Wayne
Harrison’s extraordinary new production of
Alex Buzo’s MACQUARIE
July
15-31 2010
@
Riverside Theatres, Parramatta
Director:
Wayne Harrison| Designer: Mark Thompson | Lighting: Martin
Kinnane | Producer: Emma Buzo
Cast: Jack Campbell, Kaeng Chan, Megan Drury, Alan Dukes,
Graham Harvey, Chantelle Jamieson, Craig Meneaud, TJ Power,
Russell Smith and David Whitney.
‘a wonderful night in the
theatre...Brilliant. Pertinent. Creative. Dynamic. And
most importantly, history made fun. I loved
it.’
View
a stunning selection of images from this surprising
production
here
images:
Heidrun Lohr
It’s
MACQUARIE, Dad - but not as we know
it...
What
happens when internationally renowned director Wayne
Harrison is given license to defy preconceptions towards a
play about ‘The Father of Australia’ by the daughter and
custodian of its late great Australian playwright? Trouble,
most likely. And lots of fun.
This contemporary and contentious re-imagining of Alex
Buzo's award-winning classic is the flagship performing
arts event for the 200th anniversary of Macquarie’s
leadership in 2010. Australian playwriting’s great stylist
illuminates the rise and fall of Governor Macquarie 'The
Father of Australia', a remarkable man whose foresight and
enlightened policies gave Sydney some of its finest
buildings and whose humanitarian policies dared to give
convicts 'a fair go’, transforming the colony of New South
Wales from an outdoor gaol into a prosperous and free
society.
‘As society changes, so too must the play. I hope we are channelling Buzo’s spirit in the new, contemporary scenes’ Read an Interview with Wayne Harrison and Emma Buzo about the exciting challenges of reinventing ‘Macquarie’ in The Sydney Morning Herald, July 13 2010
’It’s
all about improving the world by improving the people
within it’
Read
BIG MAC, an article by David Levell about this production
in the July 2010 edition of Qantas inflight magazine
‘The Australian Way’.
On Saturday 24 July, The Lord Mayor of Parramatta will host a sumptuous three-course 1800’s style banquet on the main stage of Riverside Theatres. The dinner is the centrepiece of the state’s Macquarie bicentenary commemorations and is an official function in the presence of Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir, AC CVO, Governor of New South Wales. Details here
The Alex Buzo Company produced an excerpt of ‘Macquarie’ directed by Wayne Harrison also featuring Anita Hegh as Mrs Macquarie for the launch of commemorations for the Macquarie bicentenary Government House on January 31st 2010. Watch the clip below or view images from the event.
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