BURIED CITY

Upstairs, Belvoir St Theatre

6 January to 5 February 2012

We're thrilled to share our big news that UTP's new production Buried City in collaboration with Belvoir and Sydney Festival will premiere in January 2012.

In a gutted building primed for development, a group of security workers, labourers and a local teenager are getting set for a showdown over who builds the future and who gets to own it.

Western Sydney's celebrated Urban Theatre Projects (The Fence, The Last Highway, Back Home) joins forces with Belvoir for this timely, thought-provoking show about a city and society redefining itself.

Buried City is an ambitious work about ever-changing cities where waves of immigrants make new lives on old land.

Backed by that troubadour of Redfern- Waterloo, Perry Keyes, this is a surprising show about the kindness of strangers and the brutality of old friends.

TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW
$62/$42/Senior $52/Preview $42
Preview January 6, 7 at 8pm | Season January 8 - February 5
Tues at 6.30pm | Wed-Sat at 8pm | Wed 11,18,25 at 2pm | Sat at 2pm | Sun at 5pm

Bookings
Sydney Festival 1300 668 812 http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2012/Theatre/Buried-City/
Belvoir 9699 3444 http://www.belvoir.com.au/productions-1/buried-city


Location & Public Transport
Belvoir is located just a five-minute walk from Central Station. By foot from the station, walk up Devonshire St, turn right into Elizabeth St then left into Belvoir St. The theatre is at 25 Belvoir St, just a little further up the hill. By bus, there are stops near the corner of Belvoir and Chalmers Streets, and Belvoir and Elizabeth Streets.

Parking
There is time-limited street parking available around the theatre and NO onsite parking.

IS THIS LONDON?

Alicia Talbot, Rosealee Pearson and Michelle Kotevski are back home after a 4 week development of a new work for the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT). http://www.liftfestival.com

Following on from UTP's research in 2010, UTP AD Alicia Talbot lead a development process with a number of guest artists and community consultants. The team explored the late-night interactions of a group of strangers who have nothing in common, except they work many hours for little pay, leave home early and return very late, travelling across the city on the night buses.

The team aims to return to London in early 2012 for a creative development and rehearsal before premiering the work in June 2012.

Take a look at dramturg Ola Animashawun's blog on the development. http://www.liftfestival.com/blog/recent-articles

BROWNER THAN BLACK

For three weeks in September western Sydney artists Ahilan Ratnamohan and Frank Mainoo worked in residence in an empty shop in Bankstown's Liberty Plaza developing the concept for a new work called Browner Than Black. The idea was explore interactions between South Asians and Africans during the colonial era, contrasting them to those that take place today in contemporary Australian society.

Set in an African and South Asian Spice/Groceries/DVD shop, this development looked to address and reframe distant and conflicting historical contexts of ‘blackness' to arrive at contemporary urban understandings of black and brown diasporas.Frank and Ahilan will develop this work further in 2012.

Thanks to Lee Wilson and Paschal Berry for their work and collaborations on this development.

Browner Than Black is part of 2011 UTP Intersection Developments, a program of developing new theatre and performance works by some of the city's most exciting and promising artists exploring fragmented identities and postcolonial posturing, the collapse of borders and human trafficking, suburban philosophy and sexuality.

DON'T MISS

I'M YOUR MAN
Creator and Director Roslyn Oades
Belvoir in association with BYDS and Sydney Festival

Downstairs, Belvoir Street Theatre
12 January - 5 February

Bookings
Belvoir 9699 3444 http://www.belvoir.com.au/productions-1/im-your-man
Sydney Festival: 1300 668 812 http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2012/Theatre/Im-Your-Man/

The more you sweat, the less you bleed.

POSTS IN THE PADDOCK
My Darling Patricia in association with Moogahlin Performing Arts

Performance Space [Bay 20 Carriageworks]
Wed 9 - Sat 19 Nov, 8pm
Bookings online

One hundred and eleven years ago, relatives of My Darling Patricia's Clare Britton were murdered by an Aboriginal Bushranger, Jimmy Governor, on a property in the Hunter Valley. Taking its name from the ruins of the house where Clare's relatives died, Posts in the Paddock is a major new performance and installation.

GOD'S EAR
by Reginald at Seymour Centre
Written by Jenny Schwartz, directed by Jonathan Wald and produced by Jocelyn Brewer.

Thu 10 Nov - Sat 3 Dec
Bookings 9351 7940 book online

A darkly funny and profoundly moving theatrical vision by a brilliant new American playwright. God's Ear finds black humour in tragedy and transforms linguistic gamesmanship and crackling repartee into startling poetry: a love song to the way words can tear us apart and ultimately bring us back together.