NIDA’s 2008 graduating directors, THEATRE FORWARD, presents two programs of short plays collectively titled – EMERGENCY- These six plays will be performed over four nights in two separate venues.

26 to 29 November 2008 at 7.30pm
(matinee 29 november at 2.00pm)

Please note > Space Program and Studio Program run concurrently. You are invited to attend both programs on two separate nights of your choice.

SPACE PROGRAM

david harmon directs
and tell sad stories of the deaths of queens
by tennessee williams
worlds collide when a fading transvestite meets a young merchant seaman, new orleans mardi gras, circa 1950.

morgan dowsett directs
in the solitude of cotton fields
by bernard-marie koltes (trans. jeffrey wainright)
a dealer and a client meet up in a no man’s land where time and space weave in and out of existence.

sarah giles directs
the bald soprano
by eugene ionesco (trans. tina howe)
a thoroughly british evening in great britain. the fire captain arrives unexpectedly.

STUDIO PROGRAM

kate revz directs
fortune and men’s eyes
by john herbert
four juveniles locked up in detention and fantasy. shakespeare and drag make a guest appearance.

imara savage directs
this property is condemned
by tennessee williams
memory is a queer thing when a girl meets a boy on the railroad tracks one milky-white morning.

mark grentell directs
how i learned to drive
by paula vogel
the strained and sexual relationship between a girl and her uncle, and then there’s her family.

RSVP ESSENTIAL
(p) 9697 7613 (e) boxoffice@paradetheatres.com.au by 12 november 2008

For more information, visit www.nida.edu.au.