SET AND COSTUME DESIGN
albert herring
the mack
whispers of this wik woman
far away
orphanage project
at first sight
score!
big sky town
szentpaly
lonely planet
the boy and the goat
the barber from seville

DIRECTION AND DESIGN
voiceprints
elixir
journeys in a suitcase

THE MACK
Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts 2007

Writer: Sam Watson
Director: Ian Brown
Set & Costume Designer: Tanja Beer
Lighting Designer: Conan Fitzpatrick

Performed at the Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Arts
Brisbane, Australia.

Photography by: Geoff Heard

INFO:
The Mack is a West End Fairytale about a Murri Aboriginal family living in the inner city area of Brisbane. The conflict between the urban and outback worlds is emphasized in the design by the up-stage river merging into a bitumen road and model-like cityscape down-stage. A black sharks-tooth gauze backdrop was used to create various lighting effects and to emphasise the "Dreaming" in specific moments of the play. Even in a world of bitumen and concrete, the characters of the play are all part of ancient and secret mysteries - The Dreamtime can not be escaped as it is emerges from the surface of reality.

PRESS:

“Tanja Beer’s outstanding set (a wondrous, adaptive creation that evokes both urban and outback environments and finds beauty in both) is magically lit by Conan Fitzpatrick (their combined triumph of design is surely worth the price of admission alone).....” Time Off

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