The Logistics of Rehearsals
8/03/2024 - 8/03/2024 2pm - 4pm
Rehearsal Room, Level 3 Arts and Cultural Building (Bldg 159), University of Melbourne, Parkville
UMSU Union House Theatre
Brought to you by the SSAF
You’ve chosen your play, cast your actors and booked the venue. You’re ready to start directing your show… Or are you?! Directing for theatre is super rewarding. However, there’s so much to do and so much to organize and often you’re left thinking ‘if only I’d left more time for this’ or ‘why didn’t I talk to my designer earlier’ or ‘how come everyone is looking at me for the answer’?!
Stop before you pull your hair out and come along to this Union House Theatre workshop with experienced director Cathy Hunt. Using a real-life directing example, Cathy will take students through the nuts and bolts of directing (i.e. the less ‘fun’ but extremely important stuff) and help you to work through planning rehearsal schedules, creating timelines, organizing good communication to help your process run as smoothly as possible.
This workshop is suitable for: theatre directors, production managers, stage managers, student theatre groups or anyone interested in managing creative processes.
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About Cathy Hunt
Cathy Hunt is a director and dramaturg, who trained at the VCA. Her practice involves collaborating to make work pushing beyond what theatre currently is. Her work is feminist and unexpected, exploring vulnerable subjectivities and heightened states.
Recent work includes 7 Captiva Rd by Andrea Ciannavei, (Chapel off Chapel), Little Brother, Big Sister & She Wrote The Letter (La Mama), What Every Girl Should Know, (Brunswick Mechanics); Love/Chamberlain by Bridget Mackey, Phantasmagoria (Theatre Works); and site-specific works Her Father’s Daughter by Keziah Warner, Prahran Council Chambers and Steppe by Grace Pundyk, Newport railyards.
Cathy co-created (I’m Going to Die In This Bracket) with Shannon Loughnane, performed in their backyard on a set built from hard rubbish and nominated for Best Theatre, Melbourne Fringe, 2020. As her alter ego Beige Brown Cathy created & performed Ms Beige Brown Goes Beyond at Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Cathy co-created Super Queer Murderess Show with Luisa Hastings Edge & Nate Gilkes for Melbourne Fringe: Arts House. She was Assistant Director on Lorelei, Victorian Opera and Associate Artist on Dybbuks, Chamber Made. Cathy was dramaturg for LuNa by Keziah Warner, which won the Patrick White Playwrights Award. Les Mamelles de Tiresias, which she directed for Lyric Opera in 2018 won a Green Room award for ‘Contribution to Development of Opera in Victoria’.
Upcoming work includes the new play Recollection by Georgia Ketels, presented at fortyfivedownstairs in June-July 2024