Urgent: Any WAAPA Lighting Designing students wanting a Blue Room Credit?

X-RoaDS COLlectIVE are urgently looking for someone to help with rigging up lights for the upcoming season of "Quest: A Tell-Tale of the Heart" at the Blue Room Theatre, preview beginning on Wednesday the 20th of August and running through till the 6th of September. Our current lighting designer has had to pull out and so now the door is open for someone to take his place. While we are looking for someone with very creative design skills, you will be working very closley with the Set and Costume Designer, Emma Caporn, and the Director, Brodie Caporn, who will both be coming up with the ideas and suggestions which we hope you will be able to execute. Therefore we are not asking you to work from scratch with the script, although naturally we are open to hearing ideas and suggestions. Being based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe, lighting (and shadows)will play a very significant role in creating an atmosphere of horror, menace and mystery, so we are looking for someone who is a little daring and experimental and who has a few special skills they would like to explore up their sleeve. This will be a great opportunity for you to have a very creative lighting design input into an exciting physical theatre solo performance. Unfortuntely, as with many Blue Room shows, we don't have really have much of a budget to speak of, so we really are looking for someone to donate their time and energy, and use it to explore their own creative skills and to get a credit for their resume. If this is a problem and you are still intested may i suggest you talk to me about it to see if there is something we can sort out. there may not be but it may be worth trying : ) Production week begins on the 11th of August. If interested please contact me on: wherbu@bigpond.com or 0413533923 I've attached the Press Release for more info about the project. Look forward to hearing from you. Warren Herbu. X-RoaDS COLlectIVE The Australian premiere of writer/performer Warren Antoine Herbu’s latest work, Quest: A Tell-Tale of the Heart, is the second incarnation of his solo show originally staged in London, coming to the Blue Room Theatre 20 August – 6 September, 2008. Awarded Best Male Actor at London’s Act Provocateur Solo Festival in 2007, Herbu returns to his home town of Perth to enchant audiences with a visceral performance that wields its way through a fragmentary parade of short stories and poetry from the arch-priest of gothic horror, Edgar Allan Poe. The life and work of Poe is shrouded in mystery, madness and the macabre. Herbu uses these themes in a combination of evocative imagery, creative movement, traditional storytelling, and live original music (performed by Elisa Siipola from Jasmine Loop Control), to thread together a tale of terror. Edgar is a man who lives in a haunted, decaying mansion with nothing but his disturbed memories of the past. When an angel appears and invites him to go on a Quest, Edgar sets out on a mystical journey – filled with strange characters, cryptic clues and worlds real and imagined – into the darkness of his heart and mind. X-RoaDS COLlectIVE has come together with a commitment to create highly original and whimsical physical theatre that entertains, mystifies, and stirs the depths of the imagination. This latest incarnation of Herbu’s solo show has been closely workshopped and devised in collaboration with actor/musician Brodie Caporn (The Mozart Faction, What a Man’s Gotta Do), who will make her directorial debut with this production. Later this year Steven Berkoff, the International patron of the school at which Herbu and Caporn trained – Total Theatre, descends on Perth with his own adaptation of The Tell-Tale Heart. In the meantime, witness local artists X-RoaDS COLlectIVE pay their unique homage to Poe and his classic tale. Quest: A Tell-Tale of the Heart August 20th – September 6th Tuesday – Saturday @ 8pm Tickets: Full $22 / Conc. $15 Blue Room Members: Full $18 / Conc. $12 The Blue Room Theatre 53 James Street Northbridge Bookings: (08) 9227 7005 / www.pacs.org.au