Welcome to Canberra Rep’s exciting 80th Birthday season! As you know 2012 opens with a revival of John Spicer’s wonderful adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s most famous and well beloved novel. Our old friend and former resident director, Ross McGregor returns to direct Speaking in Tongues by Andrew Bovell. This AWGIE award winning play was adapted by Bovell for the screen and produced as the acclaimed Australian film Lantana, which won seven AFI Awards. Outback Australia meets Italy, in our third production, The Venetian Twins by Nick Enright and Terrence Clarke. Identical twins, Zanetto and Tonino have been separated since birth and are unlike each other in every way, except appearance. When the twins descend on the same town—somewhere between Verona and Jindyworoback—their collision is a mix of farce, larrikin Aussie humour and some of the silliest songs you have ever heard. It’s time to hiss the villain, cheer the heroes, and clap along with the music in this Australian Classic—a retelling of the original play by Carlo Goldoni. Tessa Bremner brings her considerable commedia, choreographic and directing talents to this show. The Memory of Water by Shelagh Stephenson, won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2000. This family comedy/drama tests the authenticity of memory, and as Canberra’s own theatre company, we welcome the return of ’one of our own’ to direct. As a schoolboy and university student, Ed Wightman appeared in several productions at Theatre 3. He won the ANU University Medal for Drama, the Theatre Players Scholarship and the David Suchet Award at LAMDA, where he trained professionally. He has extensive performing, directing and teaching experience. Neil Simon and Angela Punch-McGregor join forces in Lost in Yonkers, which won the 1991 Drama Desk Award for Best New Play, the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and the 1991 Tony Award for Best Play. It is a coming of age tale that focuses on teenage brothers Arty and Jay left in the care of their Grandma Kurnitz and Aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York. And last but by no means least, another of “our own, our very own, from the Rep Company”. Rep has a tradition of ending each year with a comedy. In 1988 Corille Fraser directed Season’s Greetings, a Christmas play by Alan Ayckbourn. To end 2012 Corille will direct Improbable Fiction, another Ayckbourn set around Christmas. 2012 also celebrates Corille’s 30th year as a mainstage director for Rep. We are delighted to have brought together such a strong team of talented directors for the wonderful plays that make up our 80th Birthday Season. We hope to bring you the very best in theatre. Become a Subscriber! Best seats, lower ticket prices. Support Canberra Rep, Canberra’s own theatre company since 1932. Happy 80th Birthday! |
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