Our CELSIUS: Independent Theatre program has being running since 2019 and has provided opportunities and employment for local creative teams and artists for creation, development and presentation of work that champions local stories for our regional audiences.
Developments this year include Life is Short by Jenni Munday, Parenting Partners by Alyce Fisher, a new family work from Brendan Hogan and The Plan & Other Plans by Grace Rouvray & Bridie Connell.
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Writer/Producer Aimee Chan, Director/Dramaturg/ Producer Rachel McNamara, Musical Direction Connie O’Connell
Aimee and her team are developing a stage adaptation of children’s picture book The Happy Mask by Albury-based author Aimee Chan. This children’s book is a gentle story that examines what it is like to live in a world surrounded by people in masks from a child’s perspective.
They will experiment with music and movement playing off each other’s strengths to bring out the emotions and the layers in the story that were previously represented with printed words.
The long-term goal is to create a theatre show for families with children under 10 or primary school groups.
Writer Jenni Munday, Dramaturg Peter Matheson
Jenni is writing a playscript adaptation of Vitae Brevis by Jostein Gaarder – the novel is based on fictional letters of St Augustine’s concubine. The play shows a woman who has remembered a different relationship and through her reading of Augustine’s writing and her own recollections comes to terms with the ill-treatment and disregard of her former lover. Gradually through her reflections and through the vehicle of Seneca’s Medea, a work contemporary to the time, she grows in strength.
With support from Peter Matheson, Jenni will work toward a first draft of the play.
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