Sydney University Drama Society

Here’s what’s on NOW and coming up…

2008 SUDS SHOWCASE - PLAYING FAVOURITES

a collection of monologues, duologues and scenes showcasing the breadth of talent in the current SUDS vintage.

AND THEN

DISMISSAL
By Kip Williams

April 30th
&
May 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th

8pm

AND FINALLY!

MACHINAL
Directed by Pierce Wilcox
produced by Chris Hay

Machinal is the tragedy of a young woman trapped in a world of men, money and machines. In an increasingly mechanised society, she is stripped of her independence, driven slowly to insanity, and eventually turns to murder.
Machinal is a play about the endless grind of working life, the status of women, the weight of social expectation, and the desperate struggle to be free.

So come on down to The Cellar Theatre, underneath the Holme Building.

Meetings are every 2nd Wednesday at 1pm. The next meeting is April 23rd.

There’s always something going on, and there’s a million-and-one chances to get involved in Australia’s Oldest Drama Society.

In the first edition of the SUDS wash for 2008:
1. REMINDER! REMINDER! REMINDER! Summer General Meeting this Wednesday 6PM.
2. On Now: Summer Passions
3. Congratulations Cunsut

4. Getting the Wash in 08
5. Persephone’s Wolf, Opening soon
6. Coming soon in Melbourne
7. Calling all aspiring writers
8. Coming Up In The Cellar - Oweek, The Baron
9. How to contact your SUDS executive

1. Reminder - SUDS GENERAL MEETING THIS WEDNESDAY
A reminder that our Summer Meeting is being held THIS WEDNESDAY, the 9th of January.

We will be meeting at 6pm in the Cellar theatre to vote on, among other things, the Wildcard Slot for Semester One 2008. This years Wildcard slot is in week Three Semester One (17th - 22nd of March).
You will need to be a 2007 SUDS member to vote.

Hope to see you there

2. On Now: Summer Passions
Currently in the Cellar

Summer Passions is FOUR plays connected to ideas of love, lust and the search for happiness. Each night of the week from Wednesday through Saturday will bring you a different piece of theatre, either American or British, from either the 1970s or 2000s. The plays are as follows:

Wednesday 9 January, 8pm

Betrayal by Harold Pinter (1978)

Starring: Courtney Gilbert, Nicholas Dixon-Wilmshurt and Christopher Hay

Directed by: Dominic Mercer and Tina Moshkanbaryans

Thursday 10 January, 8pm, and EXTRA PERFORMANCE Friday 11 January, 6pm

The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute (2001)

Starring: Brydie Lee-Kennedy, Dominic Mercer, Ash Vlahos and Oliver Burton

Friday 11 January, 8pm

Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet (1974)

Starring: Joe Cornell, Alec Bombell, Tina Moshkanbaryans and Alice Workman

Saturday 12 January, 8pm

Don Juan in Soho by Patrick Marber (2005)

Starring: The Members of the Ensemble

Directed by: Christopher Hay and Joe Cornell

$2/4/5 and if you come at 6pm on Friday you’ll see both Sexual Perversity in Chicago and The Shape of Things for the one low price!

3. Congratulations CUNSUT

At the end of December Messrs Sutton and Cunningham threw open the doors of No. 4 Pudding Lane to share Christmas in equal portions to all of SUDS.
Songs, games, quietly paying attention, and especially Christmas were appreciated by all.
Congratulations to the Cunsut family for a fantastic show.

4. Getting the Wash in ‘08
SUDS has become so popular our Wash mailing list is overflowing. If you would still like to receive our regular society updates in 2008 please let us know by emailing thewash@sudsonline.org or by becoming a SUDS member this year.

5. Persephone’s Wolf - Opening soon!

Bambina Borracha’s first show opens in just three weeks on 30th January. Book your tickets through Moshtix online or over the phone.

Wed 30th Jan - Sat 2nd Feb + Tues 5th Feb - Sat 9th Feb 2008CarriageWorks Arts Centre 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh (map + directions here) Performance starts at 8pm Community Art Installation open 7 - 10pm each night of performance Book at moshtix.com.au, at all moshtix outlets or call 1300 GET TIX (438 849) ADULTS $30 CONCESSIONS $20 CARD HOLDERS $15 PLUS BOOKING FEES

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6. Coming up in Melbourne

Pumpernickel and Wry are presenting Eine Kleine Story Time at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2008 as part of Komedy@Kaleide from 21 March 2008 until 13 April 2008 in the Kaleide Theatre, RMIT University Melbourne.

