The Mozart Faction

Having recently staged the hilarious, poignant and critically acclaimed productions of Dealer’s Choice and A Moment on the Lips, Red Ryder Productions are proud to present the inaugural season of the new Australian comedy The Mozart Faction at the Blue Room Theatre March 7-24.

A small suburban choir rehearsal is brought to an abrupt halt when Wolf storms in, demanding silence.  For 10 years he’s lived next door listening to their endless, effusive singing and he’s finally cracked.
Listen mate, I don’t sing because unlike you, I know I sound like shit. -Wolf, The Mozart Faction

In the siege that follows, Mozart’s Requiem gains new meaning for them all as Wolf forces each chorister to look death in the eye.
I’m really sorry that you feel that way.  Perhaps we could negotiate some kind of compensation… -Evie, The Mozart Faction

AWGIE winner Kate Rice tells us “choral singing is an archaic, specialised form of music that depends on amateurs and volunteers working together to survive. No one does it for money or glory because there isn’t any.

In this little corner of the performance world, participants are only there because the art form speaks to them.  It is this spark of meaning that drives the creation of all art, and in this play, that spark is under mortal attack.”
Because it’s real, okay?  It’s music.  It’s the only thing I’ve got that never disappoints.  Never lies.  Never expects anything.  You take it away, there’s nothing left. -Ari, The Mozart Faction

Emily McLean, 2006 Equity Guild Award Winner Best Director, will again take the helm. “To direct the first production of a writer's script is always an honour,” she says. “When it has a cast of nine, is about a suburban choir filled with characters you never see on stage and contains Mozart's requiem, Monte Carlo biscuits and a siege bending out of shape, it's also great fun.”                                                                

Red Ryder Productions, under director Emily McLean, has a knack for assembling tight ensemble casts that work brilliantly. -The Australian

Musical Direction for the on-stage choir will be provided by cast member Alinta Carroll who, in addition to her acting credentials, is a soprano with the internationally known Collegium Musicum Choir and the suburban choir Voiceworks.

Carroll (What a Man’s Gotta Do) will be joined on stage by Maggie Anketell (Summer of the Seventeenth Doll), Caitlin Beresford Ord (A Moment on the Lips), Brodie Caporn (On the Outside), Brendan Ewing, (Woyczek), Larissa Gallagher (Company), Jeremy Levi (The Carnivores), Phil Miolin (Shorts Are In), and Craig Williams (Big Fun Sometimes).