GROUNDED Production Program

COMING SOON TO THE PLAYHOUSE, QPAC

17 Oct – 8 Nov FEATURING MUSIC AND LYRICS BY TIM FINN (Crowded House, Split Enz) Queensland Theatre Company in association with Queensland Performing Arts Centre presents

14 Nov – 6 Dec

Ladies in Black is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

Tickets 136 246 or queenslandtheatre.com.au

Queensland Theatre Company presents

GROUNDED BY

Cast 29 July 15 August Diane Cilento Studio, The GreenHouse Grounded will run for approximately 90 minutes, no interval.

GEORGE

Libby Munro

The Pilot

Andrea Moor

Director

Georgina Greenhill

Designer

Ben Hughes

Lighting Designer

Tony Brumpton

Sound Designer

Jennifer Buckland

Stage Manager

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Grounded was first produced in a rolling World Premiere by SF Playhouse (California), Borderlands Theater (Arizona), and Unicorn Theatre (Missouri) As part of the National New Play Network’s Continued Life program New York Premiere of Grounded was produced by Page 73 Productions (Liz Jones and Asher Richelli, Executive Directors; Michael Walkup, Associate Director).

The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.

Grounded is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.

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Welcome Wesley Enoch

Dear Patron, Supporter and Friend, Welcome to DIVA - Grounded A diva is a celebrated woman of outstanding talent in the world of opera, theatre, cinema or popular music, and Libby Munro is such a woman.

After Libby gave that incredible performance in Venus in Fur back in 2013, we immediately started looking for the next thing she could get her teeth into. It took a while but Libby came to us with a show called Grounded, a one-woman show of such power and emotional depth that it seemed a fitting celebration of her many talents. It also seemed fitting that we pair Libby with another Queensland diva, Andrea Moor as director.

You will remember that Andrea directed Venus in Fur, alongside Boston Marriage, Australia Day and Water Falling Down.

I can announce formally that Andrea Moor has been appointed as Artistic Associate until the end of the year. I welcome her on board in this full time position at QTC and look forward to seeing her work in the coming year.

Some of the other activities in the DIVA series you might like include a set of commissions and developments with women artists from Queensland. Check out the schedule of readings and showings.

Please enjoy DIVA Grounded.

Love,

Wesley

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Director's Note Andrea Moor

In 2013, I had the great pleasure of directing Libby Munro in David Ives' brilliant mythological comedy Venus in Fur. When Libby brought the script of Grounded to the attention of the Company, it was the perfect opportunity for us to collaborate again. Grounded has had extraordinary success all over the world, starting at the Edinburgh Festival, moving to London and, most recently, a production at the Public in New York, starring Anne Hathaway, was directed

by The Lion King creator Julie Taymor. Clearly it's hot property! The subject matter is timely, as the Australian air force has recently committed to purchasing 300 million dollars’ worth of unmanned ‘reaper’ drones at a cost of 20 million dollars each. The US air force has for many years used these missile-

armed pilotless planes at the frontline of surveillance and patrol security in the Middle-East. For the pilots manning these drones the work is gruelling with twelvehour shifts requiring intense concentration. Just last month the Pentagon released a statement acknowledging the burn-out rate of drone pilots and agreeing to cut down the number of missions for the 1,200 pilots. As modern warfare becomes more reliant on these drones, the pilots get much closer to the action, not in physical proximity, but in clarity of visuals that places them right at the scene. Never before have pilots been so intimate with their victims.

Pilots are also attempting to live a normal domestic life, going home to their families each night. The impact on air force personnel in this nature of warfare is immense and in Grounded George Brant

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brilliantly sums it up through the psychological landscape of one female air force pilot.

The one-person show is a taxing and strange beast. I know having performed in a one-woman show at the Edinburgh Festival! It takes a clever script, an actor adept with language and physicality and a production team responsive to each and every nuance in the piece. The result is hopefully a deeply intimate experience for the audience. This is an exciting challenge for the team, made especially thrilling as we christen this beautiful new playing space. We hope you enjoy the ride!

