Nearer the Gods

David Williamson's

6 October – 3 November

Synopsis David Williamson meets Isaac Newton on the verge of his greatest scientific discovery

It’s 1684, the dawn of the Enlightenment. Bright young astronomer Edmund Halley must somehow wrangle the secrets of the universe from the brain of fickle and contrary Isaac Newton. At the same time he must wrestle with his faith and risk his home, family and reputation to find the money and means to share this beautiful, powerful theory with the world at large.

For all the celestial bodies and scientific laws named after them, it’s easy to think of our 17th Century giants of science as infallible geniuses. But here are our most brilliant minds laid bare: riddled with self-doubt, squabbling over fame, and ensconced in bitter intellectual rivalries.

Rhys Muldoon, William McInnes

Legends Brought to Life

Egos

Science

True Story

Alchemy

World Premiere

Nearer the Gods

By David Williamson Directed by Sam Strong

VENUE

CAST Matthew Backer ..................................................... Edmund Halley William McInnes ...................................................... King Charles II Rhys Muldoon ........................................................... Isaac Newton Daniel Murphy ................................. Isaac Barrow/Samuel Pepys Hugh Parker ............................. Sir Christopher Wren/Town Bailiff Colin Smith ................................................................ Robert Hooke Lucas Stibbard ........................ John Wickens/Martin Cox/Simon Hsiao-Ling Tang ........................................... Joane/Royal Equerry Kimie Tsukakoshi ......................................................... Mary Halley CREATIVES Sam Strong .......................................................................... Director Renée Mulder ................................................................... Designer David Walters .................................................... Lighting Designer Steve Francis ...................................... Composer/Sound Designer Nerida Matthaei ............................................. Movement Director Julian Meyrick ............................................................. Dramaturgy Kaylee Gannaway ................................................ Design Assistant Pete Sutherland .................................................... Stage Manager Yanni Dubler ........................................ Assistant Stage Manager CONTRIBUTING ARTIST Shari Indriani .......................................... Directorial Observation Nasim Khosravi ...................................... Directorial Observation Heidi Manche ......................................... Directorial Observation William McInnes ................................................ Responding Artist

6 October – 3 November Bille Brown Theatre, Queensland Theatre ATTENDANCE INFORMATION Nearer the Gods will run for approximately 2 hours 10 minutes including a 20 minute interval.

WARNINGS This production contains smoke and haze. The use of photographic or recording equipment is not permitted inside the theatre.

Cover Photo: Tim Jones ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY Queensland Theatre would like to acknowledge the Jagera and Turrbal people who are the Traditional Custodians of this land. We would like to pay our respects to their Elders both past and present, and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

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Hugh Parker, Matthew Backer

Colin Smith, Hsiao-Ling Tang, Pete Sutherland, Lucas Stibbard, Daniel Murphy, William McInnes, Sam Strong, Matthew Backer

Rhys Muldoon

Welcome Welcome to our new Bille Brown Theatre.

What a pleasure to be able to offer you such an intimate, comfortable and stylish venue, purpose built to be the ideal environment to enjoy contemporary theatre.

Amanda Jolly Executive Director

A theatre of our own has long been a dream for Queensland Theatre and it marks a ‘coming-ofage’ in our Company’s journey. Many years in the planning, this project has been a massive community effort and I thank each and every person who has contributed – from our major donors and Board members through to the many people who have dedicated seats in the theatre or generously included donations with their season ticket bookings. We wouldn’t be here without you. I especially recognise Tim and Gina Fairfax, whose support for our Company is as longstanding as it is generous. The Queensland Government has also been a key partner on this initiative through a grant from the Arts Infrastructure Fund.

Finding a play that would be a fitting opener for this new venue, and all it means for theatre in Queensland, was a challenge, which is why we were thrilled when David Williamson brought us his new work Nearer the Gods. It’s a play of big ideas - a ‘before and after’ moment in the history of human knowledge – a parallel to this momentous step forward for Queensland Theatre. We have a long history with David’s plays and it has been a joy to have him in the building, working closely with Sam and our talented cast to hone this fascinating story.

The extraordinarily talented and dedicated architects at Conrad Gargett have brought this project to fruition, working alongside Hutchison Builders and our own technical staff. The combined skills of this team have transformed our old Studio into a theatre of which we can all be proud. I only wish that Bille Brown were still with us to enjoy his make-over – but his name lives on as an inspiration to future generations of artists.

I look forward to welcoming you to many more memorable performances in the Bille Brown Theatre - maybe, in the year 2061, we’ll look up from this very courtyard as Halley’s Comet blazes across the sky, and remember that we were here for the opening of this wonderful theatre.

Legends Brought to Life

Egos

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True Story

Alchemy

World Premiere

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

As a sponsor, we are excited to be involved with Nearer the Gods and the beloved playwright David Williamson who brings us a gripping and blackly funny drama about ideas that would change the world.

