ECCENTRICS
	A BIZARRE MUSICAL
	Conceived and created by Graham Jones & Jepke Goudsmit Bebop music: Thelonious Monk. Electronic Score: Jim Franklin. Piano arrangements: Kevin Hunt. Text: Peter Snow, Graham Jones & Jepke Goudsmit. Props: Scott Clarke. Slides: Pip McGuire Premiered ‘87 at The Edge in Sydney. Performed in Jakarta, Yogyakarta & Medan (Indonesia) in ‘96 A musical comedy inspired by Monk’s music and the Beckettian life of Sydney’s inner city fringe dwellers. It sketches out the jagged history of two migrant Australians: Wheelchair Ruby and Parachute Frankie. ‘Odd couple meet Monk and Beckett... brilliant conjunctions result. Jones and Goudsmit dance, sing and act with wit and an engaging friendliness never at odds with a bizarre but heartwarming production which will send some people out determined to investigate the great Thelonious Sphere Monk, musical genius and patron saint of outsiders”. (Gail Brennan, SMH) “A man, a woman, a wheelchair... You forget there is any other way of dancing but in a wheelchair” (Zoja Bojic, South Sydney Bulletin)
	WHO LIVES?!
	A CONFRONTATION BETWEEN A MAN AND HIS SOUL IN A TIME OF CHAOS
	Conceived and created by Graham Jones & Jepke Goudsmit Electro-acoustic music by Roger Dean. Motorbike sculpture by Daniel McCool. Premiered ‘92 at The Edge in Sydney. Performed in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) in ‘95. This performance installation is a contemporisation of an Egyptian text from around 2200 BC: “Dialogue of a worldweary man and his Ba” (Soul). A man becomes deeply depressed and contemplates suicide. Death confronts him after a road crash. His near-death-experience resurrects his spiritual core. Throughout his journey he is shadowed, haunted, shaken and finally restored by his female counterpart. “There are moments when you feel you have been taken by the hand and guided through a subterranean world of the soul... What these two people do with their bodies and how they make use of simple objects to send laser beams into our imagination ought to be compulsive viewing”. (Paul McGillick, Australian Financial Review) “Riveting images, dance, drama, sculpture, sound and music are finely crafted and combined... Everything is used ingeniously, everything has meaning and nothing is superfluous”. (Jennifer Thurstun, Dance Australia) “Powerful, hypnotic, cathartic. Although set in the modern world, the performance belongs to the antique mystery rites. This is performance at the upper edge of the avant-garde”. (Zoja Bojic, South Sydney Bulletin)
	UNDISCOVERED LAND - VOYAGE 1
	A MAN’S STORY
	Conceived and created by Jepke Goudsmit & Graham Jones. Electro-acoustic Score by Roger Dean. Featuring Gregorian chants, square dancing and a very unusual game of tennis. Premiered ‘96 at The Edge in Sydney. The first part of our dyptich dance-drama across time stretching a virtual millenium, with performers, space and objects continually transforming. The story: Richard is plagued by afflictions beyond his understanding: he is outwardly successful, but secretly he suffers from an all consuming self-loathing that threatens to destroy his marriage and his very life. Under the anchoring guidance of a regression therapist, he unlocks repressed childhood memories and crucial events dating back far beyond his birth. ““This is theatre where skilled artists search for truth and meaning in life’s complex web of events and relationships, and strive to challenge our perceptions. They are masters”. (Julie Huffer, The Australian)
	GO! WALK!
	A METAPHOR ABOUT CREATION, ABOUT GIVING BIRTH AND BEING BORN
	Conceived and created by Graham Jones & Jepke Goudsmit Calligraphic images: Young Ming. Soundscape: Don Reid. Text: Peter Snow, Jepke Goudsmit & Graham Jones. Premiered ‘99 at The Edge in Sydney. An ecstatic dance-poem inspired by East-West connections found in the art of theatre making, Taoism and Chinese callighraphy. An active natural birth seen from the perspective of the giver of life (mother), the receiver of life (child) and the helper (father/midwife). An experience of equal pain and pleasure.
	HAMLET
	A BOLD DUET ADAPTATION
	Text by William Shake-speare. Music Score (Ghost): John Levine Various recordings of music by John Dowland, Guillaume Dufay, William Byrd. Premiered in ‘98 at The Edge in Sydney. A dramaturgical choreography of Shake-speare’s most autobiographical play. In which one actress and one actor bring to life all the major characters and their multi-facetted conflicts. Where the audience participates as minor characters in non-speaking parts and where the action takes place everywhere. While researching and mounting this play, we plunged into the Shake-speare authorship question which catapulted us into our SHAKE-SPEARE SERIES (see CURRENT PROJECTS and CURRENT REPERTOIRE) In a world where traditional notions of malehood are under siege and boy psychology reaches as high as the White House, HAMLET’s classical conflicts take on new meaning: the sweet prince’s finer sentiments and noble ideals suffocated by the cruel fate that Fortune hands him, Ophelia’s frustrations and madness, the corruption of a court in a world of complex power games and war, and the many underlying psychological issues. The goings on at Elsinore continue to fascinate and shed light on the roles we play as we undergo change and redefinition in a society restructuring its values and make-up. “Boldly physical... Another trademark: ingenuity of staging... Action is used to both enliven and demystify the text... A sharpened sense of the stage being Hamlet’s mind”. (John Shand, SMH)
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