PROJECTS
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ILLUMINATE ADELAIDE
Slip through the veil of Adelaide Botanic Garden to enter a mesmerising portal to parallel world. Fuelled by cutting-edge light, lasers, projections and sound, journey along an extraordinary path where the latest in immersive technology reimagines the beauty of nature into sensory realms of colour and sound.
Featured Artists: Chris Petridis, Robin Fox, Craig Walsh, Amelia Kosminsky, Paul Lim, Jayden Sutherland & Elisha Umuhuri
Invenio Singers: Gian Slater, Clancye Milne, Louisa Rankin and Josh Kyle
Adelaide Botanic Garden | July 2025
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Creative Directors
Rachael Azzopardi & Lee CumberlidgeAssociate Creative Director
Chris PetridisFeatured Artists
Chris Petridis, Robin Fox, Craig Walsh, Amelia Kosminsky, Paul Lim, Jayden Sutherland & Elisha UmuhuriComposer & Sound Designer
Jethro WoodwardInvenio Singers: Gian Slater, Clancye Milne, Louisa Rankin and Josh Kyle
Cultural Consultant
Jack BuckskinProducer
Daniel VorrasiProduction Manager
Peter KellyTechnical Director
Paul Lim
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MEOW MEOWs THE RED SHOES
MALTHOUSE | BELVOIR | BLACK SWAN
From a chorus of hairy fawns to singing swans and showgirl stars, experience an unforgettable, frenetic song-and-dance into meaning. Having wowed New York's Carnegie Hall, the world-renowned performer behind Meow Meow’s Little Match Girl and Meow Meow’s Little Mermaid now urgently remedies ‘The Red Shoes’. This fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen brutally punished its covetous protagonist with an ever-dancing curse that propelled her far from heaven’s gates.
MALTHOUSE 2025 | BELVOIR 2025 | BLACK SWAN 2026
2026 Green Room Award WINNER for Outstanding Composition & Sound Design. (Theatre Companies)
2026 Green Room Award WINNER for Outstanding Production. (Theatre Companies)
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Creator & Performer: Meow Meow
Director: Kate Champion
Musical Director & Sound Designer: Jethro Woodward
Set & Costume Designer: Dann Barber
Lighting Designer: Rachel Burke
Stage Manager: Lisa Osborn
Cast: Kanen Breen, Mark Jones, Meow Meow, Dan WittonImages: Brett Boardman
HENRY V
BELL SHAKESPEARE
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE | ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE | CANBERRA THEATRE CENTRE
Young Prince Hal has left his wayward adolescence behind and assumed the mantle of kingship. Following a humiliating insult by the French prince, King Henry launches England into a war with France to claim the throne he believes is rightfully his.
Against all odds, he leads his troops from despair to climactic victory at the Battle of Agincourt. He is hailed a warrior and a hero. But at what cost?
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By William Shakespeare
Director Marion Potts
Set and Costume Designer Anna Tregloan
Composer and Sound Designer Jethro WoodwardWith JK Kazzi, Jack Halabi, Alex Kirwan, Odile le Clézio, Ava Madon, Harrison Mills, Ella Prince, Jo Turner, Mararo Wangai, Rishab Kern and Ziggy Resnick.
Photo: Brett Boardman.
SUNDAY
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE | SYDNEY THEATRE CO 2024
MELBOURNE THEATRE CO. 2023
Sunday is an audacious fantasy inspired by the stories and myths that surround Heide Museum of Modern Art founder Sunday Reed – the muse and mentor to a circle of artists including Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker and Joy Hester.
After a sellout, rave-reviewed season in Melbourne, this lush, romantic, and transporting portrait of an Australian icon – the irrepressible Sunday Reed – is having its Sydney premiere. Sydney Opera House.
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Writer: Anthony Weigh
Director: Sarah GoodesDrums & Perc: Ralf Rehak
Double Bass: Dan Witton2024 Green Award Nomination: Outstanding Composition & Sound design (Theatre Companies)
Image: Pia Johnson
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COST OF LIVING
MELBOURNE THEATRE CO.
With heart, humour and searing observation, Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living is an honest and insightful look at the forces that bring people together, Cost of Living taps into the essence of human connection and our universal need to care for others and ourselves.