Written and directed by Edan Lacey (SUDS 2002-2007) and Nick O’Donnell, it will star Lacey, O’Donnell and Max Rapley (current SUDS member) and be produced by Cat Prestipino (SUDS 2002-2006).

Reviving the signature characters of Architorture Hans and Otto, the German gargoyles tell the tale of the fatally doomed Mouldy, a boy born from a bag of mouldy oranges, and his struggles to find acceptance in a world populated by wise old babies, Japanese schoolgirls, Canadian Terrorists and a Maltese pigeon named Rodolfo.

7. Calling all aspiring writers
Submissions Invited!
Send us your best story, memoir, article, poem, or artwork
for inclusion in the 2008 Sydney University Student Anthology

A unique publishing opportunity continues next year when Master of
Publishing students will edit an anthology of writing to be published by

Sydney University Press.

All students at Sydney University are invited to submit work to this
anthology.

Send us your best story, memoir, article, poem, or artwork and you may
be chosen for inclusion in the second Master of Publishing anthology to
be published in the Spring Semester 2008. This will be a trade
publication, and will be distributed in bookstores. It represents a
golden opportunity for you to be published professionally and to reach a

wide audience, beyond the campus.

Submission guidelines:
* All pieces should be typewritten in courier new 12 point, double
spaced, on one side of the paper only.
* Title page should include: title of piece, your name, student no.,
email address, and contact phone no.
* All other pages should have your name and the title of the piece at
the top of the page.
* All students may submit as many works as they like, but no one work
should be longer than 5,000 words.

Please submit your work to:
‘Student Anthology’
MECO Administrative Office,
Ground Floor, R.C. Mills Building (A26),
Camperdown Campus
University of Sydney
NSW 2006

Or drop your manuscript into the submissions
box marked Master of Publishing Anthology
in the MECO administrative office,
Room 140, R.C. Mills Bldg (A26)
Camperdown Campus

Submissions are open until February 29, 2008
For more information, contact Dr Fiona Giles
fiona.giles@arts.usyd.edu.au
Or call 9036 6272

Threads, the 2007 Sydney University Student Anthology is
now available
www.sup.usyd.edu.au

8. Coming Up In The Cellar
O Week Stage One with Steph & Max

Week 1 & 2 Stage One with Steph & Max

Week 3 Wildcard

Week 4 & 5 2008 The Baron Of Who Knows Where

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• 1. Now Showing: Death And The Maiden
• 2. Auditions, Slot 8: Hamlet
• 3. SUCS Revue Themed Sketch Open Mic Night
• 4. Auditions: Arts Revue
• 5. Shakespeare Globe: $10 Tickets to Romeo & Juliet
• 6. The Life They Love with Adam Yardley

1. Now Showing: Death and The Maiden

ONE WEEK LEFT

NOTE: Play With Your Food is now on the second Thursday of each Cellar Slot.
Meet THIS THURSDAY at the Roxbury at 6pm for $5 steak before heading over to watch Death and the Maiden.

Wenesday 6th - Saturday 9th June
8pm

See this week’s Bull for an interview with Director / Producer Anna McDougall

SUDS brings you a classic of Latin American theatre with Ariel Dorfman’s “Death and the Maiden.”
STARRING: Danika Armytage, Oliver Burton, and Chris Hay.
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Anna McDougall
CO-PRODUCER: Sam Leis

Doctor Roberto Miranda (Chris Hay) stops one night to give a ride to Gerardo (Oliver Burton) whose car has broken down. Recently appointed to investigate the dictatorship’s atrocities, Gerardo finds both himself and Doctor Miranda in a deadly intellectual play-off with Gerardo’s wife Paulina (Danika Armytage) when she recognises the Doctor’s voice as that of a man who assisted in her torture and rape 15 years ago. Set in Chile in 1990, it follows the 3 characters as each struggles to come to terms with their experiences from the dictatorship.

