor, frankie Magazine, Performance Producer: Metro Arts, 2009 – 2012, Co-Director: National Young Writers’ Festival 2009/10. Awards: 2014 – 2015 Queensland Premier’s Drama Award. Training: Bachelor of Creative Industries (Interdisciplinary), Queensland University of Technology (QUT).

Queensland Theatre Company: Debut. Other Credits: Sydney Theatre Company: Don’s Party; Melbourne Theatre Company: Enlightenment, Ray’s Tempest, Two Brothers; Bell Shakespeare: Anthony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice; Brisbane Powerhouse: The True Story of Butterfish; B Sharp: Bang; La Mama: Europe; Darlinghurst Theatre: Whale Music; Melbourne Festival: A Moment on the Lips; Ensemble Theatre: Liberty Equality Fraternity; Tamarama Rock Surfers: The Removalists; Critical Stages: I Want to Sleep. Film: Rogue. Television: Rake (Seasons 1, 2 and 3), Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Terra Nova, Wild Boys, Dripping in Chocolate, Packed to the Rafters, 30 Seconds, City Homicide, Parralax, White Collar Blue, Young Lions, Water Rats and Walt Disney’s television series Legend of the Seeker. Awards: Sydney Theatre Award – Best Actress I Want to Sleep With Tom Stoppard.

Training: NIDA, 1998.

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Queensland Theatre Company: Debut. Other Credits: La Boite Theatre Company: Pale Blue Dot; Mad March Hare Theatre: A Moment on the Lips.

Television: As Voice Over: Channel 7: Live Well. Short Film: AFTRS: Exercise, Death Sentence. Training: NIDA, 2013.

Lucy Goleby PEGGY

Damon Lockwood PHILLIP

Queensland Theatre Company: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (co-production with Black Swan State Theatre Company).

Other Credits: As Actor: Black Swan State Theatre Company: Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Boundary Street; Perth Theatre Company: Taking Liberty, Dealer’s Choice. Deckchair Theatre: Romeo and Juliet, The Danger Age; Barking Gecko: His Majesty’s New Clothes, Pri-Mates; Spare Parts Puppet Theatre: Aqua Sapiens, The Velveteen Rabbit, The Arrival, The Little Prince; The Blue Room: I (Honestly) Love You, A Change in the Weather, Short Four Play, HorseHead, Kitchen, Domestic Bliss.

As Director: Midsummer [a play with songs] (Perth and regional tours). As Assistant Director: The Importance of Being Earnest, The White Divers of Broome, Signs of Life (co-produced with Sydney Theatre Company); Lockwood Productions: I (Honestly) Love You, Nature as Explained by Theatre, The Suitcase Set; Barking Gecko: Improvolicious; Weeping Spoon: Trampoline; Deckchair Theatre: As Playwright: Forget Me Not, Refractions; The Blue Room: I (Honestly) Love You, Short Four Play, Nature as Explained by Theatre, The Benefit of Hindsight, 12.15 Saturday Night, A Change in the Weather, Domestic Bliss; Barking Gecko: GoGo Fish, PriMates; Spare Parts Puppet Theatre: Muttabuttasauras; Teatro Allo Scalo/Rome/ The Blue Room: HorseHead. Awards: 2012 Rome Fringe Festival Award HorseHead, 2005 Write Now NSW Award Domestic Bliss, October 2007 Australian Script Centre – Play of the month Award Nature as Explained by Theatre. Writing: Pri-Mates (Australian Script Collection #6).

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Greg McNeill CHIFLEY LOCKHEART

Steven Rooke SANDY

Queensland Theatre Company: Managing Carmen (co-production with Black Swan State Theatre Company). Other Credits: Black Swan State Theatre Company: The Seagull, As You Like It, The White Divers of Broome, The Damned, Madagascar, The Crucible, The Year of Living Dangerously, Money and Friends; Perth Theatre Company: The Removalists, An Oak Tree, Baby Boomer Blues, Cargo, Soulmates, Welcome to Dullsville, Face to Face, Covert, Cox Four, Speaking in Tongues, Third World Blues, Siren, A Passionate Woman, Dead Funny, Lockie Leonard Human Torpedo; Ensemble Theatre Sydney: A Conversation; State Theatre Company of WA: Antony and Cleopatra, The Country Wife, Orpheus Descending, The Season at Sarsaparilla, Away; Deckchair Theatre: Taking Liberty, Sweetown; Shakespeare in the Park: Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew; Effie Crump Theatre: Conjugal Rites, Rattle Of A Simple Man, The Wee Small Hours, Livingstone, Home Open, Bedfellows, Going Bananas; Hole In The Wall: Death of a Salesman, Rusty Bugles; Independent: Macbeth, To Have and To Hold, Troilus and Cressida, A Strong Left Hand. Television: The War That Changed Us, Cloudstreet, Foreign Exchange, The Shark Net, Murder x 3, FastTracks, Bay City, Ship to Shore, Clowning Around. Film: Drift, Japanese Story, Justice, Teesh and Trude, Boxed In, Pink Pyjamas.

