Work In Progress: Mad

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Event Work In Progress: Mad
Venue Performance Space, Fortitude Valley, QLD
Umbrella Event Brisbane Festival 2012
First Date 21 September 2012
Last Date 22 September 2012
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description MAD, a music-theatre work created by Meryl Tankard, is ‘in progress’. However it should be discussed not only because its subject matter breaks new ground, but also because the work, still in a very raw state, deserves further development.

The inspiration for MAD comes from the prolific award-winning writer of poetry and non-fiction, Sandy Jeffs, who is also a long-time sufferer of schizophrenia. As Tankard says in the program notes, Jeffs’ words “compelled me to create”, plunging Tankard into a “vivid world of light, movement and sound.”

Tankard uses Jeffs’s poetry as the both the fra
Description Source Website
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Music
Subjects Madness
Poetry
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Meryl Tankard Choreographer
Elena Kats-Chernin Composer
Meryl Tankard Director
Sandy Jeffs Poet
Mara Kiek Singer
Regis Lansac Video Designer
Works
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Programme Brisbane Festival 2012
Event Identifier 108032
Dataset AusStage