In seedy late 1950s Soho, Silver Johnny is the rising star of Ezra’s club. He is fast becoming a hot commodity and Ezra’s club turns into the battleground.
Carefully guarded by the club’s owner and his gang of henchmen and hangers-on, they struggle for the big time.
Loyalties are betrayed as deals get made – all with the most fatal consequences.
Mojo takes us on a brutally funny journey through violent backrooms of the fledgling British Rock’n’Roll business.
Eight performances at the atmospheric “nightclub-like” Mechanics Institute in Guildford, followed by an additional 4 performances in the very appropriate Brass Monkey Hotel (bar available!!!!!)
On board the spaceship Red Dwarf, crewman Dave Lister is sentenced to suspended animation for jeopardising strict quarantine regulations by smuggling his pet cat on board. Three million years later, Dave is awakened to find that a radiation leak has killed the entire crew and that Red Dwarf never returned to Earth. Accompanied only by a vindictive sentient hologram, a humanoid cat descended and evolved from his original pet, and the ship’s sarcastic computer, Dave starts the long journey home….
An hilarious sci-fi comedy adapted from the cult TV series and directed by Tim Edwards (director of Picasso at the Lapin Agile), Red Dwarf stars Nick Donald as Dave Lister, Alex Jones as Arnold J. Rimmer, Chris Thomas as Cat, and Jarrod Buttery as Holly, with guest appearance by Rayann Condy as Kristine Kochanski. Also featuring Scott Northover, Sean Haining, Jemma Gurney and Julia Dalby.
Doug Naylor & Rob Grant
Tim Edwards
BLAK YAK THEATRE PRESENTS
by special arrangement with Grant Naylor Productions:
Red Dwarf
From the original scripts by Rob Grant & Doug Naylor
This production is the World Premiere of the stage version of the independent cult film hit of 1999. Human Traffic follows the lives of five main characters – friends trapped in dead-end jobs in today’s Britain.
As depressing as they find their workdays, they are upbeat about their friendship and their shared ritual of weekend partying. Their lives revolve around the expectation toward, and enjoyment of, the Friday night rave. It’s an hilarious comedy, and commentary, about today’s hypocritical standards and social situations, underpinned throughout by modern music.
Human Traffic will be staged at the brand new venue: The Powerbox, in the Bakery Artrage Complex, 233 James St, Northbridge, on November 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29, Dec 3, 4, 5.
Blak Yak Theatre and the Kalamunda Dramatic Society have combined their resources and talent for a season of one-act plays.
Performance dates are Friday and Saturday, August 29 & 30, and September 5 & 6, at 8pm at KADS Theatre (Town Square, Kalamunda, just off Barber St).
As with all productions at KADS, tickets are strictly limited, and can be booked by phoning Nightingales Pharmacy (Kalamunda) on 9293 2621. All tickets are $18 (which includes Kalamunda’s famous fish & chip dinner) giving you:
“Cut”
A comedy by Ed Monk, directed by Tim Edwards
After a romantic dinner, Brad and Carol start to argue about where their illicit affair is going. Then things start to get weird….
Starring Troy Hall and Kim Wallace (plus a surprise special guest or two).
“Interval”
A half hour period, during which the audience will be served with Kalamunda’s very finest fish & chips (cost included in the price of your ticket).
“Two Women and a Chair”
Drama by Michael Olsen, directed by Michael McAllan.
Jessie and Martine arrive at an audition to discover only an empty room with a mysterious chair. It soon becomes clear that this is no ordinary audition – or is it an audition at all?
Starring Julia Dalby & Jenny McCann
“Men Behaving Badly”
A comedy by Simon Nye, adapted from the TV show and directed by Jarrod Buttery.
(Two men and a television?) Tony and Gary have to make a choice between going out with their girlfriends, or, sitting at home, drinking beer, and watching Star Trek. Not much of a choice at all….
Starring Alex Jones, Nick Donald, Jemma Gurney & Nisha Rivett
Summer, 1962. Malibu Beach. Sun, surf, sand, and Chicklet Forrest wants nothing more than to learn to shoot the curl. Ride the waves. And who better to study under than the Great Kanaka? The macho king of the surfers, who rode the killer wave off the coast of Bali… handcuffed.
But something isnt right…
People are turning up shaved from head to toe by a mysterious assailant. The star of “Sex-Kittens Go To Outer Space” has disappeared from the set of her latest film. Surfers are coming out of the closet. And who, exactly, is Ann Bowman, the dominatrix who has risen to claim her birthright: World Domination?
The big luau is only days away. Will our heroes thwart her evil scheme in time? Will Chicklet learn to surf? Will they still have time to prepare the finger foods? Will any of these questions be answered?
Blak Yak is proud to present this bizarre hybrid of the best the Sixties had to offer: beach movies, bikinis, psychological melodramas, bikinis, surf guitar, bikinis, laughter, and… surfing. Not to mention the bikinis!
The company who brought you Amadeus, Red Dwarf, The Last Supper, and the humour, poetry, beauty and heartbreak of Dead Poets Society, proudly present their latest production, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST is an intense and emotional play based on the classic American novel written by Ken Kesey. The story is set in a Mental Hospital and explores the complex issues of institutionalised mental health treatment and the delicate nature of the human psyche. Through the alternately humorous and heart-wrenching tale of one rebellious patient’s life-or-death power struggle with the ward’s domineering head nurse, the powerful and dramatic script faithfully brings to life the colourful characters from the popular novel.
