theatre works presents
by jodi gallagher
Prophet
23 AUGUST - 2 SEPTEMBER | THEATRE WORKS | WITH THEATRE WORKS
Prophet
VENUE
by jodi gallagher
“All that is solid melts into air, all that is sacred is profaned.”
A man returns to his broken city from a devastating war. He brings home a vision of the end of the world. In the middle of the banalities of everyday life and political expediency, events converge on a single point of violent action.
Prophet explores lovers, mothers, sons, fathers and politics in the end times. Prophet is about faith, and love, and belief, and all their infinite variations. It draws on a range of eclectic sources – the aftermath of disasters, the exploitation of tragedies, the history of prophecy, the fate of messiahs. The form is fragmented and broken, like the world we confront right now. Prophet speaks to the times we live in, and speculates about what is to come.
Theatre Works
DURATION
90 minutes, no interval
WARNINGS
DATES + TIMES
Wed 23 Aug 7:30pm (Preview)
Thu 24 Aug 7:30pm (Opening)
Fri 25 Aug 7:30pm
Sat 26 Aug 7:30pm
Tue 29 Aug 7:30pm
Wed 30 Aug 7:30pm
Thu 31 Aug 7:30pm
Fri 1 Sep 7:30pm
Sat 2 Sep 7:30pm
This show is a lock-out performance. No latecomers will be admitted. Please arrive at least 15 minutes early to ensure you don't miss out.
Refunds will not be issued to latecomers.
TICKETS
FULL PRICE
$45.00
CONCESSION*
$35.00
PREVIEW
$28.00
20 at $20**
$20.00
MOB TIX
$20.00
*Seniors, Student, MEAA, Health Care and Low Income card holders
**Limited to 20 tickets per performance
CREDITS
WRITTEN BY
Jodi Gallagher
ACTOR/CO-PRODUCER
Carolyn Bock
MEET THE ARTIST -
Jodi Gallagher
Jodi Gallagher’s plays include: Elegy (Playbox, published Currrency Press, Honourable Mention Victorian Premiers Awards 2000), Victory Girls, (LaMama), Web (LaMama, Junction Theatre/Theatre Praxis), Banshee (LaMama), The Method (LaMama). Works read at Theatre in the Raw at Playbox include Palace Revolution and Gathering. A libretto, Remembering Rosie, with music by David Hobson, was commissioned and performed by OzOpera. Her plays have been shortlisted for a number of awards including the Wal Cherry Play of the Year Award and the ANPC’s New York Exchange. Prophet was a winner of the R E Ross Trust Script Development Award. Jodi’s plays explore the relationship between the personal and the political, and the real and the supernatural.
