Fairly Lucid Productions

Welcome to Fairly Lucid

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Fairly Lucid was founded by St Martins Youth Arts Centre alumnae and award winners Pablo Calero, Ben Noble & Lucy Stewart. Based originally in Melbourne, Australia they began a company with the hope of spreading new Australian work to new audiences.

Their inaugural presentation was at the 2004 Melbourne International Fringe Festival where it presented a double bill titled "Into the Fire" featuring plays by its founders Lucy Stewart (Wallpaper) and Benjamin Noble (interrogation). The work received numerous accolades from audiences and press and the production of interrogation received an Honourable Mention at the Fringe Awards for Best Male Actor.

Now each of its founders are spread around the globe and are ready to bring new Australian writing to you. Get ready for something "beautifully electic" and "diversely textured"

More information on Canadian Office
email - fairlylucid@gmail.com
phone - 416 577 8601

2011-07-26T21:18:00.000-07:00

WEBSITE

www.fairlylucidproductions.com

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2011-07-26T21:17:00.000-07:00

READINGS IN THE ROUGH

featuring

Fading Franky Knight with Wooden Eyes Watching / Handicraft

written by
Maxine Mellor

Moderated by
Nicolas Billion

Read by
Kevin MacDonald, Ben Noble & Lindy Zucker

ONE NIGHT ONLY

MONDAY 1ST AUGUST

7PM – 9PM

COMEDY BAR

945 Bloor St W, Toronto

www.comedybar.ca

“The macabre mind of Australia's hottest young playwright”.
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

“Mellor is considered one of the bright rising stars of Australian theatre”
ADAM NORRIS, MC REVIEWS

“MAXINE MELLOR is an audacious talent with an apparently boundless imagination”
STAGE NOISE

Fairly Lucid Productions is proud to bring back, Readings in the Rough Play reading Series. The series invites the audience to play a part in the dramaturgical process of writing a script.

In an open discussion the audience helps to form what the play can become in this important stage of first public readings.

The playwright will present a few questions to you prior to the reading. Once you watch, you can then provide feedback for the playwright that will assist in their next stage of redrafting. The series will feature a new play every two months from around the world.

For our return series, we are proud to introduce to Canadian audiences a reading of a new work from Award Winning Australian playwright - Maxine Mellor.

Maxine Mellor is a multi-award winning playwright. Maxine won the Queensland Theatre Company’s Young Playwright’s Award in 2001 for Stuck, in 2002 for Boy Slaughter, and in 2003 for Little Hitler’s Ode to an Austrian Bentwood; QTC’s George Landen Dann Award in 2005 for Magda’s Fascination with Wax Cats; a Matilda Award for Best New Work for Production in 2005; and a Matilda Award nomination for Best Emerging Artist in 2008. She was made Associate Writer with QTC from 2006-2008 where she wrote Fading Franky Knight with Wooden Eyes Watching / Handicraft.

Mondays nights just got better. Come down, have a drink, watch a play, make your voice be heard. It's that simple!

All tix $5 and can be purchased at the door.

A live feed of the read and discussion will also enable viewers from all continents, to embark on this wonderful opportunity to form a community of theatre makers. Go to USTREAM and follow FairlyLucidProd’s channel.

ANALYZE, CRITICIZE AND THEORIZE

2009-06-24T22:24:00.000-07:00

Opening Night Special

The Canadian Premiere is days away, advance tix are available to buy online (link below) and we want to extend an invite to opening night to celebrate.

Anyone that purchases a tix to opening night will be able to come help celebrate and meet the cast and crew at our opening night function.

We would love for you to join us

Buy your tix now.

https://www.fringetix.ca/scripts/max/2000/maxweb.exe?ACTION=ORDER#8PAL

(Details of the function will be listed in our opening night "interrogation" programmes)

2009-05-26T20:15:00.000-07:00

"... nothing is ever as it seems".

Fairly Lucid Productions is thrilled to introduce to Canadian audiences Award Winning Australian playwright - Benjamin Noble and his new production of the Melbourne International Fringe Hit, interrogation.

Benjamin Noble has received numerous awards within Australia, as both playwright and actor. In 2005 & 2006 he was selected as an Australian delegate at the World International Playwright Festival (InterPlay) and commissioned by two Australian theatre companies. His writings have been work shopped throughout Australia and in New York and are often described as “beautifully eclectic” and “diversely textured”.

