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December 1, 2008

"Bodybag" excerpt playing at Short+Sweet 2008, Melbourne

For those who don’t know, I’ve started writing with a new theatre company called ITCH Productions. From Wed 10th to Sat 13th December 8pm at the Fairfax Theatre, you will have a first opportunity to see a short excerpt from our new work ‘Bodybag’. Our piece is on the second week with the other Independent Theatre Ensembles, but I recommend checking out the plays from the other two weeks as well as there’s always something for everyone.

Directed by Alice Bishop and featuring Des Fleming and Olivia Connelly.

Tickets and Short+Sweet Details
Itch Productions

“Bodybag” will premiere at the Mechanics Institute, Brunswick on Thursday May 28th 2009.

“A story about ‘addiction and the cult of celebrity’ our central character wakes up after a car accident believing he’s a famous movie star. As the lines between his actual reality and his desired reality begin to blur, he peoples his life with film stars, mistaking his friends and family for cinema icons. His story becomes a cinematic landscape, tragically echoing the story of numerous celebrities who have gone before.”

  • Jessica Tremp

    Jessica Tremp

    so exciting

  • Hop Dacworks here replied

    theatre is frikken awesome!

  • Jessica Tremp

    Jessica Tremp

    how did you get into it? or how does one?

  • Hop Dacworks here replied

    i submitted something for S+S a couple of years ago and alice directed that. we had a great time working together and when she put ITCH Productions together, asked me to come on board.
    i recommend writing something for S+S next year. if your play is picked up, you’ll work with a director, who selects the actors, and you’ll participate in rehearsals, which for me is the most rewarding part. Then you’ll see your work performed at the Fairfax Studio in the Arts Centre to several hundred people. the only way it gets better is if you end opening night horrendously drunk.

  • bellmusker

    bellmusker

    How wonderful! Congratulations Hop….I will try to get down and check it out.

  • Hop Dacworks here replied

    thanks bell, you’ll dig it.

  • Anne van Alkemade

    Anne van Alkemade

    Don’t forget to pop this in coming events in the Writers’ Forum, Hop!
    Break a leg with it too!
    xx

  • Hop Dacworks here replied

    thanks anne, will do!

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