I Just Want To Dance With Words

Theatre Returns To the Murrah Hall!

For the first time since 2019 a long anticipated Theatre Season will be happening at the Murrah Hall in late July.

Home of widely acclaimed theatre productions: Under Milk Wood, Equus,The Lone Ranger Radio Show, Blackbird, Kitty the Waitress, Hunter and Bird and Premda Lowson’s solo works, this new production, “I Just Want To Dance With Words”, will be performed, totally solo, by Murrah Prez, Howard Stanley.

His long ago personal performative work ranges from the iconic (Howard Slowly) to the “iconoclastic” (Liz Jones, La Mama Theatre).

The best performance compliment he ever received: “I don’t know why I’m laughing!”, was from the world-renowned teacher of Acting and Clown, Phillipe Gaulier (he taught the Borat guy, Sasha Baron Cohen). More locally, one wag commented, “Well, if it’s anything like his Murrah Curry, it’ll probably be alright.”

Regarding the production, “My intention is to dance with words,” wrote acclaimed author Robert Walser close to a century ago. (Google him!)

In the Director, Adrian Guthrie’s words,“To dance with words is exactly what Walser achieves; he offers a mischievous and ironic lightness that we can share in Howard’s performance. He disrupts the sentimental with the ridiculous to let ourselves go in this onrush of images and eddies of reflection, to breath hard at the twists, to risk glimpsing the sublime.”

This is a Disaster Recovery show.

It is “our way to make a theatre contribution to our individual recovery, together, to create something beautiful, a ‘time out’ through the experience of a dance with words”, Howard said.

It is their hope that, on the basis of a successful season here, they are able to reach out and tour to other small and remote disaster affected communities in NSW.

Murrah Hall audiences for this production are in for a triple treat - not only theatre acting of the highest professional order, but also the new, raked seating for better viewing and improved, less reverberant acoustics, thanks to a recent Culture Infrastructure grant by Create NSW.

8 Shows Only
July 20 – 30
Thursday - Saturday: 7.30 pm & Sundays: 3.00 pm
Entry $25 Con: $20
Limited seating
Ironic partial nudity: (arms, legs, feet, face & bits of upper torso)

Duration: 70 mins.(not the nudity - it’s Theatre)