fortyfivedownstairs Announces Their Upcoming Events

Four performances only! The Buddha My Body - A Palimpsest

This is the Australian premiere of a collaboration between performer Tony Yap and Nottle Theatre Company, South Korea. With performers from South Korea, Indonesia and Australia , plus musicians/composers Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, and installation by Japanese born artist Naomi Ota, this production looks and sounds amazing.

This is the fourth time Tony Yap has been part of a production at fortyfivedownstairs, and we know that anything he is involved in will have a wonderful visual and intellectual strength, as well as a powerful appeal to often unspoken emotions. The Buddha My Body - A Palimpsest is an eastern perspective on corporeal memory - the body with memory and the body without memory.

8pm August 20 - 23 Tickets $20/15
Bookings: 9662 9966 www.fortyfivedownstairs.com

Zero & Not, an exhibition curated by Anusha Kenny & HeLen Hughes.

Eleven emerging and mid career artists have contributed to this intriguing exhibition which, with its themes of absence, negation and erasure, has interesting resonances with The Buddha My Body. This exhibition is also an antipodean dialogue with an exhibition held in New York in 2008, Cancelled, Erased and Removed. Here is an opportunity to catch up with new directions and new artists.

Zero & Not continues until August 29.

Jazz on a Winter's Night
Alexander Nettelbeck, Jonathan Zion and Alon Ilsar.
A classic jazz piano trio line-up, which performs in an improvising format a program of interpretations of standards and original compositions - one night only!

Alexander Nettelbeck is a pianist, composer and producer, a VCA graduate who has performed in Australia, Europe Asia and New Zealand. Among many others he has performed with Kate Ceberano, Demi Hines and Pete Hemsley's Sons of Invention.
Jonathan Zion - Bass. Also a VCA graduate, he has performed in N.Z., the USA and Canada, plus Japan, the UK, Europe and Russia. In 2005 he began working with Pete Murray and the Stonemasons, and more recently has been performing with Ian Moss.
Alon Ilsar - Drums Composer, producer, drummer, instrument designer and electronic percussionist. Alon has performed in Keating! The Musical, with Circus Monoxide, and with his own Tribute Band in The Colors Interactive Comeback Show

A great group of musicians, a marvellous way to warm up at the end of winter!

7.30pm, August 24 Tickets $20/15
Bookings: 9662 9966 www.fortyfivedownstairs.com

Flashpoint - new writing for theatre
The R.E.Ross Trust Playwrights Award

Rehearsed readings of three new plays by three of our most accomplished playwrights:

August 26 Big Noise Written and directed by Aidan Fennessy, with Kerry Walker, Christopher Brown, Anthony Ahearn, Jim Daley

August 27 Topsy by Kit Lazaroo, directed by Jane Woollard, with Georgina Capper, Colin James, Carole Patullo, Alex Pinder

August 28 Whiteley's Incredible Blue by Barry Dickins, directed by Julian Meyrick, with Neil Pigot, and the Howley Calvert Jazz Trio. (booked out)

Say you saw it first!!
Admission free, booking recommended
Bookings: 9662 9966 www.fortyfivedownstairs.com

Coming Up:

Another Australian - and world - premiere for fortyfivedownstairs is Once We Lived Here, a significant new Australian musical! This is one for all lovers of the musical genre - written by Dean Bryant and Matthew Frank, Once We Lived Here won the 2006 Pratt Prize for Musical Theatre.

Dean has produced before at fortyfive, in fact with the very first musical presented here, Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years. We're absolutely delighted to have him back, with a superb cast: Esther Hannaford (The Boyfriend, Virgins: A Musical Threesome, Burn the Floor's Floorplay), Sally Bourne (Shane Warne: The Musical), Christie Whelan (Sydney Theatre Award winner for Company, Warwick Allsopp (A Porthole into the Minds of the Vanquished, The Jinglists) , Sam Ludeman (Crazy For You).

You can read more about this performance on Bryant and Frank's website: www.bryantandfrank.com. They have plenty of information on their site including some special previews of the songs from the upcoming show!

As a special offer to our newsletter subscribers we are offering a complimentary glass of bubbly or wine to the first two groups of four or more who call and book citing this e-newletter!

September 2 - 20
Tues - Fri 7.30pm Saturday 8pm Sunday 6pm
Tickets $33/23 conc. Preview (Sept.2,3) $20
Bookings: 9662 9966 www.fortyfivedownstairs.com

ME ^{-1} WE is an exhibition by visiting New York artist Ryan F Kennedy. RFK is in Melbourne on the inaugural New York to Melbourne artist's residency organised by Walk to Art in conjunction with Melbourne Girls Grammar School School. The artist will be working alongside the students at MGGS for three months. This exhibition falls part way though his residency and will comprise new work conceived and realised during his time at MGGS. We are delighted to be a part of this fabulous new initiative and to be hosting RFK's exhibition.

Invisible Cities is running concurrently in the large gallery. This is an exhibiton of large dreamlike cityscapes by Australian artist Stephen Nova. Buildings spiral into the sky in a chaotic manner, balancing on each other with delicate scafolds. This exhibition draws inspiration from Italo Calvino's novel, Invisible Cities, 'The foreignness of what you no longer are or you no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places'

Both exhibitions run from the 1 to the 12 of September.

 

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