2011: Celebrating 40 years of performing arts publishing
Philip Parsons Memorial Lecture & Young Playwright's Award
'In Praise of Nepotism'
Upstairs Theatre Belvoir St Theatre
2pm - Sunday 27 November 2011
Raising funds for Currency House
Join us for the Philip Parsons Memorial Lecture, ‘In Praise of
Nepotism’, by former critic, publisher and long-time cultural activist,
Katharine Brisbane AM.
A FREE READING
of Joanna Murray-Smith's play
The Gift, on Saturday 19 November 1pm. The reading will take place at Bowen Library Theatrette, Maroubra, Level 3 cnr Gale rd & Anzac Pde.
More details here
To mark our 40th
birthday we are giving 40% discount off all Currency books purchased
throughout September. This offer extends until 30 September so browse
our website to stock up on more great Australian titles.
Currency Press is a proud supporter of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.
Currency Press has pledged to donate $1.00 to the campaign from the sale of every book purchased via our website
The Foundation's core aim and objectives:
• To raise literacy levels and thus improve the lives and opportunities of Indigenous Australians living in remote and isolated regions.
• To advocate to raise awareness of literacy issues within the Australian community.
• To raise funds to equip Indigenous Australians living in remote communities with books and the support they need to become literate.
The Foundation’s major fundraising campaign in 2011 is Indigenous Literacy Day on Wednesday 7 September 2011.
Stories in Motion: Forty years of Currency Plays
Compiled by Nick Parsons,
Stories in Motion
charts
Currency’s journey to become the publisher it is today through a
performed reading of selected extracts from Currency plays. Playing
chronologically, the extracts are linked by a narrator’s monologue
touching on national and world events and trends and preoccupations in
our theatre.
The reading will be performed at the Byron Bay Writers' Festival
on Sunday August 7 at the Performance Tent, directed by Susan Melhuish
and performed by local actors.
More info.
Please also join us at The Cube at the
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
in Federation Square on 27 August at 7pm for the Melbourne Writers' Festival reading.
The performed reading will be directed by
Tom Gutteridge, currently Artistic Director of Union House Theatre,
Melbourne University which has helped nurture generations of
playwrights, directors and performers. Max Gillies, a founding member of
The Australian Performing Group, whose career has spanned the forty
years of Currency, is our Narrator.
Our multi-talented cast also includes local talent Rodney Afif, Nicole Nabout, Neil Pigot, Aaron Pederson and Margaret Harvey. More info.
The Cheeky Monkey: Narrative Comedy Masterclass with Tim Ferguson
Buy here: The Cheeky Monkey: Writing Narrative Comedy
Tim Ferguson cracks the code and offers insights into writing comedy for television and film. This workshop focuses on the principles of narrative humour and jokes using accessible and practical techniques.
It’s comedy made simple. Well, simpler.
Topics to be covered include the principles of narrative jokes, creating comic dialogue, and developing comedy characters and comedy storylines.
Duration: 6.5 hours
Maximum capacity: 15 participants
More Details at SWF website
BELVOIR SUNDAY FORUM:
The Wild Duck – Blowing the Classics out of the Water
Belvoir and Currency Press are pleased to invite you to Belvoir’s first ever Sunday Forum and the launch of the Currency Classics Series as we pit the traditional against the radical on the set of
The Wild Duck.
Why is Belvoir producing two dead Russians, a dead Norwegian and a dead Englishman in 2011? Are radical adaptations of the classics Australian theatre’s secret weapon? Do we even need Australian plays any more? What would Ibsen have to say about all this? Why the duck?
Sunday Forum 20th March
Belvoir St Theatre, Downstairs Theatre
3pm pre-show
Series editor, Eamon Flack, talks to the show’s director and writer Simon Stone, plus two of the country’s sharpest theatrical minds – May Brit Akerholt and Tom Wright – about Australian theatre’s marvellous obsession with doing horrible things to great old plays.
May Brit Akerholt is an acclaimed dramaturg and translator and an Ibsen specialist.
Eamon Flack is the Associate Director New Projects at Belvoir and the Series Editor of Currency Classics.
Simon Stone is the Resident Director of Belvoir and the director and writer of Belvoir’s The Wild Duck and Baal for the STC and the Malthouse.
Tom Wright is the Associate Director of the Sydney Theatre Company and is currently co-adapting Baal with Simon Stone, and his acclaimed adaptations have included The Lost Echo, The War of the Roses and The Women of Troy, among many others.
Currency Classics Series Available here
NATIONAL PLAY FESTIVAL
15-19 March 2011
Currency Press is supporting Playwriting Australia's 2011 National Play Festival. The Festival includes the very best of Australian playwriting, unplugged, unreleased and undressed at
Parramatta Riverside Theatre.
We will be selling your favourite plays and drama books on Thursday 17th and Friday 18th so come by! More details on the festival
here.
40th BIRTHDAY TRIVIA
To kick off our celebrations of forty years of performing arts
publishing, we invite you to take part in this trivia quiz, so you can
go into the draw to win a $200 Currency Press gift voucher!
Enter here - Fabulous Forty Trivia
The winner will be announced in our March newsletter.
Good luck,
from the team at Currency Press.