Event | Ostraka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Venue | The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First Date | 29 October 1986 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opening Date | 29 October 1986 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Date | 16 November 1986 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dates Estimated | No | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Status | Professional Cooperative | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Premiere | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description | Ostraka was one of two new works (on) the themes of memory, departure, return and repetition.
"It begins with a monologue by the accused Clytemnestra facing her judges. [...] The fragments are investigated as manifestations of hysteria, of schizophrenia and of paranoia...." (Flyer) Thibaudeau’s Ostraka (is) a very powerful piece indeed…it could be the shock of seeing reduced to a near-crystalline geometry the mechanic of love turning into hate and wanting revenge. Or it may simply be the overwhelming sense of a numinous presence..But to find it ‘all there’ is an enormous treat and thoroughly satisfying…” Inner-City Voice. Thibaudeau’s Ostraka was splendid theatre...(he) has always had a sure design sense and each of his productions starts with a strong image which, both aesthetically and functionally, anchors the whole production.…after a long association with Offord’s work, I have never seen his unique talents used so effectively. Thibaudeau indulges in his own form of intertextuality, weaving in many traditional theatrical (and other) images - commedia dell’arte, even references of Rodin’s Burghers of Calais. "It was altogether a rich work - comic, erotic, savage - and performed with great discipline." Centrestage. "Ostraka is a powerful new piece from Entr’acte Theatre.....Thibaudeau breaks new ground for Entr’acte without discarding the group’s stylish sophistication and polished expertise....there is a unity of purpose and direction which drives Ostraka to build up to a powerful impact”. SMH |
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Description Source | Reviewer's Opinion | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary Genre | Other | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Physical Theatre
Avant-garde Movement-based Theatre Postdramatic Corporeal Theatre |
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Text Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Production Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Further Information | Performance Space Archives, Carriageworks, Redfern. Sourced from the programme for Ostraka, The Wharf Studio, 1987. Presented with On Archeology, in a programme called Archeologic in 1986. Records of Entr'acte Theatre, National Library of Australia, Entr'acte archives, Sydney. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event Status | Completed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Event Identifier | 28386 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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