In this latest reworking of his play, interrogation tells the story of The Man, a writer, who has a case of writers block. Or so it seems. Diving between fiction, fantasy and reality, The Man will try his best to tell his story, even when he can’t remember a thing. Mixing in themes of isolation, sex, and mysterious secrets, The Man discovers that the hardest story to write may be his own.

Joining this international debut is the talented Canadian cast. Featuring Alex Dallas (Recipient of the Canadian Comedy Award and Funniest Female Performer Victoria Fringe),Karie Richards (Carter Thor Studios Member) and it’s playwright Ben Noble, this will be a production not to be missed.

Come see what Australian reviewers have called “compelling theatre”
from an artist described as “powerful and provocative”.

interrogation
by Benjamin Noble
Direction - Bryn Jennings
Set & Costumes - Laura Gardner
Lighting Design - Mike Lewandowski
Sound Design - Christopher Sandes
Stage Manager - Megan Liley
Associate Toronto Producer - Justine Handler

Featuring
Alex Dallas, Pamela Johnson, Ben Noble,
Karie Richards & Vanessa Smythe

Friday July 3rd 7:00pm
Sunday July 5th 3:30pm
Monday July 6th 10:30pm
Tuesday July 7th 8:30pm
Wednesday July 8th 12:15pm
Friday July 10th 4:00pm
Saturday July 11th 10:30pm

Performance Duration 80 mins

WARNING: Mature Adult Themes, Sexually Explicit Language

No latecomers admitted! So get there early

Tarragon Theatre Extra Space
30 Bridgman Ave (North of Dupont, East of Bathurst)

Tickets $10

For tickets call Fringe Hotline at 416-966-1062
or visit www.fringetoronto.com

2009-05-26T17:22:00.000-07:00

THE TORONTO COMPANY BIOS

ALEX DALLAS - Performer

Alex Dallas was born and raised in the UK, and immigrated to Canada in 1994. This is Alex's 20th year of Canadian Fringing! She has appeared with Sensible Footwear, English Suitcase Theatre Company and has five solo shows that have toured the Fringes from Australia to Vancouver and many places in between. Drama Queen, her last show in the Toronto Fringe was aired on Bravo TV. She has played Lady Macbeth, Madam Arcati and Rita among others and made her nude stage debut in Mom's the Word at the age of 48. This year she was seen in the Vagina Monologues and Alan Bennet's Talking Heads Monologue, " Her Big Chance."
Alex is proud to realize that her daughter is old enough to volunteer for the Fringe, and dedicates her performance to Ruby, who has seen the inside of more theatres than the average actor!

LAURA GARDNER- Set and Costume Designer

A Toronto-based designer, Laura’s past projects include: design assistant of West Side Story (Stratford Festival); production design of The Great Gatsby, adapted and directed by David Rotenburg; design assistant for The Music Man (Stratford Festival); costume designer of The Scene (Pilot Group); costume designer of Little Women (Randolph Academy); design assistant for To Kill a Mockingbird (Stratford Festival); set design for Gorey Story (Thistle Project); set designer for The Classical Theatre Project’s productions of Othello, Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, and A Midsummer Nights’ Dream; assistant costume and prop design on The Gambler (Artword Theatre); head of wardrobe for Doctor Barnardo’s Children and That Summer (4th Line Theatre); and, design coordinator for Beneath the Banyan Tree (Theatre Direct). In addition to her design work, Laura has also worked professionally as a seamstress and painter for many theatrical productions. This past fall, Laura was a contributor on the design of one of Toronto’s newest theatre’s, the Lower Ossington Theatre.

JUSTINE HANDLER – Associate Producer

Justine Handler is normally a Toronto based Event Planner. She has worked on three different shows as Fundraising, Sponsorship and Publicity Consultant: Reesor (Sunshine Players, 2007 Fringe), Pelee (Reesor Productions, 2008 SummerWorks Theatre Festival), and Petrichor (Kitchen Band Production, 2009 Hatch Festival). Currently Justine is working as an event planner with the Canadian Red Cross.