Based on Ken Kesey’s novel, Dale Wasserman’s script inspired the popular 1975 movie, starring Jack Nicholson, of which many people are familiar. Despite winning five Academy Awards (including Best Picture), the film is often considered to fall second to the humour, emotion and power of the original stageplay. You’ll just have to come and judge for yourself….
Starring Jason Bouwhuis, Angela Clegg, Kurtis Crisafulli, Olivia Darby, Nick Donald, Sean Haining, Troy Hall, Emma Herriman, Cary Hudson, Kenney Jordan, David McGarr, Peter Niblett, Sally Sainsbury, Eddie Stowers, Andrew Watson, & Stephen Whiley. Performed at Subiaco Art Centre
“This is an SOS distress call from the mining ship Red Dwarf. The crew are dead, killed by a radiation leak. The only survivors were Dave Lister, who was in suspended animation during the disaster, and his pregnant cat who was safely sealed in the hold. Revived three million years later, Lister’s only companions are a life form who evolved from his cat, and Arnold Rimmer, a hologram simulation of his dead bunk mate.
“On our journey back to Earth, we have encountered many strange and bizarre things. Only last month we came across a moon which was shaped exactly like Felicity Kendall’s bottom. We flew around that one a couple of times.”
The boys from the Dwarf are back and this time, they’ve brought a friend . . . .
Blak Yak Theatre returns to the Maylands Sun Room for a short season of one-act plays. After the success of “Picasso at the Lapin Agile”, we’re intending to make available to our audience a bar and cabaret-style seating. Please feel free to join in the fun and bring your favourite gourmet victuals or greasy grub (no byo drinks, sorry).
The evening’s entertainment shall consist of “Man Woman Flower”, a comedy written by Dan LaRocque and directed by Tim Edwards. Starring Nick Donald, Anna Krakowski, Melissa Merchant, Peter Niblett and Megan Riley as art gallery patrons whose discussions of the works on display soon turn into discussions of… other matters.
After intermission (where the aforementioned bar shall be prominently patronised) we have “Never Ever”, a comedy written and directed by Melissa Merchant. Starring Erin Gray, Lisa Pope, Megan Riley, Sherryl Spencer, Alexa Taylor, and Kim Wallace, six women partake of a drinking game with secrets revealed and friendships put to the test.
These two one-act plays will be performed for Two Nights Only! Friday & Saturday, August 26 & 27, starting at 8pm. All tickets are a flat $10 and you don’t need me to tell you that everyone involved would heartily appreciate as much support as you can give. Bookings can be made on 0500 52 52 59 (as always) but tickets will be available at the door. That’s at The Sun Room, corner of Sixth Ave & Whatley Cres, Maylands. See you there.
Long Before J. K. Rowling, Terry Pratchett was writing books about wizards and witches. Since 1983, Pratchett has written over 30 books set on the Discworld, a flat medieval world where magic rules supreme. Not only are his books insightful, commenting on and often parodying modern situations, they are extremely funny. And with 27 million books sold, they’re also extremely popular.
In 1997 Blak Yak Theatre mounted the first Australian production of a Terry Pratchett stageplay. Mort was an enormous success and, over the years, was followed by Guards! Guards!, Wyrd Sisters, Maskerade, Sourcery and Hogfather. Now, Blak Yak is proud to present the latest in its popular series of Pratchett plays: The Truth.
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld’s first newspaper. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist’s life – people who want him dead, a reformed vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want him dead in different ways and, worst of all, a man who keeps begging him to publish photographs of his amusingly-shaped vegetables.
Complicating matters are two Pulp Fictionesque hit men stalking the city’s Machiavellian Patrician, a talking dog, a zombie who writes the obituaries – including what people have been up to since they died, an up-front female reporter, dwarfs, trolls, werewolves, Foul Ol’ Ron, and a cast of thousands . . . alright, hundreds . . . ok 49.
Theo Maske is definitely a man who is going places, he’s a Junior Clerk with the Government, he has a pretty young wife and, once he finds a boarder for his spare room, he’ll have some extra cash to start a family. But all is not well for Theo; see, his wife’s underpants just won’t stay up. Louise Maske, Theo’s wife, finds her underpants have fallen to her ankles during a parade for the King. Was it an accident, or was Louise looking for her 15 minutes of fame? Add two young potential boarders who are vying for Theo’s room – or should that be his wife – as well as a nosy upstairs neighbour, and you’ve got a very funny look at the confusion and uproar caused by a simple flash of a lady’s underpants.
Adapted by comic genius Steve Martin from a 1910 German farce, The Underpants is an hilariously politically incorrect commentary on feminism, politics, sexism, and the human race’s fascination with fame.
“We live in a world where Big Brother and other reality TV programs are phenomenally popular and we are constantly being inundated by these minor celebrities. The Underpants deals with the idea of fame and its transient nature,” says director Tim Edwards.
The Underpants is a change of direction for Blak Yak Theatre, perhaps best known for their original stage adaptations of well known movies, such as The Last Supper and Dead Poets Society, as well as popular television shows like Red Dwarf, Frontline and Men Behaving Badly. However, this innovative company is pleased to have the opportunity to be the first to present this very funny, very clever play.
Performing at the Drama Workshop, Murdoch University