The play highlights Queensland Theatre's commitment to providing humorous, entertaining works of art.

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Playwright’s Note There are some human achievements that are

breathtaking in their impact. When I was at Monash

University becoming, without huge enthusiasm, its first

mechanical engineering graduate, the only thing that left a lasting impression was the brilliance of Isaac Newton, whose laws underpinned everything we were taught.

David Williamson Playwright

In one huge leap he took us from almost total ignorance, to a complete understanding of the laws that govern the motion of the Universe. It left me with a feeling of awe at the mind that made such a breakthrough.

But a play? I hadn’t thought of it until I started reading about how it all happened. I found, to my amazement, that but for Edmund Halley, of Halley’s Comet fame, the greatest leap forward in human knowledge we’ve ever been gifted would never have happened. And he couldn’t have done it without the assistance of his wife Mary’s keen mind.

Newton might have been brilliant but he was also quite mad. And the mutual hatred between he and Robert Hooke, a scientist who couldn’t bear the thought someone was brighter than he was, almost derailed the whole thing.

This story wasn’t just about a great scientific breakthrough, it was about an inescapable human dilemma. While the advanced parts of our brain are capable of rational thought at the highest level, our deep and powerful reptilian brainstem urges us to attain power and status at all costs. To belittle, crush and vanquish our rivals.

Watching the antics of our political elites over the last ten years we can see clearly how often and easily those ancient impulses override our tendencies towards rationality and decency. Those who have worked in the corporate world are sure to have seen similar scenarios.

The politics of science are no less ferocious than any field in which egotistical and clever minds are fighting for fame and a foothold in posterity.

Nearer the Gods is about brilliance and bastardry. The toxic disconnect between our highest and basest potentials. The better angels of our nature always in danger of being ripped down by the crocodile lurking in our brainstem.

Matthew Backer, Lucas Stibbard, Rhys Muldoon

Kimie Tsukakoshi, Matthew Backer

Sam Strong

Daniel Murphy

Colin Smith, Nerida Matthaei

Director's Note The first play I ever directed was by David Williamson.

I was in year 11, and in teenage rebellion against school musicals, I produced, directed and acted (badly) in his AFL play, The Club.

Sam Strong Director

Flash forward 25 years and I couldn’t be prouder to be opening Brisbane (and Australia’s) newest theare with the latest play by David Williamson. Nearer the Gods embodies so much of what has made David the Country’s most performed and beloved playwright for the last four decades. It has his uncanny ability to put his finger on the zeitgeist - the stories that need to be told right now. In this case, it’s a tale of how no ideas are above corruption by human foibles, whether in 1684 or 2018. Nearer the Gods also features his ability to create great human drama from real life or quasimythic sources (from Phar Lap, to Gallipoli, to the relationship between Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley). Finally, we have David’s peerless turn of phrase - his ability to land a joke and make us chuckle as well as wince with the quality of his observation of human behaviour.

In choosing Nearer the Gods to open the new theatre, we were mindful of the style as well as the content of the production. Put simply, this is the perfect play to show off the new space. Nearer the Gods is written with a cinematic abandon, moving in a matter of moments across England and across decades.

Legends Brought to Life

Egos

Science

The size and shape of the auditorium enables us to find a specifically theatrical vocabulary for telling this story, and especially one that keeps pace with a contemporary attention span (as well as creating a few moments of magic).

Moreover, Brisbane’s uniquely responsive audiences can now be a more active participant than ever before: breathing the same air as our magnificent cast, looking into the whites of their eyes from every seat, and in the front row having the soles of their feet on the same floor.

Thank you to everyone who has transformed this building from an idea into an experience, especially the Queensland Theatre staff who have lead the process of making it a concrete reality: Executive Director Amanda Jolly, Venue and Operations Supervisor Julian Messer and Technical Coordinator Daniel Maddison.

There is a moment in the creation of any show where it becomes the property of those performing it and then of those watching it. So too, with Nearer the Gods, the Bille Brown Theatre will pass into the ownership of you, our audience. Enjoy the show. And enjoy your theatre.

Sam

True Story

Alchemy

World Premiere

Responding Artist's Note There is something about theatrical rehearsal rooms, which are blandly utilitarian and almost airless, that creates the feel of a void. I think that’s because the rooms are a universe unto themselves, waiting to be filled with what the Director and the Cast evolve from the writer’s script.

William McInnes Artist

Rehearsal Room 1 at Queensland Theatre has that feel about it and yet there is something peculiar about that void I enjoy immensely.

Perhaps it’s because this is the first time I have worked at Queensland Theatre, perhaps it’s the atmosphere created by Sam Strong, the crew and fellow cast members, one of congenial fun and purpose with a grand bunch of people.

