Cirrus@Austlit

'A mass of children wait in the desert. With no leader to guide them, and no one to answer their cries, they summon an unruly force.BOOK OF EXODUS - PART II traces a community propelled from a violent past into an uncertain future.'

Source: Fraught Outfit.

'Two children create a documentary of a history they cannot remember.

'Inspired by the biblical BOOK OF EXODUS, Fraught Outfit’s latest production is a radical, poetic response to an ancient narrative of plagues and miracles, violence and division, punishment and liberation, the drowned and the saved.' (Production summary)

'The Wizard of Oz is a parable of biblical proportions. L. Frank Baum’s original novel invented a new kind of story: in the aftermath of a natural disaster, a young girl finds herself alone in a foreign land seeking answers from an all-powerful but unseen wizard – who turns out to be a man behind a curtain. This tale of power and discovery in a land of marvellous beauty has become as foundational in the contemporary imagination as Shakespeare or the Greeks.

'Adena Jacobs’ stark and sublime re-imagining is a theatrical poem about innocence, grief and the terror of growing up. Leave the kids at home for this radical feminist take on one of our most beloved myths.

'This is Oz as we’ve never seen it before…' (Production summary)

'A city teeters on the edge of crisis. A god arrives in the guise of a mortal. Boundaries collapse; old, young, boy, girl, human, beast, mortal, divine, good, bad, light and dark. Co-created by Aaron Orzech and critically-acclaimed director Adena Jacobs, with a collaborating ensemble of young female actors and musicians, The Bacchae is an epic, and hallucinatory theatrical experience.

'A group of teenage girls pray to the god Dionysus, seeking salvation in the arms of excess. Around them a plague rages and their city burns, as all they've known turns to dust at their hands. The female cast from the acclaimed St Martins lend The Bacchae offers an unsettling vision of sacrifice and spiritual desolation.'

Source: Fraught Outfit.

'Belvoir’s new resident director, Adena Jacobs (Persona) presents a poetic, cinematic vision of Ibsen’s famous drama, drawing out its expressionistic imagery and the wild, private impulses of the characters. In a gender-bending twist, she has cast Ash Flanders (one half of queer theatre punks Sisters Grimm) in the title role.' (Source: Belvoir St Theatre website)

'One night, during a performance of "Elektra", an actress falls silent, and from then on, refuses to speak. The nurse assigned to her recovery, takes her to a remote seaside cottage. Very quickly, this safe house transforms into a site of terror and isolation, as patient and nurse grow dangerously close. A nightmarish poem about identity, intimacy and the limits of the spoken word.'

Source: http://www.theatreworks.org.au/ (Sighted 24/05/2012).