BLOOMSDAY IN MELBOURNE
TRAVESTIES
BY TOM STOPPARD
DIRECTED BY JENNIFER SARAH DEAN
fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
12 – 23 June 2019
All photos: Christa Hill
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THE CREATIVE TEAM
Director: Jennifer Sarah Dean
Cast
Henry Carr: Dion Mills
James Joyce: Johnathan Peck
Lenin: Syd Brisbane/Albert Goikhman
Tristan Tzara: Matthew Connell
Gwendolen: Joanna Halliday
Cecily: Gabrielle Sing
Bennett: Tref Gare
Stage Manager: Kyra von Stiegler
Costume Designer: Rhiannon Irving
Set Designer: Jordan Stack
Lighting Design: Alex Blackwell
Sound Design: Alex Toland
Photography: Christa Hill
Artistic Director of Bloomsday: Frances Devlin-Glass
Producer: Steve Carey
REVIEWS OF TRAVESTIES
Many reviewers were impressed:
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PHILIP HARVEY, JOYCEAN, IN TINTEÁN
His verdict: 'A slideshow of linguistic fireworks in which any amount of explosive art talk does not get in the way of a fizzing Wildean epigram.
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CAMERON WOODHEAD FOR THE AGE AND THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Travesties' brilliance lies in the comic collision of intellectual burlesque and pointy-headed aesthetic philosophy with surrealist theatre, musical hijinks and radical politics: read more....
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SAMSARA DUNSTON, WHAT DID SHE THINK?
'an exciting night of theatre the likes of which you don't often get to see...Read more
BLOOMSDAY SEMINAR 2019
AT THE SWISS CLUB, 89 FLINDERS LANE, MELBOURNE
Chair Person: Professor Barry Jones AM
Patron of Bloomsday in Melbourne
PROFESSOR RONAN McDONALD
Gerry Higgins Chair of Irish Studies, University of Melbourne
‘The Consecration of Ulysses: National or Universal?’
Ulysses (1922), now recognised as the greatest of all modern novels, did not gain its status spontaneously or even inexorably. Instead it went through a process of critical and cultural reception and debate, surviving and thriving within a field of cultural economics that bestows and withholds ‘literary value’. Part of its success was a wily (Odyssean?) negotiation of national and cosmopolitan aesthetic agendas.
DR STEVE CAREY
‘Joyce, Zurich 1917: Stoppard’s Travesties and All That Da-da’
In 1917, as the Great War rages, Joyce and family are in Zurich in neutral Switzerland, Joyce hard at work on Ulysses and his wife and children coming to terms with another relocation. Joyce the entrepreneur and impresario decides to launch a theatrical production company, The English Players, and to put on The Importance of Being Earnest - a provocative choice, given Wilde's reputation. Teasing out fact from fiction and unpicking the implications, Steve Carey sets the scene for our Bloomsday production.
