Quite a good review for the show. I get more credit than I’m due as we worked collaboratively and there wasn’t one person in the room who didn’t contribute significantly to the script.
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itch productions – the butterfly catcher
Starring Scott Brennan, Michael F. Cahill, Ngaire Dawn Fair & Des Fleming.
Director – Alice Bishop, Writer – Hop Dac, Composer – Nat Grant, Lighting Designer – Aaron Hock
behind the scenes
twenty ten
Am back in the bowels of Auspicious Arts working with ITCH Productions, nutting out the next play, due for performance at the Mechanics Institute around June 2010.
Director: Alice Bishop
Producer: Des Fleming
Writer: Hop Dac
Music: Biddy Connor
Actors: Des Fleming, Scott Brennan, Michael F Cahill, Ngaire Dawn Fair.
Body Bag: Drugs, Delirium and Dead Celebrities
Body Bag, the play I’ve been writing for ITCH Productions, is just about done. We’ve started taking if off the page and into rehearsal (my favourite bit).
Join us for opening night on Thursday the 4th of June!
In June 2009 ITCH Productions will premiere a brand new theatrical work ‘Bodybag’.
A man’s attempt to escape the reality of his life has a devastating effect on the veneer that holds his disjointed world together.
A talented artist, Monty, undergoes cocaine withdrawal following a serious car accident. As he floats in a hallucinatory state he endows his nearest and dearest with the characteristics of tragic movie stars.
He retreats into a fantasy world of celebrity, where he encounters three timeless icons of classic Hollywood – Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and Elvis Presley who compete with Monty’s family for his love and his life.
Blame and recriminations begin to fly, exposing truths that have remained unspoken, until now…
A darkly funny tale about the effects of addiction on family, friends and lovers.
A collaboration from some of Melbourne’s most experienced independent artists. Alice Bishop (Green Room Award Nomination 2008 – Catalpa/ITCH Productions – Best Direction), writer Hop Dac, composer Biddy Connor and actors Des Fleming, Peter Stratford, Ngaire Dawn Fair and Carla McCallum with lighting design by Richard Vabre.
Based on an original idea by Alice Bishop and Des Fleming.
Tickets can be booked via the ITCH Productions site.
http://www.itchproductions.com.au
pawn shop – short film
A short film of the short play by the same name that we shot in Beaufort in 2007.
Director: Alice Bishop
Writer: Hop Dac
DOP: David Hawkins
Editor: Simon Imberger
Sound Recordist: Jonathon Lee
Sound Design: Robert Harewood
Producer: Matthew Molony
Production Design: Alice Bishop
Location Coordinator: Mary Brennan
Cast:
Gary: Matthew Molony
Lenny (pawnshop owner): Michael F Cahill
Bodybag
Writer
Worked collaboratively with ITCH Productions to “create a piece of theatre that looks at society’s obsession with celebrity and what is now a pervasive aspect of western culture—the downfall through drug and alcohol abuse of those people we have appointed as our demigods, icons and heroes and who ultimately prove that not only is pain universal, but addiction does not discriminate.”
A man’s attempt to escape the reality of his life has a devastating effect on the veneer that holds his disjointed world together.
A talented actor, Monty experiences withdrawals following a serious car accident. As he floats in a hallucinatory state he endows his nearest and dearest with the characteristics of tragic movie stars.
He retreats into a fantasy world of celebrity, where he encounters three timeless icons of classic Hollywood – Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and Elvis Presley who compete with Monty’s family for his love and his life.
A darkly funny tale about the effects of addiction on family, friends and lovers.
The play is a collaboration from some of Melbourne’s most experienced independent artists. Alice Bishop (Green Room Award Nomination 2008 – Catalpa/ITCH Productions – Best Direction), writer Hop Dac, composer Biddy Connor and actors Des Fleming, Peter Stratford, Ngaire Dawn Fair and Carla McCallum with lighting design by Richard Vabre.
Based on an original idea by Alice Bishop and Des Fleming.
The play was performed at the Mechanics Institute in Brunswick, Melbourne, at the start of June 2009 for a two week season.