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| This show is being developed as part of the Masters program at the School of Performing Arts, Faculty of the VCA and Music, University of Melbourne. This show is being supported by the Melbourne Fringe Outside Eye Professional Development program. |
Photos by: Beth McMahon
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ABOUT THE SHOW
The Seewell Family invite you to a night of illusions
and delusions. Jude Seewell, a washed-up mediocre
magician, leads his troupe in an array of comically
tragic acts.
Family tensions bubble beneath the surface. A
petulant sibling rivalry, miraculous pregnancy,
mysterious feather, headless teddy bear, and a
magic toaster oven threaten to tip the show into
chaos, and Jude into a personal nightmare of epic
surreal proportions.
Sometimes...
you have to take matters into your own hands.
The Seewell Family Cabaret enchants, confronts,
confuses, and inspires through a collage of breathtaking
miracles, magic, manifestations, chaos, metaphor, and
contradiction. The characters transgress moral taboos,
and offend with carefree brutality based in truths buried
deep within the stylized, unnatural, and at time juvenile
reality on stage.
The production was developed through a devised
collaborative process involving 19 creative artists where
puppetry techniques were the guiding force for creating
and exploring an original real-time immersive performance
‘world’. The process was governed by the belief that
puppetry in a live performance context is more than the
play of figurative and non-figurative objects in space;
rather an entire approach to creation, design, and
interaction of all theatrical elements and performers.
and delusions. Jude Seewell, a washed-up mediocre
magician, leads his troupe in an array of comically
tragic acts.
Family tensions bubble beneath the surface. A
petulant sibling rivalry, miraculous pregnancy,
mysterious feather, headless teddy bear, and a
magic toaster oven threaten to tip the show into
chaos, and Jude into a personal nightmare of epic
surreal proportions.
Sometimes...
you have to take matters into your own hands.
The Seewell Family Cabaret enchants, confronts,
confuses, and inspires through a collage of breathtaking
miracles, magic, manifestations, chaos, metaphor, and
contradiction. The characters transgress moral taboos,
and offend with carefree brutality based in truths buried
deep within the stylized, unnatural, and at time juvenile
reality on stage.
The production was developed through a devised
collaborative process involving 19 creative artists where
puppetry techniques were the guiding force for creating
and exploring an original real-time immersive performance
‘world’. The process was governed by the belief that
puppetry in a live performance context is more than the
play of figurative and non-figurative objects in space;
rather an entire approach to creation, design, and
interaction of all theatrical elements and performers.
| A cabaret apocalypse like nothing you've seen before. |
| “The Seewell Family Cabaret is not just a show, but a moment in history, where cabaret meets puppetry, and grotesque meets comic.” Elizabeth Weiss, Spark Online, Review, Sept 24 2009 |
| “... this show will doubtless go on to have another life, and its evolution will be in good hands. Cast and crew have used their … season to take some courageous creative risks, and to explore challenging subject matter. There are some stunning rewards in this approach, and I have little doubt that the invaluable experience of performing to a week’s worth of full houses will greatly assist in reshaping and reworking the show to its fullest potential.” Laura Maitland, Review, Express Media, Buzzcuts, Sept 27 2009 |
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