Justin Nott

Step inside the tumultuous world of the Colemans as they prepare to take on their greatest adversary yet: Themselves.

**** 1/2 - What Did She Think?

**** - Theatre Matters

“A striking exploration of trauma and grief” - My Melbourne Arts

“This production leaves a strong impression” - Limelight Arts

“An explosion of the unexpected … a joy to behold” - Weekend Notes

“Endlessly surprising and enigmatic…seamless direction” - Australian Arts Review

Widowed matriarch Jerica yearns to sell the decaying family home and break free from her past. Her conservative son Charles seeks to reinvent himself as a modern publican and councillor, while his wife Phoebe doesn’t know what she wants – except that it’s probably not Charles. Meanwhile, underneath all their noses, reclusive grandchild Cooper forges an unlikely connection with Lachie, the enigmatic tradie tasked with repairing Jerica’s house.

Things are finally looking up for the Colemans until Jerica’s estranged, prickly daughter Brit returns home guarding a secret so big it threatens to blow up the entire family.

A universal tale of love, courage and intergenerational trauma, this darkly comedic new Australian play boldly examines why families stay together – and what happens when they can’t.

Co-presented with Theatre Works and supported by the City of Port Phillip Cultural Development Fund, Creative Victoria and Australian Plays Transform.

Director: Justin Nott

Writer: Adam Fawcett

Producer: Lab Kelpie & Adam Fawcett

Cast: Lyall Brooks, Emma Choy, Sharon Davis, Jordan Fraser-Trumble, Megan Jones, Wil King

Set Design: Harry Gill

Lighting Design: Sidney Younger

Sound Design: Tom Backhaus

Costume Design: Martelle Hunt

Video Design: Aron Murray

Stage Manager: Ashleigh Walwyn

Dramaturg: Sharon Davis

Images by Pia Johnson

As Associate Director

***** - Part One / **** - Part Two - The Age

**** 1/2 - Australian Book Review

“A mighty achievement…splendidly performed, deeply moving, and wonderfully enjoyable” - Man In Chair

“An epic undertaking…a triumph” - Australian Book Review

The Australian premiere of the epic Tony and Olivier Award winner for Best Play!

Performed in two parts and inspired by E. M. Forster’s beloved novel Howards End, Matthew López’s landmark play The Inheritance spans generations in its exploration of love, legacy, and what we owe to those who came before us. Kitan Petkovski directs this bold, sexy, and deeply moving production, featuring a stellar ensemble cast. Petkovski again collaborates with the creative team behind his Green Room Award winning production of The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven.

Following the acclaimed, sellout season of Angels in America (another epic two part play) in 2017, don’t miss the opportunity to experience this “exquisitely truthful and funny modern classic” (The Telegraph review) in the intimate setting of the theatre at fortyfivedownstairs.

Cast: Iopu Auva’a, Rupert Bevan, Juan Gomez, Tomáš Kantor, Javon King, Joss McClelland, Dion Mills, Jillian Murray, Hunter Perske, Charles Purcell, Karl Richmond, Christian Taylor, and Alex Thew

Writer: Matthew López

Director: Kitan Petkovski

Associate Director: Justin Nott

Producers: Cameron Lukey and Coady Green

Set & Costume Designer: Bethany J Fellows

Lighting Designer: Katie Sfetkidis

Sound Designer & Composer: Rachel Lewindon

Stage Manager: Ashleigh Walwyn

Assistant Stage Manager: Tom Backhaus

Hero Image: Benny Capp

Graphic design: Jeff van de Zandt at Workshop Creative

A poet, a director, a politician. A twisted game of sex and love. A hunger for success.

Get what you want. No regrets.

**** 1/2 - What Did She Think

**** 1/2 - Theatre Matters

**** - TimeOut

“an exhilarating new work with a lot to say” - TimeOut

“Sexy and dangerous like the best film noir” - Theatre First

When emerging artists Liam and Mel seduce Ryan one wet night in Melbourne the course of their lives change forever. Is it love or just part of the plan?