BRYN JENNINGS - Director

Bryn Jennings is a theatre artist, specifically interested in the creation of new interdisciplinary works. Bryn is the Artistic Director of Curious Carnivore. Recent works by Curious Carnivore include; The Best Recipe for PB&J (Curious Carnivore/The Kitchen Collectives) co-created with ensemble members Caitlin Morris-Cornfield and Aaron Rothermund, and My Inner Blonde Ambition (or How Madonna Made Me The Person I Am Today) a performance installation created and performed by Bryn for Rose Bertin's Page 666 exhibit.
Bryn is currently developing a full length movement based play in collaboration with experimental musician Matt Smith, best known for his project Nifty. Curious Carnivore held its first workshop of the piece in May 2009.
Bryn is also a frequent collaborator with surprise performance. Her work with surprise includes assistant directing save us!!! [Hamletown] as part of Harbourfront Centre’s HATCH performance residencies and performing in Wet Dream in the 2009 Rhubarb Festival. Next up with surprise, Bryn will be traveling to Cardiff, Wales in Fall 2009 to participate in a residency with surprise performance. During the residency surprise performance will be creating a new site specific version of Hamletown with local performers.
Directing credits include; Not I (Curious Carnivore/Back Burner Productions) and Charters (aka the humanitarian) (Yeah Me Too/SummerWorks)
Assistant directing credits include; Ubuntu (The Cape Town Project) (Theatrefront/Tarragon Theatre/Neptune Theatre) dir. Daryl Cloran save us!!! [Hamletown] (surprise performance/HATCH festival) dir. Chad Dembski, The Cape Town Project (Theatrefront/Tarragon Workspace) dir. Daryl Cloran, Curse's Child (Back Burner Productions) dir. Guy Doucette, and Let's Talk About Beds (Back Burner Productions/Toronto Fringe Festival) dir. Dawn Nearing
Upcoming: In September 2009 Bryn will be back with Theatrefront, assistant directing the first play in their Mill Cycle, We Are Now Brody by Matt MacFadzean.

MICHAEL LEWANDOWSKI - Lighting Designer

Michael normally makes his living as a Stage Manager, living in Toronto. He has worked for such companies as Canadian Opera Company, Canadian Stage, Opera Atalier, Welcome Wood, TIFF to name the few. He has also worked for TV as a Floor Director on Canadian Aboriginal awards, CTV Fall Lunch, MTV Live. He is excited to be a part of this production and trying his hands in Lighting Design after a long break. Thank you to Kevin and his family, friends for your support. Congratulations to the cast on a great show. And lastly a HUGE pat on the back to Ben for all his hard work on this and making this show possible...

MEGAN LILEY – Stage Manager

Megan has been skulking around the summer festivals since forever. Past fringe experience includes last year's Radioplay (writer/producer) and Point of Departure in 2007 (stage-manager). She is an artistic associate with Royal Porcupine Productions, regular performer with Lunacy Cabaret and founding member of Shameless Dames Burlesque (2004-2009). She is currently writing a new play (and mastering her procrastination skills), and beginning a multiplatform theatrical creation with a collective that has yet to be named, but includes the most talented people she has ever met (aside from the cast and crew of interrogation) God bless the 2.5 pint threshold that got her to agree to this project.

