Monday 12 to Friday 16 May
10 double passes to Attempts on Her Life
Presented by MU Student Union Ltd’s Union House Theatre.
By Martin Crimp
Directed by Susie Dee
Seventeen scenarios for theatre – a disjointed jigsaw puzzle for generation now.
From pornography and ethnic violence, to terrorism and unprotected sex, a strange array of nameless characters attempt to invent the perfect story to encapsulate our time.
Director: Susie Dee, Assistant Director: Chris Summers
Design: Jeminah Reidy, Sound Design & Composition: Kelly Ryall, Lighting Design: Niklas Pajanti, Video design: Nicholas Verso. Featuring a cast of Melbourne University students with VCA student secondments.
16-24 May 2008, 8pm
23 May, 1pm & 24 May, 4pm
Location: Guild Theatre, first floor, Union House
Tickets: $20 full /$12 concession /$10 members
Bookings: (03) 8344 7447
Union House Theatre is pleased to offer Student Union members 10 double passes to the dress rehearsal of Attempts on Her Life, 8pm, Thursday 16 May. For your chance to win, email your student number and a contact phone number to uht-at-union.unimelb.edu.au with the subject line “Attempts on MU Student Union” before midday Wednesday 14 May. Only winners notified.
50 in season passes to The Red Balloon
2007 Cannes Film festival (Opening night, Un Certain Regard)
Starring Juliette Binoche
Directed by Hou Hsiao Hsien
A mysterious red balloon follows 7 year old Simon around Paris. His mother Suzanne (Binoche) is a puppeteer who uses her vocal talents to bring life to the shows she writes. Completely absorbed in her new show, single mother Suzanne strives to balance her work and motherhood in modern day Paris.
Union House Theatre and Madman Films are pleased to offer Union Members 50 in season double passes to The Red Balloon, opening May 29. For your chance to win, flash your Student Union card in the Union House Theatre office from Monday 12 May. First in best dressed.
3 double passes to Scarlett O’Hara at The Crimson Parrot
By David Williamson
Playing at the Arts Centre Playhouse, 7 June to 12 July
Cast Includes Caroline O’Connor
Scarlett never has her mind on the job, and why would she? Her job is dull while her interior life is exciting. Her brain teems with the characters, situations and dialogue from the movies she loves and consumes like popcorn. But while she is off in la-la land, she may just miss something magical and exciting happening in her own life.
Loosely based on James Thurber’s Walter Mitty character, this whimsical fantasy brings together for the first time two of MTC’s favourites, performer extraordinaire Caroline O’Connor and playwright David Williamson.
Union House Theatre and MTC are please to offer Union Members 3 double passes to the Monday 9 June performance at 8pm. For your chance to win, email uht@union.unimeld.edu.au with your student number, mobile number and the subject line “Scarlett O’Hara” before Friday May 16. Only winners notified.
Two-for-one passes to Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s Venus In Furs
(Theatreworks 2008 Company Initiative Program along with Elbow Room)
“In Love, there is no equality”
Born into wealth, Severin has the world at his fingertips, but no love to inspire him – until he encounters an artist greater than himself. Wanda’s canvas is the human soul; her tools are beauty, desire, and degradation; and Severin will become her slave, her patient, and her masterpiece.
Melbourne’s finest young talents present a sparkling new adaptation of the novel that lodged its author’s name in the Western psyche forever.
30 April – 18 May
Until 18 May
Preview Wednesday 30th April
Opening Friday 2nd May
Tuesday to Saturday 8pm
Sundays at 6pm
Bookings line: (03) 9534 3388
Theatreworks would love to offer Student Union members a 2-for-1 deal on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights to Venus in Furs (subject to availability). Just mention the password “Union House Theatre” when booking.
two-for-one tickets to the Australian premiere of Inky
Presented by Complete Works Theatre Company
By Rinne Groff
Produced by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc.
