Check out the new videos we’re making in our trailer for our production at the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2010.
05
Sep 10
Sucking strawberries on a wall
Between rehearsals we’ve been squeezing shoots in. Looking to use more video than last time, which was audio-heavy to be sure. Editing all day yesterday and started to go stir crazy. Here’s a snippet:
16
Aug 10
Waffle.
“Have we really, at least, as far as we are represented by our politicians, become a nation which has exchanged the bird’s eye view for that of the slug?”
Bill Henson talking forever at the Melbourne Art Fair, mixing metaphors and writing badly.
15
Aug 10
Miniature stories
Experimenting with miniatures for the new conception of Milk Wood, continuing on from our topographical map of a set in Sidetrack with little lit houses on the floor. This video from 2005 was my first of many trials where I combined improvisation and autobiographical storytelling in a composite of miniatures.
06
Aug 10
CRASH.
The Andromeda Galaxy is approaching the Milky Way at about 100 to 140 kilometres per second (62 to 87 mi/s),[59] so it is one of the few blue shifted galaxies. The Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way are thus expected to collide in perhaps 4.5 billion years, although the details are uncertain since Andromeda’s tangential velocity with respect to the Milky Way is only known to within about a factor of two.[60] A likely outcome of the collision is that the galaxies will merge to form a giant elliptical galaxy.[61]Such events are frequent among the galaxies in galaxy groups. The fate of the Earth and the Solar System in the event of a collision are currently unknown. If the galaxies do not merge, there is a small chance that the Solar System could be ejected from the Milky Way or join Andromeda.[62]
05
Aug 10
Fate
“Let us now look forward rather than backwards – as forecasters rather than fossil hunters. Stars will survive the crash with Andromeda but in about 7 billion years the Sun will swell up, engulfing the inner planets, and vapourizing any remaining life on Earth before it throws off its outer layers. It will then settle down to a quiet demise as a white dwarf.” – Stephen Hawking.
25
Jun 10
A tasty bit for your eyes and ears
Here’s a teaser. Turn up your speakers!
We have music written for the show by Emily Irvine and Joseph Littlefield, which you can hear throughout the trailer.
13
Jun 10
Sunday afternoon
Long rehearsal yesterday – 14 straight hours with Zoe. Not sick of each other yet. Having a lovely Sunday off, reading the bad Sunday paper, drinking bad coffee, watching bad TV. Have been thinking about the three-year gap that would have meant not being able to produce Under Milk Wood, thanks to the Free Trade Agreement in 2005. Had it been signed in 2002, we wouldn’t have been able to experiment with Dylan Thomas’ writing until 2023 without raising considerably more funds for royalties payable to an estate.
08
May 10
Rehearsing in Sidetrack and bullet point update
Ah, first day of rehearsing in the theatre over. Remarkable early mark. Will post the photos we took for the poster soon. Emily Irvine has been whipping up tunes for the new incarnations of Thomas’ songs. Little projections being made of little men walking all over Zoe. Lamps between legs. Scaling ladders and scrambling in straight-jackets.