'For Love Nor Money' is a brilliant and sexy new queer play by award-winning writer Angus Cameron (DIRT). Directed by Justin Nott (Variations or Exit Music) this bitingly relevant dark comedy rips open the millennial experience to see how far we will go to succeed when the world is collapsing around us.

This is one naughty little show not to be missed. Be careful who you love.

This project received Cash to Create and Cash for Equity through the Fringe Fund, as part of Radical Access.

Director: Justin Nott

Writer: Angus Cameron

Producer: Victorian Theatre Company & Jak Scanlon

Designers: Alisha Abate & Justin Nott

Cast: Clarisse Bonello, Matthew Connell & Alexander Lloyd

Promotional Image: Chelsea Neate

Performances 11-22 October, 2023 at Meeting Rooms, Fringe Hub for Melbourne Fringe Festival

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An ordinary life. An extraordinary heart.

As Justin’s heart breaks, so does his mind. Haunted by the memory of his first love’s demise and unable to see the emergence of a new one, he mines the debris of his world in search of hope. Hope to live and hope to love again.

How do you end six years of life? Six years of love?

A premiere production written and directed by Justin Nott (“utterly mesmerising” – Myron My, MyMelbourneArts), Variations or Exit Music is an autobiographical elegy for queer love. A deeply personal play that will give you hope in the dark.

This project is supported by Auspicious Arts, Creative Partnerships Australia, Creative Victoria & Regional Arts Victoria, Cybec Electric, Melbourne Fringe, Midsumma, Minus18, Moonee Valley City Council, and Snuff Puppets

Writer & Director: Justin Nott

Producer: Nicole La Bianca

Dramaturge: Bridget Mackey

Set & Costume Designer: Eloise Kent

Lighting Designer: Clare Springett

Composer: Danni A. Esposito

Sound Design: Edwin Cheah

Cast: Matthew Connell, Lachlan Martin, Joss McClelland & Yuchen Wang

Stage Manager: Tom Backhaus

Image by: Skye Sobejko

Justin works as a festival and arts programmer with a curatorial focus on the elevation of marginalised voices, with a particular focus on queer artists, community engagement, and audience participation.

Events include:

Get Bent Fest!

24.04.21 / Fringe Common Rooms, Melbourne

A one-night-only variety extravaganza presented at Melbourne’s premiere queer festival, Midsumma, hosted by multi-award winning comedian Lou Wall.

Get Bent Fest! presented a delicious tasting of performances from the Midsumma programme and beyond, providing a platform for diverse gender and sexuality, and intersectional artists to showcase their work in a special space for the queer community to gather, dance and experience queer art.

Aespia presents: The Glass Theatre

23.09.19 / Stour Space, Hackney Wick

Curator of intimate, glittering paradise of live performance art, THE GLASS THEATRE, brimming with the latest, greatest, loudest and proudest LGBTQIA+ FOC, women and female-identifying, living-with-disability huns with something to prove.

Aespia: London Takeover

07.09.19 // Grow Tottenham, London

Programmer of The Glass Theatre at Aespia’s 16-hour Celebration of Art, Performance + Music.

By Jack Currie.

Jordan stares at the ceiling. Darkness. He begins to make shapes out of shadows around his room. A dinosaur roars. A tree sways. A panther jumps and freezes in mid-air. The shadows return to just being shadows and Jordan drifts to sleep. 

The rain fades out. 

Jordan enters the cave.

Jordan is dealing with a lot right now. His father has left him. His mother has since grown distant. He has little in common with the kids at school. So Jordan leaves this world for another one. Every once in a while, he leaves this world for the magical, wild and relentless one in his imagination. But now that world is starting to crumble around him, too.

Presented as part of La Mama Explorations, this new play by Jack Currie traverses the boundaries between real and imagined, diving head first into the expansive mind of a child through storytelling and surreal physicality.

