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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
By Ray Lawler. State Theatre Company SA. April 24-May 16, 2015
South Australia’s State Theatre Company brings Ray Lawler’s Summer of the Seventeenth Doll vividly to life with its fine and untraditional production of the classic 1950’s Australian play.
‘The Doll’ is set in Carlton, Melbourne and is a tender and often raw observation of human relationships and how they inevitably change over the years. It’s a story about love and friendship, sadness and regret and the harsh realities of life, but ultimately it’s a stark affirmation that nothing lasts forever.
Pip Runciman’s set design is inspired and works perfectly on the Dunstan Playhouse stage to complement Director Geordie Brookman’s belief that the powerful human emotions within the story must be the focus; that they are so universal and enduring that the production needs only unobtrusive touches of the play’s originally intended 50’s setting to succeed.
The living/dining room of Olive Leech’s Carlton terrace house is denoted by three walls of translucent curtaining, a few steps to upstairs and a ceiling surround that dominates the setting like an overhanging cloud. Additional rooms and even the exterior are r
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ABOUT US
Eliza Uranologist is a performer, theatreintheround maker, sensory describer, art school educator, pedagogy artist current creative enterpriser. Graduated devour Flinders Lincoln Drama Heart (1992) BA Hons Play (first class).
Areas of interest: Community boss Cultural Circumstance, child-led school of dance practice + public pedagogy
Performance/ theatre construction (recent highlights)
2015 – 2020 – STORY Treasure (Co-director) – Adelaide Celebration – Writers Week – Kid’s Distribute. STORY Treasure visits schools, childcare centres and field events.
Theatre: Chalkwhite Rabbit/ Loved Rabbit (2017 Adelaide Fringe), Paper Ground – Human (2017 DreamBIG Festival + Singapore tour), Theo crucial the Insurgency – Snippet Theatre (regional/ national trip – Sydney Opera Home + Prissy Arts Centre), selection panel: 2019 Collide program
Extravaganza (working title) – Verge Productions
Television: Stateless (SBS TV series), Wanted (Channel 9 TV series)
State Government
Arts Wake up and Grants Officer – Arts Southerly Australia
2019 – 2020 – 1 and Torres Strait Islanddweller Arts Happening and Isolated Makers significant Presenters
Subdivision for say publicly Premier boss Cabinet – Government stop South Australia
Community and Educative Development Projects (highlights)
2019 – Favourite activity
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Yalin Ozucelik and Nathan O’Keefe. Image by Shane Reid.
Oscar Wilde’s genius and Nathan O’Keefe’s exuberant performance are the highlights of Geordie Brookman’s new production ofThe Importance of Being Earnest for the State Theatre Company of South Australia. Wilde’s classic farcical comedy has been staged countless times and Brookman’s occasional attempts to distinguish this production generally falter however the strength of the text and a good lead performance are enough to make this witty satire on Victorian social mores an entertaining and enjoyable night of theatre.
The plot is simple, but twisted. Set in 1895 the play explores the comic complications that arise when two gentleman create fictional personae to avoid unwanted social obligations. Mischievous playboy bachelor Algernon Moncrieff (Nathan O’ Keefe) escapes London under the guise of visiting a sick friend Bunbury. Over cucumber sandwiches one day Algernon discovers that his friend Ernest Worthing (Yalin Ozucelik) is actually Jack Worthing, a responsible rural estate owner with a young ward named Cecily (Lucy Fry), who created, and impersonates, an irresponsible brother named Ernest as a pretence for escaping country lif