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size=6><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px">version 1.0 & Performance Space
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size=7><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 24px"><B>CMI (A Certain Maritime Incident)
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color=#ff0000><FONT size=7><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">“Children Overboard”
Inquiry cut short… <BR>…So here’s the smash hit stage
version!<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=6><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14px">Sydney return (Oct 13-17) & inaugural Canberra
sitting (Oct 19-23)<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT><SPAN
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size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><I>“Passionate, often humorous, &
ultimately disturbing” </I></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9px">(Mark
Hopkins, <I>SMH</I>)<BR></SPAN><FONT size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><I>“Startling, highly kinetic, blackly comic &
deeply provocative”</I></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9px"> (Linda
Jaivin, <I>The Bulletin</I>)<BR></SPAN><FONT size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><I>“I’m played by Brad Pitt, apparently.”
</I></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9px">(Senator Brett Mason,
<I>Hansard</I> 25/3/04)<BR></SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8px"></SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 8px"> <BR></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9px">If you missed
the short-lived return of the “Children Overboard” Senate Inquiry, at least you
can catch the smash hit stage version. <B><I>CMI (A Certain Maritime
Incident</I></B> is version 1.0’s acclaimed show based on the transcript of the
Inquiry into the most explosive episode in recent political history, and it’s
back for a Sydney return and inaugural Canberra sitting.<BR><BR>The show played
to packed houses at Sydney’s Performance Space in its April premiere.
<B><I>CMI</I></B> "breaks the mould of verbatim theatre's typically
earnest style”, wrote Linda Jaivin in <I>The Bulletin</I>, (14/4/04) describing
it as “a startling, highly kinetic, blackly comic and deeply provocative work of
theatre". <B><I>CMI</I></B> is the product of one of the most
exciting new companies in Sydney, <B>version 1.0, </B>already hailed as “a
refreshing new vision in performance” (<I>RealTime</I>) for its previous
shows<B>.<BR></B><BR>“Whatever the election outcome, the scandal of the
Government deliberately lying in order to demonise asylum seekers is well and
truly alive,” says <B>version 1.0</B>’s producer and performer, David Williams.
“Howard showed that by shutting down Parliament after public servants and
military people came forward to set the records straight. But it’s a
bigger story than that – it goes to the heart of our political process, to our
response to asylum seekers, and to this climate of fear and suspicion we’re now
enduring.” <BR><BR>“We always planned to bring <B><I>CMI </I></B>back, not
just because of its currency, but also because it went so well,” says Williams.
“Making theatre from a Senate Inquiry sounds dry, but it’s not
verbatim theatre, or a dry rendering of politician talk. This is
political theatre for the twenty-first century – playful, surreal, absurd,
gut-wrenching, tragic, all at once, and without any easy answers. This is a
story of six people wrestling with their wills, their vocabulary, their politics
and each other. It’s an exploration of fundamental questions at the
intersection of the personal and the political.”<BR><BR>But while the text is
edited from the transcript’s 2,200 pages of procedural politician-speak, the six
performers enact a demanding movement score that cuts across the words, and
across audience expectations. Proceedings begin sedately enough,
with the senators listening attentively to witnesses from behind their committee
table, aided and abetted by live video and real time lie detection software.
But the mood shifts from courtroom drama to slapstick, Kafka to seduction
scene, parable to office party. Points are scored, pizzas are eaten, guns
are drawn, tables spin wildly, and the ship of state loses its way in the fog of
war.<BR><BR>Five of the seven inquiry senators saw <B><I>CMI</I></B> first time
around, along with one of the key witnesses. “It was pretty surreal
looking into the audience and seeing the person whose words you’re speaking,
although we don’t necessarily play characters in a conventional sense,” says
Williams. “And for them too – they made jokes about the show in the
Senate, like, oh I’m played by Brad Pitt, and I was shocked to trip over you
naked as I walked into the theatre, and thank god it was an actor and not really
you. But one Senator also said the show really crystallised the horrible
tragedy of how we treated these people. He talked about a particular
scene, where we had him questioning an admiral who was talking about ‘the moral
values of these people’, meaning asylum seekers, as though they were from Mars –
he said it was like hearing the full horror for the first
time.”<BR><BR><B>version 1.0</B> is a collective of some of Sydney’s leading
contemporary performance makers. The company claims to have seven senses
of humour, and to test the limits of bodies and of language, making performance
that is edgy yet accessible, innovative but entertaining. If you don’t trust the
lie detection software to test their claims, then judge for yourself. Then
we’ll know who are the biggest liars – performers or
politicians.<BR>-------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR></SPAN><FONT
color=#ff0000><FONT size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><B>Artists</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9px"> <B>Performer/Devisers Danielle Antaki,
Stephen Klinder, Nikki Heywood, Deborah Pollard, Christopher Ryan & David
Williams Producer David Williams Dramaturgy Paul Dwyer
Lighting Simon Wise Video & Design Samuel
James Sound Jason Sweeney Outside Eye Yana Taylor Lie
Detection Software Kelli McCluskey & Steve Bull (pvi collective)
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><B>Sydney</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9px"> Performance Space, 199 Cleveland St,
Redfern. 13 – 17 Oct (Wed – Sat 8pm, Sun 5pm) <BR>Tix $25/15.
Bookings: 02 9698 7235 or <FONT
color=#0000ff><U>boxoffice@performancespace.com.au</U></FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><B>Canberra</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9px"> The Street Theatre, Cnr Childers St &
University Ave, Canberra. Tue 19 – Sat 23 Oct, 8pm. <BR>Tix $30/20.
Bookings: 02 6247 1223<BR></SPAN></B><SPAN
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color=#ff0000><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><B>Media
Info</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9px"> Harley Stumm
0411 330 654 or <FONT
color=#0000ff><U>harley_stumm@optusnet.com.au<BR></U></FONT><FONT
color=#ff0000>Print-friendly Attachment contains full reviews (SMH &
Bulletin) & more info about version 1.0 & the
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