Photo: From the flyer for 'Crossing Live'About
Award winning screen writer/ director, Matt Saville (Noise, Roy Hollsdotter Live, We Can Be Heroes), winner of the 2006 Premier’s Literary Award, joins forces with composer, Bryony Marks, to create a satirical and ultimately poignant deconstruction of TV-land.
Crossing Live is a contemporary fable, a morality play in the guise of a half-hour Current Affairs program, exploiting opera’s extraordinary potential for drama and theatricality to expose the farce of contemporary mainstream journalism.
Set in a television studio with a hard-edged anchor-woman, a tricky director, a long-suffering studio crew, a big-hearted make-up artist, musicians, and a live audience, Crossing Live combines contemporary music-theatre and live video with TV current affairs and the dark side of journalism.
Collaborators
Bryony Marks, Composer
Matthew Saville, Librettist
inSYNC, Publisher
Ariette Taylor, Director
Douglas Horton, Restaging
Brett Kelly, Musical Director
Bryony Marks, Soundscapes
Tim Cole, Sound Design
Shaun Gurton, Set & Costume Design
Scott Zero, Geoff Hitchins, Matthew Saville, Video
Paul Jackson, Lighting Designer
Tim Brown, Vision Mixer
Dimity Shepherd, Performer | Paula Day
Chloe Armstrong, Performer | Leticia (Satellite Interview)
Evelyn Krape, Performer | Peta
Steve Adams, Performer | Director
Stewart Morritt, Performer | Floor Manager
Luke Elliot, Performer | Keith Milner
Greg Stone, Performer | Davis (Producer voice over)
Jane Robertson, Musician | Clarinet
Graeme Leak, Musician | Percussion
Zoe Black, Musician | Violin 1
Erkki Veltheim, Musician | Violin 2
Josephine Vaines, Musician | Cello
Miranda Hill, Musician | Bass
Photo: Courtesy of ArtistAwards
2007 Green Room Awards Winner of Best New Australian Work (Opera
2007 Green Room Awards Winner of Outstanding Performance (Theatre – New Form)
2007 Green Room Awards Nomination for Production (Opera)
2007 Green Room Awards Nomination for Direction (Opera)
2007 Green Room Awards Nomination for Design (Opera)
2007 Green Room Awards Nomination for Female Artist, leading role (Opera)
Presentation History
2007 Merlyn Theatre, Malthouse, Melbourne, World Premiere
