2015 – Climamania Festival of Short Plays and Music (C5)
Climamania – Mini-Festival of Short Plays and Music
presented as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2015
28 September to 4 October, 2015
Brunswick Mechanics Institute, cnr Glen Lyon and Sydney Roads, Brunswick
Tuesday – Sunday at 6.30pm, 90 minutes duration
Do you have an angry polar bear in your swimming pool? Look again. Bjorn and his Inuit mates are in town, mightily pissed off about the climate change crisis, global warming and the shrinking ice caps. So say authors Gerald Frape and Peter Hardy (a climate scientist who spent four years working in the Arctic).
Soul Theatre presents a mini-festival of theatre, poetry, comedy and music about the climate change crisis and what we’re not doing about it.
Join Australian jazz icon Bob Sedergreen, comic master Rod Quantock* and the Soul Theatre ensemble as they put a carbon-neutral rocket under our entrenched complacency. (Please note: Rod Quantock not appearing on Friday, 2 October).
More information here.
The Climamania Project Stimulus
Having been a Climate Change Activist since late 2002, Alicia Liley proposed to SOUL’s Board at the 2009 AGM that Soul Theatre Inc. produce a production, educating society and the politicians about the incredible seriousness of the Climate Change Crisis – before it is way too late!
Everyone agreed, so as Artistic Director, Alicia searched for a single Playwright for SOUL to commission on this play tackling the Climate Change Crisis
She obtained the performing rights to The Australian Premiere of The Contingency Plan by UK playwright, Steve Waters. The Contingency Plan.
The Contingency Plan is composed of two full length plays, On the Beach and Resilience.
To assist with SOUL’s purpose of this Climate Change message, Alicia had previously curated various other art forms in addition to this production.
These creative events of music, poetry, photography, comedy, poetry and Climate Science speakers are an addition to the combination of Short Plays, with all creative endeavours aligning with the theme of Climate Change.
This has taken shape as Climamania: Festival of Short Plays and Music.
2012 – The Climamania Project Event Nr 4 (C4)
Soul Theatre’s fourth production for 2012 was The Climamania Project Event Nr 4 (C4).
ARTISTIC NOTES: Alicia had been trying to acquire Senator Bob Brown to speak on behalf of Climamania since November 2010, as they intermittently meet over the years, and inevitably discuss SOUL. Bob had agreed to help SOUL Theatre ever since 2002! At last, he delivered!
PURPOSE : To highlight the unending concerns about the Climate Change Crisis
BENEFICIARY : SOUL’s Climamania Project
VENUE : Meat Market Arts Centre, North Melbourne
SEASON : Saturday November 10, 2012
DIRECTOR : Alicia Liley
2012 – The Climamania Project Event Nr 3 (C3)
Soul Theatre’s second production for 2012 was The Climamania Project Event Nr 3 (C3).
ARTISTIC NOTES: Performance of Groundtruthing, by climate scientist Peter Hardy
PURPOSE : for the 4th Earth Action Conference, involving several schools, co-ordinated by Lorna Brooks, Yr. 11 Coordinator/Sustainable Schools Coordinator at Mill Park Secondary College
BENEFICIARIES : SOUL’s Climamania Project; student audience
VENUE : Mill Park Secondary College
SEASON : Thursday, September 6, 2012
DIRECTOR : Alicia Liley
2012 – The Climamania Project Event Nr 2 (C2)
Soul Theatre’s second production for 2012 was The Climamania Project Event Nr 2 (C2).
PURPOSE : Continuing the Climamania momentum, since many people wanted to see it again from seeing C1 and many also were unable to attend C1
BENEFICIARY : SOUL’s Climamania Project
VENUE : St. Martin’s Community Church, 215 Wellington St., Collingwood
SEASON : Saturday June 16, 2012
DIRECTOR : Alicia Liley
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