BEN NOBLE Playwright/Performer

Ben is an actor, playwright and the Creative Producer of Fairly Lucid Productions. A graduate of the 2002 St Martin's Performance Ensemble in Melbourne Australia, Ben trained with the Atlantic Theater Company in New York and is a current member of Carter Thor Studios and 20 Buck Films.
As a playwright, Benjamin's first play "Pick A Card" won 3rd prize in the St Martins Playwriting Competition in 2002. In 2004 he was commissioned to write "Short Trip" for St Martins as part of The Scattergun Project, which took out St Martin's Best Play that year. "Go, Fish" was short listed for St Martin's Play of the Year in 2005. In 2005 & 2006, he was invited to be one of the few Australian delegates at World InterPlay – an International Playwrights festival. He was recently commissioned by Riverland Theatre Company to co-write and dramaturge "HOONS" that premiered at Adelaide Fringe Festival in 2008. Benjamin's work has also been performed and workshopped throughout Australia and in New York. The original working of "interrogation” is scheduled to be translated and adapted into a Spanish short film to be shot in Mexico City.
As a producer, Ben was the co-curator/producer for the Melbourne Fringe Festival at St Martins Youth Arts Centre in Australia, staged readings within Australia and Canada and produced functions for Fairly Lucid Productions including Lucidal – A Classical Concert, Murder on the Dance Floor & The Trashy 80’s Prom. He also coaches actors across Canada privately and with John Robert Powers Academy.
As an actor he took out the Peer and Audience awards in St Martin's 2002 Season of New International Work for Best Actor and received a Honourable Mention for his performance in the 2004 Melbourne International Fringe Festival. Selected credits: Binary (White Raven Productions) Best Ensemble 2008 NOW Magazine, Something from Nothing (Cascade Theatre) One Last (Summerworks) Romeo & Juliet (Company X), The Scattergun Project (St Martin's), Phaedra's Love (Organised Chaos), interrogation (Fairly Lucid). Ben has appeared in a variety of films and TV both in Canada and Australia. His latest short “Cheap Tickets” was screened in Boston, Montreal and Toronto.
Upcoming: LabCab Festival 2009.

KARIE RICHARDS - Performer

Karie Richards is a member of Carter Thor Studios East, studying with acting coach Jock MacDonald. Theatre credits include the role of Margot in Dial M for Murder (The Port Stanley Festival Theatre), Honey in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf , Jane in Absurd Person Singular, and Alma in Summer and Smoke (Alumnae Theatre Company). Recent television and film credits include the role of Media Archeologist on the CBC TV Comedy show Jimmy MacDonald’s Canada, and Maggie in Jennifer Liao’s independent short film, Pride War.

CHRISTOPHER SANDES – Sound Design

Christopher Sandes is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, producer, performer and studio musician currently living in Toronto, Canada. He has lived and studied music in France, Spain, Indonesia, Morocco and India. Although he does not consider himself a ‘world music’ player (finding the clichés odious) he does regard himself as an adventurer, instrument collector, fabulist and sponge in the vein of a musical Sir Richard Burton.
Christopher is an accomplished guitarist playing a wide variety of stringed instruments including the Sitar, Pedal and Lap Steel. He is also most commonly found playing keyed instruments of any variety in diverse projects as a Barrelhouse Pianist, B3 Organist, melancholy accordionist and as an ongoing experiment in the studio: synthesist.
Recently Christopher did all the source music and portions of the score for You Might As Well Live a full length feature film (in theatres Fall 2009) as well as the full score of the documentary The Alma Drawings.
Christopher is a member of Steamboat, The Hylozoists, The Andre Ethier Band and plays occasionally with Doug Paisley, Mantler and Sandro Perri.

2009-04-25T13:55:00.000-07:00

MURDER ON THE DANCE FLOOR
A 50/60's Prom Do Over

to Benefit the 2009 Toronto Fringe Production of "interrogation"

Did you ever want a do over for your Prom? Well this is your chance. You get to be a whole new you and dress up for the night as well.

Murder on the Dance Floor, a 50's/60's Prom will have you jiving, swinging, and getting down to benefit Fairly Lucid Production's Fringe Show "interrogation" by Benjamin Noble.

The night will feature
* Shake A Tail DJ's - Aaron & Terrance
* The Crowning of a King & Queen for Best Costume
* A Murder Mystery
* Prom Photo's
and much more.

Where? Revival (Stone Lounge downstairs), College (at Shaw)
When? Friday 15th May @ 9pm onwards

Tickets

$15 at the Door

So grab your 50's/60's Frock, or ruffled shirts, find yourself a date, and maybe you can get lucky as you come on out to this fabulous event

(more details)
Murder Mystery will commence approx. 11pm and run for an hour and a half. During this time, guests are invited to ask the four suspects as many questions as they like to ascertain the following details - who is the Murderer, what was their motive and by what means? People who answer correctly will be put into a draw for the major prize.
Crowing of King & Queen will occur at 12.30am

2009-04-25T10:25:00.000-07:00

Image by Sabrina Armani 2009

IT'S COMING...

interrogation

TORONTO FRINGE 2009

(more details soon)

2009-01-28T10:25:00.000-08:00

TORONTO FRINGE HERE WE COME!