September 2024
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CREATIVE TEAM
Director Anthea Williams
Set & Costume Designer Matilda Woodroofe
Lighting Designer Richard Vabre
Composer & Sound Designer Jethro Woodward
Intimacy Coordinator Amy Cater
Voice & Dialect Coach Matt Furlani
Assistant Director Alistair Baldwin
Assistant Composer & Sound Designer Todd J. Bennett
Special Consultants (role of John) Satria Arbai and Marnie Cameron
Movement Consultant Lyndall Grant
Cantonese Translator Samatha KwanCAST
Ani Rachel Edmonds
Jess Mabel Li
Eddie Aaron Pedersen
John Oli Pizzey StratfordImage: Pia Johnson
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ESCAPED ALONE & WHAT IF IF ONLY
MELBOURNE THEATRE CO. 2023
In this world-first theatrical experience, Melbourne Theatre Company Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks directs two separate Caryl Churchill works: What If If Only, the micro-meditation on grief and possibility starring Alison Bell; and Escaped Alone, a visionary play starring Helen Morse about afternoon tea and the apocalypse.
2024 Green Award Nomination: Outstanding Composition & Sound design (Theatre Companies)
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Writer: Caryl Churchill
Director: Anne-Louise Sarks
Set & Costume Design:er Marg Horwell
Lighting Designer: Paul Jackson
Composer & Sound Designer: Jethro WoodwardCast Includes:
Helen Morse , Kate Hood, Debra Lawrance, Deidre Rubenstein & Alison Bell,2024 Green Award Nomination: Outstanding Composition & Sound design (Theatre Companies)
Image: Pia Johnson
INTERIOR
RAWCUS THEATRE & SUBSTATION
Interior takes you into our struggles to connect with the people around us; our ecstatic, desperate attempts. A collision of text, movement and design, Interior is a visual and aural unravelling, a unique spectacular about the parts of us that we can’t see
August 2024
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Devised and Performed by the Rawcus Ensemble: Clem Baade, Swann Biguet, Michael Buxton, Rachel Edward, Nilgun Guven, Jorlene Lim, Joshua Lynzaat, Paul Matley, Mike McEvoy, Isha Menon, Ryan New, Heath O'Loughlin, Kerryn Poke, and Louise Riisik
Director Katrina Cornwell
Writer/Dramaturg Morgan Rose
Composer/Sound Designer Jethro Woodward
Set Costume Designer Nathan Burmeister
Lighting Designer Richard Vabre
Stage Manager Vivienne Poznanski
Production Manager Flick
Executive Producer Jacque Robinson
Assistant Director Kate Cameron
Access Consultant Francois Jacobs
Auslan Consultants Danni Wright & Salomon Gerber
Captioning Dora Abrahams
Assistant Stage Manager Pari Balfour
Audio Description David Maney from Vitae Veritas
Performance Auslan Interpreters Harriet Devlin & Linda D’Ornay
Rehearsal Auslan Interpreter Cindi Boychuk
Costume Assistant Bianca PardoPhoto: Darren Gill
MACBETH (AN UNDOING)
MALTHOUSE THEATRE
A prophecy has been told, Lord Macbeth will be king, but this side of the story is yet to be seen. Visionary playwright Zinnie Harris reimagines Shakespeare’s Scottish Play from Lady Macbeth’s perspective in an exhilarating epic of ambition, manipulation, and the intoxicating need to challenge the roles others prescribe for you.
July 2024
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Writer, In a new version after Shakespeare: Zinnie Harris
Director: Matthew Lutton
Lighting Designer: Amelia Lever-Davidson
Composer & SOund Designer: Jethro Woodward
Set & Costume Designer: Dann Barber
Associate Lighting Designer: Tom Willis
Associate Sound Designer: Justin Gardam
Intimacy Coordinator: Amy Cater
Fight Choreographer: Lyndall Grant
Stage Manager: Lisa Osborn
Assistant Stage Manager: Rosemary Osmond
Besen Placement (Composition & Sound Design: Ethan HunterCAST: Bojana Novakovic, Johnny Carr, Tony Briggs, Tyallah Bullock, Jessica Clarke, Jim Daly, Rashidi Edward, Natasha Herbert, Khisraw Jones-Shukoor & David Woods.
Image: Jeff Busby
HOUR OF THE WOLF
MALTHOUSE THEATRE
An immersive theatre Mystery. Malthouse Theatre's new large-scale immerse work Hour of the Wolf imagines an entire cursed town where you can hunt down the strange antics and mysterious events that occur when all sensible people are asleep.
