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New Name For The Venue
"Court Theatre"
Tropic Sun and the Music Centre have renamed the “Old Magistrates Court Theatre” to the snappier “Court Theatre.” It’s still at the corner of Sturt and Stokes Street and is still the friendly venue that it was.
We’ve improved the bar to serve coffee and tea as well, and midweek Tropic Sun shows will commence at 6.30pm.
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FIRST ACTIVITY
As a curtain raiser to the season we invite you to join us.
Monday 14th January, 6.30pm at the Court Theatre
(Refreshments available from 6pm)
Peek Inside – Memory play
An opportunity to explore how a new play is being crafted
Free and no need to book in advance.
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Back in 2006, Tropic Sun’s Madonna Davies collaborated with the Regional Arts Fund and World Interplay to create opportunities for young regional playwrights to put forward script ideas for selection for intensive workshopping and developmental assistance.
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Todd Barty |
One of the selected playwrights was Todd Barty. Todd has had the benefit of a dramaturge working with him during 2007 – that is the process where he would send a draft of a script to someone who specializes in script development – receive feedback then rewrite send again and receive more feedback. Now working with four Tropic Sun actors he has the opportunity to start to bring the script to life – this time with critical feedback from actors and a director . |
The re-writing still is as frantic, as the various inputs give Todd the chance to explore alternate ideas and see how they might work.
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The plot hinges around a 30-something actor and cabaret artist – outwardly outgoing, inwardly lonely and withdrawn, fighting to take control of his life and not feel a permanent victim of circumstance.
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Jeremy Cheetham & Laura Collinson
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Karen Gibb & John Goodson
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Participating in the project are Karen Gibb, (herself and accomplished actor and creator/director responsible for the highly popular His and Hers series last year, as well as several stellar performances with Tropic Sun (Martha in Virginia Woolf? Emilia in Othello). Jeremy Cheetham and Laura Collinson, who as well as being with Tropic Sun are currently part of a regional film making team and finally John Goodson, who has the remarkable ability to be the grumpy old man of Jack Hibberd’s solo tour-de-force of A Stretch of the Imagination and a wonderful creative childrens puppeteer.
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Todd is Tropic Sun’s honorary Education Officer and if you saw Zim-Zoom Cabaret last year, he was the stripper!. He has also written several plays (including The Adventures of Goldilockpick and Little Red Riding Hoodlum – a production which he also directed for Tropic Sun in 2006. Todd is also the driving force behind PROPS Youth Theatre.
Todd has a theatre degree from JCU, and the post-graduate Certificate of Education and an Associate Diploma in Speech and Drama from Trinity College.
Monday 14th will be a very informal night - with an opportunity to observe the developmental process to ask questions of playwright and actors – and even make your own suggestions too!
Look forward to seeing you at 6.30pm on Monday next. |
