Multi-award winning, local theatre company Ladykillers’ new show 'Based On A True Story' is playing at the Ed Castle for the Adelaide Fringe Festival, from 27 February to 7 March. Using stories submitted anonymously onto a website over the past 2 years, they have produced a show which is best coined as indie-rock-music-theatre. If one wants to witness what is one of South Australia’s most potent (and proven) mixes of artistic talent, then 'Based On A True Story' is a show not to be missed.
Members of Ladykillers have won no less than ten awards and a stack of fellowships, grants and developments. Director Ingrid Voorendt’s credits include directing productions for Restless Dance Theatre, Vitalstatistix, The Border Project, Force Majeure among a myriad of other companies around the country. Designer Gaelle Mellis has multiple awards for theatre and screen design, and worked with numerous national and international companies.
Fellow Ladykillers Astrid Pill and Zoë Barry have received nothing but praise for their performances.
“Performers Astrid Pill and Zoë Barry are about the best there is”
(Lowdown Magazine)“… gifted performers… the audience was transfixed”
(The Advertiser).
Pill has performed in the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, toured extensively and won awards including the Adelaide Critics Circle Award for Innovation.
Barry has written soundtracks for film, documentaries, radio, theatre & dance productions, commissions and chamber ensembles. Her awards include Best Onstage Musical Performance for Merchant of Venice. 'Based On A True Story' has given Barry the chance to stretch her wings again, this time introducing indie-rock band Hope Diamond to provide the soundtrack.
Hope Diamond consists of Australian drumming legend Richard Andrew, member of seminal Australian bands including The Underground Lovers and Crow and darlings of the indie band scene Jed Palmer and Zoë Barry (Bergerac, The Miltons, Girls and Adam). Jed Palmer, originally from Adelaide, has produced over 100 albums in his illustrious career so far, credits also include feature films Noise, Wasted On The Young, Jerrycan, and for television Underbelly, Tripping Over, and The King.
The music is characteristically lush and haunting – sublime songs battling to keep a low level disturbia at bay. The performance will be a rare treat; a theatre production disguised as a rock gig.
Adding a splash of Hollywood into the mix is performer Vincent Crowley who has just starred in Spyke Jonze’s feature film Where the Wild Things Are (as main character, Carol). Crowley has also worked with Meryl Tankard’s ADT, Chunky Move and Schauspielhaus Koeln.
These talented creators combined, have taken the writing that was submitted on the website basedonatruestory.com.au, meditated upon it and recreated it in their own disciplines of text, direction, design, performance and soundtrack to create a new kind of musical/choreographic montage: a highly musical, spatially composed series of connected, overlapping images, songs and texts - a theatre production disguised as a pub gig.
If Ladykillers’ proven track record in delivering evocative, engaging, curious and compelling theatre is not enough in itself to entice one to see this work, then let it be to witness this new kind of indie-rock-music-theatre, produced and performed by artists truly deserving of their highly successful careers to date.
Visit www.basedonatruestory.com.au, www.ladykillers.com.au or www.myspace.com/wearehopediamond for more information.
To score yourself a spot at this not-to-be-missed production, visit www.adelaidefringe.com.au.