Victorian Theatre Company and Brisbane Music Festival present St Kilda Tales: A Performance Rave, a new iteration of Raimondo Cortese’s groundbreaking improvisational play.
St Kilda Tales was first presented by Ranters Theatre at The Malthouse in 2001 as part of the Centenary of Federation Festival. It was inspired by the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda, where many original company members lived. Brisbane Music Festival and Victorian Theatre Company now present the play in a 2025 context. Musicians and cast play together in an urban ritual of multi-faceted choreography, music and character study. Playwright Raimondo Cortese has reworked parts of the script for this new production.
“St Kilda Tales is not about grand statements, climaxes and conventional denouements. As in real life, there are no beginnings or ends. Things happen sometimes with consequences, sometimes not. What excites me is the anarchic complexity that underlies everyday existence; the daily exchanges that are at once tragic, comic, banal and exciting.” says Cortese.
This will be VTC Artistic Director Connell’s directorial debut, and second collaboration with Brisbane Music Festival, after Enoch Arden – a film/performance hybrid that debuted in 2021 to critical acclaim.
London-based composer Jack Bochow and Brisbane Music Festival Artistic Director Alex Raineri will play a newly commissioned original score live onstage with the cast.
May 1 – 10
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