Float like a Butterfly. Sting like a Bee…
A love-starved couple struggle to satisfy their desire to have it all during the morally skewed 1980’s in America. When they take in Inky (a young Eastern European nanny who is obsessed with Muhammad Ali) to care for their nine-year-old daughter and infant son, they are forced to face both their limitations and their potential for change. Inky- a 15-round, dark comedy about the importance of fighting back!
22 May 2008 To 08 June 2008
Directed by Jacquelin Low
Set Design by Emily Collett
Costume Design by Doyle Barrow
Performed at Theatreworks
Featuring Kellie Jones, Eleanor Howlett and Roderick Cairns
With original music by ‘The Wintership Quartet’
Inky is also proudly supported By Cut n Run Productions and Word of Mouth Theatre Company.
Bookings line: (03) 9534 3388
Theatreworks would love to offer Student Union members a 2-for-1deal on Wednesday nights to Inky (subject to availability).. Just mention the password “Union House Theatre” when booking.
2 double passes to Kids Can Get Lost
(presented by Spilt Second)
A bunch of kids have set out to bring a live audience to the urban Fantasia that is the under-side of the Flemington Bridge overpass. However, on the other side of the urban landscape, a bureaucratic plot is being hatched to undermine their efforts. Occupational Health and Safety manuals, insurance premiums and risk management plans are all being launched to destroy the young hopefuls. All seems lost. What are they to do? The solution is simple: Fight back.
Kids Can Get Lost is a hilarious performance about two Occupational Health and Safety Officers who attempt to run an educational course on Safe Family Roadtrips. The staging ground is the vast concrete floodway below the Yellow and Red Sticks of the CityLink Tollway. A place that is reminiscent of MTV Music Videos, Hollywood car chases and disaster movies; the perfect location for crash testing the great Australian road trip.
This show is a part of the 2008 NEXT WAVE Festival 15–31 May
Venue: Flemington Community Centre, 25 Mt Alexander Rd, Flemington. MELWAY 29 B12
Dates: 16th –31st May (Not Mondays, Tuesdays or Wednesdays)
Tickets: $15.00 Full / $12.00 Concession
Times: 5pm (75 min duration)
Bookings: The Event Shop 1300 727 432, www.nextwave.org.au (credit card only) or at the door.
PLEASE NOTE: Advanced booking is essential. Tickets will be on sale at the venue only upon availability. This is an outdoor performance. Wear warm clothing and walking shoes.
Union House Theatre is please to have 2 double passes for Union Members for opening night, Friday 16 May. Email “Kids Can Get Lost – Union” plus your student number and mobile contact to uht-at-union.unimelb.edu.au before Tuesday 13 May for your chance to win. Only winners notified.
Two-for-one passes to Wanderlands
*Proudly presented by St Martins Youth Arts Centre
A play by Nic Velissaris
Directed by Sarah Austin*
“ They’re not fairytales. They’re our stories, the ones we started when we were kids… that we were stopped from finishing.’’
A brand new work by St Martins Youth Arts Centre, Wanderlands is a gripping, political fantasy featuring a live soundscape, puppetry and a cast of fourteen fantastic young performers.
Wanderlands explores a not-too-distant future in which teenagers are enslaved to the workforce and are being mysteriously struck down by the “Curse”, an unknown and deadly illness.
Featuring a chorus of beatnik jazz cats, human-birds, spacemen and rabid lawyers, Wanderlands is full of beautiful images, striking text and very contemporary perspectives on teenage ideology.
Season: Wed – Sat, May 14th – May 24th at 8pm, Sat May 17th and 24th at 2pm
Venue: Randall Theatre, 44 St Martins Lane, South Yarra 3141
Tickets: $22.50 full, $18.50 concession, $16 members
Bookings: www.stmartinsyouth.com.au
Direction: Sarah Austin
Design: Dayna Morrisey
Lighting Design: Angela Cole
Sound Design: Angie Grant
St Martins would like to offer all university students 2-for-1 tickets! To book, please ring the St Martins office on 9867 2477 and quote the codeword “AGATHA”. You must also quote your university and student number to receive this offer, and tickets can only be booked with credit card payment.
