fortyfivedownstairs presents…
Whilst a diverse group of companies and performers bring a range of shows to fortyfivedownstairs, we also produce and present our own shows.
In 2008 fortyfivedownstairs began operating as a co-presenter for a number of productions, including two seasons of Finucane and Smith’s The Burlesque Hour; Ariette Taylor’s The Lower Depths (2008); and And When He Falls (2009) presented by John Stanton and acclaimed pianist/composer Dr. Tony Gould. In 2009 and 2010 a season of experimental and short individual performances were supported in Searchlight – a program modeled after the New York Under the Radar festival. fortyfivedownstairs has also hosted a series of rehearsed readings of plays which were recipients of the R.E. Ross Trust Playwrights’ Script Development several of which have since gone on to full production, with five scheduled to be presented at fortyfivedownstairs this year.
In a further new venture, fortyfivedownstairs is producing two new Australian plays – in 2010 Patricia Cornelius’ award winning play Do not go gentle…, directed by Julian Meyrick, and in 2011 Café Scheherezade, by Therese Radic, directed by Bagryana Popov.
Do not go gentle… received the 2006 R.E. Ross Trust Playwrights’ Script Development Award and 2006 Patrick White Playwrights’ Award – and will have its world premiere in August. One of the judges of the Patrick White award described the work as … a play brilliant in conception and execution… presenting …a potent blend of ambition and originality, sorrow and optimism, exhilaration and dismay.
Read about the 2010 production of Do not go gentle… here.