Tickets at the door: $2 SUDS Members/$3 ACCESS card holders/$4 Concessions/$5 Adults

2. Auditions, Slot 8: Hamlet

Death. Desire. Revenge. Murder.
The greatest tragedy of all time, the most powerful words imaginable. A focus on the mad, frenetic descent into a gruesome space that is rotten to the core, a world of self destruction, a world of power and mystery. Victorian Gothic dress with a modernist, Tim Burton slant. A set of shadows, smoke and mirrors.

Director: Maisie Dubosarsky
Artistic Director: Alice Workman
Producer: Khym Scott

Performing: Semester Two Weeks 3 and 4
8th – 18th August, 8pm

Length: 2 acts, 1hr 40m

Roles: 12 (doubling). Gender: 2f, 5m, 5n

For synopsis, visit Maisie’s favourite website:
http://sub-zero.mit.edu/bakunin/hamlet.html

Audition Times:
Tues 5/6: 1 - 5pm
Wed 6/6: 3 - 5pm

All auditions meet on the lawn outside the Cellar Theatre, Science Rd.

To book an audition time from above or arrange an alternative time contact:
Maisie: 0430271801 / maisie.d@gmail.com or
Alice: 0408118661 / alice.workman@gmail.com

For audition pieces:
http://usydedu.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2215989530&topic=2423

3. SUCS Revue Themed Sketch Open Mic Night

Come together and witness the awkward tension that is Sydney University Revue Season 2007.

Law. Medicine. Architecture. Science. Engineering. Arts.

Featuring a return of the Engineering Boys Choir, the Arts Revue Madrigals, the Architecture Revue’s ‘Drop It Like It’s Fat’ AV, the Science Revue’s Poster War sketch, Law Revue’s Truckie on Drugs, as well as new material from Med, Architecture and Arts, and a special guest appearance by ‘The Delusionists’ (the show featuring the best of Sydney University Revue sketch comedy) direct from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Hosted by by Channel 10’s Ronny Johns Show stars Susie Youseff and Dan Ilic.

FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY

Tuesday 5th June
6:30pm
Manning Bar

(following FREE FOOD at the General Meeting in the Loggia, middle level Manning at 5pm)

$0 SUCS members, $5 Access Card, $5 Other.

For more information, email Events Coordinator Brydie at brydielk@gmail.com

www.sydneyuniversitycomedysociety.com

4. Auditions: Arts Revue

Auditions times for mind blowing theatrical and social event -

Monday the 28th of May 1.30 – 4

Wednesday the 30th of May 10 - 1

Thursday the 31st of May 4 – 7

Monday the 4th of June 1.30 – 4

Wednesday the 6th of June 10 - 1

Thursday the 7th of June 4 - 7

Holme Reading Room.

Contact Steen (0412527006) or Olly (0402574709) to arrange a private viewing.

5. Shakespeare Globe: $10 Tickets for Romeo & Juliet

SUDS’ own Edan Lacey is now starring in the Shakespeare Globe production of Romeo & Juliet.

They are offering $10 tickets to all SUDS members, if you bring along your membership card!

To book, call 9352 5292.

Season: Wednesday 30 May – Saturday 23 June 2007
Preview: Wednesday 30 May 7.30pm

Opens: Thursday 31 May 7.30pm

Evenings: Wednesdays to Saturdays 7.30pm

Matinees:
Friday 1, 8, 15, 22 June 2pm;
Wed 6, 13, 20 2pm

Tuesday 5, 12, 19 June 11am;
Thursday 7, 14, 21 June 11am

Prices: Adult $36; Concession $30; MEAA & Students $25

Bookings: 1300 306 776 or www.mca-tix.com

Information visit: www.shakespeareglobe.org.au

6. The Life They Love with Adam Yardley.

Are you thinking ahead about your career plans?

Need some help to clarify your direction?

Want to hear how others have successfully managed it?

The Careers Centre invites you to a Career Development workshop and evening presentation hosted as part of the inaugural National Career Development Week during 4 - 10 June 2007.

On Wenesday 6th June, SUCS’ Adam Yardley will be hosting a FREE Enough Rope styled series of interviews, called ‘The Life They Love. Come along and hear how two high profile alumni of the University of Sydney, ex-Olympian (baseball, Atlanta 1996), Olympic Appeals Tribunal Arbitrator and now successful businessman David Hynes and prominent Sydney Morning Herald columnist Lisa Pryor, have successfully managed ‘the life they love’.

