The Disability Information and Resource Centre

The Bakehouse Theatre Company presents
“THE ELEPHANT SONG”
by Nicolas Billon

An intriguing mystery with humour, twists and turns and a haunting conclusion.

An eminent psychiatrist has vanished from his office. The last person to have seen him is Michael, a troubled patient obsessed with all things elephants. Dr Greenberg, the hospital director, is determined to question Michael, ignoring the head nurse’s warnings.

The ensuing interview is anything but straightforward. Michael hints at murder and foul play, leading Dr Greenburg through mind games, verbal tugs-of-war, and a cat and mouse game that will keep you guessing until the very end.

Featuring Roger Newcombe, Tim Lucas and Lyn Pike
Directed by Peter Green, Produced by Pamela Munt

“Canadian playwright Nicolas Billon’s The Elephant Song is a 4 o’clock in the morning play: You wake up at 4 a.m. and everything makes sense.” – Martin F. Kohn, Detroit Free Press

“The Elephant Song is a dark, savagely funny three-hander about a mental patient, a psychiatrist and a nurse. Crisply written, it has echoes of Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story, or perhaps something by Harold Pinter.” – Michael Posner, The Globe & Mail

The Elephant Song first premiered at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 2004

Nicolas Billon’s play “Greenland” won the SummerWorks Outstanding Production Award and the Now Magazine Audience Choice Award in 2009. In the same year Nicolas was voted one of the Top 10 Theatre Artists by Toronto’s Now Magazine

WHERE: Bakehouse Theatre, (The Studio) 255 Angas Street Adelaide

WHEN: Previews (and Free Tix night for Pensioners/Unemployed Nov 10 & 11), Opening Night Nov 12.

Season continues Nov 16,17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25. All shows at 8pm

TICKETS: Adults $20/Conc $15/ Fringe Benefits $15/ Drama and school students $10

BOOKINGS: www.bakehousetheatre.com or phone 82270505

No Strings Attached and the Disability & Arts Transition Team present

Burlesque with Maude Davey

12pm to 3pm

Saturday 13 November 2010

St Peter’s Town Hall
Banquet Room
101 Payneham Rd, St Peters

“What you need to do is unlock ways of being or moving in the space…(and you can) unlock stuff that you would never ever find if you said, be sexy.”

– Excerpt from Link disability magazine, August 2010.

Maude Davey presents her second workshop for Deaf and disabled women. This workshop requires absolutely no prior experience. Those who attended the first workshop are welcome to attend this one.

There are 15 places only. Please contact DATT to discuss your access requirements. An Auslan Interpreter will be arranged given prior notice. Running time is 3 hours with rest times. Cost $10 each. Further information will be given to those who want to attend.

To book a place call DATT (08) 8231 09010 or datt@cansa.net.au.

For more info on Maude visit www.nostringsattached.org.au/maude-davey.html.

Check out the August 2010 issue of Link disability magazine for a fantastic article on Maude’s work in Burlesque!

www.linkonline.com.au/issues/2010/august/index.shtml

Restless Dance Theatre in association with Adelaide Festival Centre’s inSpace program presents Beauty.

Space Theatre
Adelaide Festival Centre

2 – 10 July 2010
Tuesday – Wednesday 11am
Thursday – Saturday 8pm

Beauty takes classical ideas of beauty in visual art and music, flipping, remixing and responding to them to create sumptuous, subversive, delightful and disturbing dance theatre. This brand new dance theatre performance features five female dancers. Together with a baroque inspired soundscape and striking design, Beauty creates stunning yet strange images that are sure to provoke.

Duration: 50mins

Suitable: 8+ years

Prices

Adult $25
Conc $20
Groups (6+) $21
Student $20
GreenRoom $15

Special Offer: 3rd July – All Tickets $15

Groups Offer: People with a disability and groups of students – $10 each – 11am shows only (support workers and teachers free)

Book at BASS 131 246

Come along to see a much loved classic and support Edmund Rice Camps to continue to provide services for young people and their families.

When: Friday June 25th at 6.30pm.

Where: Capri Theatre, 141 Goodwood Rd, Goodwood.

Cost: $13ea for ERC members, $15 for non-members, or $11 for children under 14.

There will be lucky tickets numbers and a raffle  on the door which will be drawn at the completion of the movie.

To purchase tickets contact Eddie Rice Camps on (08) 8234 2937 or eddie@eddiericecamps.org.au.

No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability and the Disability & Arts Transition Team are presenting a Burlesque Workshop.

Saturday 26 June 2010, 10am-1pm
The Restless Studio, 234a Sturt St, Adelaide

In June, Maude Davey (former Artistic Director of Vitalstatistix) will join No Strings Attached performer Rachel High and independent performer Emma J Hawkins to devise a “Burlesque for Two” for this year’s Feast Festival (13-28 November 2010). If you saw Circus Oz at the Fringe, you saw Emma J Hawkins enter as a stilt-walking ballerina.

IF you are interested, please sign up for this open Burlesque Workshop in June, for disabled and Deaf women with Maude Davey. 15 places only. Please contact DATT to discuss your access requirements. An Auslan Interpreter will be arranged given prior notice. Running time 3 hours. Cost $10 each.

