Jeff Busby
NEW AUSTRALIAN WORK
WORLD
Premiere
KAGE
Appetite
FW Murnau’s
Faust
The much anticipated new work from multi-award winning
contemporary performance company KAGE
with original musical score by
Phillip Johnston
Directed by Kate Denborough and combining original live music from
acclaimed female vocalist New Buffalo, incisive text from award-winning
playwright Ross Mueller and featuring a fusion of dance, theatre and visual
design, Appetite promises to be a literal feast.
Presented by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image
in association with Melbourne International Arts Festival
Appetite is the story of a successful woman on the eve of her 39th birthday.
Ambushed by her own sense of disquiet – searching for fulfilment, craving
meaning and reinvigoration – she invites her closest family and friends to dinner
but, as the night progresses, when realising that her hunger for life, for lust, for
sensation has disappeared, she is inspired to change.
WARNING: Adult Concepts, Coarse Language and Cigarette Smoking
(Tobacco Free)
Directed by Kate Denborough
Writer Ross Mueller
Dramaturg Brett Adam
Composer & Musician
New Buffalo
Set Design
Kennedy Nolan Architects
Costume Design Paula Levis
Performers Fiona Cameron,
Michelle Heaven, Brian Lucas,
Catherine McClements & Gerard
Van Dyck
the Arts Centre, Fairfax Studio
Full
Groups (8+)
Conc
Student / MF-Y
Wed 22 – Sat 25 Oct at 7.45pm
Sat 25 Oct at 2pm
1hr 10min no interval
(Performance on Thu 23 Oct
followed by a post show Q&A)
“Johnston’s work is characterised by its wilful perversity – its
utter unwillingness to stay in one place, its defiance of genre,
its universal embrace of the offbeat, its celebration of the
quirky, dramatic and surprising gesture.” Seth Rogovoy
This 1926 German Expressionist silent film classic was FW Murnau’s last
German film before emigrating to America and is considered by many to be
his masterpiece. Using fantastic special effects and painterly tableaux to tell
a story that is larger than life, yet tragic in its human dimensions, its themes
of Fate, human vanity, individual free will, and self-sacrifice are as powerful
today as ever.
Phillip Johnston’s original score for Faust was commissioned by the Film
Society of Lincoln Center and premiered at the New York Film Festival. The
score features songs with lyrics by Australian playwright Hilary Bell as well as
instrumental underscore, performed by a new Australian ensemble featuring
Elizabeth Jones (accordion), John Napier (cello) and Lauren Easton (voice),
along with the composer on saxophone, piano and ukulele.
$35
$31.50
$26.25
$25
Discounts apply. Save up to 20%
Matinee Discounts also apply.
See page 2 for details.
Australian Centre for the Moving
Image, Cinema 2
Full
Conc
Sat 11 & Sun 12 Oct at 7pm
Sun 12 Oct at 1pm
ACMI Box Office (03) 8663 2583
www.melbournefestival.com.au
www.acmi.net.au
1hr 57min no interval
$25
$20
Ticketmaster 1300 136 166
www.melbournefestival.com.au
Developed with the assistance of
FULL TILT at the Arts Centre.
Produced by Keep Breathing
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