stork feb 2011 newsletter
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The beating heart of this vast and celebrated nineteenth-century novelabout Russian society, family, and politics, is the story of Anna and Vronsky whose passion becomes their prison.
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August 3 - 21. HELEN & CLYTEMNESTRA by Jane Montgomery Griffiths
We are thrilled to present an exciting departure from our popular, annualPerformance Readings of one of Homer’s epics. We have commissioned a new play, which takes a perilously wild and witty perspective on two dark characters at the centre of the Trojan War. In this splendid, contemporary
take on the ancient tale, Griffi
ths gives us a haunting, entertaining anddisturbing insight into dark forces at work.
SEASON
May 25-June 12. 2011. Three weeks only
Wed – Sat @ 8pm. Sun @ 3pm, 51 Grey Street, St Kilda.
BOOKINGS & INFO 9410 0295 or [email protected]
Tix $29 / $27 sen. and conc./ $19 (full-time students under 25)
Book and pay now with credit card details. OR
Book now and pick up tix at least 15 minutes before the starting time.
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From the writer of the acclaimed ‘Sappho . . . In Nine Fragments’ and ‘Razing Hypatia’, comes a dazzling new play about the problems of being the most infamous sisters in the history of the world.
Jane Montgomery Griffiths, world authority on ancient Greek drama,combines her academic talents as an A.R.C. Research Fellow in Drama at Monash University, with her brilliant acting and writing skills for the Australian stage.
“Australia is lucky to have her . . .” Phillip Adams, ABC Radio National.
Helen and Clytemnestra are sisters. Helen abandoned husband and childand sailed off to Paris precipitating the Trojan War. The Greeks raisedan armada to bring her back. They succeeded, after thousands died. It was led by Agamemnon whose wife, Clytemnestra, murdered him uponhis return.
“When your names are Helen and Clytemnestra, it’s difficult not to be just a little suspicious of manuals on housework, stain removal and child
rearing.”
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Oct 26 - Nov 13. SIMONE de BEAUVOIR by Judith Armstrong
Simone de Beauvoir, Femme Fatale of Feminism. In 2011 on the 25th anniversary of
her death the icon of the feminist movement takes centre stage.
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986),trailblazing French philosopher, public intellectual, novelist, and lover, stands at thecenter of the Western feminist pantheon. This groundbreaking new play focuses onthe conflicts and passions of Simone de
Beauvoir as she endeavors to live a life of freedom.
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A lifelong rebel and challenger of all social conventions - especially thosesurrounding love and marriage - this vital, brainy woman then goes andfalls in love for the (first?) time at forty. (A story currently in production asa film called “My American Lover” 2012 starring Vanessa Paradis as
Simone and Johnny Depp.)
Beauvoir’s magnum opus, The Second Sex (1949), helped ignite thefeminist movement and changed w omen's liv es for ever. Its publicationcaused a howl of rage and derision across Europe.
“You have made the French male look ridiculous!” thundered Albert Camus.
The novelist and playwright Judith Armstrong, associate professor of Russian and European Studies, University of Melbourne and writer of the acclaimed adaptation of Crime & Punishment (2010), explores thenature of flawed genius.
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