Svetlana in Slingbacks

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Event Svetlana in Slingbacks
Venue Beckett Theatre @ CUB Malthouse, Southbank, VIC
Umbrella Event Inside 01
First Date 12 June 2001
Opening Date 13 June 2001
Last Date 14 July 2001
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description Svetlana examines the migrant experience in an original way, consigning angst and pain to a sub-textual presence while foregrounding the comic absurdity of Russian-Australian lives.
Description Source Reviewer's Opinion
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Comedy
Subjects Family
Fantasy
Migrants
Multicultural
Related Events
  • Is under umbrella of Inside 01 , CUB Malthouse, Southbank, VIC, 6 June 2001
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
James Brennan Actor Various roles
Margaret Cameron Actor Ludmilla
Tom Healey Actor Various roles
Miria Kostiuk Actor Svetlana
Brian Lipson Actor Boris Fretlov
Sarah Norris Actor Sonya
Benjamin Cowen Assistant Stage Manager
David Franzke Composer
Christina Smith Designer
Peter Houghton Director
Daniel Zika Lighting Designer
Valentina Levkowicz Playwright
David Franzke Sound Designer
Suraya Rasid Stage Manager
Resources
Works
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Australia
Further Information First production 27/5/2000 for Vitalstatistix at Theatre 62, Adelaide. Part of Inside 01 season. All plays were rehearsed over a seven week period, and then opened following only one tech day and one preview. They then played for that week. After all plays had opened and played a week,they then went into nightly turnaround, a repertory of all four programmes for the next two weeks - with Marathon
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Report Playbox Theatre Company Evaluation Report, 2001
Programme 'Inside 01' programme, published with play-texts as 'Inside 01' season, Playbox Theatre, June 2001, in association with Currency Press.
Event Identifier 11530
Dataset AusStage