Fairly Lucid Productions was selected in the Lottery at the Toronto Fringe Festival so we will be madly getting ready for the Canadian premiere of our work with Benjamin Noble's interrogation

For those who saw the production in 2004 for the melbourne Fringe Festival, it has been updated, redrafted, workshopped and will be awhole new theatrical experience.

Details will come soon as we know but get ready

JULY 1 - 12th 2009. TORONTO. ONTARTIO. CANADA

Fringe it up

2008-12-19T09:06:00.000-08:00

Festive Greetings

Fairly Lucid Productions would like to wish all of our supporters, collaborators, artists, friends and audience the very best over the festive season.

We are looking forward to a prosperous new year for all of us in these hard times ahead. May you be warm if you are in the Northern Hemisphere, or enjoying the heat in the homeland.

Thank you all for your continual support.

On other news... Lucidal was a great success and enjoyed by a warm receptive audience. With such a pleasant evening, we may even do it again.

LUCIDAL

2008-11-28T22:18:00.000-08:00

Tickets are now available online for LUCIDAL - A Classical Benefit Concert through clicking on the link below. This will take you to the PayPal website and you will be able to securely buy your tickets online.

LUCIDAL is shaping up to be an event not to be missed. So what are you waiting for?

We are thrilled to announce a night that will showcase amazing artists raising funds for an exciting new theatre company and their upcoming inaugural production, “interrogation”.

Lucidal with feature the glorious tenor Gwyndaf Jones, recipient of the prestigious Blue Ribband award (Singer of the World competition) and former guest artist with the Welsh National Opera Company, English National Opera Company and the San Francisco Opera Company. Jones has brought together a breath taking selection of artists who will perform Classical and Music Standards throughout the evening.

Guests include emerging artists Milena Gajic (Feuchtwanger Piano Duo) just returning from an acclaimed European tour, Lorena Tosoni, (Brampton Lyric Opera), Brian Zanier (Windsor Symphony), Alde Calongcagong (Royal Conservatory of Music) and Larry Lewis.

Our host for the evening will be the extremely talented cast member of “interrogation” Alex Dallas (“gutsy and intelligent” Vancouver Courier), who will deliver her charm and bravado in a night that is not be missed. “Alex Dallas is so engaging, she can interest audiences in her last biopsy!” The Edmonton Journal.

All monies from the Benefit Concert will go towards the inaugural production of Fairly Lucid Productions award winning “interrogation” scheduled for Spring, 2009.

Come hear art to help make art!

(** Due to unforeseen circumstances, unfortunately the St David's Children's Choir, will no longer be performing with us, our apologies for an inconvience)

Saturday December 6th @ 730pm

Dewi Sant Welsh Church,
33 Melrose Ave,
Toronto (7 blocks north of Lawrence & Yonge)

TERMS & CONDITIONS

Once you have ordered online through the above weblink your tickets will be available to be collected at the Venue from 7pm onwards on Dec 6th 2008.
Tickets will be available at the venue subject to availability. Cash only.

Box Office will open half an hour prior to performance.

Please note all sales are final. No exchanges or refunds.

Late Comers will be seated at an appropriate break in the performance at the discretion of the Front Of House Staff.

LOOKING FOR MORE INFORMATION?

email fairlylucid@gmail.com
phone 416 577 8601

SPONSORS AND THANKS

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LUCIDAL BIOGRAPHIES

ALDE CALONGCAGONG

Alde completed his Bachelor of Music in piano performance form the University of Windsor. He later continued graduate studies at the University of Western Ontario. Alde has been active as a collaborative artist where he has performed throughout Michigan, Ontario, Alberta and Quebec. Currently he is an examiner for the Royal Conservatory of Music and is also the director of music at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Windsor.

ALEX DALLAS

Alex Dallas was born and raised in the UK, and immigrated to Canada in 1994. She now lives in Toronto. She has performed in many Edinburgh Fringe Festivals since 1982 and virtually every fringe festival in Canada since 1990, mostly with the raucously popular comedy troupe of "Sensible Footwear". She has also had David Cassidy, backstage at a chat show, tell her about his drug problems, she's shared a joint with Jack Nicholson, reassured Sting on his acting abilities on the set of Quadrophenia. No one needs to reassure Alex of her acting abilities, she has successfully toured shows from Toronto to Adelaide, Australia, and selling out everywhere she has performed.