L-R: Andrea Moor, Georgina Greenhill , Libby Munro

L-R: Jennifer Buckland, Katie Hurst

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Designer's Note Georgina Greenhill

Andrea’s invitation to design Grounded was particularly exciting as the bulk of my career has been designing for film and television. There are similarities, particularly in the initial concepts when one is looking to encapsulate a mood, genre, place or a time in history, but the beauty and the challenge of theatre is that your set is in the eye of the beholder for the whole performance.

The Diane Cilento Studio is a new space for performance at QTC and my first viewing of it was as an empty black and grey box. The ground plan revealed the layout for seating and thus the performance space!

My first reading of the play was one of those reads where time stands still. In fact, I was so engrossed I don’t think I even sat down.

I was distressed by the content and confronted by the character. All I could see was her. Andrea and I decided minimalism was the way to go on this very internal journey and though there was a temptation to use projected images, there were practical reasons not to. After some research and playing with materials and shapes we returned to the space with Ben Hughes (Lighting Designer) and Tony Brumpton (Sound Designer); sat in it, walked round it and talked more about the shapes and spaces.

I hope the shapes and textures of the set design reflect The Pilot’s physical world in an abstract way and the lighting and soundscapes illuminate her emotional journey in this very contemporary and pertinent play.

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FA M I LY, Gather artists in a room and sparks are going to fly. That’s why Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull and Queensland Theatre Company’s Actors Studio are perfect partners and will combine to create one of the must-see productions of 2015.

A paean to unrequited love, The Seagull is one of the greatest plays of the modern era. Following the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow writer Boris Trigorin, the ingénue Nina, the fading theatrical actress and diva Irina Arkadina, and her son the unconventional playwright Konstantin, The Seagull explores emotion,

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creativity and romantic conflict with the incisive clarity of a physician and the passionate heart of a poet.

In his directorial return to QTC Daniel Evans, the writer behind the recent critically acclaimed Oedipus Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, has marshalled an ensemble cast of 10 celebrated actors in this contemporary retelling of a play with grand themes.

He directs his own adaptation of this extraordinary work.

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Matilda Award winner and Helpmann nominated Christen O’Leary together with the multi-talented actor/ director Jason Klarwein are joined by Emily Burton, fresh from the set of Oedipus Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, and QTC favourite Lucas

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Stibbard who shared the stage in 2014 with Jason Klarwein in Macbeth.

Melbourne-born Nicholas Gell who will make his QTC debut.

Two greatly admired actors, Hugh Parker and Barbara Lowing, will reunite, two years after they starred in The Pitch & The China Incident, joined by standout young actor Amy Ingram (I Want To Know What Love Is and Trollop) as well as Boston Marriage and Sisters of Wars (ABC) star Helen Cassidy. Famed performer, choreographer and director Brian Lucas rounds out the cast together with

A story about how we create stories, the heartbreakingly wide expanse between the life we live and the life we long for, Chekhov’s The Seagull was a spectacular failure when it premiered in 1895, but has survived to become one of the masterpieces of the modern era.

“… Anton Chekhov casts an extraordinary spell over 21st-century theatre audiences. A century after his death, he speaks with a mix of wit, idealism, sadness and wisdom that connects with the hopes and fears of today’s audiences.”

THE GUARDIAN

The enduring brilliance of the text is emphasised in this stripped-back, raw experience that cuts to the heart of the heartbreak in a classic play about all the things which still fascinate humankind – family, power, sex, fame and passion.

Queensland Theatre Company in association with Brisbane Festival present

29 August – 26 September Bille Brown Studio The GreenHouse Tickets are available at queenslandtheatre.com.au or by calling 1800 355 528

Biographies George Brant PLAYWRIGHT

Andrea Moor DIRECTOR

George Brant’s plays include Grounded, Elephant’s Graveyard, The Mourners’ Bench, Any Other Name, Salvage, Grizzly Mama, Three Voyages of the Lobotomobile, and Dark Room.

