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ANNA TREGLOAN
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Anna Tregloan conceives, directs and designs her own unique work receiving public and critical acclaim. Previous creations include Black (Malthouse Theatre) and the Dictionary of Imaginary Places (Melbourne International Arts Festival). She also co-created Sleeping Beauty for Malthouse Theatre (2007) and created "Mach" as part of the 2000 Melbourne Festival. As designer Anna Tregloan has collaborated with a large number and eclectic mix of companies and artists. She has been awarded five Green Room Awards and a Helpmann Award. In 2006 she was awarded the prestigious John Truscott Award for Excellence in Design for Theatre. She has a Masters (with Honours) by Research in Animateuring at the Victorian College of the Arts. For two years, until December 2008, she was resident artist at Malthouse Theatre and is an Artistic Associate of the Storeroom Theatre Workshop. Her most recent productions including Spring Awakening for Sydney Theatre Company, Optimism for Malthouse Theatre/Edinburgh International Arts Festival, and Tell-Tale Heart for Melbourne International Arts Festival.
Research: http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/1814
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Black Dictionary of Imaginary Places, The My Bicycle Loves You SkinflickBlack
Synopsis:
Black is very loosely based on the story of Elizabeth Short, a.k.a. the Black Dahlia, whose grisly murder of over fifty years ago not only remains unsolved to this day, but has also rushed headlong into legend. Hacked in half at the waist and left very much for dead in a vacant lot, where she was discovered one morning by a young woman who was out for a relaxing walk, Short - which is to say, what was left of her - soon became the subject of countless conspiracy theories and whispered rumours. As is so often the case with such things, crime became myth became collective phantasm. With its spectral bodies and sea of words, all floating about in the chiaroscuro of memory, Anna Tregloan's Black is a difficult work to categorise. Part interpretative dance, part ambient soundscape, with more than a dash of installation art thrown in to taste, the last thing it appears to be is theatrical, at least to the extent that our ideas about theatre are unduly weighed down by stories and characters, not to mention by stages and proscenium arches. Like the recent apoliticaldance, with which it shares numerous admirable characteristics whilst otherwise being almost completely different, Black forgoes the staple forms of what we might for want of a better term call literary theatre in favour of an idiom with an even greater resistance to definition. the result is a work of thematic richness and web-like formal complexity, with contour and content effortlessly segueing into and complementing one another. (Text by Matthew Clayfield, Australian Stage)
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1st Produced:
Tower Theatre, Southbank, VIC 17 Mar 2007
Organisations:
Malthouse Theatre, Australia
1st Published:
Australian Script Centre -
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Genre:
Post Dramatic Installation Text
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Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: -
Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/71620
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Synopsis:
the Dictionary of Imaginary Places captures the complexity of urban life as it hurtles down the track, celebrating the intersection of mundanity and passion. Over 18 months Director Anna Tregloan and Sound Designer David Franzke rode on trains, travelling from the bustling centre to the lonely ends of the lines and back again. the conversations and tirades they overheard were recorded and transcribed. these collected, unadulterated public words are shaped and edited into poetically built theatre which complements them with startling visuals and extended physicality. the Imaginary Places are in the gaps, the seepage between what we know or assume and what could actually be true. An original work that vibrates a collection of humanity within a vital and effervescent theatrical form, the Dictionary of Imaginary Places inspires our imagination into a place where reality and possibility are inextricably intertwined.
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1st Produced:
Arts House North Melbourne Town Hall , North Melbourne, VIC 15 Sep 2009
Organisations:
Melbourne International Arts Festival
1st Published:
Australian Script Centre -
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Genre:
Post Dramatic Text 60 min
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: -
Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/89480
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Synopsis:
My Bicycle Loves You is a wildly imaginative, often surreal, modern-day fantasy that pays homage to the spirit of vaudeville. the work is inspired by the recent discovery of a treasure-trove of Federation era films revealing the extraordinary world of one of Australia's best-loved troupes of travelling entertainers, the Corrick family.
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Story devised by Beatrix Christian, Patrick Nolan, Anna Tregloan And company. part of the Sydney Festival
1st Produced:
Sydney Theatre at Walsh Bay, Walsh Bay, Australia 13 Jan 2011
Organisations:
Legs on the Wall
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Music:
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70 min
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Synopsis:
exploration of technology and flesh
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1st Produced:
Arts House Meat Market , North Melbourne, VIC 26 Jul 2001
Organisations:
La Mama Theatre
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Physical theatre/dance
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/11582
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