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 – "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")