A Core Writer at the Playwright’s Center, his scripts have been produced internationally by Trinity Repertory Company, the Studio Theatre, City Theatre, the Gate Theatre of London, Page 73, and the Traverse Theatre, among others. He has received a Kennedy Center National Playwriting Award, the Smith Prize, an Edinburgh Fringe First Award, a Creative Workforce Fellowship, two OAC Individual Excellence Awards, and the Keene Prize for Literature. He has been awarded writing fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the McCarter Theatre Center, Blue Mountain Center, the Djerassi Resident Artist’s Program and the Michener Center for Writers.

He is published by Samuel French, Oberon Books and Smith & Kraus.

Queensland Theatre Company: As Director: Boston Marriage, Saison de L’amour, Australia Day, Venus in Fur, Water Falling Down; As Performer: Design For Living, Pygmalion, An Oak Tree, Let the Sunshine, The Crucible, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Absurd Person Singular, Vincent in Brixton. Other Credits: As Director: ...and moor theatre: Tender; The Ghost Writer; JUTE Theatre Company: Intimacy; WAAPA: Top Girls, Festen; USQ Shakespeare in the Park: The Tempest; NIDA: The Roaring Girl, Furious. As Performer: La Boite Theatre Company: The Narcissist ; Kooemba Jdarra: Bitin’ Back; Griffin Theatre Company: Myth, Propaganda & Disaster, Borderlines, Passion, Witchplay and Away; Sydney Theatre Company: Furious, The Visit, Titus Andronicus, Re-Create the Rehearsal, Siren, An Ideal Husband, Emerald City, The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, The Game of Love & Chance, Woman in Mind, Map of the World; Ensemble Theatre: The Old Boy, The Ninth Step, The Family, Diving for Pearls; Marion Street Theatre: The Newspaper of Claremont Street; NIDA Company: The Aunt’s Story; Pork Chop: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are 10

Dead. Film: Return to Nim's Island, Mental, Subdivision, Bitter and Twisted, Left Ear, The Man Who Sued God, Oscar and Lucinda, Soft Fruit, Strange Planet, Airtight, Round the Bend, Travelling North. Television: Mortified, H20, Home & Away, All Saints, White Collar Blue, Backberner, Heartbreak High, Water Rats, GP, The Flying Doctor, A Country Practice, Army Wives.

Awards: Matilda Awards – Gold Matilda Award - Best Director Venus in Fur, Best Supporting Female Actor The Crucible (2009), Matilda Nomination – Best Female Actor Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Narcissist (2008), Churchhill Fellowship 2014, Marten Bequest Scholarship (1994), London Monthly Review Best Actress, Edinburgh Festival 1991.

Georgina Greenhill DESIGNER

Ben Hughes LIGHTING DESIGNER

Queensland Theatre Company: Debut. Other Credits: As Set Designer: Savoyards Musical Theatre; Annie, Anything Goes, Pirates of Penzance, My Fair Lady; Contact Inc: X Project. As Set & Costume Designer: Florence Teillet: She Walks Beside Her Shoes. Film: As Production Designer: Under the Radar, Hildegarde, Love in Ambush, Rough Diamond. Television: As Production Designer: Mortified, Misery Guts, The Wilde Girls, The Dreaming, Ocean Girl, Fairweather Man, Kokoda.

Queensland Theatre Company: HOME, The Button Event, The Effect (co-production with Sydney Theatre Company), The Mountaintop, Black Diggers (co-production with Sydney Festival), Design For Living, Trollop (as Co-Director/ Designer), 1001 Nights, The Lost Property Rules, Orbit, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Pitch & The China Incident, Kelly, Head Full of Love, Fractions (co-production with Hothouse Theatre), Orphans, An Oak Tree, Sacre Bleu, Fat Pig, Let The Sunshine (co-production with Melbourne Theatre Company), The Crucible, 25 Down, Stones in His Pockets, I Am My Own Wife, John Gabriel Borkman, The Estimator, Private Fears in Public Places, Man Equals Man, Waiting for Godot, Eating Ice Cream with Your Eyes Closed, The Exception and The Rule, Ruby Moon, Toy Symphony, Heroes. Other Credits: The Danger Ensemble: Caligula, The Wizard of Oz (co-production with La Boite Theatre Company & Brisbane Festival), Sons of Sin, Children of War, Loco Maricon Amor, The Hamlet Apocalypse;

