The Home Team sans Freddy and Bev and Ben
So the excitement mounts. The costumes are soon to be finished: Bev Jensen, our visual artist has created new costumes and has developed the already exquisite art installation. Many strong coffees have been drunk, excellent food from “Ripe” around the corner has been consumed, AV is done, lights are plotted, we are almost done and dusted.
Gabby our stage and production manager and Jo our lighting operator. photo by Freddy Komp
Today is our rest day before we begin our first dress rehearsal Monday morning. Force of Circumstance, our company, is the first cast and crew to work in the new new Studio at Queensland Theatre Company. On Wednesday the studio will be named and we are so excited to reveal the new name!
Trav tells a story while Margi looks on Photo by Freddy Komp
So the final week has been fun: we run the show twice a day, with small scenes being refined along the way. Travis has written a new song for the ending…we now need an audience. Hoping that we have about ten friends come along to the dress rehearsal on Monday morning so we can get used to working with audience members, my favourite part of the show.
The story of the boat people (children overboard) Photo by Freddy Komp
It has been a journey re-learning and refining this script. The story of “Osiris and Queen Isis” is my favourite Egyptian Myth, and it is with joy that I get to share it again with my audience…this is the greatest love story ever told, a myth of love, grief, and re-storying tragedy so new meanings emerge…here is a link to another version of the myth:
Bev’s image of Queen Isis and Margi playing a very annoyed Queen Isis. Photo by Freddy Komp
The Myth of Isis and Osiris
As with much of the ancient Egyptian mythology, there are various versions of the story of Isis and Osiris, but basically it runs as follows…….
Queen Isis and Osiris’s story, the greatest love story ever told…
Osiris was an earthly ruler, who was popular with his subjects. His brother, Seth, was jealous of this popularity and plotted against Osiris.
Seth’s plans to be rid of his brother started when he secretly obtained his brothers measurements and had a magnificent casket made to fit. This casket was in the form of a human shaped box.
Seth then organised a large feast to which Osiris and a number of others (usually given as 72) were invited. At the height of the festivities Seth produced the casket and announced that it would be given to whoever it fitted. All the guests tried the casket for size, but none fitted until finally Osiris stepped into the casket.
Seth immediately slammed the lid closed and sealed the casket shut (with molten lead). The sealed coffin was then thrown into the Nile.
Isis was devastated at the loss of her husband and searched for the casket throughout Egypt and then overseas. She eventually eventually found it where it had come to rest in the roots of a massive tree.
Isis then returned the coffin to Egypt for a proper burial. For safe keeping she concealed it in the marshes beside the Nile.
Unfortunately for Isis Seth found the casket while out hunting and was so enraged he chopped the body of Osiris into pieces, and scattered the parts throughout the land of Egypt.
Poor Isis had to then set out again looking for the parts of her husband. Eventually she found all the parts except one and reassembled Osiris and wrapped him in bandages. In some accounts Isis breathed life back into Osiris’ body and it was then that Horus was conceived. This was a more magical event that it seems, considering the one part of Osiris Isis couldn’t find.
The young Horus then went out to battle his uncle Seth and to avenge his fathers death. After a series of fights detailed in ‘The contendings of Horus and Seth’ neither god was able to secure an overall victory. Ultimately Osiris was declared king of the underworld,Horus king of the living, and Seth ruler of the deserts as the god of chaos and evil.
http://www.akhet.co.uk/isisosir.htm
Throughout the show we return again and again to the story of Queen Isis. We also visit the Kings Chamber in the Great Pyramid…magic. Here is a picture of our high school secondment, Gracie, lying in the sarcophagus in the Kings Chamber.
Gracie our secondment from high school is lying on the sarcophagus
Welcome to HOME, a play created for multiple generations, for those who want a deeply moving experience, for those who want to appreciate an exquisite installation, for those who love the theatre and for those who call the theatre their ‘theatre home’.
Sometimes Bill plays Bill Number 3 and here we are laughing together in one of the scenes. photo by Freddy Komp
I love finding old journals. There is always a little magic between the pages...
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NAME: "My Re-Enchantment Project"
This is a 5 month indwelling of creative practice.
You will create your own project in community with like-minded artists, and at the same time, expose your practice to new ways of seeing.
You will participate in a range of different workshops by leading arts practitioners.
You will engage in Bootcamp writing sessions as well as one-on-one coaching sessions with Dr. Margi Brown Ash.
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An image from my play EVE 4change coaching has been operating firstly out of Metro Arts for nearly 2 decades, and now out of Pullenvale, in the leafy western suIt has been very exciting to hear from you all in response to this soon-to-be-realized-project. Just like me (every time I have a major deadline), there are artists out there who seek out consistent support in order to get their work done, and this support goes beyond their director or dramaturg or editor or best friend or supervisor. Someone who is committed to you turning up as your best self and at the same time turning in your best work.
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This idea has emerged over several years: I have had some big deadlines in the last few years, and so many times I wished-like-crazy that I had a tribe of collaborators who were there, writing alongside me (on different projects usually) on a regular basis. My dream is to set this up for artists: your writing sessions each week would consist of gathering, drinking tea and then settling down to some serious 25-minute stints of writing-5 minute break-25 minutes again and so on. A four hour writing session where I encourage you, and you encourage each other to write, or you may be painting, or choreographing, or researching...the only criteria is that it is creative and that you are keen to finish your project.
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