Tlab Shares Presents:
Australian Theatre Festival NYC
Featuring:
don’t ask what the bird look like
written by Hannah Belanszky, directed by Wesley Enoch
Paradise Lost
written by Melissa-Kelly Franklin, directed by Benita de Wit
Hubris and Humiliation
written by Lewis Treston, directed by Mark Barford
Writing Australian Stories for the Global Stage : An Industry Panel
November 17-19
Tickets $10-15 plus fee – buy HERE
For 3 and 4 day passes to the festival, access bundle packages HERE
The Australian Theatre Festival NYC 2022 Season will run November 16-19 at the Green Room 42 and TheaterLab, in New York City. The season will include a cabaret, 3 staged readings, an industry panel and a community party. Now in its third year, the festival showcases Australian artists & stories in New York City. Co-Artistic Directors Mark Barford, Connor Delves, and Jillian Geurts are thrilled to welcome First Nations Australian arts leader Wesley Enoch to the festival this year, along with 2021 and 2022 New Play Award winners Lewis Treston & Melissa-Kelly Franklin.
COVID 19: Boosters and KN95 masks are required to enter the venue. Masks will be also available at the door. The safety of our audience and artist is a priority. Thank you for helping us keep Theaterlab a safe space for everyone.
About the Shows
don’t ask what the bird look like
November 17, 2022 @ 7:30pm
Written by Hannah Belanszky
Directed by Wesley Enoch
Lighting Design by Eric Norbury
Sound Design by Sam Lafrage
Joan needs her father. She hasn’t seen him since he left her and her Mum when she was just a little girl. She wants answers, she wants history, she wants to know more about who she is. She travels a long way into country as remote as it is strange to this city girl. She finds Mick; a man who doesn’t speak much, and who bears little resemblance to the man who taught her to play Scrabble all those years ago. But amid the flies, the heat, the dust and the stillness of this small river town, lurk many ghosts and mysteries. Over cups of tea and Scrabble in Mick’s weather-beaten old house, Joan is about to discover some family secrets that have been hidden below the surface for decades.
Featuring Bronte Gosper
Tickets $10 – $15 + fees : HERE
Paradise Lost
November 18, 2022 @ 7:30pm
Written by Melissa-Kelly Franklin
Directed by Benita de Wit
Assistant Directed by Gen Wilson
Lighting Design by Eric Norbury
Sound Design by Sam Lafrage
A young Australian doctor begins her first rotation working in an offshore detention center on a remote island in the Pacific, where she meets and connects with an Iranian poet fleeing persecution for his homosexuality. Confronted by the suffering of the inmates, Robin finds her legal obligation to remain silent on the inner workings of the detention center and her Hippocratic oath to do no harm increasingly in conflict; tensions which spill over into her personal life back in Sydney.
Cast:
Bahar Beihaghi
Jillian Geurts
Brooke Henzell
Kathleen Simmonds
Martin Grimwood
Connor Delves
Danish Farooqui
Noor Hamdi
Ramin Doostdar
Tickets $10 – $15 + fees : HERE
Hubris and Humiliation
November 19, 2022 @ 5pm
Written by Lewis Treston
Directed by Mark Barford
Lighting Design by Eric Norbury
Sound Design by Sam Lafrage
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a down-on-her-luck mother (who has just lost her home to a shady online suitor) must send her only son to Sydney to find and marry a wealthy man. Jane Austen’s drawing rooms and country estates are switched out for the dizzying dance floors and leafy avenues of post-plebiscite Sydney in Lewis Treston’s outrageously funny Hubris & Humiliation. This laugh-out-loud comedy is a kaleidoscopic pastiche of Jane Austen’s writing and an outrageous satire of life and love in the Emerald City’s pumping gay scene.
Cast:
Brenton Cozier
Sophie Hur
Jamie Jackson
Emilio Ramos
Kaye Tuckerman
Sarah Wrigley
Andrew Strano
Tickets $10 – $15 + fees : HERE
Industry Panel
November 19, 2022 @ 3pm
Writing Australian Stories for the Global Stage
Tickets $10 – $15 + fees : HERE