With Adam Cass, Aleksander Salayadev and Kate Stones

Director: Justin Nott

Playwright: Jack Currie

Dramaturg: Keziah Warner

Set and Costume Design: Sophia Burns

Sound Design: Edwin Cheah

Lighting Design: Justin Nott

Stage Manager: Tom Backhaus

Performances 15-17 November, 2017 at La Mama Courthouse for La Mama Explorations

By Angus Cameron

SOLD OUT SEASON!

"A special and important piece of theatre" - Stage Whispers

Three people is all it took to end the world. A lapse in judgement, an act of passion, and now blood has been spilt. All in the name of love. And Candy Crush.

Baker’s Dozen Theatre Company asks that you kindly put down your smartphones and disconnect for a modern fable about love, ambition and human error.

From the subversive minds of playwright Angus Cameron and director Justin Nott comes a new work about the rise of artificial intelligence. A surreal, genetic hybrid of horror and comedy, HUMAN ERROR asks, "If the turkey knew tomorrow was Christmas, what would she do to survive?"

Whatever she chooses, the future is unimaginable.

"An intellectually provocative, stimulating and highly political piece of art...but also very human" - Stage Whispers

"This show is unimaginable and it is a blessed relief to see edgy independent theatre that provokes critical thinking and contains great production value" - Weekend Notes

With: Ross Dwyer, Cait Spiker and Yvette Turner

And featuring: Samuel Dariol, Nisha Joseph, Joey Lai James Lau, Patrick Livesey, Damian Okulic, Isabella Perversi, Bernard Sam and Tenielle Thompson.

Director: Justin Nott

Playwright: Angus Cameron

Producers: Baker's Dozen Theatre Company

Dramaturg: Keziah Warner

Set Design: Robert Smith

Costume Design: Kim Ritchie

Sound Design: Tom Backhaus

Lighting Design: Siobhain Geaney

Stage Manager: Natasha Keehan

Image Design: Tom Littleson

Performances 29-30 June & 1-8 July, 2017 at The Stables, Meat Market

"F***ked up and fabulous, Can't Be Tamed challenges the status quo and it doesn't give a sh*t." - Weekend Notes

Who does Miley Cyrus think she is?

Let’s get one thing straight(ish): this is not a cabaret or a f*cking sing-a-long. Can’t Be Tamed is an anti-biography told by the artist formerly known as Hannah Montana. A surreal un-becoming of age that begins with molly and ends somewhere deep in the Miley mindverse. Tumbling down a psychedelic rabbit hole, Miley confronts her selves in all their messy sexuality, cultural appropriation, transcendence, love, nipple pasties... oh, and feminism. Then there’s the question she can’t seem to shake: just who the f*ck am I?

Can’t Be Tamed is a 3am, greened-out D’n’M on the nature of persona, performance and identity with Miley Cyrus as your spirit guide.

Can't Be Tamed premiered to sold out audiences in Melbourne Fringe Festival 2016. Following a revedelopment, the piece then toured to Adelaide Fringe Festival 2017 before returning home for Midsumma 2018 for another sold-out season.

"the epitome of the fringe - brave, ambitious and a little bit weird" - The Advertiser

"stand out ... part performance piece part psychedelic pill-popping pussy party" - Clique Mag

"hilarious, yet politically charged" - This Is Radelaide

Midsumma Festival

With Danni Ray and Tom Dent

Director/Writer: Justin Nott

Producers: Baker's Dozen Theatre Company

Dramaturgy: Keziah Warner

Set Design: Eloise Kent

Costume Design: Kim Ritchie

Lighting Design: Siobhain Geaney

Sound Design: Tom Backhaus

Animation Design: Jack Kirby Crosby

Poster and Mask Design: Robert Smith

Stage Management: Ashleigh Barnett

24, 25, 26, 27 and 28 January, 2018 at La Mama for Midsumma Festival.

Melbourne Fringe / Adelaide Fringe

With Danni Ray and Patrick Livesey 

Director/Writer: Justin Nott

Producers: Tom Brown (Melbourne) & Alexina Coad (Adelaide)

Dramaturgy: Christopher Fieldus

Set Design: Eloise Kent

Costume Design: Kim Ritchie

Sound Design: Tom Backhaus

Animation Design: Jack Kirby Crosby

Poster and Mask Design: Robert Smith

16, 17, 18, 20, 21 and 22 September, 2016 at The Warehouse, Melbourne Fringe Hub for Melbourne Fringe Festival.

