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Thursday, 17 July 2008 |
The Asterisk Project
A logic-defying new work from Chris Jackson & Alyd Taylor
Launceston College, Drama Space, Launceston
July 18, 8pm; July 19, 9pm
Michael Edgar, long-time head of the Performing Arts school at Inveresk, celebrated his retirement last week with a retrospective of his work over the years. If that was the past of theatre in Launceston, then this is definitely the future. AsteRisk is a wholly local production, starring two graduates of the Academy of the Arts at Inveresk, and backed by new Launceston theatre company, Mudlark Theatre.
However, there is nothing “community theatre” about this show.
The first of Mudlark's “Full Moon” projects (a series of shows, devised by up-and-coming artists, performed under a full moon), the show has been described as “theatre-on-the-edge”.
The show has been devised around the central theme of the asterisk (*). it is experimental, it is off-the-wall, avant-garde, suspenseful and risky. The show is framed as four “Plays within a play”, four multimedia snapshots of “guerrilla theatre”, using the asterisk as a touchstone, but leaping away from this central motif into strange, unexplored territory.
If this is the future of Launceston theatre, Michael Edgar has left it in good hands. This is theatre about risk; about breaking moulds. There are no pantomime donkeys or Gilbert and Sullivan medleys in sight. Community theatre has come of age, and it is an age of enlightenment and eccentricity.
To find out more, visit www.mudlarktheatre.com.au
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