World Premiere
23 – 27 November 2016
A choral performance about family relationships
What would we say to those who brought us
into the world?
What will we say to those we leave behind?
Poised in the delicate space between concert and
theatre performed in the round, Permission to Speak
explores the most universal of relationships – that
of parent and child – as it exists and evolves through
a lifetime.
Built from interviews with people of all ages,
Permission to Speak interweaves the complexities,
parallels and paradoxes of this dynamic relationship –
manifested through the speaking, sounding and
singing human voice.
Musings, diatribes, recollections and hindsight find
voice as four performer-vocalists are fused in choral
counterpoint with an assembly of pre-recorded voices,
offering multiple perspectives on the contemporary
experience of family.
This first-time collaboration between director and
Chamber Made Opera Artistic Associate Tamara
Saulwick (Endings, 2015) and composer Kate Neal
(Semaphore, 2015) pairs contemporary performance
with musical composition to construct a revealing
portrait of that which is often left unspoken.
Text and Direction: Tamara Saulwick
Composer: Kate Neal
Sound Designer: Jethro Woodward
Lighting Designer: Bosco Shaw
Costume Designer: Marg Horwell
Performers: Gian Slater, Georgie Darvidis,
Josh Kyle and Edward Fairlie
Season Wed 23 – Sun 27 November
Times Wed – Thu 7:30pm, Fri 9pm,
Sat 2pm & 7:30pm, Sun 5pm
Duration 60 mins
Green Tix for Nix Thu 24 November
Post-show Q&A Thu 24 November
Address Arts House, 521 Queensberry Street,
North Melbourne
Tickets Full $35 / Concession $30 / Student $25
Bookings artshouse.com.au or (03) 9322 3713
Arts House
artshouse.com.au
Chamber Made Opera
chambermadeopera.com
Tamara Saulwick
tamarasaulwick.
kateneal.com
“So authentic, so stylish and accomplished, it beggars a
fitting description… ‘an astonishing triumph.”
– IRISH INDEPENDENT on Wake, 2014