MILENA GAJIC

Milena Gajic, piano teacher and performer, began her musical training in piano at the age of six and finished her studies with a Masters Degree in Musical Arts from the University of Belgrade. She has received many honors and her students have been awarded at various international competitions in Europe (Italy, Switzerland, France). Milena has been teaching and performing on three different continents: Europe, South America and North America.

In 1996 she performed Liszt’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in E flat major with the Symphony Orchestra of Radio and TV Serbia with maestro Jurij Aliev, and Haydn’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in D major with Academy of Arts Orchestra Novi Sad, conducted by maestro Mladen Jagust. She has given over 50 solo Concerts and recorded for radio and television.

Milena Gajic is a registered piano teacher at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Currently she teaches piano, theory of music, sight-reading and keyboards at her piano studio in Toronto, Canada. The studio is open to children of all ages as well as adults. She emphasizes the importance of teaching music to young children using creative, fun and contemporary techniques.

Ms. Gajic also has an international career playing concerts and recording, most recently with pianist Sanja Stefanovic(Germany) as part of the Feuchtwanger Piano Duo.

GWYNDAF JONES

Gwyndaf was born in Llanfairpwll, North Wales where he began his vocal training both with his mother, Elizabeth Jones and the late bass baritone, Frank Daniels. In 1987 he won the prestigious Blue Ribband award in the Singer of the World competition held in Cardiff, Wales, which also awarded him a scholarship to the Guild Hall School of Music in London, England. Gwyndaf has performed as a lead tenor for the Welsh National Opera Company, English National Opera Company and the San Francisco Opera Company. He continues to perform throughout Toronto and is pleased that this coming year he will be joining the Toronto Welsh Male Voice Choir as a featured soloist

BRIAN ZANIER

A native of Windsor, Ontario, he holds degrees from the University of Windsor and McGill specializing in trumpet performance and music education. He frequently performs with the Windsor Symphony, Windsor Light Opera and as a freelance trumpet player in the Windsor-Detroit area. Brian is also the trumpet instructor at the University of Windsor School of Music and heads the Music Department at Assumption College Catholic High School. Of all his accomplishments so far, he is most proud of his three children that he shares with wife Julie.

ST DAVID'S CHILDREN CHOIR

Donations are now available online

2008-06-07T22:53:00.000-07:00

Select the button above and please give so this company can keep producing work

Kind regards

The Prom - Friday 16th May 2008 9pm - The Gladstone Hotel

2008-05-07T09:07:00.000-07:00

Get ready... cause it's your chance to go to The Prom.

Fairly Lucid is throwing a good ole trashy 80's inspired Prom at the Gladstone Hotel on Friday 16th May at 9pm as a fundraiser. The funds from this dance party extravaganza will help to develop new work by Australian playwright Ben Noble whilst paying equity actors and an experienced director in shaping a new play to be performed later in the year.

So whip out the puffiest dress you can find. Dust off the dusty blue suit with the frills, grab a date and a corsage and get your dance on for the kookiest event to kick start the long weekend.

Tix are $15 in advance, by rsvp'ing to fairlylucid@gmail.com or $20 at the door.

The event will feature DJ’s, 80’s Dance performance followed by a Dance Off Competition, the crowing of King and Queen, Prizes, Nibblies, Special Guests and will have you dancing all the way back into your memories. They'll even be a photographer to get all those fabulous couple shots underneath our balloon archway to take home with you.

Just in case you are going away or are unable to make it, let us know and maybe you would like to still make a contribution in lieu of buying a ticket. All money goes towards creating and developing the Canadian premiere of Ben Noble's, "interrogation".

Fairly Lucid was based originally in Melbourne, Australia. "They are part of a new generation of Melbourne theatre artists which looks restlessly beyond parochial influences, and demonstrate that contemporary British writing is beginning to make itself felt in new writing" TheatrenotesTheir works are "beautifully eclectic" and "diversely textured" (Inpress 04).

Let's get this party started!

