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ABOUTFACE PRODUCTIONS (VIC) The last three months have been very busy for Annie Forbes and Tim Denton - firstly, in June returning to NZ to perform their production ‘The Miss Muffet Show’ at the Once Upon an Island Waiheke Festival of Story, then travelling down to Wellington to remount BOXES for a two week season at the National Theatre for Children. Annie and Tim devised this show with L. Peter Wilson (Annie and Tim performing, Peter directing) and this remount featured a new soundscape composed by Thomas Press and a new lighting design by Jason Morphett (associate lighting designer on Walking with Dinosaurs). BOXES: Elton and Bernie face-off. Photo by Stephen A'Court. In 2011 BOXES will have a season in Auckland and will tour Australia, Singapore and Shanghai. To read a review of BOXES click on this link: http://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/review.php?id=3216 Tim has recently arrived back from spending 6 weeks in Vermont, USA with Bread and Puppet Theater and Sandglass Theater as the recipient of the Handspan Visual Theatre Scholarship and the Lorrie Gardner Scholarship. (In the next newsletter Tim will write a full account of his experiences there.) Finally, while Tim was away Annie has been working with the Student Union Theatre (Melb Uni) advising them on shadow puppetry for their upcoming production ‘Sweeney Todd‘ directed by Tom Gutteridge. The show is playing at the Union Theatre from September 10 to 18, bookings at union.unimelb.edu.au/sweeneytodd Gary Friedman Productions Mother Earth from the Bread and Puppet pageant. Work in progress: marionette - only 2 strings.
Just Desserts Curiouser and Curiouser! by Kassius Kamel I’ve been reading about the Adventures of Julia in Blunderland. It all seems a bit familiar, like a story one heard in childhood: falling down Abbott Holes, Mad Katter’s tea parties, a dodo, a Jabber-Hockey, a game of chess involving a Red Queen, three kingmakers, two Bishops (!!), many a pawn, three jugglers, (including an evasive Cheshire Cat from Port Macquarrie), more and more Abbott holes and calls for decapitation! So I’ve decided to set out in verse the goings-on in Australia of the past two and a half weeks , with an apology to Lewis Carroll (who was really called Charles Dodgson) who wrote, ‘ “Will you walk a little faster?” said a whiting to a snail’ (which was really based on Mary Howitt’s poem, ‘“Will you walk into my parlour?” said the spider to the fly’, which was in turn based upon a song, ‘The Spider and the Fly’) “Will you walk a little faster?” said the Gillard to the Rabbit, “For I am Moving Forward now and I intend to Grab It.” “No I won’t. ” replied the Rabbit. “You’ll just send us to the dogs, And I’ve Billions in my pockets - and Budgies in my Togs!” The Gillard turned a little Green and raised her eyebrows higher “Do you think I’ll get Real Action from a Climate Change Denier?” How eagerly the feted independents did advance. Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, Won’t you join the dance? Valiantly, the motley three would all reveal their stances. The Gillard had tea with the fair GG - and now she leads the dances. “Let the sunshine in!” she said, “All obstacles we’ll surmount”. “Ferociously,” the Rabbit cried “I’ll hold you to account!” “Ignore the Rabbit! As is his habit, he always raves and rants. We’re safe and sound - on Common Ground. Let’s ALL join in the Dance!” Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you Won’t you join the dance? Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you Will you join the dance? May we all get our just desserts. K ____________________ P.S. I’m not revealing my current whereabouts; however I am still on the planet Earth. I think it’s an outrage that a humpless, spotted ruminant with an over-elongated neck was invited to orbit the earth before a proper consideration was made of my superior qualifications. Humph!
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