As Director: Talk About the Passion. Awards: 2011 WA Equity Guild Award - Best Leading Actor Madagascar.

Queensland Theatre Company: Gloria, Macbeth, Kelly, 1001 Nights, The Removalists, Fat Pig, The Exception and the Rule, Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome, No Man’s Land (co-production with Sydney Theatre Company). Other Credits: La Boite Theatre Company: Julius Caesar, 48 Shades of Brown; QPAC Out of the Box: Boat; 23rd Productions: The Pillowman; QUT: The Cherry Orchard, They Shoot Horses Don’t They, Spurboard, The Mill on the Floss, A Handful of Stars. Film: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Blurred, Footy Legends. Short Film: Quiet, You’ll Wake Up the War. Television: Schapelle, Always Greener, Home & Away, Beastmaster, All Saints, Comedy Inc. Awards: 2011 Matilda Award - Outstanding Body of Performance Work Julius Caesar, No Man’s Land and The Removalists, 2011 Matilda Award - Best Supporting Actor No Man’s Land, 2010 Queensland New Filmmakers’ Award - Best Actor in a Main Role Quiet: You’ll Wake 30

Up The War, 2009 Matilda Award - Best Actor in a Main Role The Pillowman. Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Queensland University of Technology.

Jodie Roche STAGE MANAGER

Charlotte Barrett ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER

Queensland Theatre Company: As Stage Manager: Macbeth, Australia Day, Design For Living, Trollop, End of the Rainbow (co-production with Queensland Performing Arts Centre), Managing Carmen (co-production with Black Swan State Theatre Company), Head Full of Love, Romeo and Juliet, Pygmalion, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (coproduction with Black Swan State Theatre Company), Orphans, The Little Dog Laughed, That Face, The Importance of Being Earnest, I Am My Own Wife. As Assistant Stage Manager: The Glass Menagerie, Private Fears in Public Places, American Buffalo, Absurd Person Singular, The Memory of Water. Other Credits: Black Swan State Theatre Company: The White Divers of Broome; La Boite Theatre Company: Summer Wonderland, Sex:CUBED, Last Drinks, The Dance of Jeremiah, Amigos; Expressions Dance Company: When Time Stops; Queensland Ballet: Giselle, Cinderella, Vis a Vis #1 & Prelude 2011, The Little Mermaid (China Tour); Opera Queensland: Aida, The Merry Widow, The Elixir of Love, Waltzing Our Matilda, Rigoletto, Fidelio, La Traviata, The Magic Flute, The Barber of Seville, Madama Butterfly; Brisbane City Council: Lord Mayor’s Carols in the Park. Awards: Ashley Wilkie Award – Outstanding Contribution to the Performing Arts. Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Technical Production Management), QUT. Queensland Theatre Company: As Stage Manager: The Effect (coproduction with Sydney Theatre Company), The Mountaintop, Youth Ensemble Showcase 2013. As Assistant Stage Manager: Macbeth, Other Desert Cities (co-production with Black Swan State Theatre Company).

As Stage Management Secondment: Mother Courage and Her Children (co-production with Queensland Performing Arts Centre). Other Credits: As Stage Manager: Matthew Management & Neil Gooding Productions: Thank You For Being A Friend; As Assistant Stage Manager: Opera Queensland: The Perfect American; shake & stir theatre co: Animal Farm (Regional Tour); Out Damn Snot (secondment). Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Technical Production), QUT. 31

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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 Karl Morris ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Wesley Enoch EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Sue Donnelly Executive Assistant: Tammy Sleeth Artistic Associate: Todd MacDonald 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 Offier: Laurel Collins Chief Financial Officer Michael Cullinan Assistant Accountant: Sena Du Bois Finance Officer: Robin Koski