We're even on facebook -

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=17025673372

READINGS IN THE ROUGH

2006-08-14T09:34:00.000-07:00

"it is refreshing to see a young writer stretching the theatrical medium"

ROYAL COURT, LONDON

"Noble is clearly a startling and intelligent talent"

ALISON CROGGON, Critic

Fairly Lucid Productions from Melbourne, Australia are proud to introduce to Canadian audiences a staged reading of two new works from Award winning Australian playwright - Benjamin Noble.

Readings in the Rough, invites the audience to play a part in the dramaturgical process of writing a script. In an open discussion the audience helps to form what the play can become in this important stage of first public readings.

Featured for the inaugural reading in Canada are the following scripts -
The Swing Pushers gently chases around the games people play blurred between the lines of age and memory.
In the Darkness of Shadows dives between truth and fiction to discover a man's secret.

Benjamin Noble has received numerous awards within Australia, as both playwright and actor. In 2005 he was one of the few Australian delegates at the World International Playwright Festival (InterPlay). His writings have been work shopped throughout Australia and in New York and are often described as "beautifully eclectic" and "diversely textured" INPRESS.

Fairly Lucid Productions is originally a Melbourne based production company that first presented a Double Bill of new Australian work at the 2004 Melbourne International Fringe Festival and received an "Honourable Mention" at the Fringe Awards that year. With the hope to spread new Australian work to new audiences, they look forward to having you be part of it's international debut.

"we keep on creating memories from the dust left by realities" and "if we don't stop we won't know how to"

from "The Swing Pushers" & "In the Darkness of Shadows"

DETAILS

ONE NIGHT ONLY

Sunday 27th August 2006

6pm

Equity Showcase Theatre

651 Dufferin St, Toronto CANADA

NE corner of Dufferin and Dundas W

In St. Anne's Parish Hall

PWYC (Pay What You Can)

Suggested $10

No booking needed, Just arrive at the front door by 6pm and a friendly face will be there to guide you.

With

Clarissa Dernederlanden, Matthew Gorman, Peter Higginson, Janet Kompare-Fritz, Erin MacKinnon, Ben Noble, Daniel Schneiderman & Ryan Symington

Melbourne Fringe Festival 2004

2004-08-14T09:24:00.000-07:00

INTO THE FIRE
A Double Bill

featuring

Wallpaper
Written by Lucy Stewart
Directed by James Adler
&
interrogation
Written by Benjamin Noble
Directed by Julie Waddington

With
Alison Boyce, Naomi Frances, Miriam Glaser, Hope Hayward-Rowling, Chris Jefferson, Ben Noble and Kristian Sartori

And special appearances by
Shaun Brown, Sylvie de Crespigny, Daniel Frederiksen, Fiona Macleod, Peter Roberts and Tim Stitz.
Lighting Design
Luke Hails
Set Design
Andrew Bellchambers

SEASON
Sept 22 – Oct 2

All shows run Wed - Sat at 8pm & Sun at 7pm
Saturday Matinee Oct 2 at 2pm

IRENE MITCHELL STUDIO
44 ST MARTIN’S LANE
SOUTH YARRA

TICKETS
$13 - $18
Weally Cheap Wed 29th Sept all tix $10

Bookings
http://www.melbournefringe.com.au/

A Double Bill
By Lucy Stewart & Benjamin Noble

“you ever wanted to wake up from a dream?”
well “…something is about to break”.

Fairly Lucid Productions presents the premiere of two exciting new works Wallpaper and interrogation by two award
winning emerging playwrights – Lucy Stewart and Ben Noble.

Both works ask their characters to face their demons and find themselves on a
disturbing and tantalising journey crossing between fiction, fantasy and reality, where
no one really knows what’s real anymore.

Wallpaper gently peels away the tattered edges of three broken people.
interrogation dives between film, text and theatre in search of a killer.

Lucy Stewart has just returned from the Royal Court in London and The ED Fringe.
She has received numerous awards from St Martin’s Youth Arts Centre, Playbox,
Union House Theatre & Geelong Repertory Theatre. Ben Noble has received
numerous awards from St Martin’s Youth Arts Centre, as playwright and actor and his
work has been work shopped in New York with the Atlantic Theatre Company. Both
Lucy and Ben were commissioned by St Martin’s this year and their work has been
described as “beautifully eclectic” and “diversely textured”.