This event promises to bring some laughs with it hosted by Adam Yardley, our very own Sydney University Comedy Society genius. Each event will conclude with wine, cheese and the chance to network.

Career Development Presentation - ‘The Life They Love’, Adam Yardley
with David Hynes and Lisa Pryor

Wednesday 6 June 2007 at 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

To register for these events:
Click on http://www.careers.usyd.edu.au/students/students/index.shtml

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SUDS brings you a classic of Latin American theatre with Ariel Dorfman’s “Death and the Maiden.”
STARRING: Danika Armytage, Oliver Burton, and Chris Hay.
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Anna McDougall
CO-PRODUCER: Sam Leis

Doctor Roberto Miranda (Chris Hay) stops one night to give a ride to Gerardo (Oliver Burton) whose car has broken down. Recently appointed to investigate the dictatorship’s atrocities, Gerardo finds both himself and Doctor Miranda in a deadly intellectual play-off with Gerardo’s wife Paulina (Danika Armytage) when she recognises the Doctor’s voice as that of a man who assisted in her torture and rape 15 years ago. Set in Chile in 1990, it follows the 3 characters as each struggles to come to terms with their experiences from the dictatorship.
Wednesday 6th - Saturday 9th June
8pm
Tickets at the door: $2 SUDS Members/$3 ACCESS card holders/$4 Concessions/$5 Adults

Welcome back to SUDS 2007! O-week and Week One are packed with awesome activities designed to make you have as much fun as cosmically possible hanging with the people that you love and opportunity to meet and create with new wonderful sudsaroonies.

The Playlist

Play Around - If you’re into improvising we’d love you to play our amazing interactive improvisation game called the Wheel of SUDS. This is to be held on the Wednesday of O-week, during the day.

The Players - If you’re interested in meeting new people and showing them around our wonderful space, then sign up to be a tour guide.

Play Inside - For a really intense and really great experience sign up for Lock Down in the Cellar Theatre. Prepare yourself to be locked in for Wednesday night and Thursday with a group of delightful individuals and the challenge of producing a piece of theatre within 24 hours … Love a bit of cabin fever!

Play with your Food - Fancy yourself as Chef? Help us cook up a storm (or a BBQ) on the front lawn on the Wednesday of O-week.

Play Outside - Think you know your campus pretty well? Become a team leader and guide your team to victory in the SUDS Amazing Race.

Play in a Day - Sign up to become a director or actor for the Friday of O-week, just or…

Playwright - Join the writers group for Thursday of O-week for the first shift of Play in a Day.

There will be loads of other stuff to come along to during O-week, which we will fill you in on when the time comes! Oh the excitement!

Can’t wait to see you all.

love and sunshine.

Libby (0439 593 149) or Chris (0401 743 482).

In this week’s WASH
1. SUDS at O-Week 2007 - Wednesday 28th February to Friday 2nd March
2. Company B Under 27s Subscription Deals
3. The Old Fitzroy Theatre - Free & Discount Tickets
4. Seymour Centre - Free Tickets
5. Graffiti Tunnel
6. Coming Up In The Cellar

1. SUDS at O-Week 2007 - Wednesday 28th February to Friday 2nd March

Unleash O-Week 2007
Wednesday 28th February to Friday 2nd March
9am - 5pm
Front Lawns & Manning Forecourt

Just by paying your $5 to sign up to SUDS in 2007,
you’re guaranteed a whole bunch of discounts throughout the year including:

* 10% off at Gould’s Bookshop, King St Newtown
* Up to 34% off with U27s discount tickets and season bookings at Belvior Theatre
* 10% off when booking for 5 or more at the Newtown Theatre
* Discounts on Acting Courses at the Newtown Theatre
* FREE tickets to the first Sunday night mainstage performances at the New Theatre
* Free & discounts ticket offers at the Seymour Centre
* $16 Tuesdays and $19 every other night at the Old Fitzroy
* Discount offers throughout the year at the Riverside Theatre
and
* the fantastically photo jazzy SUDS handbook, complete with a 2007 calender, information on the different types of members, how to propose, SUDS subgroups, cellar & major productions, Play With Your Food, auditions, Directors & Writers nights and more!