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La Boite Theatre Company: Medea, A Doll’s House, Cosi, Kitchen Diva, Statespeare; Belvoir: Samson (co-production with La Boite); The Nest Ensemble: Home; Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre: Vikram and the Vampire, Cabaret, Dracula, Zeitgeist, My Sublime Shadow; Woodford Folk Festival: Fire Event 2012 & 2013; Cre8ion: Fluff; Stella Electrika: The New Dead: Medea Material; Expressions Dance Company: The Host, Carmen Sweet, Propel; Queensland Ballet: Flourish, Giselle, A Classical Celebration, ...with Attitude; As Associate Lighting Designer: Elision Ensemble: The Navigator; Meryl Tankard: The Oracle; Opera Queensland: Aida; Expressions Dance Company: Where The Heart Is. Positions: Affiliate Artist, Queensland Theatre Company (2014 & 2011); Resident Lighting Designer, Queensland Theatre Company (2013); Associate Artistic Director – The Danger Ensemble; Emerging Artist, Queensland Theatre Company (2007); Professional Member, Association of Lighting Designers; Associate Lecturer – Queensland University of Technology. Awards: 2011 Groundling Award - Outstanding Contribution to Lighting Design.

Tony Brumpton SOUND DIRECTOR

Queensland Theatre Company: As Sound Designer: Gasp!, The Mountaintop, Australia Day, Black Diggers (co-production with Sydney Festival), Design For Living, Other Desert Cities (co-production with Black Swan State Theatre Company), Managing Carmen(co-production with BSSTC), Pygmalion, No Man’s Land (co-production with Sydney Theatre Company), Sacre Bleu!, Macbeth (co-production 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. 12

Libby Munro THE PILOT

Jennifer Buckland STAGE MANAGER

Queensland Theatre Company: Venus in Fur. Other Credits: Ensemble Theatre: Dream Home; Louise Withers & Assoc: A Murder is Announced; Sydney Theatre Company: Gallipoli; Able Productions: Closer to Heaven; NIDA Company: The Collection, Queensland Shakespeare Festival: Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night.

Film: Eight, Bullets for the Dead, Branded, The Bind. Television: Hiding, All Saints: MRU, Review with Miles Barlow, SLiDE. Awards: Matilda Award – Best Female Actor in a Leading Role Venus in Fur; John Dommett Medal for Outstanding Industry Achievement. Training: Bachelor of Dramatic Art (Acting), NIDA; Bachelor of Business, QUT. Queensland Theatre Company: As Stage Manager: Treasure Island, The Pitch, Bombshells, Water Falling Down; As Assistant Stage Manager: Venus In Fur, Red, King Lear, The Year of Magical Thinking, Ninety, The Alchemist, Rabbit Hole (secondment). Other Credits: As Stage Manager: QPAC/ Bangaburra Productions: The Story of the Miracles at Cookie’s Table; Children’s Festival: The Magic Flute.

As Assistant Stage Manager: Bell Shakespeare Company: School for Wives, Julius Caesar. As Deputy Stage Manager: Shakespeare in the Park Festival: Romeo and Juliet. Training: University of Southern Queensland (Technical Production and Stage Management).

