Wednesday, 08 September 2010


Voices
Voices Ends

voices As with all good things ‘Voices: The Carrical Project’ has now come to an end. To sell out all six shows was a remarkable achievement and the response of those who were fortunate enough to see the show has been quite overwhelming.
 
Sincere thanks must now be expressed to the Carrical House residents who were willing to have their stories portrayed and to the Scotch College actors who played the parts with such care and integrity whilst always treating the stories and the messages held within with great dignity. My thanks also go out to Cath Garrett of the Drama Dept at Scotch College and to our Director, Matt Hammond, both of whom worked tirelessly over many months to ensure that Voices occurred.
 
The major question we have been asked over the past week or so is ‘what will you do with Voices now?’ The short answer is that we do not as yet really know! The documentary crew will be completing the filming and commencing on editing in the coming weeks and we hope to have copies of the performance ready on DVD in the near future. We have been invited to perform Voices at the National Housing Conference, this year being held in Melbourne, in late November. Servants would very much like to see it performed at this conference but there is much to consider prior to this becoming a reality.

Matt Maudlin
Monday 12th October 2009.

p.s.  I can now confirm that Voices will be performed at the National Housing Conference on Thursday 26th November – date and time to be confirmed.

 
Voices Tickets : On Sale NOW!

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Tickets for Voices: The Carrical Project are now on sale! Get in quick by ordering online at www.melbournefringe.com.au or calling 03 9660 9666. Any day now we'll also have postcards and posters out and about, as well as 2000 bookmarks which the City of Boroondara has agreed to distribute through their libraries! With tickets on sale and marketing stuff hitting the pavements of Melbourne, it's all becoming very real! Only three weeks until the show hits the stage!

 
Voices : Promotional Art

Voices

This year a group of teenage boys met with a group of low income rooming house residents. In this group devisied performance the boys share the stories they heard. Voices tackles the tragice loss and debilitating stigma of mental illness and the creativity, character and hope that can spring out of it.

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Voices Begins

Tickets for Voices available from -

Fringe Festival website from September 1st.


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Voices Project

voices flyerThe theatre venture that our residents and Scotch College students are currently engaged in -‘Voices: The Carrical Project’ – will be performed on the evenings of 24th, 25th, 26th September and 1st, 2nd, 3rd October at Scotch. Further information and tickets will be available to purchase via this site in the very near future.

Four Scotch College students will this week share a meal with rooming house residents at Carrical House as part of a collaborative theatre-making project designed to help de-stigmatize living with a long-term mental illness. 

Part of a group of thirty student theatre-makers, the four students have been listening to the stories and opinions of the residents about living with a long-term mental illness. Under the guidance of theatre-maker Matt Hammond, this research will then be brought back to the larger creative team and used to create a performance.

The idea was born out of discussions between Hammond and Servants CEO Matt Maudlin.

"I had been thinking about giving the residents a chance to tell their stories by compiling a book, when Matt suggested turning it into theatre," Matt Maudlin said.

"Working casually at Carrical since 2001 I have gotten to know the residents fairly well. Their lives are so much deeper than the negative stereotypes of people living with a mental-illness and I wanted other people in the community to also see the depth and richness of their lives and character," Matt Hammond said.

Voices will performed in two week season as part of the 2009 Melbourne International Fringe Festival in September-October. The project is jointly funded by Scotch College, Servants and the City of Boroondara.

Matt Hammond. 3rd August 2009.