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Lloyd Beckmann, Beekeeper
Devised & performed by Tim Stitz
Devised & directed by Kelly Somes
a Two Blue Cherries & Soulart Production
“Stitz’s multiple performances are worth the ticket price alone” - Beat Magazine
Lloyd cordially invites you into his granny flat to get some grub, wet your whistle and learn a thing or two about life, the land and beekeeping.
Based on a true story, Lloyd Beckmann, Beekeeper is the tale of a Queensland battler as told through his
grandson’s eyes. The production is an intimate and visceral theatrical experience for thirty audience members. They smell, taste, touch and inhabit Lloyd’s world. This one-man show has emerged from conversations between Tim Stitz and his grandfather and traces Lloyd’s romance with bees through family history, inheritance and the ripening of age. Supported by Carers Victoria, HotHouse Theatre’s A Month in the Country initiative, Full Tilt at the Arts Centre and La Mama Explorations, this new Australian production is one not to be missed!
Green Room award-winning actor Tim Stitz spent 2009 touring to Buenos Aires with In Other Words and
Adelaide with Three Dog Night. He is a familiar face to Melbourne theatre audiences - “Stitz is fantastic”
(The Age) - and was a series regular on the SBS series Bogan Pride.
Kelly Somes most recently directed a sell-out season of Mary Rachel Brown’s All My Sleep and Waking at
La Mama and was part of the “genius” (The Advertiser) Melbourne Fringe award-winning team behind The
Human Layer.
Jodie Ahrens of Roundangle (four-time Melbourne Fringe award-winners) employs her aromatic talents to
the sensory world of Lloyd’s flat, and lauded theatre veterans Jane Woollard and Max Gillies lend their
dramaturgical and performative experience to the project.
Green Award-winning lighting designer Bronwyn Pringle will illuminate Lloyd’s granny flat and acoustic
roots musician Liz Stringer makes her theatre debut - “Stringer’s music is bewitching…within a minute
you find yourself spellbound by its sparse, atmospheric charms” (Sunday Herald Sun).
The production is also joined by the “aweinspiring” (Inpress) Neddwellyn Jones of the Melbourne bands
Wellyn and The Night Terrors.
La Mama, 205 Faraday Street, Carlton
February 3 – February 14, 2010
Wed & Sun at 6.30pm, Thurs to Sat at 8.00pm
Duration: 75 minutes approx.
Tickets: $25 / $12 (conc.) / Bookings: 9347 6142 / www.lamama.com.au |
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