SUDS Presents: RED

13th March - 23rd March

The Cellar Theatre, 7pm

Directed by Georgie Eggleton and Nikki Eghlimi

Produced by Nelson Lee and Alexis Nguyen

About the Show:

“Sunrise is red, and red is sunrise. Red is heart beat. Red is passion. Red wine. Red roses. Red lipstick. Beets. Tulips. Peppers. Arterial blood.”

It’s the late 1950s, Mark Rothko is commissioned to create a series of murals for the Four Seasons Hotel in New York City. Battling with his own relevance and place in the art world, a new movement of art threatens to trample his entire sensibility of what art is and should be. He becomes torn by self doubt, struggling to find the balance between life and death or rather scared to face the fact that the black is swallowing the red.

Content Warnings: References, allusions to and depictions of death and suicide, references to Nazi’s, drinking, profane language and strobe lighting.

Runtime: 90 minutes, no intermission.

The RED Team:

CAST:

Mark Rothko: Harrison Walker

Ken: Sophie Newby

PRODUCTION:

Art Consultant: Eduardo Forcadilla

Stage Manager: Jack Fahd

Assistant Stage Manager: Aidan Brosnan

Set Designers: Katerina Butler and Edward Clifford

Assistant Set Designer: Aidan Hale

Lighting Designer: Ting-Jen Kuo

Assistant Lighting Designer: Ruby Hawken and Evan Burke

Sound Designers: Jeremy Jenkins and Justin Leong

Costume Designer: Bella Wellstead

Assistant Costume Designers: Scout McWhinney and Zoe Le Marinel

Videographer and Photographers: Izabella Rizzo and Maddie Howse

Graphics: Alex Mcleay

Production Assistants: Shea Berecry and Adelaide Tustain

Acknowledgement of Country:

SUDS acknowledges that the University of Sydney and the Cellar Theatre reside on stolen land; the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. As a society that exists to tell stories, it is important to acknowledge that stories were being told on this land for thousands of years before British colonisation.

SUDS pays respect to elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded - Always Was, Always Will Be Aboriginal Land