“Theatre in Australia is in danger.  I go to the theatre, on average, twice a week and am often met with half full audiences who are mostly concerned with their parking and shopping lists. But every now and then you see a piece of theatre that grabs you by the throat and makes you fall back in love with it. Every now and then a play challenges safe theatre conventions, breaks the fourth wall and takes words off a page and into the immediate.

This is the kind of theatre I want to create with Cry Havoc! Shakespeare wrote his plays for the audience of the day – they survive as universal stories of what it is to be human – and should be re-imagined for a theatre forward audience. A war in Shakespeare’s time is not the same as war today, neither is love, or vengeance. Cry Havoc! wants to take Shakespeare out of frills (or the popular generic ‘guerrilla warfare’ landscape) and into today. At NIDA we are often taught the realities of theatre as a business, and with major theatre company’s subscriptions declining every year, it is true that it is hard to put “bums-on-seats”.

But it is not impossible.

Every now and then a show occurs in Sydney that sells out and breaks all records – so the audiences are out there – it’s all about creating amazing work that cannot be ignored”
- Kate Revz

Kate is currently studying Directing at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) under the tutelage of Egil Kipste. While at NIDA Kate has directed actors from NIDA, The Actor’s Centre, ACTT and Adelaide Centre for the Arts as well as professionals including graduate Susie Porter. She has directed pieces from The Glass Menagerie and London by Kit Brookman for 2008 UnPlugged, Spring Awakening, Secret Bridesmaids Business, Steven Sewell’s Traitors and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.

For the Opera design project Kate worked with Design 2 student Lucilla Smith on a re-imagining of Cosi Fan Tutte which met with acclaim when they presented to Opera Australia, Patrick Nolan and Jim Sharman. This was the beginning of a continued Director / Designer partnership.

Kate has undertaken Assistant Director roles with The Ensemble Theatre on Stella by Starlight and Death of a Salesman as well as a secondment with John Sheedy on Black Swan Theatre Company’s production of Caryl Churchill’s Far Away.

She is currently designing her NIDA graduation piece, Fortune in Men’s Eyes.

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