Marketing Manager: Yvonne Whittington Marketing Coordinator: Amanda Solomons Marketing Officer: Phoebe Owen Database Trainer and Supervisor: Dale Ric-Hansen Publicist: Kath Rose and Associates Marketing Assistant: Yuverina Shewpersad Digital Marketing Officer: David D’Arcy Season Ticketing Supervisor: Roxane Eden Ticketing Coordinators: Maggie Holmes and Brad Routledge Season 2015 Customer Service Team Members: Tanya Leadbetter Brandon Le Gallez Sarah Maunsell Maneka Singh Receptionist and Ticketing Officer: Donna Fields-Brown Philanthropy Manager: Amanda Jolly Corporate Partnerships Manager: Nikki Porter Development Coordinator: Dee Morris Researcher and Grant Writer: Danielle Bentley Production Manager: Toni Glynn Technical Coordinator: Daniel Maddison Production Coordinator: Scott Klupfel Head of Workshop: Peter Sands Company Carpenter/Head Mechanist: John Pierce Carpenter: Jamie Bowman Head of Wardrobe: Vicki Martin

Affiliate Artists: Tony Brumpton Ben Hughes David Walters Associate Artists: Rod Ainsworth Candy Bowers Carol Burns Katherine Lyall-Watson David Morton Gayle MacGregor Paula Nazarski Ngoc Phan Lucas Stibbard

Gasp!

Production Staff Carpenters: Jaydn Bowe Gavin Sawford Tom Pym Warren West Cutter/Costume Maker: Katrine Christensen Wardrobe Buyer: Nathalie Ryner Wardrobe Maintenance: Liezel Buckenham Production Electrician: Mat Allan Electricians: Warren Sutton Michael Leggett Floor Technician: Sam Maher Props: Tom Edmiston

QPAC Production Staff Head Electrician: Nick Toll Head Mechanist: Richie Aishford Mechanist: Tom Pugh FOUNDING DIRECTOR Alan Edwards, AM, MBE (1925 – 2003)

Front of House and Events Supervisor: Deirdree Wallace Venue and Operations Supervisor: Julian Messer Queensland Theatre Company is a member of Live Performance Australia.

Black Swan State Theatre Company is thrilled to be partnering with Queensland Theatre Company once again to co-produce Gasp! by Ben Elton. We had a fantastic time with Gasp! in Perth and wish the cast and creatives and the team at Queensland Theatre Company all the best for their season.

FOUNDING PATRON Janet Holmes à Court AC

Cutter: Mandy Elmitt

PATRON Sam Walsh AO

Wardrobe Assistant: Marie Nitschke-Mcgregor

CHAIR Mark Barnaba

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DIRECTORS Alan Cransberg Nicola Forrest Andrew Harding Rob McKenzie Vicki Robinson Linda Savage

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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Kate Cherry

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Education & Community Access Manager: Alena Tompkins

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Literary Director: Polly Low

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Artistic Coordinator: Chantelle Iemma

Overseas Representatives: London Diana Franklin And Yolande Bird; New York Stuart Thompson

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PO Box 3567, South Bank, Queensland 4101 Tel: (07) 3840 7444 www.qpac.com.au Chair Chris Freeman AM Deputy Chair Rhonda White AO Trustees Kylie Blucher Simon Gallaher Sophie Mitchell Mick Power AM Executive Staff Chief Executive: John Kotzas Director – Presenter Services: Ross Cunningham Director – Marketing: Roxanne Hopkins Director – Corporate Services: Kieron Roost Director – Patron Services: Jackie Branch ACKNOWLEDGMENT The Queensland Performing Arts Trust is a Statutory body of the State of Queensland and is partially funded by the Queensland Government The Honourable Ian Walker MP Minister for Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts Director-General, Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts: Sue Rickerby

Acknowledgements Gasp! was first performed at the Theatre Royal Haymarket London, directed

by Bob Spiers and produced by Phil McIntyre on 1 June 1990.

Thank you to the original creative team behind the first workshops of Gasp!, actors Damon Lockwood, Caroline Brazier, Greg McNeill, Sam Longley, Adrianne Daff, creatives Ben Elton and Wesley Enoch and Stage Manager Claudia Blagaich.

Voice Over/Video Artists: Kerith Atkinson, Jason Klarwein Todd MacDonald, Ron Kelly Amy Ingram, Christopher Sommers Special thanks to Garry Youngberry from the Nine Network

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

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