Dapto Chaser Gallery

The Dapto Chaser by Mary Rachel-Brown Produced by Merrigong Theatre Company Director: Anne-Louise RentellDesigner: Imogen RossLighting Designer: Toby Knyvett Sound Designer: Daryl WallisCast: Noel Hodda, Drayton Morley, Don Reid and Doug Scroope Production Manager: Daniel Potter Stage Manager: Kelly Ukena

4 Plays About Wollongong

Clare Bowen in The War on the Hill 4 Plays about Wollongong was produced by Merrigong Theatre Company and opened in the Gordon Theatre, Illawarra Performing Arts Center on the 6th of November 2009. Merrigong commissioned four writers to each create a work which had something to do with the Illawarra region, on the south coast of New South Wales, …

4 Plays About Wollongong Production Report

Terry Serio and Adam Booth in Blame it on Dapto 4 Plays about Wollongong was commissioned by Merrigong Theatre Company. Each of the plays was radically different but all had to be realised within the same space. The major challenge for the designers was to create an environment that would allow for all of the texts to be seen as one …

What is Project: ALICE?

Project: ALICE is a new Australian work inspired by the Lewis Caroll classic Alice in Wonderland. It rewrites the tale from a generation Y perspective, exploring the rabbit holes of technology and isolation. It premiered in Track 8, CarriageWorks, Sydney, Australia in May 2009. For this project we went all out on the production elements – A/V, lighting and sound …

Project: ALICE Production Report.

Project: ALICE was always going to be very ambitious, particularly from a technical perspective. For me it felt like I was doing one of those rare projects where we could go all out on the technical production. There was no such thing as ‘too much’ (as long as we could afford it). Often we were consciously trying to induce a …

Snatch Paradise Production Report

The Snatch Paradise gala premiere was a challenge because not only did it have to look and sound great but it was also a fund-raising event held in order to send the show over to England. It needed to make money. With the tickets set at $50 a head (very pricey for independent theatre) we set an equally high bar …

Snatch Paradise

Snatch Paradise is the first international Gemeinschaft Dogs production. After a limited preview season in Sydney it heads to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with an all Australian cast. I looked after all of the technical production for the Sydney season, including designing the burlesque warehouse gala premiere at Fraser Studios. The Sydney season was successful in raising nearly $7000 to …