Ostraka v.4

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Event Ostraka v.4
Venue The Green Room, Manchester, England
First Date 16 September 1988
Last Date 17 September 1988
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere Yes
Part of a Tour Yes
Description EUROPEAN PREMIERE. One month tour of Britain Sep-Oct 1988.
"... The kaleidoscope of images - .....a woman slowly swinging an axe, a manic chorus of six twitching and laughing performers moving cautiously across stage like some ship on an ocean of tears - all arrive from the deep well of Greek theatre, from the violent death of Agamemnon at the hands of Clytemnestra. The performers themselves are dressed in sackcloth greys and body pink - attended on stage by a sculptural chorus of tall trembling red antennae - and accompanied by flutes, bells, taped music and bloody reminiscences.
It is perhaps no accident that this company of visual musicians- whose instruments are their bodies- hails from Australia...", Arts Guardian, (Manchester).
The staging is stylish, colourful, intense and superbly well drilled, with some terrific moments of climax.
(there is a) continuity of purpose which will carry the audience from one coup de theatre to the next.”. Glasgow Herald.
Description Source Reviewer's Opinion
Primary Genre Other
Secondary Genre Visual Theatre
Physical Theatre
Group-devised
Avant-garde
Postdramatic
Corporeal Theatre
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Barney Medlin Composer *additional music
Colin Offord Composer
Anna Kiener Costume Assistant
Melody Cooper Costume Designer
Pierre Thibaudeau Creator
Pierre Thibaudeau Director
John Baylis Dramaturg/e
Bruce Keller Dramaturg/e *additional dramaturgy
Janine Peacock Lighting Designer
Janine Peacock Lighting Operator / Technician
Elisabeth Burke Performer
Michelle Fox Performer
Terry Hansen Performer
Bruce Keller Performer
Jane Schneider Performer
Janice Slater Performer
Pierre Thibaudeau Performer
Brian Findlay Set and/or Property Maker
Neil Hawkes Set and/or Property Maker
Pierre Thibaudeau Set Designer
Marguerite Yourcenar Writer Text: Fire, Aidan Ellis
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Entr'acte Archives EPV01: Video VHS ETL14: Video Umatics ETL16: Video Umatic (On Archeology & Ostraka) ETL20-21: Video VHS. Videos digitally archived at Sydney University:USPS_007, 035-36, _041, _048, _057
Performance Space Database
Entr'acte Archives ETL10: programs, publicity & reviews. Program notes. ETL08: Photos EP11: Photos & reviews. Regis Lansac (On Archeology & Ostraka)
Review Angela Bennie “Signs from the stage: analysing the moment” The Australian, Wednesday, October 12, 1988. This is a whole page article and interview with Prof. Patrice Paris. In it he praises the research of Entr’acte.
CV EB&PT long CV-unedited 1979-1991, p.4, Entr’acte Archives
Review City Limits, London. Preview. “Moving Story”, Salisbury
Entr'acte Archives ETL25-26: Music master Janice Slater. Audio Cassette Colin Offord.
Review Andrew Burnett , “Third Eye Centre, Glasgow”, Glasgow Herald, Thursday, October 6, 1988. The List, Glasgow
Review Preview. City Life, Manchester Bill Harpe, “Ostraka” Arts Guardian, Manchester, September 19, 1988
Review David Presswell, “Ostraka”, Venue, Bristol. “Ostraka”, Centrestage, Bristol.
Event Identifier 143140