Crossing Live

CROSSING LIVE
a morality play for the commercial half-hour
CUB Malthouse Merlyn Theatre
15-22 September 2007

COMPOSER: Bryony Marks
WRITER: Matthew Saville
DIRECTOR: Ariette Taylor
MUSIC DIRECTOR: Brett Kelly
DESIGNER: Shaun Gurton
VIDEO: Scott Zero
LIGHTING DESIGNER: Paul Jackson
VISION MIXER: Tim Brown
PERFORMERS: Steve Adams, Chloe Armstrong, Luke Elliot, Evelyn Krape, Stewart Morritt, Dimity Shepherd
            
Award winning screen writer/ director, Matt Saville  (Noise. Roy Hollsdotter Live, We Can Be Heroes), winner of the 2006 Premier’s Literary Award, joins forces with composer, Bryony Marks, to create a satirical and ultimately poignant deconstruction of TV-land

CROSSING LIVE is a contemporary fable, a morality play in the guise of a half-hour Current Affairs program, exploiting opera’s extraordinary potential for drama and theatricality to expose the farce of contemporary mainstream journalism.
 
Set in a television studio with a hard-edged anchor-woman, a tricky director, a long-suffering studio crew, a big-hearted make-up artist, musicians, and a ‘live’ audience CROSSING LIVE combines contemporary music-theatre and live video with TV current affairs and the dark side of journalism.
Winner of the 2007 Green Room Award for Best New Australian Work (Opera)- Bryony Marks and Matt Saville
Winner of the 2007 Green Room Award for Outstanding Performance (Theatre - New Form)- Luke Elliot