Perhaps it is because the play is a new work

by David Williamson whose work I and many people have so admired over the years. Or perhaps it is because of the nature of the play itself, Nearer the Gods. It deals with the idea of knowledge, its ownership in terms of national prestige, personal acclaim, and examining the sort of mind that can understand the basic matter of the universe. What sort of power and ramifications a simple, exact calculation of a scientific truth can wreak upon a human being.

It is a play about existence and belief and in that Rehearsal Room 1 the whole thing can make you have a bit of a think about things with a delightful Brisbane bent.

I think it’s because the room has three large windows which look out across a Jeffery Smart landscape of an elevated railway structure looming large in the foreground and a phalanx of high-rise buildings behind. One has the word Evolution running down its face.

It’s quite lovely really and when the trains go on their way to Browns Plains you can see the faces of the commuters as they pass. No point in waving because the windows are double glazed but I wondered what those folk were thinking on the Browns Plains trains.

And there are some props that are used in the rehearsal room that are little stories in themselves. Pewter mugs from a tavern scene.

There are two with inscriptions upon them, ‘To Ken Happy 21st from Noel, 5-8-60’ and the other ‘To Bill Appleton, Chief Beer Sampler XXXX from the Tech Boys 16-9-1983.’

I wonder how long Ken had his pewter mug and if he enjoyed a few drinks in it on the night of his 21st? Maybe it’s just one of those bits of flotsam and jetsam that gets mislaid, misplaced and ends up in a props department. I worked out that if Ken was still around he’d be 79 now. As for Bill Appleton Chief Beer Sampler, how did he get on? And the Tech Boys too.

I stood by the window and looked down at a billboard which could only be in Brisbane, Wally Lewis in a Maroon jersey with a plastic crown on his head with the words, ‘Feel like a King!

Manshake.’

As I play King Charles the Second somebody asked if I was looking to the King for some inspiration. Another train went past. We are all just passing through and I thought of why I liked being in this rehearsal room.

William McInnes, Matthew Backer

Nasim Khosravi

Hsiao-Ling Tang, Rhys Muldoon

Shari Indriani

Bille Brown Nearer the Gods opens the refurbished theatre that bears the name of a wonderful Queensland actor. One of Biloela’s finest products and a man who was always a delight to meet.

We worked together when I was pretending to be John Curtain and he was pretending to be Robert Menzies in a TV film and later again in a flick called Unfinished Sky. I remember telling him how I saw him as Henry V at the then ROYAL Queensland Theatre Company, in the amphitheatre above the Roma Street rail yards.

And he rolled his eyes and laughed his throaty laugh.

He was always on at me to come to Brisbane so we could do a play together “It would be such fun Bill, such fun, hamming around.”

We never got around to doing that play but standing in the rehearsal room for a production that christens his theatre on October 6th with a fine bunch of people makes me happy. Hope to see you there.

David Williamson

Sam Strong

PLAYWRIGHT

DIRECTOR

David Williamson is one of Australia’s best known and most widely performed playwrights and one of Australia’s leading screenwriters.

Queensland Theatre: Jasper Jones (with Melbourne Theatre Company), Twelfth Night, Noises Off (with Melbourne Theatre Company), Once In Royal David’s City (with Black Swan State Theatre Company).

Other Credits: Melbourne Theatre Company: Jasper Jones (2016), Double Indemnity, The Weir, Endgame, The Sublime, The Speechmaker, Private Lives, The Crucible, Other Desert Cities, Madagascar; Sydney Theatre Company: Les Liaisons Dangereuses; Sydney Festival/Griffin Theatre Company/STCSA/Melbourne Festival: Masquerade; Sydney Festival/Griffin Theatre Company: The Boys; Griffin Theatre Company: The Floating World, Between Two Waves, And No More Shall We Part, Speaking in Tongues; Company B Belvoir: The Power of Yes; Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre: Red Sky Morning, Faces in the Crowd; B Sharp: Thom Pain (based on nothing). Positions: Artistic Director, Queensland Theatre; Chair, Circa; Associate Artistic Director, Melbourne Theatre Company; Artistic Director, Griffin Theatre Company; Literary Associate, Belvoir; Dramaturg in Residence, Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre. Awards: Sydney Theatre Awards - Best Direction of a Mainstage Production The Floating World; Sydney Theatre Awards Nominations - Best Director The Boys, The Power of Yes; Greenroom Awards Nominations – Best Direction Jasper Jones, The Sublime, Red Sky Morning; Helpmann Award Nominations – Best Direction The Floating World, The Boys – Best Play Jasper Jones, Once in Royal David’s City, The Boys.

Some of his more than 50 produced plays include The Removalists, Don’s Party, The Department, The Club, Travelling North, The Perfectionist, Sons of Cain, Emerald City, Top Silk, Money & Friends, Sanctuary, Dead White Males, After the Ball, Face to Face, Up For Grabs, A Conversation, Charitable Intent, Soulmates, Birthrights, Amigos, Influence, Lotte’s Gift, Scarlet O’Hara at the Crimson Parrot, Let the Sunshine, Rhinestone Rex and Miss Monica, Don Parties On, At Any Cost? (co-written

by Mohamed Khadra), When Dad Married Fury, Managing Carmen, Rupert, Cruise Control, Jack of Hearts, Odd Man Out, Credentials and most recently Sorting Out Rachel.