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Creator & Writer: Keziah Warner
Creator & Director: Matthew Lutton
Assistant Director: Bernadette Fam
Interactive Dramaturg: David HarrisSet Designer: Anna Cordingley
Associate Set Designer: Karine Larché
Costume Designer: Zoe Rouse
Lighting Designer: Amelia Lever-DavidsonComposition & Sound Designer:Jethro Woodward
Associate Sound System Designer: Justin GardamCast: Lucy Ansell, Jack Green, Natasha Herbert, Kevin Hofbauer, Keegan Joyce, Brooke Lee, Emily Milledge, Christina O’Neill, Eva Rees, Karl Richmond, Katherine Tonkin
Image: Pia Johnson
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DISTANT MATTER
STAATSBALLET BERLIN 2019
Anouk van Dijk, previous Artistic Director of the Australian Dance Company Chunky Move, presented a world premiere with the dancers of Staatsballett Berlin.
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Choreography: Anouk van Dijk
Composer: Jethro Woodward
Set & Lighting: Paul Jackson, Anouk van Dijk & Claus de Hartog
Costume: Jessica Helbach
Choreography Assistant: Tara Jade Samaya & Niharika Senapati
HERE WE ARE AMONGST YOU
RAWCUS & ARTS HOUSE
Against the backdrop of a devastating event, four dancers walk the line between individual and shared experience.
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Devised and Performed by the Rawcus Ensemble: Clem Baade, Michael Buxton, Harriet Devlin, Rachel Edward, Nilgun Guven, Joshua Lynzaat, Paul Matley, Mike Mc Evoy, Ryan New, Kerryn Poke, Louise Riisik, Prue Stevenson, Danielle von der Borsch
Director: Kate Sulan
Designer: Emily Barrie
Composer/Sound Designer: Jethro Woodward
Lighting Designer: Richard Vabre
Co-devisor/Dramaturge: Ingrid Voorendt
Stage Manager: Jess Keepence
Production Manager: Alana Hoggart
Executive Producer: Jacque RobinsonImages Sarah Walker and Pia Johnson
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FLUXJOB
LGI & ARTS HOUSE
Against the backdrop of a devastating event, four dancers walk the line between individual and shared experience.
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Choreographer : Lucy Guerin with the dancers
Lighting Designer : Paul Lim
Composer & Sound Designer : Jethro Woodward
Costume Designer : Andrew Treloar
Dramaturg : Adena JacobsDancers : Tra Mi Dinh, Amber McCartney, Lilian Steiner, Geoffrey Watson
Image: Sarah Walker
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COMMON GROUND
CHUNKY MOVE
A ritualistic battleground for two dance greats, Common Ground is a choreographic game of chess. Inspired by political feuds, historical showdowns and the intricate, moment-to-moment recalibrations required of any partnership, the work explores how supposed rules can be upturned by unexpected moves—intricate gambits, sacrifices and reactive attacks.
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Created b Anouk van Dijk
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Set & Costume: Marg Horwell
Composition: Jethro WoodwardPerformers: Richard Cilli, Tara Jade Samaya
Image: Pia Johnson
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ANTIGRAVITY
CHUNKYMOVE & ASIATOPA
ANTIGRAVITY confronts gravity-bound bodies with the ephemeral, ever-changing cloud. Performers transform from celestial creatures to terrestrial warriors. As the clouds swell and dissipate, bodies are caught between monolithic stillness and fleeting elevation, becoming the vessels of our own imagination.
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Concept, Choreography & Direction: Anouk van Dijk
Co-creator & Concept: Ho Tzu Nyen
Visual Design: Ho Tzu Nyen, Paul Jackson, Anouk van Dijk
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Composition & Sound Design: Jethro Woodward
Costume Design: Harriet OxleyPerformed by: James Batchelor, Marlo Benjamin, Sarah Ronnie Bruce, Tara Jade Samaya, Niharika Senapati, Luigi Vescio
Touring Season: 2018 Utrecht
Image: Pippa Samaya
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BLASTED
MALTHOUSE THEATRE 2018
This was the debut script of in-your-face playwright prodigy Sarah Kane. Her prescient dissection of our response to violence was heralded as ‘depraved’ by some, ‘tender’ by others. So ignited the polarising firestorm of Kane’s blazing career.
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BY: Sarah Kane
DIR: Anne-Louise Sarks
CAST: Fayssal Bazzi, Eloise Mignon & David Woods
SET & COSTUME: Marg Horwell
LIGHTING: Paul Jackson
SOUND DESIGN & COMPOSITION: Jethro Woodward
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sky DaviesPhoto: Pia Johnson
THE TRUTH
MELBOURNE THEATRE CO | 2021
From the internationally celebrated playwright behind The Father comes a devilishly dark comedy that explores the truths that tear us apart and the lies that keep us together.
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MELBOURNE THEATRE CO | 2022
WRITER: FLORIAN ZELLER
DIR: SARAH GILES
VOICE: GAIN SLATER