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Calendar for Broad Accents, the 1993 Multicultural Theatre Festival

1993… Broad Accents

October 30, 2012 · by · in 1990s, Documentation, MTA, Theatre · Leave a comment

  Broad Accents Cross Cultural Collaborations 3rd Multicultural Theatre Festival 1993 Multicultural Theatre Alliance Nov 1993 Fourteen performing companies included: Koories in Theatre (Wiridjuiri & English) Australian Chinese Performing Artists’ Association Hellenic Theatre Inc (Greek & English) Triquinuela (Spanish & English) AL SHAREK (Arabic & English) Ira Hal Seidenstein Dulaang Bayan-Sydney (Tagalog, Spanish & English) […]

'A Glimpse of the Spaces', Al Sharek's Performance Forum in the programme for Broad Accents, the 1993 Multicultural Theatre Festival

1993… A Glimpse of the Spaces

October 30, 2012 · by · in 1990s, Al Sharek, Arab Australian cultural production, Documentation, MTA, Theatre · Leave a comment

  Al Sharek A Glimpse of the Spaces  Performance Forum at the 3rd Multicultural Theatre Festival  Director, Mishline Jammal Playwright, Chadia Gedeon Composer, Labib Jammal Choreographer, Victoria Harbutt Cast: Nicole Antaki Esam Hato Mishline Jammal Saleh Saqqaf Production / Documentation, Eva Gerencer  Performed as a completed piece in a public season in 1994 

Bilingual flier: Curves, Lines, Dots and Accents or Writing With The Hip, TAQA Theatre, 1993

1993… Curves, Lines, Dots and Accents or Writing with the Hip

October 28, 2012 · by · in 1990s, Arab Australian cultural production, Documentation, MTA, TAQA, Theatre · 4 Comments

  Taqa Theatre ‘Curves, Lines, Dots and Accents or Writing with the Hip’  Performance Forum at ‘Broad Accents’ the 3rd Multicultural Theatre Festival, 1993 Cast: Ismail Abdi, Alissar (Eliza) Chidiac, Alissar Gazal, Elizabeth Jabour, Saleh Saqqaf, Barry Gamba. Collaborative work.

Poster of the 2nd Multicultural Theatre Festival 1992

1992… Australian Accents

October 28, 2012 · by · in 1990s, Documentation, MTA, Theatre · Leave a comment

Australian Accents 2nd Multicultural Theatre Festival 1992 Multicultural Theatre Alliance Aug – Sept 1992 Seventeen performing companies included: Kooris in Theatre (English) Take Away Theatre (Greek & English) VETO Theatre (English) United Cultural Arts Group (Turkish & English) New Kurdish Theatre Group (Kurdish) Australian Chinese Performing Artists’ Association (Mandarin, Cantonese & English) Acto Vivo (Spanish […]

1992 MTA programme highlight: 'The Man Who Lost His Shadow', Veto Theatre

1992… The Man Who Lost His Shadow

October 28, 2012 · by · in 1990s, Arab Australian cultural production, Documentation, MTA, Theatre, Veto · Leave a comment

Veto Theatre ‘The Man Who Lost His Shadow’ Written and performed by Saleh Saqqaf Director, Mishline Jammal Choreographer, Julie Fletcher

Flier for TAQA Theatre's '... and they called her Silence' in 1992

1992 / 1993 … ‘… and they called her Silence’

October 28, 2012 · by · in 1990s, Arab Australian cultural production, Documentation, MTA, TAQA, Theatre · Leave a comment

“In 1992, TAQA presented ‘… and they called her Silence’ exploring ritual, culture and sensuality. It was first performed at the 2nd Multicultural Theatre Festival and later in ‘Periodical’ as a double feature with Triquinuela. ”   I remember during our creative development period, we were visiting the family home of our choreographer, and her mother […]

Poster for the first festival of the Multicultural Theatre Alliance in 1991

1991… Multicultural Theatre Festival

October 28, 2012 · by · in 1990s, Documentation, MTA, TAQA, Theatre · Leave a comment

 Festival ’91, Multicultural Theatre Alliance, Festival ‘91 “… (was the ) first major activity as the Multicultural Theatre Alliance which we formed in Sydney in 1990 when over twenty theatre companies came together to share experiences and to find common ground.” Participating companies included: Actovivo Dulaang Bayan-Sydney Hellenic Theatrical Group Intransit Kooch Theatre Group Latin American Live […]

Poster for Al Qamareya, TAQA Theatre, 1991

1991… Al Qamareya

October 28, 2012 · by · in 1990s, Al Sharek, Arab Australian cultural production, Documentation, MTA, TAQA, Theatre · Leave a comment

TAQA Theatre (1990-1999) Al Qamareya (The Moongate) “TAQA Theatre was founded in late 1990 with the aim of developing innovative, contemporary Australian theatre with a strong Arab Australian perspective. TAQA’s first production, Al Qamareya (The Moongate) – performed in Sydney, Canberra and Wollongong throughout 1991 – was one of the first bilingual theatrical representations of Arab Australian […]