4 STARS “Taught, tight, terrorist theatrics.”
THE AGE ELLY VARRENTI
“Thrilling in the best tradition of European political theatre.”
TIMEOUT MAGAZINE ANDREW FUHRMANN
MKA PRESENTS
J.A.T.O.
PLAYWRIGHT VEDRANA KLEPICA
with DRAMATURGE DECLAN GREENE
and DIRECTOR TANYA DICKSON
FEATURING
STEFAN BRAMBLE / JANINE WATSON / CATE WOLSWINKEL / RORY KELLY / TRISTAN WATSON / TOM DENT
ABOUT THE SHOW
There’s time before the concert begins, fix your hair, fix your make up, wish for a glass of alcohol, wine would be best, white would be best, to contrast with your best slutty black dress, because if you do something well in life, it’s colours and combing them, and if there’s somethign you don’t do well, that’s everything else. That’s everything else.
A band of terrorists/freedom fighters have disguised themselves.
They’ve got: One drum. One piano. One Violin. Two Trumpets. One French horn. One trombone. One cornet. Two samplers. And a shotgun type Marocchi model 03.
They left the saxophone in Budapest but they’re about to go on so I suggest you give them your complete and undivided attention. They really go off.
Semi-automatic streams of consciousness.
Razor-wire sharp dialogue.
You sons of bitches! You fucking shits! They would’ve said that. That’s what they probably would’ve said. But they didn’t. The massacre didn’t really happen. But, somehow, we all hoped something would happen. Anything.
It happens in J.A.T.O.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Since 2001 Vedrana Klepica has organised and produced the Festival of Alternative and Independent Expression (Kutina) and as of 2007 she has worked as a journalistfor the Croation theatre website Teatat.hr. Speaking about her short film ‘the Coma’ Klepica sayd, “the only things that can ever really change us are disasters.” She once did a site specific work in a cemetery.
The script has had the once over from Green Room and multiple RE Ross Trust winner Declan Greene (Moth/Black Joy) and the helm, break out VCA-trained director Tanya Dickson.
PLAYWRIGHT VEDRANA KLEPICA DIRECTOR TANYA DICKSON DRAMATURGE DECLAN GREENE STAGE AND LIGHTING DESIGNER DAVID SAMUEL FEATURING STEFAN BRAMBLE / JANINE WATSON / CATE WOLSWINKEL / RORY KELLY / TRISTAN WATSON / TOM DENT COSTUME DESIGNER CHLOE GREAVES SOUND DESIGNER RUSSELL GOLDSMITH LIGHTING DESIGNER MEGAN FITZGERALD
PHOTOGRAPHER SARAH WALKER FEATURED IN PREVIEW TOBIAS MANDERSON-GALVIN + STEFAN BRAMBLE PRODUCER KITTY VAN CUYLENBERG
ABOUT BEING THERE
PREVIEWS JUL12-JUL13
SEASON JUL14-JUL30 TUES-SAT8PM
DURATION 1H20M
TICKETS PREVIEWS+TUESDAYS $15 SEASON C$20/F$25
BE THERE
BOOK NOW
YOU FUCKING SHITS
XX
MKA