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Event

Life x 3

Venue

Playhouse, Melbourne, VIC

First Date

8 March 2002

Opening Date

8 March 2002

Last Date

13 April 2002

Dates Estimated

Status

Professional

World Premiere

Description

Two guests whom the host is anxious to impress arrive twenty four hours before they were expected for a dinner party. The action plays out in three different versions.

Description Source

Other

Primary Genre

Theatre - Spoken Word

Secondary Genre

Drama

Subjects

Relationships
Science
Writers

Organisations

Melbourne Theatre Company, Production Company
Australia Council for the Arts, Grant Body
Arts Victoria, Grant Body
The University of Melbourne, Sponsor
Accenture, Sponsor
Melbourne Theatre Company, Presenting Company

Contributors

Name	Function	Notes
Tony Llewellyn-Jones	Actor
Jane Menelaus	Actor
Deidre Rubenstein	Actor
Geoffrey Rush	Actor
T Ryan Brennan	Assistant Director
Heulwen Taylor	Assistant Stage Manager
Ian McDonald	Composer
Stephen Curtis	Designer
Simon Phillips	Director
Philip Lethlean	Lighting Designer
Robert John	Musician: Violinist
Yasmina Reza	Playwright
Ian Cookesley	Production Manager
Jane Millett	Stage Manager
Kerry Saxby	Technical Director
Christopher Hampton	Translator

Resources

Performance Recording: University of New England, Stage on Screen Collection, 17 March 2002
Review: Catherine Lambert, The Sunday Herald Sun, 17 March 2002, 107
Review: Helen Thomson, The Culture, 24 March 2002, 4
Review: Kate Herbert, The Herald Sun, 15 March 2002, 85
Review: Martin Ball, The Australian, 15 March 2002, 17
Review: Sian Prior, Agenda, 17 March 2002, 9

Works

Life x 3

Text Nationality

France

Production Nationality

Australia

Further Information

Life x 3 (Trois Versions de la Vie) played in Vienna and Paris in 2000 and was performed at the Lyttleton Theatre in 2000 and at The Old Vic Theatre in 2001.

Event Status

Completed

Data Source

Source	Description
Cast List	MTC Records

Event Identifier

15051

Dataset

AusStage