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

VOICEPRINTS
Melbourne International Festival 2007

Performed & Created by: Tomomi Adachi, TTO with visual artist Sandy Caldow, Ali Alizadeh with musicians Elissa Goodrich and Ria Soemardjo, Emilie Zoey-Baker, the improvising chorus Unamunos Quorum with poets Jeltje and Peter Murphy, Ania Walwicz and Amanda Stewart.

Director/Curator: Tanja Beer
Designer: Robyne Latham
Lighting Designer: Jenny Hector
Assistant Director: Megan Louise West

Photography by: Megan Louise West

INFO:
Voiceprints was presented by La Mama Poetica as part of The Melbourne International Festival, and featured a program of immersive performances by poets and sound poets. The outcome was an eclectic "polypoetry" setting, that included the use of visual art, performance, musical composition and movement. The set design was inspired by the late Indigenous Poet, Lisa Bellear and her contributions to La Mama Poetica. Voiceprints aimed to introduce audiences to new and challenging poetic forms, including techno-automatic writing, Sufi-inspired World Jazz and poetry-in-motion.

PRESS:

“Director Tanja Beer imposed theatrical unity through timing and careful use of space… Even at two hours, Voiceprints seemed a sprint: an eye and ear-opening testimony to the theatrical power of poetry in an exciting new format”. The Australian

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