His plays have been produced by all the major Australian theatre companies, translated into many languages and performed internationally. David has directed eight professional productions of his own work.

David’s many awards include 12 Australian Writers’ Guild Awards, five Australian Film Institutes’ Awards for Best Screenplay and, in 1996, the United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Award.

Yanni Dubler, Pete Sutherland

Steve Francis

Renée Mulder

Steve Francis

DESIGNER

COMPOSER/ SOUND DESIGNER

Queensland Theatre: Black is the New White (with Sydney Theatre Company), An Octoroon, Rice (with Griffin Theatre Company), The Effect (with Sydney Theatre Company), Sacre Bleu, Fat Pig. Other Credits: As Designer: Sydney Theatre Company: Black is the New White (2017), Orlando, Battle of Waterloo, Perplex, The Long Way Home, Dance Better At Parties, Mrs Warren’s Profession, The Splinter, Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness, In A Heart Beat, Actor on a Box - The Luck Child; Griffin Theatre Company: The Bleeding Tree, A Hoax, The Boys; Griffin Independent: The Pigeons; Bell Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet (Education); La Boite Theatre Company: As You Like It, Ruben Guthrie, I Love You Bro. As Costume Designer: Sydney Theatre Company: The Harp in the South Parts 1 & 2, Saint Joan, Top Girls, Chimerica, Endgame, Children of the Sun, Vere (Faith), Mariage Blanc. As Associate Designer: Sydney Theatre Company: Cyrano De Bergerac; As Design Assistant: Sydney Theatre Company: The Mysteries; Token Events: Good Evening. As Part of Costume Art Department: Bell Shakespeare: Pericles. Film: As Designer: A Parachute Falling in Siberia (short). As part of Art Department: The Distance Between (short). As part of Art Department Armour: Narnia – Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Positions: National Artistic Team, Queensland Theatre (2015-2017); Resident Designer, Sydney Theatre Company (2012-2014). Training: NIDA, Queensland College of Art.

Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other Credits: Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir, Bell Shakespeare, Griffin Theatre, Sport for Jove, Melbourne Theatre Company, State Theatre Company of South Australia, ATYP and Legs on the Wall. Notable productions include The Sugar House, The Children, Switzerland, Speaking in Tongues, The Sublime, Capricornia, The Battle of Waterloo, Gulpilil, The Father, Angels in America, The Hanging, Disgraced, The Secret River, Gallipoli, Henry V and Bloodland. Dance: Bangarra Dance Theatre: Dark Emu, Bennelong, Lore, Nyapanypa, Belong, True Stories, Walkabout, Bush. Film: The Turning, Djarn Djarns TV: Tales by Light, Dangerous, Cops LAC. Events: Opening Ceremonies for 2018 Commonwealth Games, Sydney Olympics and Rugby World Cup. Awards: Helpmann Awards – Best Original Score Belong; Helpmann Award – Best New Australian Work Skin; Helpmann Awards nominations – Best Sound Design & Best New Australian Work Corroboree; Sydney Theatre Awards – Best Music and Sound Design Henry V; Sydney Theatre Awards nomination – Best Sound Design & Best New Australian Bloodland.

David Walters LIGHTING DESIGNER

Queensland Theatre: The Wider Earth, Motherland, Quartet, Ladies in Black, Brisbane, Boston Marriage, Gloria, Macbeth, Australia Day, Venus in Fur, End of the Rainbow, Romeo & Juliet, Pygmalion, Grimm Tales, The August Moon, Rabbit Hole, The Glass Menagerie, The Memory of Water, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Molly Sweeney, Chilling and Killing My Annabel Lee, The Skin of Our Teeth, Vertigo and the Virginia, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Amy’s View, Master Class, After the Ball, Summer Rain, Arcadia, The Hope of the World, Money and Friends, Gilgamesh, The Shaugraun, Broken Glass, Shadow and Splendour, The Marriage of Figaro, The Game of Love and Chance, On The Whipping Side, The Crucible, Essington Lewis: I Am Work, Mrs Klein, The Cherry Orchard, Seven Little Australians, Season’s Greetings, The Merry Wives of Windsor, A Month In The Country, Top Silk, Moby Dick, The Taming Of The Shrew, Ghosts, Major Barbara, The Barrets of Wimpole Street, Snoopy, Chorus of Disapproval, Briefs, God’s Best Country, Hard Times, The Bloke, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Night And Day, The Recruiting Officer, A Month Of Sundays, A Spring Song, The Man from Mukinupin, A Different Drummer, 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 Dance Company, Queensland Ballet, Australian Ballet, Opera Queensland, Opera Australia, Topology, Camerata 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, 2012 and 2018. ABF Lifetime Achievement Award.

