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Some photos from

Tashmadada at the

Melbourne Writers Festival

Big thanks to all those involved

 

1. Meant to be Spoken

 

Some of our most exciting playwrights

read their work in a celebration

of the spoken word.

 

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 Playwrights (l-r):

Stephen Sewell, Aiden Fennesey, Melissa Reeves,

Robert Reid, Jane Harrison, Peta Tait, John Romeril 

Van Badham

 

2. John Romeril: In Conversation

Esteemed playwright John Romeril talks to

Deborah Leiser-Moore about his career.

 

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Searchlight Festival:


and planning has begun for 

2011.. !

 

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 Photo of Sally Smith by fortyfivedownstairs

 

Searchlight Festival 2010 is over..

 

and what a fantastic week!

 

Tashmadada and fortyfivedownstairs

want to thank all involved

 - the talented performers, the tech etc….

 

and the audience –

many of whom came to more than one night…

who totally immersed themselves in the

festival experience.

 

And so to 2011…

 

Please let us know if you’d like to be involved

in Searchlight Festival 2011…

as an artist, behind the scenes etc…

 

If so, please send an email to: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

We look forward to seeing you then..

 

Check the Tashamadada and Searchlight Festival sites

for updates and news.

 

Thanks from us at Searchlight Festival

 

 

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Tashmadada has collaborated with a number of organisations to produce:

 

* Andante - workshop and presentation/performance with Younes Bachir - actor and collaborator with legendary Spanish performance company, La Furas del Baus.

 

* Meant To Be Spoken - a celebration of Australian playwriting - Searchlight Festival and Melbourne Writers Festival

 

* Tom Keneally and Ari Roth (Washington DC) in conversation with Mark Baker at the State Library of Victoria;

 

* Tom Keneally and Ari Roth Masterclass at the Victorian Writers Cemtre (Glenfern)

 

* Acclaimed Israeli Playwright Motti Lerner working for 2 weeks on the development of his new play, Benedictus, with Australian theatre practitioners

 

* Motti Lerner in discussion with Julian Meyrick at the State Library of Victoria

 

* Performance piece 'Cordelia Mein Kind' in Theatre J (Washington DC), fortyfivedownstairs, Searchlight Festival and Under the Radar Festival (Brisbane)

 

* Directors Cut - evenings of curated and ecclectic performance from the best of our writers, performers, dancers.

 

* Searchlight Festival -  in collaboration with and at fortyfivedownstairs -  a curated festival of explosively diverse and eclectic performance

 

* American 'Godfather of Creative Non Fiction', Lee Gutkind, in conversation with Varuna's Peter Bishop at the Victorian Writers Centre's Glenfern  studios.

 

* Plus new projects to be announced very soon

 


Partners include:

 

Victorian Wrters Centre

Multicultural Arts Victoria

State Library of Victoria

City of Yarra

Victoria University Residency program

The Centre forJewish Civilisation at Monash University

Full Tilt at the Arts Centre

Open Channel

fortyfivedownstairs

ACMI - Australian Centre for the Moving Image Federation Square, Melbourne

ACAPTA - Australian Circus and Physical Theatre Association

Melbourne Writers Festival

32 Degrees Production House (Darwin)

 

 

Performance Works

 

 

                         

       Cordelia, Mein Kind                                    Wasted Underground

 

 

Forums and Masterclasses

 

 

     

 Andante presentation/performance

 

Andante workshop leader Younes Bachir

(actor and collaborator with Spanish company La Furas del Baus)


 

 

 

                                                        

 Julian Meyrick in conversation with                Ari Roth, AD of Theater J (Washington DC)      

Israeli playwright Motti Lerner                        in convseration with writer, Tom Keneally

                                                                           at the State Library of Victoria

 

  

 Joel Becker from the Victorian Writers Centre                                                                 

 

 

Directors Cut Performance Events

 

       

  

 

                    

 Performance poet Ania Walwich                 David Wells and son   

 

 

                    

   Cellist - Adi Sappir                                 Deborah Leiser-Moore

                                                                                                                                                    

                                                                                                                               

              

Graeme Leak plays  the theramin             Legendary Australian playwright - Barry Dickens                                                         '

 

 

 

 

Development of New Works

  

 

         

 Benedictus in Melbourne at Multicultural Arts Victoria/Reading Room

 

 

 

Attendance at International Festivals, Symposiums and Conferences

 

 

                               

  In Vienna with Theodore Bikel                                  At  Odin Theatre with Eugenio Barba, Denmark

 

 

 On a panel in Vienna 

 

 

                     

IsraDrama2007-Arab/Hebrew Theatre in Jaffa              IsraDrama - with Sasson Gabbai

 

 

 

 

IsraDrama - Cameri theatre's production of Hamlet