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Aftershocks by Paul Brown and the Workers' Cultural Action Committee

Rehearsed Reading of a Verbatim Theatre Piece

12 - 14 March 2011

Carving in Ice have banded together to perform a rehearsed reading in support of the relief effort for Christchurch.  Much as musicians might be able to put on a concert, we are performing verbatim play - Aftershocks.

The piece is Verbatim Theatre.  Verbatim Theatre is a unique form of community theatre.  Essentially, a community is consulted with and ultimately members of a community are interviewed around events or issues, the text from those interviews is taken verbatim and re-ordered, and edited down, in order to create a piece of theatre.

The final result being something that is extremely personal and amazingly powerful.  Real words from real people with often excruciatingly real experiences. The piece that we have chosen is "Aftershocks" which is accounts from those in, around and connected to the Newcastle Workers' Club, that survived the December 28th 1989 Newcastle (Aus) earthquake.

WE RAISED $1084.70 NZD FOR THE RED CROSS CHRISTCHURCH EARTHQUAKE APPEAL!

All songs taken from the compilation 'Tomorrow's Conversations', used with kind permission by 'Nemean Lion', 'sink / sink', 'birds of passage & Leonardo Rosado', 'Her Name is Calla', and 'I've Lost'.  All proceeds go to the Red Cross appeal for the Christchurch earthquake.

‘to sad humanity alone’- Nemean Lion
‘As I Reach' - I've Lost
‘From The Year 1752’ - sink / sink
‘Thief’ - Her Name is Calla
‘to wander slow with me’ - birds of passage & Leonardo Rosado

'Tomorrow's Conversations' available for digital download, here: http://birdsofpassage.bandcamp.com/album/tomorrows-conversations
 

Cast

Ishtar Bell-Hunter
Emily Campbell
Renee Casserly
Kate Davison
Lydia Foley
Jacques Fourie
Michael Gaastra
Katey Good
Richard Homan
Jenna Hudson
John Hunter
Stan Jones
Clive Lamdin
Calvin Petersen
Gaye Poole
Fiona Sneyd
Brendan Theodore
Zoe Vaile
Melinda Warner
Brendan West
Sara Young