Nerida Matthaei MOVEMENT DIRECTOR

Queensland Theatre: My Name is Jimi, Once in Royal David’s City (with Black Swan State Theatre Company), Constellations, Black Diggers, Macbeth. Other Credits: Phluxus2 Dance Collective: Don’ts for Dancers, the machine that carries the soul, The Opposite of Prompt, chinese whispers/broken telephone, Boiling Point, de-generator, The Paratrooper Project, angel-monster, THE indepenDANCE PROJECT; The Crack Up Sisters: The Big Red Bash; Red Leap Theatre: The Arrival; The Good Room: I Have Been Meaning to Ask You; I Just Came To Say Goodbye; Polytoxic Dance Theatre: The Rat Trap, The Backup Service; Expressions Dance Company: ChoreoFUNK, Polarity II; The Danger Ensemble: The Wizard of Oz, Caligula; Timothy Brown: Salon; Jack Morton Worldwide: GC2018 Commonwealth Games Opening & Closing Ceremonies; 2016 World Dance Alliance: ChoreoLab; Undisciplining Dance Symposium New Zealand. Positions: Artistic Director and founder - Phluxus2 Dance Collective. Awards: 2018 Australian Dance Award (4 Nominations Long List); Lin Chin Award - Best Emerging Researcher at the World Dance Alliance Korea Festival and Conference. Training: Doctorate of Creative Industries (Choreographic Recontextualisation).

Kaylee Gannaway DESIGN ASSISTANT

Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other Credits: Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble: Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Winters Tale; Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre Company: Alchemy, Dusk, In The Company of Shadows; Wax Lyrical Productions: Carrie: The Musical; Vulcana Women’s Circus: As If No-one Is Watching; Brisbane Immersive Ensemble: Cluedo!The Interactive Game. Awards: Matilda Awards nomination – Best Costume The Winter’s Tale.

Kaylee Gannaway

Lucas Stibbard, Matthew Backer

Pete Sutherland

Yanni Dubler

STAGE MANAGER

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER

Queensland Theatre: An Octoroon, Quartet, Oedipus Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Black Diggers, Venus in Fur, Kelly, Elizabeth – Almost by Chance a Woman, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (with Belvoir), No Man’s Land, Grimm Tales, Betrayal, The Crucible, The School of Arts (with QPAC), The Female of the Species, Rabbit Hole, The August Moon, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (with Playbox), Molly Sweeney, Buried Child, Dirt, Fred, Fountains Beyond, The Skin of Our Teeth, Faustus, The Alchemist, The Tragedy of Richard III, Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome: A Shakespeare Commentary. Other Credits: La Boite Theatre Company: Lysa and the Freeborn Dames, Blackrock, The Village, Single Asian Female; Bell Shakespeare: The Tempest, Henry V, King Lear, The Government Inspector, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure, The Wars of the Roses, Hamlet; Bangarra: Page 8 (with Belvoir); Black Swan State Theatre Company: A Streetcar Named Desire, The Seagull, As You Like It, The Sapphires; Sydney Theatre Company: Blacked Up, Stones In His Pockets, Barrymore; Griffin Theatre Company: Wicked Sisters; Marion St Theatre: Brief Lives, Tom and Clem; Melbourne Theatre Company: Dumb Show, The Herbal Bed, A Little Night Music; Legs on the Wall: Eora Crossing, Flying Blind; Sydney Conservatorium of Music: The Beggar’s Opera; Darwin Theatre Company: The Winter’s Tale, Cosi, Diving For Pearls, Emma; Queensland Conservatorium of Music: Orpheus in the Underworld. Training: Bachelor of Dramatic Arts (Technical Production), NIDA.

Queensland Theatre: As Assistant Stage Manager: Jasper Jones (with Melbourne Theatre Company), St Mary’s in Exile, Brisbane. As Stage Manager: My Name is Jimi (Creative Development), The Button Event. As Rehearsal Assistant Stage Manager: Black Diggers (2015 National Tour), Boston Marriage, Gloria. As Production Manager: Undercover Artist Festival (for Access Arts). As Technician: The Penultimate (Traction 2017). Other Credits: As Stage Manager: La Boite Theatre Company: The Mathematics of Longing; Jack Morton Worldwide: GC2018 Commonwealth Games Opening & Closing Ceremonies; Queensland Ballet, QPAC, Brisbane Powerhouse, Woodford Folk Festival, Collusion Music. As Company Stage Manager: shake & stir theatre co: Dracula (2017 National Tour), George’s Marvellous Medicine (2016-17 Auckland & Sydney Tour), Tequila Mockingbird (2016 QLD Tour), Wuthering Heights (2016 National Tour), Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts (2015 National Tour). As Production Stage Manager: shake & stir theatre co: George’s Marvellous Medicine, Dracula. As Assistant Stage Manager: Queensland Ballet: Coppelia. As Production Assistant: Queensland Theatre (2014), Expressions Dance Company (2014).

Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Technical Production), QUT.

Matthew Backer

Rhys Muldoon

EDMUND HALLEY

ISAAC NEWTON

Queensland Theatre: Switzerland, Brisbane. Other Credits: Sydney Theatre Company: Machinal, Orlando, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Chimerica, Cloud Nine; Bell Shakespeare: Henry V, The Tempest; Belvoir: Kill The Messenger; Griffin Theatre Company: Ladies Day, Uncanny Valley; Hayes Theatre Company: Only Heaven Knows; Peach Theatre Company: The History Boys; Dodger Theatricals/ Dainty Group: Jersey Boys; HotHouse Theatre: Frenzy For Two; Theatre Works St Kilda: Private View; Parade Theatre: Mr Chicken Goes to Paris. Film: Marley, Someone, Only For a Time. Short Film: The House, Latte e Miele, Whispers Among Wolves, Chicom, Oiling Point. Television: Play School, Dead Lucky, History Hunters, Deadly Women, Fresh Blood (I’m With Stupid). Awards: Sydney Theatre Award – Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical Only Heaven Knows; Matilda Award – Best Male Actor in a Play Switzerland; Broadway World Award – Best Supporting Actor in a Play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Training: Bachelor of Dramatic Art Acting, NIDA; Improvisational Comedy at Upright Citizen’s Brigade (New York), People’s Improv Theatre (New York) and The Second City (Los Angeles).

Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other Credits: Sydney Opera House: Peter and the Wolf; Company B: The Power of Yes, Gethsemane; Sydney Theatre Company: Tot Mom, Don’s Party; Belvoir Theatre: Stuff Happens; Melbourne Theatre Company: Design for Living, A Moon for the Misbegotten; Ford O'Connell Productions: Decadence; Elston Hocking and Woods: Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Griffin Entertainment: Amadeus; Universal Theatre: Torch Song Trilogy, Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down. Film: Book Week, Chasing Comets, Love is Now, The Sapphires, Utopia, 33 Postcards, The Last Time I Saw Michael Gregg, Bitter and Twisted, The Saviour (Oscar nominated) The Crop, The Extra, Danny Deckchair, The Ladykiller. Television: Fighting Season, Dead Lucky, House Husbands, Childhood’s End, The Secret River, Rake, Valentines Day, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Jack Irish, Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler, Lockie Leonard, City Homicide, Playschool, Chifley’s Fifty Days, Bastard Boys, Blackjack, Headland, Mcleod’s Daughters, Second Chance, Secret Life Of Us, Young Lions, Lost World, Blue Heelers, Grass Roots, Backberner, Water Rats, Farscape, Stingers, Mumbo Jumbo, Big Sky, The Genie from Down Under, The Man from Snowy River, Us and Them, Funky Squad, Time Trax, GP, Chances, The Great Air Race, Acropolis Now, Lift Off. Awards: AACTA nomination – Best Actor in a Leading Role Lockie Leonard; AFI Award nomination – Best Actor in a Leading Role, TV Drama series Grass Roots; Green Room Award nomination – Best Actor Decadence; Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award – Best Actor Decadence; Green Room Award nomination – 3 Guys Naked From the Waist Down; ARIA Music Awards nomination – Perfect Is The Enemy Of Good; ARIA Music Awards nomination - I'm Not Singing. Training: VCA.

William McInnes KING CHARLES II

Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other Credits: Melbourne Theatre Company: An Ideal Husband, The Last Man Standing, The Waiting Room, The Effect, Ray’s Tempest, Blithe Spirit, Art, Private Lives, Macbeth, Hayfever, The Crucible; Perth Theatre Company: Equus; Opera Australia: My Fair Lady; Sydney Theatre Company: Don Juan, Pride and Prejudice; Mietta’s Theatre: See How They Run, Lott; Melbourne International Festival: Bali Adat; Performers Independent: The Club; Theatre South: Kidstakes; Toe Truck Theatre Company: Operation Holy Mountain. Film: The Hopes and Dreams of Gazza Snell, Blessed, Prime Mover, Unfinished Sky, Kokoda The Movie, Irresistible, Look Both Ways, You and Your Stupid Mate, Dirty Deeds, The Harrington Story, Drover’s Boy, Body Melt, The Heartbreak Kid, Broken Highway, Turtle Beach, The Last Crop, Dead to the World, Wendy Cracked a Walnut. Television: Rake, Jet Ski Doctors, Deep Water, Time of Our Lives, Dangerous Remedy, The Informant, East West 101, Curtin, Stepfather of The Bride, Let Loose Live, Blue Heelers, Kath & Kim, Crashburn, The Shark Net, Marshall Law, Crashburn, Halifax f.p., Rubicon, My Brother Jack, SeaChange, The Lost World, Something Stupid, The Micallef Program, Full Frontal, Aeroplane Dance (Documentary), Ocean Girl, Snowy, Embassy, Bligh, Good Vibrations, Flying Doctors, Col’n Carpenter, Shadows of the Heart, A Country Practice, Rafferty’s Rules, RIP Socrates. Animation: Bad Baby Amy, The Way of the Birds, Brother, Cousin, Uncle. Awards: FCCA Award – Best Actor in a Feature Film Unfinished Sky; FCCA Award – Best Actor in a Lead Role Look Both Ways; AFI Award – Best Actor in a Feature Film Unfinished Sky; Silver Logie – Most Outstanding Actor My Brother Jack; Silver Logie – Most Popular Actor; The 2006 Sydney Morning Herald, SunHerald & The Age Australian Star of the Year Award; Training: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

