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'A co-production with Sisters Grimm
'Melbourne theatre stars Sisters Grimm are everything nice, polite Australians fear: a pair of ‘loud, opinionated homosexualists’ (their words) who hold nothing sacred and whose moral compass is so far out it’s bang on. Declan Greene and Ash Flanders plunder the canon with one eye on mischief and the other on a necessary argument. Once the serial numbers are scratched off, their stolen goods are smelted into smart, anarchic comedies that question the world we live in.
'Verdi’s famed Romantic opera La Traviata is the story of Violetta, a lovelorn courtesan who is doomed to choose either a life of disgrace with the pauper she loves, or a life of upscale servitude to a baron. This is not that opera. At least, not quite. This La Traviata is part opera, part protest, part drag show – a freewheeling satire that shadows Verdi’s plot via the sweatshops of Mumbai and the wastepaper basket of the Federal Minister for the Arts.
'By staging an epic Romantic opera in the smallest theatre in Sydney, Sisters Grimm are plunging into the ever-expanding gap between wealth and poverty. Violetta sacrificed her life to uphold her beliefs. Will the heroine of this tale?' (Production summary)
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A reworking of Verdi's opera.
Production Details
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Belvoir and Sisters Grimm co-production, performed at Belvoir St Theatre, Surry Hills : 27 August - 20 September 2015.
Director: Declan Greene.
Set and Costume Designer: Marg Howell.
Lighting Designer: Matthew Marshall.
Composer and Sound Designer: Steve Toulmin.
Dramaturg: Anne-Louise Sarks.
Cast: Ash Flanders and Betty Grumble.
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Works about this Work
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Hit-and-run Theatre Driven by Emotion
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 3 September 2015; (p. 15)
— Review of La Traviata 2015 single work drama
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Hit-and-run Theatre Driven by Emotion
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 3 September 2015; (p. 15)
— Review of La Traviata 2015 single work drama