Welcome to Wharf 2LOUD
"...a promising sign of a willingness to take chances in programming, and to give talented and creative young theatremakers a space in which to explore and experiment." The Daily Telegraph, 4 July 2008
In 2008, the five shows we have curated for the Wharf 2LOUD program are glimpses into the vast possibility of theatre. As someone once said about something else... 'My father's house has many mansions.' Indeed.
Speaking (on one level) of a building with more to it than you thought: The first show is not even in Wharf 2 but in the Richard Wherrett Studio (at Sydney Theatre). embrace: GUILT FRAME is a mesmerising movement piece that drifts and eddies through human emotion at about a millimetre per second.
The rest of the season WILL BE in Wharf 2.
Manna, the second show, is driven by the aural theatre-scape as strongly as it is by the visual. The third – putting the spanner in our own works – is a new play, a new Tommy Murphy play in fact. Saturn’s Return explores a crucial hiatus in time.
The fourth piece Highway Rock ‘n’ Roll Disaster comes to us fully-formed and road-tested from a young Adelaide company, The Border Project. Looking as much like a gig as a play, it’s full of vim, vigour and vroom. Frankenstein, the final instalment in our mini-season, sees Ralph Myers and his hand-picked team of experts untangling the creative process through the mother of all creative processes: the invention of life itself.
You will safely be able to say after each of these 'you know...' or 'Gosh'... or even 'Wow... I’ve never seen anything quite like it’ without fear of repeating yourself.
Cate Blanchett & Andrew Upton
Artistic Directors 2008
Wharf 2LOUD is supported by UBS
In 2008, the five shows we have curated for the Wharf 2LOUD program are glimpses into the vast possibility of theatre. As someone once said about something else... 'My father's house has many mansions.' Indeed.
Speaking (on one level) of a building with more to it than you thought: The first show is not even in Wharf 2 but in the Richard Wherrett Studio (at Sydney Theatre). embrace: GUILT FRAME is a mesmerising movement piece that drifts and eddies through human emotion at about a millimetre per second.
The rest of the season WILL BE in Wharf 2.
Manna, the second show, is driven by the aural theatre-scape as strongly as it is by the visual. The third – putting the spanner in our own works – is a new play, a new Tommy Murphy play in fact. Saturn’s Return explores a crucial hiatus in time.
The fourth piece Highway Rock ‘n’ Roll Disaster comes to us fully-formed and road-tested from a young Adelaide company, The Border Project. Looking as much like a gig as a play, it’s full of vim, vigour and vroom. Frankenstein, the final instalment in our mini-season, sees Ralph Myers and his hand-picked team of experts untangling the creative process through the mother of all creative processes: the invention of life itself.
You will safely be able to say after each of these 'you know...' or 'Gosh'... or even 'Wow... I’ve never seen anything quite like it’ without fear of repeating yourself.
Cate Blanchett & Andrew Upton
Artistic Directors 2008
Wharf 2LOUD is supported by UBS