Look out for SUDS performances on the OWEEK MAIN STAGE Wednesday 11:45pm, on Sydney Uni FM and the Sydney University Comedy Society ( S.U.C.S.)’ street stage outside Fisher Library, or just drop by the Cellar for our Operating Theatre activities operating 9-5pm every day.

The first General Meeting of the year will take place in Week One on Wednesday 7th March . In this meeting we’ll be proposing for Slot 3 performing in Week 6 and the first Wildcard Slot of the year in Week Five.

Check out our NEW website
www.sudsonline.org

2. Company B Under 27s Subscription Deal.

COMPANY B - 2007 Season Tickets are still on sale!

Belvoir St Theatre header

Save up to a massive 34% with our extremely popular UNDER 27 PREVIEW PACKAGE.
Be quick! Preview seats are limited and seats are selling fast.
See preview performances of all 7 remaining plays in the season for only $151, 6 for $135 or 5 for $128.
That’s as little as $21 per show!

THE GATES OF EGYPT Stephen Sewell’s impassioned examination of peace and vengeance.

PARRAMATTA GIRLS Wesley Enoch directs this joyous and harrowing testimony.

PAUL A provocative look at religious fervour in the shadow of a global power.

EXIT THE KING Geoffrey Rush and Neil Armfield renew their vows in Eugene Ionesco’s great absurdist comedy.

WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? An acid-dipped production of Edward Albee’s masterpiece.

REAL ESTATE A lively and soulful new musical about life in Sydney from Keating! author Casey Bennetto.

TOY SYMPHONY Richard Roxburgh joins us for Michael Gow’s first full-lengh play in a decade.

Bookings: (02) 9699 3444 or www.belvoir.com.au

3. The Old Fitzroy Theater - Free & Discount Tickets

Splendour (March 6 - 31)

Tuesday - Saturday 8pm, Sunday 5pm.
Tuesday 6th March is a free performance for all SUDS members.
A play about decadence, desire and dictatorship. Inside a beautiful state residence on the edge of an Eastern European city, four women wait. They talk Toy Story 2, Prada handbags, chilli vodka. Anything. For outside, as snow is falling, civil war looms ever nearer. With wit and a characteristic delight in the strange, Abi Morgan’s writing brilliantly encompasses both the cruel veneer of our lives and the beating heart within.

The Old Fitzroy Theatre, 129 Dowling Street, Woolloomooloo.
Bookings www.oldfitzroy.com.au/trs or (02) 9294 4296

4. The Seymour Centre - Free Tickets for “From Door To Door”

From Door to Door
FROM DOOR TO DOOR
26th February - 24th March
A funny, touching tribute to three generations of women by James Sherman (Beau Jest, God of Isaac, This Old Man Came Rolling Home) as they attempt to make sense of nurturing, commitment, courtship, marriage and growing old. From Door to Door follows the journeys of Bessie, Mary and Deborah through seventy years of family history in a funny, touching story of strength, loss and love.

The Seymour Centre is offering SUDS members 20 seats to the performance on Monday 5th 8pm,
and another 20 seats to the performance in Tuesday 6th at 6.30pm.
The tickets will go to the first 20 callers for each performance, so get in quick!

Seymour Centre
Seymour Theatre Centre, Corner of City Rd and Cleveland St, The University of Sydney
(02) 9351 7940

5. Reclaim The Graffiti Tunnel

From Sunday 25th - Tuesday 27th 10am-5pm, SUDS publicity officer Alice Workman is organising a Reclaim the Graffiti Tunnel project, where members from all the coolest Clubs & Societies on campus are throwing on overalls and going tunnel crazy. So if you’re free and feeling arty, or just want a chance to eat some USU provided BBQ and hang out with your exec, come by Tuesday afternoon and give us a hand. Or drop Alice a line at alice.workman@student.usyd.edu.au.

6. Coming Up In The Cellar Theatre

Week One: Operating Theatre
Week Two: Darling Oscar
Week Three: Baby In The Bathwater
Week Four: Baby In The Bathwater

For a FREE 2007 SUDS calendar, come to O-Week Wed 28th Feb - Fri 1st March
or pop in to the Cellar Theatre during any Exec or General Meeting.

If you have any information that SUDS members should know,
email wash@sudsonline.org.