Daniel Murphy ISAAC BARROW / SAMUEL PEPYS

Queensland Theatre: Motherland (with Belloo Creative), Brisbane, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (with Black Swan State Theatre Company), Hamlet, Away, Hitchcock Blonde, Real Inspector Hound/Black Comedy, The Forest, The Taming of the Shrew, Three Sisters, The Works. Other Credits: 4MBS: Shakespeare in the Library, Comedy of Errors, Taming of the Shrew, Amadeus; Now Look Here: A Slight Ache & The Lover; Elbow Room: After All This; La Boite Theatre Company: Red Cap, The Dance of Jeremiah, The Final Bow, There Goes the Neighbourhood, The Tempest; Harvest Rain: Aladdin, Love’s Labour’s Lost; 23rd Productions: Blackbird, My Night With Harold; Oscar: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; The Forward Movement: The Laramie Project; Kooemba Jdarra: Yarnin’ Up; Matrix: The King and the Corpse!; green: Cheapside, Oleanna, Jerusalem, The Misanthrope; QFF: Boadicea; ToadShow/QPAT: Phantoad of the Opera, SherWoodstock; Stagebox: Tomfoolery. Film: Devasdating, Day of the Deadline, Singularity, Cool, The Real Macaw, Paperback Hero. Television: Wanted, Mabo, Reef Doctors, K9, FARMkids, Flipper, Pacific Drive, Fire II, The Tanker Incident (Heart of Fire), Time Trax. Awards: Matilda Awards – Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role The Dance of Jeremiah; Matilda Awards – Best Performance Oleanna, Abigail’s Party, There Goes the Neighbourhood.

Hugh Parker

Lucas Stibbard

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JOHN WICKENS / MARTIN COX / SIMON

Queensland Theatre: The 39 Steps, Scenes From A Marriage, Noises Off (with Melbourne Theatre Company), Tartuffe (with Black Swan Theatre Company), Much Ado About Nothing, The Seagull, Brisbane, The Pitch and the China Incident, Kelly, Fractions (with Hothouse Theatre), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Clean House (with Black Swan State Theatre Company), Betrayal, 25 Down. Other Credits: La Boite Theatre Company: Lysa and the Freeborn Dames, Straight White Men (with South Australia State Theatre Company), A Doll’s House, Pale Blue Dot, Julius Caesar; HOTA: Hotel Beche de Mer; Shake and Stir Theatre Co: 1984; Ride On Theatre: The Blind Date Project; The Byre Theatre St Andrews (UK): The 39 Steps; The Royal Shakespeare Company: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Opera Queensland: The Merry Widow. Film: In a Cane Field, Space/Time, Bullets for the Dead, My Mistress, Fatal Honeymoon, Crooked Business, Sinbad and the Minotaur, The Hobby Shop. Television: Rosehaven, The Family Law, The Paul Hogan Story, Gallipoli, Secrets and Lies, The Killing Field, The Strip, Sea Patrol. UK Television: Vincent, Casualty, Doctors, Monarch of the Glen II, EastEnders, Smoke, Jonathan Creek, Broken News, 2 Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, The World According to Bex, Wild West, 15 Storeys High, Doctors and Nurses, The Office, People Like Us, Beast, The Peter Principle, I’m Alan Partridge, Black Books, Lucky Jim. Writing: BBC: Bruiser, The Fast Show. Awards: Matilda nominations – Best Male Actor in a Leading Role A Doll’s House, Betrayal; Equity Award – Ensemble Cast The Family Law. Training: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. Proud Equity member since 1995.

