EMSAH Honours Student Success!

Congratulations to EMSAH students Kristian Radford, David Faraker, Keegan O’Connor and David Rawson who have been awarded 2012 University Medals which recognise “the achievement of outstanding academic results throughout the student’s program of study.”

EMSAH Seminar: Scenarios and Solos for a Mixed Landscape: Noelle Janaczewska

Scenarios and Solos for a Mixed Landscape: Noëlle Janaczewska

Friday 24 May 2013, 1 – 2pm
Room 601, Michie Building (#9)
University of Queensland, St Lucia

Noëlle Janaczewska has been commissioned by an Arts Queensland partnership with UQ to develop a new piece, Scratchland, which theatricalises marginalised and ‘accidental’ city spaces that have fallen into disuse or obsolescence.

This seminar will see Noëlle inviting us into her creative process as well as telling us more about the status of the work itself. She will share her starting points and the collage-based process she devised to research and write Scratchland.

About the Presenters

Noëlle Janaczewska is Sydney-based writer of plays, performance texts, lyrics & libretti, monologues, poetry, essays, radio scripts, gallery and on-line explorations.

Her work has been performed, broadcast and published throughout Australia and overseas. Working across drama and non-fiction, recurring themes in her work are the history and philosophy of science (especially botany), colonialism and its legacies, narratives of place and migration, and the exploration of language/s.

Machinal Drama Production

Support the EMSAH Drama Production Machinal playing at the Geoffrey Rush Drama Studio Thursday 23rd May, Friday 24th May, Saturday 25th May at 7.30pm. Tickets are available from http://www.stickytickets.com.au/11063/uq_drama_presents_machinal.aspx

Carmen Keates reading poetry at Avid Reader

EMSAH student Carmen Keates will be giving a poetry reading at Avid Reader on the 28th of May for the booklaunch of Tash Aw’s – Five Star Billionaire

Where:	Avid Reader – In Store Event, 193 Boundary St, West End, Brisbane, Queensland 4101 (AU).
Date:	Tuesday, 28, May, 2013
Time:	6:00:pm – 8:00:pm
Cost:	$7.50
Event description:
Come and be a part of ABC Radio National’s Kate Evans Presents audience for the launch of Tash Aw’s novel Five Star Billionaire. Guest readers include: Jeremy Poxon, Christopher Przewloka, and Carmen Keates. Justin is from a family of successful property developers. Phoebe has come to China buoyed with hope, but her dreams are shattered within hours as the job she has come to seems never to have existed. Gary is a successful pop artist, but his fans and marketing machine disappear after a bar room brawl. Yingyui has businesses that are going well but must make decisions about her life. And then there is Walter, the shadowy billionaire, ruthless and manipulative, ultimately alone in the world. In FIVE STAR BILLIONAIRE, Tash Aw charts the weave of their journeys in the new China, counterpointing their adventures with the old life they have left behind in Malaysia. The result is a brilliant examination of the migrations that are shaping the new city experiences all over the world, and their effect on myriad individual lives. ABOUT TASH AW Tash Aw was born in Taipei to Malaysian-Chinese parents and grew up in Kuala Lumpar. He moved to England at 18 to attend university, where he studied Law at Cambridge and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He first began work on The Harmony Silk Factory (2005) in the evenings and at weekends until, in 2002, he left his job as a lawyer to work on the novel full time. It was finished a year later, nearly five years after Aw began the book. The Harmony Silk Factory won the 2005 Whitbread First Novel Award and a Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel, as well as being long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Tash Aw is now a full time writer. His second novel Map of the Invisible World, set in post independence Malaysia and Indonesia, was published in May 2009. Thank you to Arts Queensland for supporting the emerging writers Jeremy Poxon, Christopher Przewloka, and Carmen Keates.

http://avidreader.com.au/index.php?option=com_registrationpro&view=event&did=172&Itemid=136&shw_attendees=0

R & J Re-Imagined

How sweet is love itself possess’d,

When but love’s shadows are so rich in joy

Ben Power is a young English playwright who has taken a leaf (or several) out of Shakespeare’s book, and adapted one his texts to suit a whole new purpose.

A Tender Thing, currently playing in the Visy Theatre, Brisbane Powerhouse, is his re-imagining of Romeo & Juliet, telling the story of a modern couple, married for over fifty years and still very much in love, who happen to be named Romeo and Juliet.

Power was commissioned to write this adaptation of Shakespeare’s text as part of a program of such adaptations by the Royal Shakespeare Company. A Tender Thing was presented in 2012 as part of the RSC’s World Shakespeare Festival. He has extracted and re-configured the text to tell a very different love story, although the themes of love’s joy and sorrow, comfort and loss are as familiar as ever.

The Brisbane production is presented by Full Circle Theatre, a new company in town, directed by Linda Davey (presently undertaking a PhD at Griffith Uni) with her husband Michael Croome as Romeo, and Flloyd Kennedy as Juliet.  Flloyd is in the process of finalising revisions of her PhD Thesis with EMSAH, “Shakespeare’s Voice: A Theory of the Voice in Performance”, so this is an opportunity to experience Flloyd putting her theory into practice.

A Tender Thing runs from Friday 10th May to Saturday 18th May, at 7 pm.  Tickets available from Brisbane Powerhouse.