Created by: Theatre Replacement

Presented by: Melbourne Fringe

Conducted by: Evan J Lawson

Town Choir is a musical event from the minds of Canada's Theatre Replacement which reframes everyday observations as epic, choral declarations. As texts are produced live by acclaimed local writers Alistair Baldwin, Declan Furber Gillick and Michele Lee, they are immediately sung out to the public by an enormous, outdoor choir assembled in Prahran Square in glorious, four-part harmony.

With music by Irish composer Robbie Blake, conducted by leading queer artist and composer Evan Lawson (Forest Collective), and featuring singers from across Melbourne; Town Choir examines the intimate and minute experiences of individual Australians and takes them to monumental proportions, celebrating the singular voice through the power of the collective. It's beautiful, it's powerful and it's poignant. An unmissable, uplifting experience.

Theatre Replacement and Melbourne Fringe have been collaborating closely throughout the pandemic to bring you this extraordinary work created across international borders. Theatre Replacement is led by artists Maiko Yamamoto and James Long, and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Duration: 60 minutes

Accessibility: Wheelchair Access, Captioned

Age suitability: PG

Prahran Square, Cato Street, Prahran.

This is a free event.

Created by: Theatre Replacement

Presented by: Melbourne Fringe

Conducted by: Evan J Lawson

Town Choir is a musical event from the minds of Canada's Theatre Replacement which reframes everyday observations as epic, choral declarations. As texts are produced live by acclaimed local writers Alistair Baldwin, Declan Furber Gillick and Michele Lee, they are immediately sung out to the public by an enormous, outdoor choir assembled in Prahran Square in glorious, four-part harmony.

With music by Irish composer Robbie Blake, conducted by leading queer artist and composer Evan Lawson (Forest Collective), and featuring singers from across Melbourne; Town Choir examines the intimate and minute experiences of individual Australians and takes them to monumental proportions, celebrating the singular voice through the power of the collective. It's beautiful, it's powerful and it's poignant. An unmissable, uplifting experience.

Theatre Replacement and Melbourne Fringe have been collaborating closely throughout the pandemic to bring you this extraordinary work created across international borders. Theatre Replacement is led by artists Maiko Yamamoto and James Long, and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Duration: 60 minutes

Accessibility: Wheelchair Access, Captioned

Age suitability: PG

Prahran Square, Cato Street, Prahran.

This is a free event.

Inspired by the true story of three lighthouse keepers who disappeared without a trace, The Lighthouse by Peter Maxwell Davies is a chilling opera thriller. Three singers, playing multiple characters, explore the poisonous chemistry between men sick of each other and themselves, isolated and trapped, descending into madness.

SANDY / OFFICER 1 : DANIEL SINFIELD

BLAZES / OFFICER 2 : JONATHAN RUMSAM

ARTHUR / OFFICER 3 / VOICE OF CARDS : HENRY SHAW

DIRECTION / KATE MILLETT

CONDUCTOR / EVAN LAWSON

SET & COSTUME DESIGNER / CASEY HARPER-WOOD

LIGHTING DESIGNER / GABRIEL BETHUNE

SOUND DESIGNER / JACK BURMEISTER

REPETITEUR / SUNG WON CHOI

HORN PLAYER / PHOEBE SMITHIES

TICKETS

$43.29 – $53.84

Melbourne Premiere

BRUNSWICK MECHANICS INSTITUTE
270 SYDNEY RD, BRUNSWICK

Presented by BK Opera

Inspired by the true story of three lighthouse keepers who disappeared without a trace, The Lighthouse by Peter Maxwell Davies is a chilling opera thriller. Three singers, playing multiple characters, explore the poisonous chemistry between men sick of each other and themselves, isolated and trapped, descending into madness.

SANDY / OFFICER 1 : DANIEL SINFIELD

BLAZES / OFFICER 2 : JONATHAN RUMSAM

ARTHUR / OFFICER 3 / VOICE OF CARDS : HENRY SHAW

DIRECTION / KATE MILLETT

CONDUCTOR / EVAN LAWSON

SET & COSTUME DESIGNER / CASEY HARPER-WOOD

LIGHTING DESIGNER / GABRIEL BETHUNE

SOUND DESIGNER / JACK BURMEISTER

REPETITEUR / SUNG WON CHOI

HORN PLAYER / PHOEBE SMITHIES

TICKETS

$43.29 – $53.84

Melbourne Premiere

BRUNSWICK MECHANICS INSTITUTE
270 SYDNEY RD, BRUNSWICK

Presented by BK Opera

Inspired by the true story of three lighthouse keepers who disappeared without a trace, The Lighthouse by Peter Maxwell Davies is a chilling opera thriller. Three singers, playing multiple characters, explore the poisonous chemistry between men sick of each other and themselves, isolated and trapped, descending into madness.

