The Memory Room v.2

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Event The Memory Room v.2
Venue Lion Theatre, Adelaide, SA
Umbrella Event Adeliade Fringe Festival 1990
First Date 12 March 1990
Last Date 18 March 1990
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional Cooperative
World Premiere No
Part of a Tour Yes
Description “Entr’acte’s corporeal theatre is not everyone’s cup of culture. It’s highly eclectic. It’s also very aesthetically and intellectually satisfying.
Those audience members who did not see the distance clearly were looking for quick answers. Better to Entr’acte’s work wash over the senses. There are no answers, only sounds, images and thoughts.
The Memory Room is about the strange and inconsistent workings. Of the brain, the fragmentary nature of recollections and impressions. You can’t get a much more abstract theme - or one of greater commonality.
Performance centres in, around and on an open-sided cube, with use of flexible one-way mirrors, darkness, light, layers of sounds and strange, wonderful bodily motions by five people with interesting faces and characters.
They leave no stone unturned, no tone unturned in their explorations of movement and voice., As they depict memory, they add to it. I won’t forget The Memory Room.” The Advertiser.
Description Source Reviewer's Opinion
Primary Genre Other
Secondary Genre Experimental
Group-devised
Performance
Postdramatic
Corporeal Theatre
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Sarah de Jong Composer
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 Concept
Gregory Hordacre Performer
Bruce Keller Performer
Deborah Wayne Leiser Performer
Katia Molino Performer
Pierre Thibaudeau Performer
John Webber Photographer
John Webber Photographer
Pascal Baxter Production Manager
Beale Hawkes Perrier PL Publicist
Pascal Baxter Sound Operator / Engineer
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Australia
Further Information ETL10 includes a two-page "Teacher discussion/follow-up guideline". Schools came to Lion's Theatre. PAB Music Grant (Sarah de Jong) PAB Project Grant PAB/Lit board for dramaturgy (Bruce Keller).
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Web
CV EB&PT long CV-unedited 1979-1991, p.5, Entr’acte Archives
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.
Entr'acte Archives ETL26 Music masters and copies ETL23 Music reel-to-reel 14” ETL27 - lists from the Japanese tour of TMR 1990
Review Samela Harris, “Fringe Theatre: The Memory Room”, the Advertiser, Wednesday March 14, 1990.
Programme ETL10
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
Web http://fringevault.com.au/mini_sites/event/1990?eid=5761
Event Identifier 139128