What's on in 2009

So long 08'

Welcome to another exciting year at Skinny Twin following a successful year of creating and presenting our theatre work. In 2008, we celebrated the sold out season of DISCRIT ZIMBABWE by Simon Tengende and great reviews in June. We followed up the season with another two nights at the Guild Theatre at University of Melbourne in August. The first night was sold out and 54 people turned up on a rainy and cold night pushing our total audience number close to 600.

In October, we had a 4 day season of DESTINATION ZIMBABWE by Simon Tengende in the Melbourne Fringe Festival which was originally presented as A Country Crossroads. This play was part of an awakening voice that is getting louder in 2009 around the mistreatment of international students and the challenges they face. Congratulations to Chris Molyneux who directed both plays.

Skinny Twin continued its association with CMYI mentoring the Voices of Young Australia project and Project RACE as well as running theatre and comedy workshops. 

Simon was involved in the successful comedy show Who is Abdul Smith? produced by the talented Trent MaCarthy.

2009 PROJECTS IN THE INCUBATOR:

1. Sustained...By Simon Tengende in consultation with Steve Payne

Sustained is a play about lives lived, experienced loss and finding each other in extraordinary circumstances. Andy is a disgraced, disbarred, broke ex-lawyer who is now a drunk and homeless , he has bipolar and roams the streets of Melbourne in mixed episodes of mania, normalcy and depression. in between hallucinations and being delusional, he dreams of redemption and practicing again. He meets Mkipo, a woman who has lost many, her whole village, in a guerilla raid and her son in suspicious circumstances in Melbourne. Her trauma is reignited leading her to mourn and roam aimless through the urine stained, filthy and violence filled streets of Melbourne, there she meets Andy,

This leads to a Sustained interaction of trauma, alcoholism, denial, madness, rituals, hope and redemption! 

The play is in creative development, watch this space for production information


2. Queen of Hearts

A trailer of Queen of hearts is available for viewing at the following address:

http://www.queenofheartsfilm.com

Please e-mail us for the password to view, Queen of hearts is a film by Adam Ciancio. Simon is part of the cast in this trailer.


              

Other projects are being developed and will be available when they are in advanced stages of creation.