20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25 February, 2017 at The Bakehouse Theatre Studio for Adelaide Fringe Festival.

Person stands at edge of roof.

“I just want it to stop. Stop thinking.”

The human mind can experience 36,000 thoughts in a single minute. An unstoppable deluge of poetic text and intense physical theatre, Life On Repeat takes one moment and one consciousness, split into six bodies. One moment of life exploded into an eternity of thought. A suspended second to consider what came before and what might come after one's own death.

A new play by emerging playwright, Jack Currie, Life On Repeat will be presented as part of the Victorian College of the Arts FRISK festival at the 2016 Melbourne Fringe Festival.

With: Nicholas Clark, Jack Currie, Grace Lauer, Laura McAloney, James Plunkett and Alexandr Salayadev.

Director: Justin Nott

Writer: Jack Currie

Set and Costume Design: James Lew

Lighting Design: Jacob Shears

Sound Design: Edwin Cheah

Stage Management: Indiana Bell

Performances 22-25 September, 2016 at Studio 45, Victorian College of the Arts.

'Who's The Best' is the second devised work created by new migrants and refugee students from AMES Australia in collaboration with Justin and Cathy. The piece was supported by La Mama, AMES Australia and the Victorian Government.

AMES Australia and La Mama have worked together presenting work for 10 years. In 2015, directors Cathy Hunt and Justin Nott began their collaboration with La Mama and AMES Australia, working with 14 new and recently arrived refugees and migrants to devise a performance about their past, their future and the time in between.

In 2016, they returned to work with Shahad Al Albassi, Mandeep Kuur, Jodhbir Wasaich and Ali Zulfigari on 'Who's The Best', a comedic collage of the scary, strange and subime moments of day-to-day life.

Directors: Cathy Hunt & Justin Nott

Producer: Caitlin Dullard

Lighting / Sound Design: Hayley Fox

Walker St Gallery / La Mama Courthouse / Walker St Gallery

Season Dates:

Thursday 8th September 2015 / Friday 9th September 2015 

By Sarah Kane

Presented as part of the Victorian College of the Arts One Acts Season 2014

Sarah Kane's final play articulates the fractured experience of a mind in collapse asking, 'Is there meaning to life in the light of this loss?’

Written shortly before her own death, Kane’s play comprises twenty-four scenes without character or setting. Moving fluidly through each fragment, the text gives voice to the experience of psychosis and the consideration of ending it all.

Performed as part of the graduate season for the Victorian College of the Arts directing course, Nott’s production delivers this challenging text with six male actors in a visceral and dynamic fusion of body and space. Featuring a stunning and transformative design by Chantal Marks, this production of 4.48 Psychosis immerses the audience deep in the black sea of an unstable mind.

'How can I return to form, now my formal thought has gone?'

With: James Bolton, Danny Carroll, Jack Currie, Scott Leek, Joshua Monaghan and Yuchen Wang.

Director: Justin Nott

Set/Costume Design: Chantal Marks

Lighting Design: Siobhan Geaney

Sound Design: Jordie Gilmour and Tyler Smyth

Stage Manager: Jess Scott

“Nott’s production is tender, introspective and remarkably genial… He pays more attention than many other directors to what bodies look like in a space, and the work is richer for it.” - Fantasise or Perish

Studio 45, Victorian College of the Arts

Season Dates:

24-29 October 2014

Book by Matilda Dixon-Smith, Music and Lyrics by Lucy O’Brien

Presented as part of the 2014 Midsumma Festival

A queer, revisionist adaptation of the cult film, this new musical reimagines Grease as a contemporary tragedy.

