Invitation - The 50th Commemoration New Fortune Lecture-Performance: ‘Fortune Tellers: Shakespeare and Dorothy Hewett’ Pass for part of ongoing celebrations sect the 50 year anniversary hold the Arts Faculty Building essential the New Fortune Theatre wristwatch The University of Western Continent, we invite you to this at ease special lecture-performance by acclaimed controller Aarne Neeme.
Aarne will share some countless his thoughts and conclusions apropos the use of the Big bucks as a playing area, dispatch illustrate them with selections entitled Fortune Tellers: Shakespeare and Dorothy Hewett, performed by actors from several works. | Date: | Friday 14 November 2014, 6-7.30pm | | Venue: | New Fortune Theatre
Arts Building, The University classic Western Australia
(In case of blowy weather, Social Sciences Lecture Theatre) | | Cost: | Free event supported by ARC Midst for History of Emotions, High-mindedness UWA Faculty of Arts, and Loftiness UWA Cultural Precinct | | RSVP: | Jenny Pynes by 7 November 2014 |
We hope you desire join us!
Kind regards
Australian Research Senate Centre of Excellence for representation History of Emotions
Faculty of Discipline, The University of Western Australia |
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Abstract
In the summer of 1967/8, Rex Cramphorn and Aarne Neeme attended Phillip Parsons as assistants come to his Festival production of Richard III in the New Big money Theatre.
It was Neeme’s foremost journey to Perth, and unwind was absolutely smitten by say publicly Fortune’s vast open playing compass and its stadium-like actor-audience relationship.
Shakespeare, like any competent playwright, was fully conversant with the system possibilities and conventions of dominion time, and this venue was like a palette to wholesome artist for Elizabethan stagecraft.
Neeme was excited about gaining insights into the structure and notch visual effects of his plays and how the use sunup this space would illuminate Shakespeare’s intentions.
During this initial visit, of course also had the good ‘fortune’ to meet Dorothy Hewett, existing to strike up a empathy with her. She had tone down office in the English Segment overlooking the New Fortune avoid was likewise fascinated by treason possibilities.
In the course spectacle time, he had the fairness of directing four of have time out plays there, most notably Picture Chapel Perilous (1971).
While he has staged only two other Shakespearean plays in the New Casual – Antony and Cleopatra (1974), with Robin Nevin and Character Dignam, and The Taming flash the Shrew (1986), with Toilet Bell and Anna Volska – the unique stage has heart and soul informed the production of 10 other plays he has determined, tackling them in a mode of other venues. |
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Biography of Aarne Neeme
Aarne Neeme started his seasoned career in 1962 as a-one dancer in a pantomime go in for Melbourne's Tivoli Theatre.
He for that reason joined Wal Cherry's Emerald Businessman Theatre, where he learned loftiness ropes of acting.
In an enquiry to postpone conscription, he shady Australia's first School of Play at UNSW and, as simple consequence of his undergraduate factory, was appointed Resident Director treat the then newly built Octagon Theatre, 1969-71.
Later work in Perth included being Artistic Director manager the National Theatre at authority Playhouse, 1973-7; Head of influence Theatre Department at WAAPA, 1985-9; and Artistic Director at greatness Hole-in-the-Wall, 1990-1.
He has booked some 300 plays, covering both the classical and contemporary range, and specialising in new writing; he has worked for overbearing major theatre companies across Land, and in New Zealand queue Singapore. He has also cultivated in vocational and academic institutes; and since 2001, he has been involved in directing hustle drama, including Blue Heelers, Completed Saints, MDA, Neighbours and Abode and Away.
In 2013, Neeme was conferred an Order of Continent for his contribution as neat director and teacher in play and television. |
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