The Story
Set in 1913, Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-born Jewish man living in Georgia, is put on trial for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, a factory worker under his employment. Already guilty in the eyes of everyone around him, a sensationalist publisher and a janitor’s false testimony seal Leo’s fate. His only defenders are a governor with a conscience, and, eventually, his wife Lucille, who finds the strength and love to become his greatest champion. This Multi-Tony Award Winning Musical is based on a true story and set to a stunning score by Jason Robert-Brown – “one of Broadway's smartest and most sophisticated songwriters since Stephen Sondheim”
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If you enjoyed Behind The Wire earlier this year at the Subiaco Arts Centre, prepare to be blown away by the mediocrity of,
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This Thursday the 17th of November Stella Theatre Company are offering 50% off all ticket sales!!!
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‘Strip a man back to what he’ll pay for and you know exactly who he is…’
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Previewing November 25th at the Blue Room - EARTH features a cast of eight amazingly talented performers in a play devised by the cast and written and directed by Jeffrey Jay Fowler
After developing characters through online blogging, the play is as much about devising a play as much as about being a young person in the 21st century.
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A play rehearsal is interrupted by the arrival of a divided family who have been abandoned by their creator and are seeking an author, ‘any author’, to give them a ‘definitive artistic form’ so their stories may be staged. While the first performance of Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author to a Rome audience in May 1921 was almost booed off the stage it has gone on to have many successful seasons and is still a major part of the theatrical repertoire. The play, in part, is Pirandello’s attack on the Italian theatre of the time, with its actor-managers and star-systems, its stock characterisations, and its standard repertoire of romantic melodramas. However, it is a play on many levels. It raises questions about the nature of reality, of what constitutes identity, and how we can gauge what is truth. On another level it is a hysterical romantic melodrama about a warring family who live out their emotions on the skin. And, it is also a deeply tragic revenge narrative – a tale of betrayal, adultery, suicide and death. Students enrolled in theatre studies at UWA present this very physical, at times comedic, and often provocatively philosophical play, virtually uncut and unlike many productions we choose not to attempt to modernise it into the contemporary world of electronic media.