Fremantle Theatre Company Season 2024
Milroy & Oceans
Morning Mel's 'Next Level!' - with the amazing talents of David Milroy & Lucky Oceans!
WEDNESDAY 30 OCTOBER AT 10.30AM
FOR FREMANTLE THEATRE COMPANY AT VICTORIA HALL, HIGH STREET, FREMANTLE
Grammy Award winning LUCKY OCEANS and award winning writer and musician DAVID MILROY will take you into the Zone with their free-wheeling versions of David’s songs about love, culture & country, Lucky’s songs about AI, astral travel, and the universe - and songs by the musicians that inspired them along the way.
DAVID MILROY is one of the key figures of WA's Indigenous Art Renaissance, having been Artistic Director of Yirra Yaakin Theatre and a writer of award-winning plays, including Windmill Baby and Waltzing the Wilarra. Perth Festival presented his Panawathi Girl at His Majesty's Theatre in 2022, where it garnered 5 star reviews and won 'Best New Work' in the WA Performing Arts Awards of 2023.
Many of David's beautifully crafted songs are plucked from his plays and he has been a gifted and prolific writer of songs since he became a professional musician in the 70s. Like his plays, his songs take an honest, generous and humorous view of the human condition from his unique viewpoint.
LUCKY OCEANS is a Grammy-Award winning steel guitarist who has played with Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Paul Kelly and Hank Marvin. Lucky was the host of ABC RN's beloved Radio show The Daily Planet for 21 years. His songs shine with the experience of a lifetime in music while they muse on birth, death, AI, ecology and poetry. He plays many styles of music and has been called 'the most influential steel guitarist of his generation'.
Fremantle Theatre Company (FTC) is proud to present these two wonderful musicians in a format that make them accessible to all ages. FTC recognises that some people struggle to attend performances in the evening and miss the joy of performing arts.
The doors open at 10am for a cuppa (or you can bring your own barista coffee from one of the wonderful Fremantle cafes) and the show begins at 10.30am, running for one hour. Afterwards take advantage of the café’s next door (Urban Winery and D’Angelos or further afield) to catch up with friends and make it a great day out!
Tickets are $25 and are available at www.fremantletheatrecompany.com
WHEN: October 30 (Wednesday)
TIME: 10.30am
WHERE: Victoria Hall, 179 High St, Fremantle
The Murmuration
Of Lost Birds.
Spare Parts Puppets + WAAPA in Freo!
In the tenth year of an inspiring partnership, WAAPA’s 3rd Year Performance Making students will collaborate with Spare Parts Puppet Theatre Associate Director Michael Barlow to create a brand-new work of visual theatre.
As part of an amazing Tertiary Partnerships, their Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) offers unique and hand-on puppetry training to students
Since 2015, Spare Parts Puppet Theatre has partnered with WAAPA to offer a puppetry and visual theatre unit as part of the Bachelor of Performing Arts degree, giving students the opportunity to explore puppetry training as part of their course.
Dr Frances Barbe, previous Course Coordinator at Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts said that she was very excited to be incorporating puppetry into the training of the performance-making students.
“Puppetry is a great training tool to sensitise performers to the full potential of objects in performance and to develop the visual intelligence of our performance-makers,” she said.
“Through their work with Spare Parts, our students will become more visual storytellers who understand the power of the image and metaphor in performance as well as the power of the word. Puppetry is evolving in all kinds of interesting ways in contemporary theatre and performance. We are so lucky to have a company like Spare Parts here on our doorstep, and I look forward to building on this exciting partnership in the future”.
What world we will build together, when sound and sight are allowed to be the natural extension of your divine imagination.
"So excited to see WAAPA continueing this incredibly rewarding engagement with the WAAPA students - as a graduate myself, i can say I am nothing but entirely jealous of these students and the wonderful world they have the chance to explore with the creative vanguards at Spare Parts Puppet Theatre. And it is wonderful to have them both back in Freo and bringing this joyous work to the grand Victoria Hall!" - Renato, FTC Artistic Director and all-out huge SPPT Fan.
CREATIVE TEAM:
Directed by Michael Barlow
Performed by WAAPA 3rd Year BPA artists
WHEN:
Fri 08 Nov 2024, 07:00 PM
Sat 09 Nov 2024, 02:00 PM
Sat 09 Nov 2024, 07:00 PM
WHERE: Victoria Hall, 179 High St, Fremantle
ALL TICKETS: $20
BOOKING LINK: https://aupuppet.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/137398
EMAIL: boxoffice@sppt.asn.au
Launching the FTC INDEPENDENT program.
It's all about radical access, hyper inclusivity and a revived grassroots & mid-tier performing arts sector, for FTC in 2024.
This purpose built program take advantage of our home in the Victoria Hall theatre, our producing acumen and our fantastic audience - and makes each valuable resource readily available to international acts, independent producers and local artists.
In 2024, you will witness a line-up of fantastic shows that come to us not only bearing true-Freo performers but award-winning UK theatre companies, returning TV stars, experimental dance and stand-out new directors and producers who are taking their careers by the horns. It's everything you'd hope for from a performing arts pace in Fremantle, and we hope, just a little bit more!
And we very much look forward to letting you know about each and every great event, and how to get yourself involved. Just watch this space!
FTC Launches
Youth Artist Classes!
Acting Classes for 15 - 18 yo
In response to the many, many asking, we are now delivering a Professional Theatre Training Program for young performers aspiring to develop their skills confidence and stagecraft, as a part of our new youth initiative – New Wave.
Classes are designed for the more mature end of students, 15 – 18, readying themselves for a career in the arts. The training aims to capitalise on what they have learnt at school and provide them with the skills and insights to begin focusing on working in the industry and developing their own ‘voice’ and artistry, for performance.
The program will be led by HERMIONE GEHLE, a performer and theatre-maker in her own right, who brings a wealth of experience to the room. Her classes will offer opportunity for these young artists to expand their abilities, explore their range as performers, and begin to navigate their personal brand as artists.
And of course, as a program hosted by a real Theatre, we look forward to hosting classes in the glorious Victoria Hall Theatre and welcome to the fray a line-up of guest tutors, who can bring to the room their own real-world insight and inspiration.
Acting is magical.Change your look and your attitude,
and you can be anyone. - ALICIA WITT
It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.
- CHRISTIAN BALE
What more do we need right now, than a reminder of how to embrace empathy? And how to transform ourselves for the better? Actor training is the pathway to just that!
Location: Victoria Hall, 179 High St Fremantle Duration: 2hrs, once a week.
Mentoring Programme
Fremantle Theatre Company regularly receives requests from young artists and art workers who are looking to further their experience and to have guidance within the profession.
The FTC Executive leadership has experience in many areas of the performance industry which gives them the ability to mentor broadly in the industry.
Our Artistic Director, Renato Fabretti, has a particular interest in ensuring that homegrown talent is nurtured and is given a place on the stages of our state. His work in film and on stage as an actor and a creator, makes him ideally placed to mentor young artists wishing to make their way in the profession.
Our General Manager, Pippa Davis, has a background in design, production management, venue, and arts management. This diverse background gives her the ability to mentor people in many areas and to guide them in integrating the various skills into a cohesive approach within the performing arts industry.
This funding will allow the company to work in a more structured way with aspiring artists and arts workers. The mentee can be in professional or community work and at any stage of their career.
To apply please send an email to victoriahallfremantle@gmail.com letting us know what area you are interested in and whom you would like to work with. Please include contact details and a short statement of your artistic practice or area of interest.
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