True Love Travels on a Gravel Road
A$3,672
of $3,500 targetyrs ago
Successful on 27th Mar 2013 at 12:00AM.
Jake and Maggie are just a couple of country kids trying to make it
to the theatre.
They need your help to get there.
Jake and Maggie are two of the characters featured in "True Love Travels on a Gravel Road". The play, a 2011, R.E Ross Trust Playwrights' Development award recipient, will have its premiere production at fortyfivedownstairs 15 May - 2 June 2013.
The result of of more than 2 years work by writer, Jane Miller and director, Beng Oh, and a group of dedicated actors, "True Love Travels on a Gravel Road" is a quintessentially Australian comic drama, described by the 2011 R.E Ross Trust judging panel as "a very funny
riff on choice and broken
dreams, set in a photocopy
centre in a regional town".
The production features an outstanding cast and creative team and your support will be a key enabler in the season achieving its potential. Feedback from the play's readings suggest that these artists collaborating on this play are a wonderful combination. Help Melbourne audiences experience that.
True Love Travels on a Gravel Road
May 15 - June 2
45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Cast:
Chris Broadstock, Marnie Gibson, Emily Goddard, David Kambouris, Elizabeth McColl, Glenn van Oosterom
Creatives:
Christina Logan-Bell : Set & Costume Design, Timothy Bright: Sound Design, Andy Turner: Lighting Design
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the following sponsors:
City of Melbourne - Supported through the Arts Grants Program
Rehearsal venues provided by Port of Melbourne Corporation
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We are putting every last ounce of effort into raising funds for this budget so that this show has the set, costumes, sound and lighting it deserves.
Otherwise we're potentially talking darkness, silence, nudity and mime.
Save Melbourne from a dark, empty room and six naked actors.
We are putting every last ounce of effort into raising funds for this budget so that this show has the set, costumes, sound and lighting it deserves.
Otherwise we're potentially talking darkness, silence, nudity and mime.
Save Melbourne from a dark, empty room and six naked actors.
Beng Oh
Beng is a Melbourne-based director who has staged a wide range of productions including new Australian plays, comedies, experimental works, musicals and opera. He has directed plays by John Patrick Shanley, Paula Vogel, Peter Handke, Heiner Müller, Ann Jellicoe, Frank Wedekind, Gertrude Stein, Howard Barker and Arthur Schnitzler among others.
Productions include Dr Faustus/Lights the Lights by Christopher Marlowe and Gertrude Stein for Ballarat University’s Arts Academy; the Australian premiere of Tom Fool (aka Mensch Meier) by Franz Xaver Kroetz (“[an] exemplary production, directed with a profound and compassionate clarity” - Theatre Notes); a Green Room Award nominated production of Porcelain by Chay Yew ( “a slick and thought provoking production, beautifully directed and acted” – Arts Hub); Where’s My Money? by John Patrick Shanley and And Baby Makes Sevenby Paula Vogel, both for Red Stitch; and the premiere of Happily Ever After by Jane Miller at La Mama.
Beng completed post-graduate directing at the Victorian College of the Arts and is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater’s Directors Lab.
You’re terrific! And because you're terrific, you're getting a big, fat,sloppy “Thank You" in the printed program.
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You’re fab! Are you an actor? Well, you'll wish you were because you're getting an audition monologue written especially for you by Jane Miller. "Who's Jane Miller?" you may ask. Good point but take the monologue anyway as she can't bake and is a lousy knitter. And if you're not an actor, think of how you can entertain your friends at parties. You're also getting a big, fat sloppy, “Thank You” in the printed program because "we like you...we really really like you."
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