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PATRON His Excellency the Honourable Paul de Jersey AC Governor of Queensland MEMBERS OF THE BOARD Richard Fotheringham (Chair) Elizabeth Jameson (Deputy Chair) Julieanne Alroe Kirstin Ferguson Erin Feros Simon Gallaher Peter Hudson Nathan Jarro ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Wesley Enoch EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Sue Donnelly Executive Assistant: Tammy Sleeth Artistic Associate: Andrea Moor Resident Director: Jason Klarwein 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 Theatre Diversity Associate: Joon-Yee Kwok Chief Financial Officer: Michael Cullinan Systems Accountant: Roxane Eden Assistant Accountant: Joelene Wright Finance Officer: Robin Koski

Venue and Operations Supervisor: Julian Messer Front of House and Events Supervisor: Deirdree Wallace Front of House and Events Officer: Leisha Du Bois Marketing Manager: Yvonne Whittington Marketing Coordinator: Amanda Solomons Marketing Officer: Tanya Leadbetter Marketing Assistant: Yuverina Shewpersad Digital Marketing Officer: David D’Arcy Database Trainer and Supervisor: Dale Ric-Hansen Publicist: Kath Rose and Associates Ticketing Coordinator: Maggie Holmes Ticketing Officers: Donna Fields-Brown Maneka Singh 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 Production Assistant: Lilith Tremmery Head of Workshop: Peter Sands Company Carpenter/ Head Mechanist: John Pierce Carpenter: Jamie Bowman Head of Wardrobe: Vicki Martin Costume Supervisor: Nathalie Ryner

Indigenous Reference Group: Nathan Jarro (Chair) Adam James Michael Tuahine Paula Nazarski Todd Phillips Associate Artists: Rod Ainsworth Candy Bowers Carol Burns Katherine Lyall-Watson David Morton Gayle MacGregor Paula Nazarski Ngoc Phan Lucas Stibbard Front of House (The GreenHouse): Anita Hughes Madison Bell Mollie Thomas Sally Lewis Jonthan Petersson Nathan Hollingworth Charlotte Moutrey HOME Production Staff Production Electrician/Op: Joanne Espey Grounded Production Staff Production Electrician/Op: Matt Allan Stage Management Secondment (QUT): Katie Hurst

FOUNDING DIRECTOR Alan Edwards, AM, MBE (1925 – 2003)

Queensland Theatre Company is a member of Live Performance Australia.

Acknowledgements Grounded Jem Rowe, Matt Hall, Emma Thomas Rehearsal Photography: Stephen Henry HOME Additional monologues by Travis Ash, extracts sourced by Micaela Ash and co-created with Leah Mercer and Bev Jensen

The Nest Ensemble Aimee Dittmer Andrew Townsend for Margi’s pre-show outfit Bill Ash Charlotte Grimmer David Bertholt, Adam Brunes, Nick Morton-Paine and the team at La Boite Theatre (2012) Del and Lynda Mercer Grace Mercer, Shearwater Steiner School Secondment Ian Lawson and Playlab James Newton Kate White Liz Burcham & the team at Metro Arts Theatre (2011) Micaela Ash Misha Hardwick Rebecca Ward Richard Jensen Shilpi Rahman William Haines HOME refers to the following texts: Ala’a’s story in “Peace Starts Here: Story 1: Home.”

United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).

Auster, Paul. Moon Palace. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1989.

Basry, Amal Hassan. Interview with survivor of the sinking of the “Suspected Illegal Entry Vessel” in October 2001 known as the SIEV X. Extract taken from Something to Declare: True Stories of Asylum Seekers in Australia, Michael Gurr, 2004.

Eliot, T.S. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”

Filo, John P. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 5, 1970: 9.

Jensen, Richard. Unpublished personal account.

Langley, Eve. Last, Loveliest, Loneliest. Sourced from Joy L. Thwaite. Importance of Being Eve Langley.

HarperCollins Publishers, 1989 Reys, Shelley. “The Reconciliation Process – What Now?” Presented at Healing with Pain, The 2001 National Stolen Generations Conference, Adelaide.

Rudd, Kevin. Apology to Australia’s Indigenous peoples.

Selbourne, David. Samson & Alison Mary Fagan.

London: Calder and Boyars. 1971.

Tench, Watkin. A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay. http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/ozlit/pdf/ p00039.pdf

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