Malthouse Theatre
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Malthouse Theatre
at The C.U.B. Malthouse
113 Sturt Street
Southbank Victoria 3006
Australia
Phone: +61 3 9685 5111
SEASON 2 2010
“IN ORDER TO DISCOVER NEW LANDS, ONE MUST CONSENT TO LOSE SIGHT OF THE SHORE."
ANDRÉ GIDE
At its most simple, theatre asks us to go on a journey outside ourselves. This space of the unknown we travel is at once terrifying and exhilarating; all the more so as there is no assurance that ultimately there is anything to know!
On profound seas of the intimate and personal, on tumultuous oceans of the profane and sublime, our theatre unleashes its alchemical spell, a starlit world of imagination, hope and humanity. Each of the productions that make up Season 2 2010 are heaped full of such magic dust, portals through which new and re-discovered shores can be glimpsed.
But while we exalt in spaces of fantasy, Malthouse is determined to look bravely into the real. Something that was unknown has become frighteningly known. There is now no doubt that the consequence of humanity’s drunken pillage of natural resources has placed our planet, our own homes, and the the home of all living things, in deep peril. Through the Tipping Point conference and our commissioned work for students “Happiness”, we want to find out what artists can do…to respond to the climate disaster and its emotional fallout, and to do this with hope.
After six years as Artistic Director, I sincerely thank you for your support and for coming on the ride with me. And of course the remarkable artists – our performers, our writers, our sound and visual designers, our directors. And my extraordinary colleagues who are Malthouse Theatre.
Theatre is the most collaborative of activities, and collaborating with such a talented and dedicated bunch in making and presenting theatre – theatre that I hope has dazzled, confounded, amazed and occasionally appalled - has been a rare treat!
Time to giddy-up!
Michael Kantor ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
SEASON 2 2010
