PHOTOGRAPH 51 by Anna Ziegler

(Studied in comparison with My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin)

Photograph 51 rewrites the story of DNA, highlighting Rosalind Franklin’s role in a discovery conventionally attributed to James Watson and Francis Crick. In My Brilliant Career we meet Sybylla Melvyn, a woman whose dreams are unable to flourish at least in part because of gender.  

The workshop explores the differences between Franklin and Melvyn as archetypes and the frighteningly common threads of sexism that only become obvious when we examine how and where women’s HER-stories are often missed in HIStory. 


PHOTOGRAPH 51


NB: Prices do not include gst

comprhensive Workshop


120 mins

$2300

up to 100 students

Additional students $23 each

EXTINCTION by Hannie Rayson

This play deals with a wide variety of possibly interrelated extinctions: the extinction of the Tiger Quoll; the impending threat of global warming and the extinction of humanity; the extinction of white picket fence monogamous heterosexual life partnerships and perhaps most importantly the extinction of didactic concepts of good and evil/hero’s and villains. 

This workshop will provoke questions and give young audiences the tools to explore individual answers to the play and how to tackle the next phase of life on this planet.


EXTINCTION


NB: Prices do not include gst

comprhensive Workshop


120 mins

$2300

up to 100 students

Additional students $23 each

BOMBSHELLS by Joanna Murray-Smith

The young woman who needs the dress, the mother fraying at the edges, the older woman who remains a sexual being: comedic stereotypes of women who inhabit our world that explode into deeper truths about being unseen.

In a world of empowered women why does the idea of marrying a taller older man persist? How does exploring the invisibility of ‘normal’ women still advance the cause of gender equality?


OTHER WORKS


NB: Prices do not include gst

comprhensive Workshop


120 mins

$2300

up to 100 students

Additional students $23 each

COSI by Louis Nowra

Cosi invites audiences to share Lewis’ journey as he overcomes his prejudice regarding mental health and discovers the power in the silliness of a Mozart Opera. Set against the backdrop of the Vietnam moratorium, Lewis’ friends are trying to stop the suffering of thousands while he is learning about a different kind of politics. Sometimes art that is not political can have a political effect as it brings us together to play and laugh. Some- times the unheard voices are not those that cry out under oppression but those who have simply been forgotten.


OTHER WORKS


NB: Prices do not include gst

comprhensive Workshop


120 mins

$2300

up to 100 students

Additional students $23 each