Danny loved Sandy. But what if Danny also loved Kenickie? Come to Rydell High’s graduation party and see all the characters you love and remember as you’ve never seen them before: Gay. Actually pregnant. And really fucked up. This tragic retelling follows the doomed love triangle of Sandy, Danny and Kenickie over one epic night, featuring an all new, contemporary soundtrack inspired by the original hit songs. 

Grease: A Tragedy (re-titled Devoted: A New Musical) takes adaptation, fan-fiction and musical theatre to a new place: the greatest live music pubs across Melbourne’s northside - The Tote, The Workers Club and the Northcote Social Club. This is a dirty, Skins-meets-Shakespeare adaptation that chews up the original, and spits it out into a gutter of glitter and coke.

Performing an extended sell-out for Midsumma Festival, 2013, Grease: A Tragedy dumps the audience into the fray of adolescence with both honesty, and the magic realism of our teenage dreams.

With: Kelly Cupo, Hannah Denison, Sera Duff, Christopher Fieldus, Eamonn George, Kellie-Anne Kimber, Joshua Monaghan, Zak Pidd and Danika Ray.

Director: Justin Nott

Book: Matilda Dixon-Smith

Music and Lyrics: Lucy O’Brien

Set Design: Robert Smith

Choreographer: Nathan Smith

Stage Manager: Simon Tegart

Producer: Corey Reynolds

"Exceptional... an exciting musical, with plenty of promise" - Pop Culture-Y.com

"Accentuated by excellent songs, Devoted generally makes it difficult not to feel included in the colourful ‘party’, and engaged in this often funny, tragic story. Emerging young talent of this ilk deserve their efforts to skyrocket" - TheatrePress.com.au

The Tote / The Workers Club / Northcote Social Club

Season Dates:

16 January 2014 / 30 January 2014 / 12 February 2014

https://devotednewmusical.wordpress.com/

http://www.hanatheatre.com/interviews/2014/interview-with-justin-nott/

Moulin Rouge! Presented by The Backyard Bandits

The Backyard Bandits believe in bringing the incredible to life - in less than four weeks. The Secret Spectacular was a one-night only event of ridiculous proportions as beloved film musical Moulin Rouge! was recreated shot-for-shot, line-for-line in the backyard of a rundown Northcote house. Creating a fully-immersive environment, the audience departed the suburbs for turn-of-the-century Paris with the property fully transformed into a derelict Parisian apartment, the magnificent bohemian elephant, and of course, the iconic red windmill and dance hall of the Moulin Rouge itself. 

The Secret Spectacular is guerrilla, DIY-theatre at its best. With only four weeks to recreate musical arrangements, entire dance sequences, and elaborate sets and costumes, this shambolic celebration of fan-love abides by just one single rule: come what may.

With: Liam Bellman-Sharpe, Anna Cerreto, Samuel Dariol, Charlotte Fox, Christopher Fieldus, Eric Gardiner, Erin Hutchinson, Bonnie Leigh-Dodds, Shannon Loughnane, Josiah Lulham, Lana Nguyen, Justin Nott, Danika Ray, Nalini Vasudevan, Zak Pidd

Director: Justin Nott

Set/Lighting Design: Robert Smith

Costume Design: Martelle Hunt

Musical Director: Ashlee Clapp

Choreography: Samuel Dariol, Justin Nott and Danika Ray

Band

Piano: Patrick Paevere

Trumpet: Anthony Tropea 

Violin: Hannah Dallas 

Cello: Lucy O’Brien

Bass: Luke Steward

Percussion: Victor Brincat

Backing Vocals: Jessica Prinzi and Cassandra Sulc

Seasons Dates

28 June 2013

Inspired by the novel by José Saramago

Presented as part of Melbourne Fringe 2013 and Mudfest 2013.

When sight is lost, how do you see the world? A search for clarity without vision. 

Inspired by the work of novelist Jose Saramago and visual artist Anton Gormley, Blindness is an immersive theatrical event that takes audiences on an intimate, traumatic and ultimately cathartic journey through an apocalyptic world in which we have all gone blind.

