Past Event
The Lover
30th May 2013 - 15th Jun 2013
Presenter: L. Wolf Productions
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Event Duration: 85 minutes
"We are lovers and we can’t stop loving each other"
Translated and adapted from the novel of Marguerite Duras by Colin Duckworth, don't miss out on this re-staging of the critically acclaimed 2007 Stork Theatre production starring Kate Kendall.
Marguerite Duras’ novel is the story of a poor white girl and her Chinese lover. The doomed affair lays bare the sexual and material desires of two outcasts bound together in their erotic adventures. The relationship destroys her family and unlocks powerful forces of hatred surrounding the lovers. It is a disturbing and intense journey through the forbidden.
"Kendall is extraordinary…magnetic, full of presence …a performance forged in erotic fire,"
Cameron Woodhead, The Age
‘"A monstrously gripping performance,"
John Bailey, The Sunday Age.
“Kendall is brilliant”,
Alison Croggon, The Australian
Performed by Kate Kendall
Directed by Greg Carroll
Designed by Peter Corrigan
Music by Vine, Eno and Carroll
Lighting by Jason Bovaird
Brief Production Biographies
Kate Kendall is most widely known for her starring role in the TV series, Stingers, from 1998-2004, and for which she was nominated for the Logie Award for the Most Outstanding Actress in a Television Series, 2004. Kate has currently appearing in Neighbors and has guest starred on Home and Away, Blue Heelers, City Homicide and Rush.
Coming from an extensive background in theatre Kate appeared in Cheech and Art and Soul, Melbourne Theatre Company 2005, and Much Ado about Nothing, Royal Botanic Gardens, 2005 starring as Beatrice. Kate co-starred in the sell-out production of The Vagina Monologues, 2002 and has played many roles for the Australian Shakespeare Company, The South Australian Theatre Company and the Arts Theatre, Adelaide.
Kate frequently appears in the celebrity Shakespeare’s Secrets: Songs and Sonnets and Rock n’ Roll with Richard Piper. Kate was nominated for Best Actress, Green Room Awards for The Lover by Marguerite Duras in 2007 directed by Greg Carroll at the The Stork Theatre. She delighted sell-out audiences in Homer’s Iliad in 2009, Stork Theatre; in Kitten, The Melbourne International Festival of the Arts at the Malthouse 2009 and The Furious Mattress, Malthouse, 2010 -
Kate starred in the Stork Theatre production of The Red and the Black, adapted from the Stendahl novel by Colin Duckworth and directed by Greg Carroll. Kate recently starred in the musical Next to Normal for the MTC, directed by Simon Phillips. Kate then went to Sydney with Simon to work on An Officer and a Gentleman.
Peter Corrigan has designed sets and costumes for numerous productions of ballet, drama and opera throughout Australia and has exhibited theatre designs in Astralia Perspecta and in The Australian and British Stage Design Exhibition, Adelaide.
He received Green Room awards for Drama Design for Levad in 1993 and Es Brent in 1992, both productions for Barry Kosky’s Gilgul Theatre.
He recently designed Through the Looking Glass composed by Alan John with librettist Andrew Upton for the Malthouse. The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Woyzek in March 2009, both for the Victorian Opera and Malthouse. Both directed by Michael Kantor. He also designed Squizzy, a new Australian Musical at the New Ballroom Theatre for Greg Carroll. Peter has also designed The Lover, The Red and the Black, Marcel and Albertine and Anna Karenina for The Stork Theatre Company.
Peter has just returned from Graz and his design of Verdi’s Falstaff to oversee the installation of Cities of Hope at the RMIT Gallery. An exhibition of 50 years in architecture and theatre design. Peter has re-designed The Lover after a six year hiatus.
Greg Carroll has worked on theatrical productions for the APG, La Mama, Playbox, Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, Theatreworks, Gilgul, Melbourne Writer’s Theatre, Polyglot, Melbourne Opera and Red Stitch, as well as many commercial productions. He's worked on over 150 new Australian works in various capacities with a diversity extending to the opera “Rigoletto” for the Melbourne Opera Company at Her Majesty’s Theatre.