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Jan – Jun 2015

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Welcome to Rock Surfers Theatre Company’s Season: Jan-Jun 2015.

A MESSAGE FROM ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PHIL SPENCER

I am very proud to announce the January-June 2015 Season at Rock Surfers Theatre Company, one of this country’s most passionate and committed producers of contemporary theatre work. This is the 17th season of work the company has presented, our fourth season of work here by the world’s most famous beach, and my second season curating and assembling what we believe to be a collection of the most ambitious and exciting local, national and international independent theatre-makers.

In the next six months, Rock Surfers will be presenting world premieres, performing in pop-up spaces, hitting the road, collaborating with the locals, teaming up with major festivals and entertaining the whole family. On top of this, we will proudly continue to strive to create artistic hubs for independent artists – something that is at the heart of what we do here. Creative centres have nothing to do with the bricks and mortar; rather it’s the energy of artists that bring spaces to life. That said, it is nice to be able to swim on your lunch break.

As a theatre company we’ve made Bondi our home over the past few years, but have recently taken artistic opportunities to respond to our growing interest in site-specific performance work and offering audiences alternative theatrical experiences. We look forward to embarking on these adventures beyond Rock Surfers HQ over the next six months.

Artistically the Jan-June 2015 season is full of playful binaries and brutal contradictions. We’ve assembled works that speak about the conflict between the personal narrative and the political context, the intimacy of a private story in a public space, the safety of family and the terror of parenting.

So now, check out the season! I look forward to seeing you over the coming months, either at our home here in Bondi or as we pop-up elsewhere across the country.

Cheers,
Phil.

Check out the season below, or click on the individual shows for a more detailed look at Jan – Jun 2015.

SUMMER CAMP

12 January – 7 February

Four weeks of cheap and free shows, cold beers, art parties, artist workshops and more, all on Rock Surfers’ home turf at Bondi Beach. Summer Camp is here – and it’s going to be hot!

DESTROYER OF WORLDS
by Caleb Lewis

13 – 28 February

“She wanted to watch The Ice Storm and I wanted to watch Godzilla and I realised in that moment we weren’t going to make it.”

Rock Surfers hit the road with a semi-autobiographical tale from multi-award-winning playwright Caleb Lewis (Death in Bowengabbie, Rust & Bone) about a couple imploding, a bomb exploding and how love sometimes makes monsters of us all.

SHOTGUN

11 – 22 March

Are the doors locked? Good. We’ll begin…

Rock Surfers head to the Domain to team up with Spectrum Now in presenting the world premiere of this unique and intimate micro-performance. An audience of three is invited to sit down, buckle up and listen in, for a darkly comic monologue staged inside a parked car.

FUTURE SENIOR/FORMER YOUTH

16 – 22 March

An exciting new verbatim/documentary theatre collaboration between the Bondi community and Rock Surfers artists. An examination of life, loss, love, tea, and Twitter. Youth interview Seniors (and vice versa) to devise a performance that blends interviews, multimedia, comedy and good old-fashioned storytelling.

SHABBAT DINNER
by Jessica Bellamy

23 – 29 MARCH

Rock Surfers step out of Bondi for this pop-up immersive performance experience from award-winning playwright Jessica Bellamy. Share a Jewish meal catered by the writer, rekindling the tastes and rituals of her family’s Shabbat Fridays. Directed by Anthony Skuse (Punk Rock, On the Shore of the Wide World), Shabbat Dinner features poetic storytelling, live music and Jess’ best efforts at her Baba’s Borscht.

DR BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN AND HIS SINGING TIGER
by Phil Burgers and Stuart Bowden

7 – 11 APRIL

Don’t miss this Sydney debut of the show that scooped Best Kids Show awards at Melbourne Comedy Festival, Adelaide Fringe, and Melbourne Fringe. Pack a snack and your adventure shoes and prepare to lend a hand in this silly, physical, musical, Brown-ical experience.

ANIMAL/PEOPLE
by Brooke Robinson

29 APRIL – 16 MAY

Good parents become bad people in Brooke Robinson’s new poetic thriller; a sweaty jog through a brutal suburbia brought to life by James Dalton (Kill the PM, Mr Kolpert).

SYDNEY WRITERS’ FESTIVAL

18 – 24 MAY

Australia’s finest literary celebration, Sydney Writers’ Festival, join forces with new-writing theatre company Rock Surfers for a week of events that take words off the page and onto the stage, featuring shows, interviews, storytelling, poetry and more.

CUT & PASTE

Bi-monthly

All good things start from scratch. This scratch night is an incubator for new work, inviting playwrights, comics, musicians, and other creative geniuses to try out a new ten-minute idea in front of you, the audience. Now in its fifth year, Cut & Paste features the cream of the crop of local artists, plus interstate and special guests.