Duets for Lovers and Dreamers

“…a won­der­fully poetic piece of writ­ing. Gen­tle yet evoca­tive, each story sen­si­tively and imag­i­na­tively deals with an aspect of life, death and the human con­di­tion…” — R.E. Ross Trust Award Judges

“A cham­ber piece com­posed in an elu­sive key, it bends every instru­ment of the the­atre into ephemeral har­monies where love rises to meet death, and mem­ory imag­i­na­tion.” — Cameron Wood­head, The Age

Win­ner of the R.E. Ross Trust’s Play­wrights’ Script Devel­op­ment Award, Duets for Lovers and Dream­ers is a cycle of ‘duets’ for the­atre that cel­e­brates human­ity at dif­fer­ent stages of life, in rela­tion­ship to nature and the super­nat­ural. A highly phys­i­cal and vocal work of the­atre, fus­ing per­for­mance, dance and con­tem­po­rary vocal music with the spo­ken word.

WRITER:  San­dra Fiona Long
DIRECTOR:  Naomi Stein­borner
PERFORMERS:  Helen Morse, Kather­ine Tonkin, Phillip McInnes, Matt Cor­nell
SET / COSTUME DESIGN:  Emily Bar­rie
COMPOSER:  James Hul­lick
LIGHTING DESIGN:  Richard Vabre
PROJECTION:  Nicholas Verso and DB Valen­tine
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR:  San­dra Fiona Long
CHOREOGRAPHY:  Nick Som­merville and Matt Cor­nell
PRODUCTION MANAGER:  Emma Valente
STAGE MANAGER:  Jo Leish­man
PRODUCER:  Freya Water­son and Lee Cum­ber­lidge, Insite Arts