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January 2008

Welcome to our January newsletter. We hope you had a good start to 2008 and are ready for a whole new year of fantastic theatre. To get you started, you have the chance to win one of five double passes to China, Griffin’s first production in the new season. Also in this issue: New Titles from Currency and its agencies, awards and nominations and of course the latest on what’s happening on stage.

New Titles

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China

William Yang

Photographer-storyteller William Yang returns to a motherland he never knew – the Australian-born Chinese a stranger in his homeland

Part social documentary, part personal observation, China creates a meditative space, a journey of reflection on the meaning of culture and belonging, for performer and audience alike.

‘Yang's China offers fascinating insights and paradoxes… China is a polished, wryly observed and typically low-key monologue’ Bryce Hallet, SMH

China opens at the Stables Theatre 19 January. The script, featuring a large selection of photographs shown in the production, is available at the theatre at the special price of $12. If you can’t make it to the show, you can order your copy from our website.

Win one of five double passes to the preview of China on Wednesday, 16 January, for details on how to enter the competition, check our SPECIALS section below.


NEW FROM OUR AGENCIES

Nick Hern Books


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Free Outgoing

Anupama Chandrasekhar

Just one message. That's all it took for an entire country to burn with moral outrage.

When a well-behaved Indian girl is filmed with a boy in her classroom, the video clip spreads like a virus. Free Outgoing sets the rampant technology of the modern world against the conservatism of a traditional society.

Premiered at the Royal Court, Britain’s most famous theatre for new writing, Free Outgoing formed part of their major International Season in 2007.
For more information and to order your copy, visit our website.


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Two Princes

Meredydd Barker

A bittersweet drama about life, love, loss, and sculpture.

In the 12th Century a rebel Prince was hunted to his death by his brother. Eight hundred years later nothing much has happened to the little Welsh town of Treianto, and the town council decides to erect a statue to its Prince. But what did he look like? How was he killed? And does any of this matter with a juicy grant cheque in the offing?

‘…an exhilarating and richly enjoyable play’ Theatre Wales

For more information and to order your copy, visit our website.


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How to Curse

Ian McHugh

Do you ever get the urge to do purely wicked things, just for the sake of it?

Bruising, charged and spellbound, How To Curse is Ian McHugh’s first play. It is a fascinating, alarming portrait of three young people dangerously near the edge. It premiered at the Bush Theatre, London in November 2007, the debut production of the new Artistic Director, Josie Rourke.

For more information and to order your copy, visit our website.


 


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The Pearlfisher

Iain F. MacLeod

An epic tale of kinship, money and desire.

Summer 1948 in the North West Highlands. Post-war austerity grips the land, but here the pickings are rich for Traveller people, as they trade, poach, rustle – and fish for pearls. One day Jess, a girl from the village, spies Ali the Traveller close up, trawling the river-bed. Jess takes his pearls – setting in motion a chain of events which will change both communities for ever.

Half a century later, in the autumn of 2007, the waters have risen, and the story is still being told and re-enacted.

For more information and to order your copy, visit our website.


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Unravelling the Ribbon

Mary Kelly and Maureen White

‘When it comes to breasts, I have none and she has one. What sort of family are we at all?’

Telling the moving story of Rosie, who discovers a lump in her breast – refracted in the commentary of her 11-year-old daughter – Unravelling the Ribbon is a startlingly real, immensely moving, and often hilarious play for three women.

For more information and to order your copy, visit our website.


Oberon Books

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The Bee

Hideki Noda (translated by Colin Teevan)

What would you do if your wife and child were being held hostage?

A highly-charged, tragic satire, The Bee asks what happens when the victim becomes the aggressor, the weak become powerful and the watcher becomes the watched.

Darlinghurst Theatre Company staged the critically acclaimed Australian premiere of The Bee in December 2007. To order your copy of the play, click here.

Specials

Win one of five double passes to the preview of China on Wednesday, 16 January. China is William Yang’s ninth monologue performance and his wryly humorous and sensitive perspective, his eye for detail, and his arresting images come together in an unforgettable theatrical experience.
 
To win a double pass, be amongst the first five subscribers to send an email to karin@currency.com.au with “China” in the subject line and your contact details in the email body. Only winners will be notified.

China is showing at the Stables Theatre from 15 January – 9 February. For more information on the production, visit www.griffintheatre.com.au; to order your copy of the script, visit our website.

On Stage

NSW

The Club by David Williamson will be showing at Glen Street Theatre from 7 February – 23 February.
‘…the pre-eminent chronicler of our times [David Williamson] is rarely on better form than he is in The Club.’ Sun Herald
To book your tickets go to glenstreet.com.au; to have a look at David Williamson’s plays published by Currency Press, visit our website.


VIC

The hugely successful STC production of Patrick White’s The Season at Sarsaparilla is currently playing at Melbourne’s Arts Centre Playhouse.
‘This is a stunning production: bold, powerful, funny, moving and wise ... The acting is marvellous ... This is White for the 21st century.’ The Australian
Season ends 16 February. For tickets visit www.mtc.com.au; for more information on Patrick White’s plays published by Currency Press, click here.


As part of the Midsumma Festival 2008, LaMama is staging Thieving Boy and Stars in My Hands, two plays by Timothy Conigrave, dealing with matters that need to be resolved at the time of death – your own and someone else’s. Carlton Courthouse, season goes from 19 January – 2 February. For tickets visit lamama.com.au or call 03 9347 6142.
Currency Press has published Holding the Man, Tommy Murphy’s award-winning stage adaptation of Timothy Conigrave’s memoir. Click here for more information.


QLD

Joanna Murray-Smith’s deliciously wicked new comedy The Female of the Species is coming up at the Cremorne Theatre in a QTC production, opening 11 February. To book your tickets go to www.qldtheatreco.com.au.
Currency Press will publish the script in time for the production. To pre-order your copy, go to our website.


WA

Deckchair Theatre will be staging As You Like It, one of Shakespeare’s most famous comedies in the Botanic Garden, Kings Park from 11 January – 9 February. For tickets go to www.deckchairtheatre.com.au;
to order your copy of As You Like It, visit our website.

Awards

Sydney Theatre Awards nominations
The nominations for the 2007 Sydney Theatre Awards in the category New Australian Work are Katherine Thomson’s King Tide, Ian Wilding’s October (both published by Currency Press), Michael Gow’s Toy Symphony and Kate Mulvany’s The Seed (both will be published by Currency Press in 2008). The winner will be announced on Monday, 21 January. Congratulations to all nominees!