Blindness was presented in two iterations during 2013: as an immersive installation for Mudfest, before undergoing further development for its season in Melbourne Fringe as a short, immersive performance. Audiences enter a space in which thick, white fog and bright light rendering them blind. Inside, they experience a fragmented alternate reality of jagged moments in time drawn from Saramago’s novel, with literal blindness becoming an allegory for reckoning with notions of crisis, detainment and human resilience. A direct response to Australia’s refugee detention schemes, Blindness offers audiences a unique experience of isolation, contemplation and understanding.

The piece will return in 2016 after further development. 

Mudfest season with: Eric Gardiner, Bonnie Leigh-Dodds, Shannon Loughnane, Danika Ray, Alexander Thom, Yvette Turner and Isabella Vadiveloo, Kathryn White

Melbourne Fringe season with: Eric Gardiner, Shannon Loughnane, Danika Ray, Alexander Thom, Yvette Turner, Isabella Vadiveloo

Director: Justin Nott

Set/Sound Design: Robert Smith

“Another example of the brilliant immersive theatre taking over the Melbourne scene” - Theatre Press (http://theatrepress.com.au/2013/09/27/review-blindness-at-melbourne-fringe/)

University of Melbourne Underground Carpark / Second-Story Studios 

Season Dates:

August / September 2013

Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6sTdesXnt8 

By Cathy Hunt and Justin Nott

Presented in collaboration with La Mama Theatre and AMES Australia. 'Back to the Future' was supported by the Victorian Government.

AMES Australia and La Mama have worked together presenting work for 9 years. In 2015, directors Cathy Hunt and Justin Nott worked with 14 new and recently arrived refugees and migrants from AMES Australia to devise a performance about their past, their future and the time in between. A dreamlike collage of stories, images and song, Back to the Future lets you see the familiar world of the bustling Melbourne cityscape through different eyes.

With: Adeeb Ahmed, Esmy My, Hamidullah Ali, Hulya Berk, Ivone Bukorpioper, Jafar Ansari, Karabet Baghdasar, Mi San Da, Mostafa Amini, Nia Diniyah, Regina Nyalat, Shadia Ahmed, Tesloach John Jang and Zakia Noori.

Directors: Cathy Hunt & Justin Nott

Producer: Caitlin Dullard

Lighting / Sound Design: Hayley Fox

Walker St Gallery / La Mama Courthouse / Walker St Gallery

Season Dates:

Tuesday 8th December / Thursday 10th December 2015 / Friday 11th December 2015

Presented in collaboration with The DiG Collective

“The Unprovoked Festival of Short Works is a project exploring alternative processes for contemporary theatre devising. This flagship festival involves a twelve-week creative process with a curated group of emerging artists. In this collaborative making process artists are provided with provocations, inspiration, and a curatorial structure to knit together a solo work within the context of a collective experience.

In the first six weeks of the process the artists present new work on a weekly basis; drawing from the tasks provided provocation, inspiration, challenge or offer. In the second half of the project, artists lead their own process for making, using the showings to dig deeper into their selected material. Audiences are invited throughout process with specific tools for understanding the work – allowing them access to a devised process as well as the opportunity to see great work.

The festival was picked up by the University of Melbourne and The DIG Collective was able to present the festival with a new group of artists as part of their six-month residency at Union House Theatre.” - TheDiGCollective.com 

Curators and Facilitators: The DiG Collective

Makers: Daniel Jones, Shannon Loughnane, Lana Nguyen, Justin Nott, Mick Roe and Isabella Vadiveloo

Guild Theatre (and surrounds), University of Melbourne

Season Dates

2013

http://www.thedigcollective.com/ 

By Catherine Traynor

Presented as a finalist for Short + Sweet Sydney

The study of a Victorian house, décor authentic to period. Two men meet, but for what purpose? This is their conversation.

A new claustrophobic and twisted two-hander about fear, desire, and male repression.

