Uni presents experimental theatre production
Published on 24 September, 2009
CQUniversity Performing Arts students will present ‘An Evening of Experimental Theatre' this Friday and Saturday evening at 7.30pm at the Bencke Drama Studio (Building 4) on Rockhampton Campus.
The production will include 2 separate productions: A Memory of Lizzie and The Cage Birds.
The cast of this week's experimental theatre production.A Memory of Lizzie takes the audience into the world of the infamous murderess Lizzie Bordon. Borrowing from the traditions of the absurd, hers is the surreal world of the girl who ‘Gave Her Father Forty Whacks'.
The Cage Birds explores those obsessions that protect us from our fear of change and shelter us from the unknown. In this play the birds seem to represent facets of human characteristics. However, in challenging the audience to consider the themes of indoctrination, freedom of speech and oppression, fundamental questions are posed: ‘are we looking at 5 birds, or are we looking at ourselves?' ‘what is that something that you cling to?' ‘what is it that keeps you in your place?', ‘what is it that prevents you from stretching your wings to fly?'.
The world of experimental theatre.
For bookings and further details phone 4930 9532.
Students will also present a very special production of Sue Rider's Bumpy Angels next week.
This play won widespread acclaim in its portrayal of aspects of life in post-War Australian society in the 1950s, a time of inexorable and far-reaching change.
Bumpy Angels takes us into the world of pregnant and wayward girls living in a home for unmarried mothers somewhere in Australia in February 1954.
The audience is welcomed to enter the world of these ‘Bumpy Angels' and to be there to rejoice, empathise and sympathise with these powerful women as they embark on, and in some cases conclude, their journey in a world of misunderstandings.
Bumpy Angels takes to the stage at 7.30pm on October 2-3 in the Bencke Drama Studio (Building 4) on Rockhampton Campus.
