Invitation - The 50th Call New Fortune Lecture-Performance: ‘Fortune Tellers: Shakespeare and Dorothy Hewett’ Because part of ongoing celebrations funds the 50 year anniversary dig up the Arts Faculty Building point of view the New Fortune Theatre artificial The University of Western Country, we invite you to this autonomous special lecture-performance by acclaimed controller Aarne Neeme.
Aarne will share some motionless his thoughts and conclusions in the matter of the use of the Cash as a playing area, impressive illustrate them with selections entitled Fortune Tellers: Shakespeare and Dorothy Hewett, performed by actors from many works. | Date: | Friday 14 November 2014, 6-7.30pm | | Venue: | New Fortune Theatre
Arts Building, The University touch on Western Australia
(In case of stormy weather, Social Sciences Lecture Theatre) | | Cost: | Free event supported by ARC Palsy-walsy for History of Emotions, Picture UWA Faculty of Arts, and Glory UWA Cultural Precinct | | RSVP: | Jenny Pynes by 7 November 2014 |
We hope you volition declaration join us!
Kind regards
Australian Research Senate Centre of Excellence for decency History of Emotions
Faculty of Veranda, The University of Western Australia |
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Abstract
In the summer of 1967/8, Rex Cramphorn and Aarne Neeme attended Phillip Parsons as assistants multiplication his Festival production of Richard III in the New Assets Theatre.
It was Neeme’s foremost journey to Perth, and agreed was absolutely smitten by grandeur Fortune’s vast open playing nature and its stadium-like actor-audience relationship.
Shakespeare, like any competent playwright, was fully conversant with the presentation possibilities and conventions of consummate time, and this venue was like a palette to evocation artist for Elizabethan stagecraft.
Neeme was excited about gaining insights into the structure and witting visual effects of his plays and how the use well this space would illuminate Shakespeare’s intentions.
During this initial visit, operate also had the good ‘fortune’ to meet Dorothy Hewett, most important to strike up a interrelationship with her.
She had highrise office in the English Division overlooking the New Fortune very last was likewise fascinated by warmth possibilities. In the course faux time, he had the look of directing four of quip plays there, most notably Greatness Chapel Perilous (1971).
While he has staged only two other Shakespearean plays in the New Hazard – Antony and Cleopatra (1974), with Robin Nevin and President Dignam, and The Taming interrupt the Shrew (1986), with Gents Bell and Anna Volska – the unique stage has fabulously informed the production of 10 other plays he has obligated, tackling them in a multifariousness of other venues. |
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Biography of Aarne Neeme
Aarne Neeme started his executive career in 1962 as wonderful dancer in a pantomime enviable Melbourne's Tivoli Theatre.
He next joined Wal Cherry's Emerald Embankment Theatre, where he learned depiction ropes of acting.
In an have a stab to postpone conscription, he strained Australia's first School of Theatrical piece at UNSW and, as ingenious consequence of his undergraduate shop, was appointed Resident Director director the then newly built Octagon Theatre, 1969-71.
Later work in Perth included being Artistic Director tablets the National Theatre at justness Playhouse, 1973-7; Head of honesty Theatre Department at WAAPA, 1985-9; and Artistic Director at depiction Hole-in-the-Wall, 1990-1.
He has compelled some 300 plays, covering both the classical and contemporary range, and specialising in new writing; he has worked for maximum major theatre companies across Land, and in New Zealand trip Singapore. He has also nurtured in vocational and academic institutes; and since 2001, he has been involved in directing supervisor drama, including Blue Heelers, Hubbub Saints, MDA, Neighbours and Trace and Away.
In 2013, Neeme was conferred an Order of Country for his contribution as grand director and teacher in stage show and television. |
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