Queensland Theatre: Constellations, The Seagull, Macbeth, Fractions (with HotHouse), An Oak Tree, Grimm Tales, Richard II, The Real Inspector Hound, Black Comedy, The Cherry Orchard, Eating Ice-cream With Your Eyes Closed (with HotHouse), Hamlet (with STCSA), Richard III, The Alchemist (with Bell Shakespeare). As Director: The Fledglings, Lost Property Rules. Other Credits: As Performer: Punchdrunk: The Lost Lending Library; Melbourne Theatre Company: North by Northwest; The Escapists: boy girl wall, Attack of the Attacking Attackers! (with La Boite); Windmill Theatre: Grug; Now Look Here: The Sound of a Finished Kiss; Queensland Music Festival: Drag Queensland; La Boite Theatre Company: Straight White Men, The Danger Age, Zig Zag Street; Elbow Room: New Royal. As Writer: boy girl wall, Packed (with Matt Ryan). As Director: Backbone: Ride, Their Name Liveth; QUT: Constellations, Love & Information; USQ: Eternity; Empire Theatre: Chalk, Breaker Morant; Brisbane Powerhouse: The Laramie Project; Metro Arts: Fewer Emergencies; The Escapists: boy girl wall, Packed; Breadbeard Collective/La Boite: >< R&J. As Dramaturg: Queensland Theatre: The Prometheus Project; La Boite Theatre Company: Richard III, A Tribute of Sorts; Imaginary: The Voice In The Walls. Film: The Great Raid, Kokoda, The Wilde Girls. Television: Hoges, Wanted, Prank Patrol.

Positions: National Artistic Team, Queensland Theatre; Emerging Artist, Queensland Theatre; Artistic Director, Festival of Australian Student Theatre; Australia Council Peer; 1/6 of The Escapists. Awards: NIDA Fellowship; Brian Boak Bursary; Jean Trundle Bursary; Matilda Award - Best Actor Supporting Role New Royal; Matilda Commendation - Best Independent Production boy girl wall; Matilda Award - Devising boy girl wall; The Victor Award IPAY Grug; Green Room Award – Best Ensemble North By Northwest; Helpmann Award Nomination - Best Actor boy girl wall.

Colin Smith ROBERT HOOKE

Queensland Theatre: Twelfth Night, An Octoroon, The Odd Couple, Black Diggers. Other Credits: Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Hamlet, The Tempest, Mary Stuart, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Bomb-itty of Errors, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Shakespeare’s Shorts: Express Macbeth, Instant Romeo and Juliet, The Half-Hour Hamlet, Midsummer’s Mechanicals, The Merchant of Venice, Richard III, As You Like It, Food of Love: A Shakespeare Cabaret, Twelfth Night, Metamorphoses, Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare’s Briefs or Let’s Kill All the Lawyers; Queensland Ballet: Vis-à-vis: Moving Stories; La Boîte Theatre Company: A Streetcar Named Desire; Brisbane Writers Festival: Carpentaria: A Performance; Room to Play: One Was Nude and One Wore Tails; Brisbane Arts Theatre: Monstrous Regiment, Night Watch, The Fifth Elephant, Men At Arms; Redcliffe Independent Theatre: Noises Off. Short Film: Meekin Park, The Last Aussie Hero 3: The Search for Kip, Episode 1.5: Lord of the Philosopher’s Stone. Television: Secrets & Lies, Sea Patrol, Mortified. Awards: Matilda Award – Best Male Actor in a Leading Role An Octoroon.

Hsiao-Ling Tang JOANE / ROYAL EQUERRY

Queensland Theatre: Rice (with Griffin Theatre Company). Other Credits: LaBoite Theatre Company: Lysa and the Freeborn Dames, Single Asian Female (with Belvoir St Theatre), First Asylum; Queensland Musical Theatre: Cabaret; St Ignatians: Rent; QLD Arts Council: Professor Burton’s Travelling Federation Show (including tour); Belvoir St Theatre: After China; Seymour Centre: Shattered Jade; Queensland University of Technology: West Side Story; Development: PlayLab: Squint Witch. Film: Postcard Bandit, Tempted. Television: Bluey, All Saints, H20 Just Add Water, and Sea Patrol.

Training: BA Drama, Queensland University of Technology.

Kimie Tsukakoshi MARY HALLEY

Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other Credits: LaBoite Theatre Company: The Dead Devils of Cockle Creek, The New Dead: Medea Material; Belloo Creative: Hanako: Desire and Other Secret Weapons; Oscar Theatre Company: Boy&Girl Cabaret: Mercury Rising, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Queensland Cabaret Festival: Real Women: A New Musical; Brisbane Arts Theatre: Avenue Q; Underground Productions: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Savoyards Musical Society: It Started Out Like A Song Concert, Miss Saigon; Harvest Rain Theatre Company: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, High School Musical, Cats; Ignations Musical Society: Miss Saigon. Film: Marley, Someone, Rip Tide, Zelos. Television: The Family Law, The Bureau of Magical Things, Doctor Doctor, Secret City, H2O: Just Add Water. Webseries: The Virgin Intervention.

Podcasts: Precipice. Awards: Matilda nomination – Best Female Actor Hanako: Desire and Other Secret Weapons; Equity Award – Ensemble Cast The Family Law. Kimie Tsukakoshi

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