No Nudity, Weapons and Naked Flames at the Tap Gallery

Coming up very soon at Sydney’s Tap Gallery is No Nudity,Weapons or Naked Flames. The season is a part of the Mayday! PlaywrightsFestival organised and curated by Augusta Supple and Jeremy Waters. 7-ON takes the first week of the festival with a selection of 6 monologues from our book No Nudity, Weapons or Naked Flames, published by The Federation Press last year.

The program: A Cleansing Force by Donna Abela; The World’s Tiniest Monkey by Vanessa Bates; Delia’s Clothes by Hilary Bell; iSpiderman by Noëlle Janaczewska; Ella by Verity Laughton & SexEd by Ned Manning.

Director: Augusta Supple.

Actors: Alice Ansara, Megan Drury, Suz Mawer, Kate Skinner, Jennifer White & Stephen Wilkinson.

No Nudity, Weapons or Naked Flames runs from Wednesday 8—Saturday 11 May at 8:00 pm. More info about ticket prices etc at the Tap Gallery.

For more info about the Mayday! Playwrights Festival.

Hope to see you at the Tap next month.

No Nudity, Weapons or Naked Flames—the view from Newcastle

Click here to read Ken Longworth's article in the Newcastle Herald about No Nudity, Weapons or Naked Flames.

Coming Soon ...

NO NUDITY, WEAPONS OR NAKED FLAMES is our collection of monologues for drama students, aspiring and established actors, and anyone interested in short form work, new writing, and solo performance.

The 7 of us have contributed 3 monologues a piece. We've written notes to accompany each script, and there's all sorts of other useful information to help anyone studying drama or wanting to perform one or more of the 21 monologues in this book.

NO NUDITY, WEAPONS OR NAKED FLAMES is published by The Federation Press, and will be available from early March 2012. Find out more here.

I Contain Multitudes—post show

Here's Cath, Vanessa and Donna with our fabulous director and producer Gus Supple—all looking pretty happy—after the second and final performance of I CONTAIN MULTITUDES at The Old 505 Theatre on 12 November.

And here are our actors with Gus (on the far right of the photo). From the back and left to right the actors are: Matt Charleston (A Child into the World by Catherine Zimdahl), Melinda Dransfield (A Cleansing Force by Donna Abela), Felix Jozeps (Narcissus by Hilary Bell), Stephen Wilkinson (iSpiderman by Noëlle Janaczewska), Jennifer White (Sex-Ed by Ned Manning), Madeleine Jones (The World's Tiniest Monkey by Vanessa Bates) and Josipa Draisma (Ariadne by Verity Laughton).

They're not in the photos, but thanks also to composer Michael Imielski, stage manager Oliver Rynn and the wonderful NovemberISM playwrights (Tamara Asmar, Kit Brookman, Rebecca Clarke, Tahli Corin, Joanna Erskine & Rick Viede) for the opportunity to do I CONTAIN MULTITUDES.

I Contain Multitudes

7-ON’s contribution to the NovemberISM event
organised and curated by
the dynamic Sydney-based writers’ collective ISM
is
I CONTAIN MULTITUDES

Friday 11 and Saturday 12 November at 9:00 pm

At The Old 505 Theatre, 342 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills


(A short walk from Central Station)

Maria van Oosterwijk, 1669

I CONTAIN MULTITUDES 

7 short monologues, one apiece from the members of 7-ON 

Directed by Augusta Supple 

Noëlle in Newcastle

Mostly I’m deep in thistles, chasing themes through archives. But I was in Newcastle for 3 weeks in May/June this year, thanks to a residency at the Lock-Up Cultural Centre. Dark and stormy nights alone in the old jail had their challenges, but that aside, I had a great time, a creatively productive time. I walked miles with my camera and notebook—and totally fell in love with Newcastle. I’m a sucker for port cities and those industrial powerhouses of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries now doing the hard slog to reinvent themselves.

Newcastle, June 2011

I was in Newcastle to work on a jazz-infused collection of poems, monologues and short pieces about language in a digital age called Hello the Fine Stranger.

And—as is often the case with residencies—I got the idea for, and began, a new project: Newcastle Florilegium. It’s too early to say exactly what form/s this work might take, but it involves the city’s weeds and what I’m calling ‘folkscience.’ 

Some Newcastle weeds

As part of the residency I ran a workshop on writing the monologue for the Hunter Writers’ Centre, and, piggy-backing on the truly fantastic (in every sense of that word) exhibition Happily Ever After, I did an in-progress presentation of my 50-minute monologue/performance essay Good With Maps at the Lock-Up.