For more info call (08) 8231 0900 or datt@cansa.net.au.

Co-hosted by No Strings Attached & Disability & Arts Transition Team (DATT).

About Maude Davey

Maude Davey worked in theatre, film and television as an actor, director and writer since 1985 and performs regularly with Finucane & Smith in The Burlesque Hour.

She is a founding member of the a capella/theatre group, Crying In Public Places with which she toured nationally and internationally. Film work includes Mathew Saville’s two films, Roy Hollsdottir Live and Noise and the 2009 feature, My Year Without Sex, by Sarah Watts. Recent TV credits include Chris Lilley’s Summer Heights High.

In 2002, she took up an appointment as Artistic Director of Vitalstatistix Theatre Company in Adelaide, where she directed such works as Tough Girls by Melissa Reeves, Checklist for an Armed Robber by Vanessa Bates, Wakaid Girl Lyndhurst Kid by Diat Alferink and Second to None, a large scale, site specific community celebration of the Indigenous and Maritime history of Port Adelaide.

From 2008-2009 she was Artistic Director of Melbourne Workers Theatre. In 2010, she will direct a new work with No Strings Attached.

The No Strings Attached community theatre company is presenting a special benefit performance of My Name is Rachel Corrie at the Adelaide Fringe this year.

Two of the artists in Tom the Loneliest have been nominated for 2009 Melbourne Green Room Awards (Theatre-Independent category):

• Duncan Luke for Male Performer
• Kerry Ireland for Lighting Design

Duncan has been a member of No Strings Attached since 1994. Kerry is the current creative producer of the Feast Festival.

In order to celebrate this recognition No Strings Attached invites people to attend My Name is Rachel Corrie at the Adelaide Fringe this year.

When and Where

5pm Sunday 28 February 2010

Adelaide Centre for the Arts

39 Light Square, Adelaide

The show runs 90 minutes. Tickets are $20, and $10 of every ticket sold goes directly to support No Strings Attached programs.

To attend the benefit performance please complete this Ticket Order Form and email it to nostrings@ozemail.com.au by Thursday, 25th February.

The Adelaide Festival presents Australia’s leading disability theatre company, Back to Back Theatre and its production of FOOD COURT.

Back to Back Theatre is one of Australia’s leading contemporary theatre companies with an outstanding international reputation. Based in Geelong, Victoria, the multi-award winning company has toured performances to over 40 prestigious festivals and venues around the world.

Back to Back is driven by an ensemble of seven actors perceived to have intellectual disabilities and is uniquely placed to comment on the social, cultural, ethical and value-based structures that define the institution known as the ‘majority’. The ensemble create all of their own work through a process of research, improvisation and scripting in collaboration with the Artistic Director, Bruce Gladwin and guest artists.

Back to Back Theatre’s newest work FOOD COURT premiered in October 2008 as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival to sold out audiences and much critical acclaim.

Following presentations of FOOD COURT at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels and the Sydney Opera House in 2009, Adelaide Festival presents four shows only!

Set in the lush minimalism of an illuminated white void, a young woman is utterly victimised. Two actresses in gold leotards frolic across the stage and, with immense pleasure, abandon themselves to the humiliation of a third woman. A situation of merciless cruelty emerges, from which a fragile and moving beauty wells up.

Accompanied by a trance-like live improvisation by Sydney cult jazz trio, The Necks, FOOD COURT is visually and musically virtuosic, and at the same time takes us back to the essence of theatre.

Special Offer

The Adelaide Festival would like to offer friends of your organisation $35 tickets. To book tickets call BASS 131 246 or visit a BASS outlet and quote ‘The Necks’.

Venue

Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre

Date/Time

Wed 3, Thurs 4, Fri 5 of March at 8pm and Saturday 6 of March at 6pm

Festival Talk

Thurs 4 March at 9:15pm

Bookings

BASS: 131 246 or visit the Adelaide Festival Website.

Accessibility

• Companion cards will be accepted.
• Wheelchair access is limited.
• A hearing aid loop is available.
• Seating can be arranged for the vision impaired.

Please be specific about your needs when making a booking to ensure the best viewing experience.

For the full Adelaide Festival program visit the Adelaide Festival website.

Show Warning and Instructions

Performance contains adult themes, partial nudity and coarse language.

The Lampshade Shop invites you to a a public play reading of work from the creative development of the play

BREWING (formerly Costume Change)

by Robert Moore. Director: Daniel Clarke
The play explores issues of hiv, domestic violence and family relationships from a country perspective.

Date:      Thursday December 10
Venue:   Higher Ground, 9 Light Square Adelaide.
Time:      7.30pm
Cost:      $5

The theatre has wheel chair access and accessible toilet facilities. Disablity parking is available in the car park adjacent to Higher Ground.

For further information contact:

Vel Shepherd Artistic Director The Lampshade Shop  Ph: 8212 4342
Robert Moore:  Ph: 8278 1708  email: cludgeon@adam.com.au