Seven World Premieres for Tasmanian Theatre Company

The Premier David Bartlett has launched the Tasmanian Theatre Companyʼs 2011 Artistic Season with great fanfare to a packed house at the Theatre Royal Backspace.

The Companyʼs program in 2011 includes seven World Premieres.

POXED by Launceston writer Stella Kent will feature in Ten Days on the Island directed by
award winning Canadian director, Jillian Keiley. One of Ms Keileyʼs previous works TEMPTING
PROVIDENCE featured in the 2005 Ten Days on the Island.

The season includes a Hobart return season of the Companyʼs most successful show to date I
AM MY OWN WIFE, starring Robert Jarman, after a Mainland tour to venues in metropolitan
Melbourne, regional Victoria and Canberra. Tasmania Performs will also tour the production to
regional Tasmania.

Tasmanian Theatre Company will be presenting the Hobart season of BEAUTIFUL, a new play
by Carrie McLean, produced by Mudlark Theatre who are based in Launceston.

Internationally renowned Tasmanian writer Finegan Kruckemeyer has been commissioned to
write a new play for school audiences. THE BOY WITH THE LONGEST SHADOW will tour in
the second half of the year.

The Tasmanian Theatre Companyʼs Associates program gives significant support to
professional independent artists to produce their own work. In 2011 one of the features of the
program is a Festival of New Tasmanian Theatre, a selection of four new plays being performed
in repertory over three weeks in October.

The new Tasmanian plays are complimented by the Tasmanian premiere of CONSTRUCTION
OF THE HUMAN HEART by popular Melbourne writer Ross Mueller and THE BREATH OF
LIFE by British playwright David Hare.

“The 2011 season is a clear demonstration of the TTCʼs commitment to Tasmanian writers,
Tasmanian theatre makers and to the development of the Tasmanian theatre industry. We are
putting our energies and resources into maintaining a viable theatre industry for the state”,
Artistic Director, Charles Parkinson said. “We are very excited at the prospect of new plays
from Richard Davey, Carrie McLean, Allison Farrow, Briony Kidd and David Lander as well as
Stella Kent and Finegan Kruckemeyer.”

The Company will continue to partner with Aurora Energy to run a year round statewide
community enrichment program and will repeat its popular playreading series.
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