SANDY / OFFICER 1 : DANIEL SINFIELD

BLAZES / OFFICER 2 : JONATHAN RUMSAM

ARTHUR / OFFICER 3 / VOICE OF CARDS : HENRY SHAW

DIRECTION / KATE MILLETT

CONDUCTOR / EVAN LAWSON

SET & COSTUME DESIGNER / CASEY HARPER-WOOD

LIGHTING DESIGNER / GABRIEL BETHUNE

SOUND DESIGNER / JACK BURMEISTER

REPETITEUR / SUNG WON CHOI

HORN PLAYER / PHOEBE SMITHIES

TICKETS

$43.29 – $53.84

Melbourne Premiere

BRUNSWICK MECHANICS INSTITUTE
270 SYDNEY RD, BRUNSWICK

Presented by BK Opera

“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

Celestial bodies move the earth’s waters – and we feel those tides deep within us. For as long as humans have walked the earth, the push and pull of the seas have shaped how we interact with the world. Tides explores how the moon and other cosmic entities exert a force that is at once epic and intimate, geological and personal.

Featuring new choreography by Jesse Matthews and design by Jane Noonan, Forest Collective will perform a rich program of music by Evan J Lawson, Claudio Monteverdi, Bjork, Joseph Haydn, and more. Tides will move and reshape you through powerful sound and movement into a new and immersive world.

Presented by Forest Collective & Abbotsford Convent, as part of Convent Live

Forest Collective is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria

Book now!

www.eventfinda.com.au/2022/folding/melbourne/abbotsford

“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

Celestial bodies move the earth’s waters – and we feel those tides deep within us. For as long as humans have walked the earth, the push and pull of the seas have shaped how we interact with the world. Tides explores how the moon and other cosmic entities exert a force that is at once epic and intimate, geological and personal.

Featuring new choreography by Jesse Matthews and design by Jane Noonan, Forest Collective will perform a rich program of music by Evan J Lawson, Claudio Monteverdi, Bjork, Joseph Haydn, and more. Tides will move and reshape you through powerful sound and movement into a new and immersive world.

Presented by Forest Collective & Abbotsford Convent, as part of Convent Live

Forest Collective is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria

Book now!

www.eventfinda.com.au/2022/folding/melbourne/abbotsford

“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

Celestial bodies move the earth’s waters – and we feel those tides deep within us. For as long as humans have walked the earth, the push and pull of the seas have shaped how we interact with the world. Tides explores how the moon and other cosmic entities exert a force that is at once epic and intimate, geological and personal.

Featuring new choreography by Jesse Matthews and design by Jane Noonan, Forest Collective will perform a rich program of music by Evan J Lawson, Claudio Monteverdi, Bjork, Joseph Haydn, and more. Tides will move and reshape you through powerful sound and movement into a new and immersive world.

Presented by Forest Collective & Abbotsford Convent, as part of Convent Live

Forest Collective is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria

Book now!

www.eventfinda.com.au/2022/folding/melbourne/abbotsford

“Even to see oneself in the mirror, one must recognise oneself.
For unless one does that, one does not see oneself, only a human being. ”

— Soren Kierkegaard, The Sickness unto Death

A transgender composer bids a musical farewell to her troubled past state of existence through a heartfelt artistic expression of the abstract mental journey it took to get her out of it.

The expressive and multifaceted baritone of Stephen Marsh gives voice to the restless thoughts and reflections of a 'self' stuck in a mental labyrinth, via settings of text fragments from the Danish existential philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. Moving through a cycle of continual self-construction/deconstruction, darkly comic/tragic musings and elusive despair, Portrait of a Self depicts someone struggling to dig underneath their consciousness, make sense of their condition and become a real person, all amongst music which is itself in a state of fluctuating stylistic identity. 

This piece from Melbourne composer Kym Dillon is born from a very specific experience, but more broadly it is a story of mental health, selfhood, and the unearthing of identity in the most foundational sense. 

THE PROGRAM.

Kym Dillon Sonata for flute & piano 

Kym Dillon Diapsalmata: Portrait of a Self for baritone voice, piano solo and ensemble World premiere

Book now!

https://www.eventfinda.com.au/2022/diapsalmata-o-t-a-t-f-s-l-f/melbourne/richmond