Hayman Theatre Upstairs New Sunday Evening Season

The Hayman Theatre Upstairs' new Sunday evening theatre season has been launched. The Sunday evening theatre program gives Curtin University performance studies students the chance to hone their directing, acting and design skills on short one-act plays. Given that students are given free reign over their productions, the Upstairs Theatre performances are often raw, fresh and exciting. Below is a run-down of the dates for this season as well as a brief director's note on the first two productions â€“ "100" directed by Keir Wilkins and "Brilliant" by Warwick Doddrell. These performances will follow on from the success of The Hayman Theatre's recent production of Shakespeare's "Richard III". Hayman Upstairs Theatre Season, Semester One 2008: Sunday March 16, April 13, May 4, May 11, May 18 and May 25. Tickets sold at the door: $10 for two one-act plays. First performance starts at 8pm. The Hayman Theatre, Curtin University of Technology, Kent St Bentley. "100" devised by The Imaginary Body and directed by Keir Wilkins: If you had to pick one moment from your entire life to re-live for all of eternity, how would you decide? This is the task placed upon five strangers hailing from different parts of the world who wakeup in an unfamiliar place to discover they have died. Devised by British theatre company, The Imaginary Body, "100" is a story of discovering the moments that matter and the things that define us. Directed by third year Curtin University student Keir Wilkins and starring some of Curtin's finest young actors, "100" takes its audience on a powerful journey filled with rhythm, movement and images that will last a lifetime. March 16 @ 8pm (double bill with "Brilliant") "Brilliant" written and directed by Warwick Doddrell: When you are the scum of this earth you have everything to gain. In a tangled web of manipulation, friendships and agendas, four characters; Tasha a beauty-crazed student, Lucy a fantastical storyteller, Dorothea a teacher with principals and Toulousse a talented doctor, all fight to prove their place in the world. A devised physical theatre work exploring the over-powering human desire to be brilliant. March 16 @ 8pm (double bill with "100")

Curtin’s Hayman Theatre Company continues its Sunday Night Theatre series with two more one-act plays. Starting the night off is Tony Nicholls’ PAWS. This parody is the play that Harold Pinter always wanted to write but was never allowed to. A room. Two men. Through the window a naked woman slowly gets dressed. Following is Rachel Breidahl’s THE CALAMIATIES AND MISFORTUNES OF HARRY THE CLOWN. Harry is a former accountant who opts for a career change as a children’s party clown after a nervous breakdown leaves him feeling unfulfilled in life. But with an unhappy wife, a new friendship with an unusual character and more problems with balloon animals than he had ever imagined, will Harry be able to find happiness with his new life? Sunday Night Theatre, 8pm Sunday 13th April Come at 7pm for Nibblies! Hayman Theatre Upstairs, Curtin University of Technology, Kent Street Bentley All tickets $10 and available at the door.

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