Australian Competitions Club

Tender Napalm Competition
Thanks to La Boite, modmove.com have three double tickets to give-away to Tender Napalm!

Rehearsals are underway for La Boite’s final mainstage production for the year – Philip Ridley’s explosive new play Tender Napalm – a coproduction with Brisbane Festival. This is the third ever production of the work following an acclaimed premiere season at the Southwark Playhouse in London in 2011 and a controversial Perth production late last year.

“Within the first two minutes of Tender Napalm, a woman reaches orgasm amid talk of tsunami, earthquake and radiation. The name of the show tells us so much – it offers us both the ferocity of napalm and quiet, melting tenderness.” - David Berthold, Director
 
For this highly physical new production, La Boite Artistic Director David Berthold is at the helm, joined by Australian Dance Theatre Artistic Director and Australian of the Year nominee Garry Stewart as choreographer.
 
“I’m very excited that Garry was able to make room in his busy international schedule. He’s prefect for this firecracker of a play. It needs a full and fertile physical life – something only a dance maker of his calibre can deliver. I guarantee our two actors – Ellen Bailey and Kurt Phelan – will be dripping with sweat two minutes into the production. Garry’s developing a really interesting choreographic language that draws on a number of disciplines, including hip-hop, martial arts and tai chi,” Berthold said.
 
Inspired by the explosive marital conflict at the heart of Noel Coward’s Private Lives, Tender Napalm casts the audience as spectators to a couple at battle. They’ve just faced an unnamed catastrophe, and as they wind their love back to its beginnings, they navigate a fantastical, erotic world of serpent slayings, monkey wars, alien abductions and a shipwrecked paradise.
 
Philip Ridley is widely credited for kick-starting the ‘In Yer Face’ theatre movement of the 1990s that spawned Sarah Kane’s Blasted and Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping and F**king. He’s also responsible for giving Jude Law his first break at 19 in The Fastest Clock in the Universe.
 
“Philip is quite a polymath of an artist… He had his own little theatre company when he was six, wrote his first novel at seven, and studied fine arts at one of the best fine arts schools in Britain,” Berthold said.
 
“Philip chose the theatre as his platform rather than the gallery, principally because the kinds of pictures he paints are very much in the language. His manipulation of language is so muscular and surprising. It constantly touches our sensitivities."

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Terms and Conditions of entry:

 Entries for this competition close at 6pm AEST on 19 September 2012. Prize is not redeemable for cash or exchange. Winners will be notified by mail. Only one entry per street address is permitted - entrants who submit multiples will be ineligible. The winners of the competition will not be published. Entrants acknowledge and accept all of these conditions by entering this competition.