The Ham Funeral introduced by Adam Cook, Artistic Director of State Theatre Company of SA

Odeon Theatre Norwood, 25 February to 18 March 2012

http://www.statetheatrecompany.com.au/

Written by Australia's only Nobel Prize winner for Literature, The Ham Funeral has long held iconic status as a misunderstood moment of shocking modernism in Australian theatre history. Igniting controversy when it was rejected for the 1962 Adelaide Festival of Arts as too 'difficult' for the general public to understand, its premiere production by the Adelaide University Theatre Guild at the Union Theatre in 1961 was acclaimed by critics and audiences alike.

A strangely beautiful human puppet show—part vaudeville, part lyric poem, and part gothic drama —it now enjoys legendary status as one of the most intriguingly original plays in Australian theatre history, offering audiences an antidote to what Patrick White called 'the dreary, dun-coloured offspring of journalistic realism'.

2012 will mark the centenary of Patrick White's birth and the 50th anniversary of the play's world premiere in Adelaide.

Presented by the State Theatre Company of South Australia and Adelaide Festival.

Director: Adam Cook

Designer: Ailsa Paterson

Lighting Designer: Gavan Swift

Composer: Stuart Day

Cast includes: Luke Clayson, Jonathan Elsom, Lizzy Falkland, Jonathan Mill, Amanda Muggleton, Jacqy Phillips and Geoff Revell

Bookings at BASS on 131 246 or www.bass.net.au

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Adam Cook
• Amanda Muggleton
• Luke Clayson
• Theatre
• Vaudeville
• Adelaide Festival
• Ham
• Patrick White
• Odeon Theatre Norwood

[Kookaburralaughs]

Looking forward to the start up of 2012 - with The Ham Funeral. Thanx Adam Cook