The Memory Room v.2

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Event The Memory Room v.2
Venue The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW
First Date 24 July 1990
Last Date 25 July 1990
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Part of a Tour Yes
Description Two previews of The Memory Room prior to touring to the International Toga Festival, Japan.
“…Entr’acte is the only guest company invited to perform outdoors with the Suzuki Company of Toga this year…” The Sydney Morning Herald.

"The Memory Room is about perception and self identity, imagination and reality, the spirit and the senses, a celebration of the human being. Five performers move in and out of an open-sided cube. They tilt it, they tumble it. It is a mind off balance; a plaything. ... Using narrative voice, operatic song and vivid imagery, Entr'acte's decade of work in movement-based theatre has resulted in the d
Description Source Article
Primary Genre Other
Secondary Genre Contemporary
Experimental
Performance
Postdramatic
Corporeal Theatre
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Elisabeth Burke Administrator
Elisabeth Burke Assistant to the Director
Annemaree Dalziel Costume Designer
Annemaree Dalziel Costume Maker
Pierre Thibaudeau Designer
Pierre Thibaudeau Director
Bruce Keller Dramaturg/e
Mark Shelton Lighting Designer
Paul Spedding Lighting Operator/Technician
Eamon D'Arcy Original Conceptualiser
Gregory Hordacre Performer
Bruce Keller Performer
Deborah Leiser Performer
Deborah Wayne Leiser Performer
Katia Molino Performer
Pierre Thibaudeau Performer
Brett Cochrane Photographer
John Webber Photographer
Pascal Baxter Production Manager
Susan Reid Publicist
Sarah de Jong Sound Designer
Pascal Baxter Sound Operator/Engineer
Pauline Markwell Tour Manager
Ann Lockley Various
Tracey Ryan Various
Nadia Weiner Various
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Australia
Further Information Re Grants: Funding for International Toga festival: PAB $14,580, DFAT (The Aust-Jap Foundation) $6,000; PAB Music Grant (Sarah de Jong) PAB Project Grant PAB/Lit board for dramaturgy (Bruce Keller).
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Entr'acte Archives ETL10: folders of programs, publicity and reviews. ETL03-05 Slides (ETL03 has the in-performance stage slides). ETL09 Photos EP16 Photos, proof sheets.
CV EB&PT long CV-unedited 1979-1991, p.5, Entr’acte Archives
Entr'acte Archives ETL26 Music masters and copies ETL23 Music reel-to-reel 14” ETL27 - lists from the Japanese tour of TMR 1990
Performance Space Database
Entr'acte Archives ETL16 Video SVH Pro, and Video Betacam. ETL17 Video VHS Mini ETL20 Video Umatic and VHS; USPS_159, 164-5, 184-5, 194, EPV02, EPV04-5, Videos. EPV07 Video VHS demo tape
Review “Theatre News” The Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday May 16, 1990. Plea for touring funding. Peter Cochrane, Arts Reporter, “Drama group off to Japan”, The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday, July 12, 1990.
Event Identifier 143193
Dataset AusStage