By Raimondo Cortese
Conceived & Directed by Alicia Talbot
Co-devisors & performers: Valerie Berry, Perry Keyes, Russell Kiefel, Effie Nkrumah, Hazem Shammas and Meyne Wyatt
Upstairs Theatre
6 January - 5 February
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A co-production with Urban Theatre Projects and Sydney Festival.
Belvoir and the acclaimed Urban Theatre Projects (UTP) have joined forces for this big-picture show about a city and society redefining itself.
Late one night in the gutted façade of a building primed for redevelopment, a group of security workers, labourers, and a local teenager find themselves haunting the same territory. One by one they rule a line in the sand, and by dawn they’re set for a showdown over who builds the future and who gets to own it. Buried City is an ambitious new work about ever-changing cities like, well, Sydney – where waves of immigrants make new lives on old land. Director Alicia Talbot’s investigation of real-time action and filmic panorama continues in this special collaboration between Belvoir and Bankstown-based UTP.
The work is being made in consultation with the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) and their Retired Members Association, African Women Australia Inc and Gadigal Information Service Aboriginal Corporation.
The troubadour of Redfern-Waterloo Perry Keyes makes his theatrical debut in this surprising show about the kindness of strangers and the brutality of old friends.
This work was first developed through a commission from Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada.
Set & Costume Designer
Mirabelle Wouters
Singer-Songwriter
Perry Keyes
Sound Designer & Composer
Paul Prestipino
Lighting Design
Neil Simpson with Sean Bacon
Movement Director
Kathy Cogill
UTP Executive Producer
Michelle Kotevski
Production Manager
Sharna Galvin
Production Consultant
Neil Fisher
Stage Manager
Frank Mainoo
Assistant Stage Manager
Rosealee Pearson.
Community Liaison
Annie Winter
Special thanks to our set sponsor Pacific Group
Mirabelle Wouters
Singer-Songwriter
Perry Keyes
Sound Designer & Composer
Paul Prestipino
Lighting Design
Neil Simpson with Sean Bacon
Movement Director
Kathy Cogill
UTP Executive Producer
Michelle Kotevski
Production Manager
Sharna Galvin
Production Consultant
Neil Fisher
Stage Manager
Frank Mainoo
Assistant Stage Manager
Rosealee Pearson.
Community Liaison
Annie Winter
Special thanks to our set sponsor Pacific Group
Previews / 30-Down
8pm Friday 6 January
8pm Saturday 7 January
Opening Night
8pm Sunday 8 January
Audio-described performance for vision impaired patrons
2pm Saturday 21 January
Sunday Forum
3pm Sunday 29 January
Unwaged Performance
2pm Thursday 2 February
Wednesday Matinee
2pm Wednesday 18 January
Performance Times
6.30pm Tuesday
8pm Wednesday - Friday
2pm & 8pm Saturday
5pm Sunday
Ticket Prices
Full price $62
Seniors (excluding Fri/Sat evenings) $52
Industry or Groups of 10+ $52
Concession $42
Previews $42
Student Rush $29
8pm Friday 6 January
8pm Saturday 7 January
Opening Night
8pm Sunday 8 January
Audio-described performance for vision impaired patrons
2pm Saturday 21 January
Sunday Forum
3pm Sunday 29 January
Unwaged Performance
2pm Thursday 2 February
Wednesday Matinee
2pm Wednesday 18 January
Performance Times
6.30pm Tuesday
8pm Wednesday - Friday
2pm & 8pm Saturday
5pm Sunday
Ticket Prices
Full price $62
Seniors (excluding Fri/Sat evenings) $52
Industry or Groups of 10+ $52
Concession $42
Previews $42
Student Rush $29
...a powerful work about the importance of watching out for people who in the chaos of the contemporary world seem to have fallen by the wayside but still have their passions.
John McCallum | The Australian
Meyne Wyatt's edgy performance as the simmering, agitated and agile Meynedog is compelling and Russell Kiefel brings a world-weary sense of vulnerability and long-lost hopes to the old-school union agitator who drinks to forget...
Gary Smith | The Daily Telegraph
Belvoir's Upstairs Theatre is a revelation as this stripped-bare cavern, and an opening from the back wall into Belvoir Street proper brings extra immediacy and inner-cityness...
Rima Sabina Aouf | Concrete Playground
It’s fair to say UTP positions itself, very successfully, at the cutting-edge of Australian theatre and this work leaves no real room for doubt about it.
Lloyd Bradford Syke | Crikey
I want you to see this show – and I want you to read it as a piece of installation AND as a piece of philosophical orchestration.
And I suspect, you’ll walk away a different person.
Augusta Supple
John McCallum | The Australian
Meyne Wyatt's edgy performance as the simmering, agitated and agile Meynedog is compelling and Russell Kiefel brings a world-weary sense of vulnerability and long-lost hopes to the old-school union agitator who drinks to forget...
Gary Smith | The Daily Telegraph
Belvoir's Upstairs Theatre is a revelation as this stripped-bare cavern, and an opening from the back wall into Belvoir Street proper brings extra immediacy and inner-cityness...
Rima Sabina Aouf | Concrete Playground
It’s fair to say UTP positions itself, very successfully, at the cutting-edge of Australian theatre and this work leaves no real room for doubt about it.
Lloyd Bradford Syke | Crikey
I want you to see this show – and I want you to read it as a piece of installation AND as a piece of philosophical orchestration.
And I suspect, you’ll walk away a different person.
Augusta Supple
For media enquiries contact
Elly Michelle Clough
elly@belvoir.com.au
02 8396 6242