With: Angus Cameron and Shannon Loughnane

Director: Justin Nott

Writer: Catherine Traynor

“The simplicity of its set design and Nott's naturalistic execution delivers this ambitious script with lucid clarity. Both characters leave questions unanswered, opening a space for their audience to reflect on their own relationship with sexuality and desire: The Polite Conversation gives us sex without the sex; a compelling power struggle between two minds.”    - Farrago

King Street Theatre, Sydney

Season Dates:

27 February-3 March 2013

Presented by Theatre Incubator

By Anthony Neilson

Winner Best Production of the Year 2010, Union House Theatre Awards

Lisa is about to embark on a mission. A mission that will take her into another world. A perilous, bizarre but alluring world: The Wonderful World of Dissocia.

From one of Britain’s in-yer-face wunderkinds, Anthony Neilson’s twisted fall down the rabbit hole turns dreams into nightmares in his dynamic portrayal of a woman living with dissociative disorder. 

With: Christopher Di Pasquale, Michael Fee, George Fford, Carly Hulls, Max Paterson, Madeleine Ryan, Siobhan Toohey, Ed Yap, Mattie Young, and with Erin Adams as Hotdog Violinist

Directors: Justin Nott and Danielle Asciak

Set Design: Justin Nott & Danielle Asciak

Lighting Design: Emily Adinolfi

Costume Design: Delphine Allan

Music and Songs: Stephen Sanisic - “The Oathtaker Song”, “What’s an Hour?” 

Sound Design: Dave Newington

Publicity Design: Tom ‘Dilly’ Littleson

Producer: Julia Valentini

Guild Theatre, University of Melbourne

Season Dates:

6-9 September, 2010

Presented by Theatre Incubator

By Philip Ridley

A charismatic showman and his deformed, masked partner threaten the survival of agoraphobic twins Haley and Presley by dismantling the childish pair’s twisted existence one cockroach at a time. Theatre Incubator present Philip Ridley’s nightmare about childhood, fear and memory, but most of all… chocolate!

With: Christopher Di Pasquale, Georgia Kelly, Danny Ball, Paul Bongiorno

Directors: Justin Nott and Danielle Asciak

Set Design: Anna Cameron

Producer: Julia Valentini

Reviews

Guild Theatre, University of Melbourne

Season Dates:

25-27 March, 2010

An apocalyptic collision of art, current affairs and dinner that throws our shameless and submissive complicity as audience under the microscope. Then the world ends. The End or Pissing Out The Window is an original live art installation by Justin Nott.

Devised in collaboration with: Shannon Loughnane, Isabella Vadiveloo, Samuel Dariol, Yvette Turner, Delphine Allan

Brunswick Art Space

Performance Date

26 April, 2013

By Josiah Lulham and Clancy Moore

Presented by Until Monstrous

Trapped in a rundown hotel, seven strangers each with a secret try to survive one mind-bending night together. 

An experiment in form, structure and auterism, Hotel featured seven characters in seven scenes each directed by seven very unique artists, with the narrative order reshuffled each performance. 

Directed by Justin Nott, Scene 5 pushes the extremes of physical theatre, exploiting bodily articulation, frantic dance, and total stillness stripping the characters of everything but their unstable primal drive.

With: Rohan Byrne, Remy Chadwick, Bonnie Leigh-Dodds, Felicia King, Brendan McDougall Alexander Thom, Kathryn White

Directors: Casey Bradley (Sc 1), Sara-Tabitha Catchpole (Sc 6), Alice Dawes (Sc 2), Shannon Loughnane (Sc 7), Justin Nott (Sc 5), Benjamin Sheen (Sc 3), Isabella Vadiveloo (Sc 4)

Writers: Josiah Lulham and Clancy Moore

Set Design: Robert Smith

Stage Manager: Matilda Houlihan

Choreographer: Samuel Dariol (Sc 5)

“Nott seems to have the most intuitive understanding of character, and his choices are refreshingly vexing and intoxicating.” Matilda Dixon-Smith, Your Dripping Egg

“…deftly executed…demonstrating the scope of director Justin Nott’s enticing aesthetic.” Hana Journal

Guild Theatre, University of Melbourne

Season Dates:

20 May-2 June 2013
https://hotelbyuntilmonstrous.wordpress.com/