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The Storm Glass, a maverick puppet theatre work had its first creative development showing at the Wesley Performing Arts Centre (PAC) on 12th and 13th February 2010. It was created by Thieves Theatre who are the Company in Residence at the Wesley.

 Magic realism, gritty dialogue and life size puppets combine to tell the story of a murdered horse, an estranged daughter and an alcoholic farmer who discover that a failure to truly recall the past causes an imaginatively distorted future.

Thieves was formed by Anna Loewendahl and Greg Pritchard. It has evolved out of their work in the duo Play at Being. Their work used puppets, theatre, projections, digital images, shadows, VJ software and music and innovative performance spaces (including an agricultural and a large, delicate, white inflatable cube). Other Thieves members are Jillian Pearce, Jacinda O’Sullivan, Edwin Irvine, Mary French, Hannah French.

This September (2009), Thieves Theatre was launched with performances and demonstrations of training at the Wesley.

Thieves Productions

2010 The Storm Glass. Wesley Performing Arts Centre.

2009 Partnership Launch: Nina and the Ghost, Asialink a Love story.

 

As Play at Being:

2008 Lit from Within, Horsham Regional Art Gallery (October).

2008 Lit from Within development through a Seedpod residency at Punctum ICU Art Space in Castlemaine (August).

2008 Skyjuice, RAV Small Stages project, Malthouse, May.

2007 Arthur and Francois, The Village, Halls Gap, Beyond the Smoke Festival, Art is Festival, launch of Garage Art Space, Natimuk.

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Skyjuice on youtube
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