Creative Exchanges: 2001

John Badalu Matulatan (Indonesia) Urban Theatre Projects & The Performance Space

Supported by the Ford Foundation, Jakarta

John Badalu Matulatan is a freelance project manager, writer, marketing and communications person was based at Urban Theatre Projects and The Performance Space in Sydney. He was involved in all aspects of the production of Fa'afafine, especially the areas of marketing and promotion.

Bintang Hanggono & Wildan Antares (Indonesia) Melbourne Fringe Festival

Supported by the Australia Indonesia Institute

Wildan Antares and Bintang Hanggono are artists working in the areas of installation, performance, multimedia and animation. Recently they worked together with Geber ModusOperandi, creating a performance/ installation called 'HOLE' at Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta. As part of their residency, they collaborated again as artists-in-residence with the Melbourne Fringe Festival, also working with Greg Dyson from Victorian University of Technology on the performance Amphybious at the Victorian College of the Arts.

Andrew Sant (TAS) Peking University

Supported by Arts Tasmania and the Australia China Council

Andrew Sant is an award-winning poet from Tasmania. He has published five collections of poetry, most recently Album of Domestic Exiles and Russian Ink. Sant was founding editor of the literary magazine Island, and his work has been extensively anthologised in books and journals. While in China Sant worked on a collection of poems which referenced aspects of Chinese poetry.  He presented a talk and workshop at the AEF Linking Lattitudes Conference in Shanghai and participated in the Liberties of Print Reading with well-known Chinese poets and academics at Peking University where his work was translated into Chinese. He also gave lectures for staff and students at the university and was invited back in 2002 to teach a course there.

Elizabeth Cross (VIC)

Supported by the NSW Ministry for the Arts, the Australia-India Council, and the Australia Council for the Arts

Elizabeth Cross has over thirty years experience as an arts practitioner, as well as extensive curatorial and academic experience. Her art practice is concerned with the direct observation and experience of nature, exercising the qualities of draughtsmanship and form. During her residency, Cross produced a large body of drawings of the rural and urban landscape, connecting ideas, surrounding representation, expression and the significance of the culture of her environment.

Mark Mordue (NSW) Peking University

Supported by the Australia China Council and the Australia Council for the Arts

Mark Mordue is a feature writer, editor, filmmaker and travel writer. His book Dastgah: Diary of a Head Trip was published in 2000. During his residency in China, hosted by Peking University’s Australian Studies Centre, he worked on his first novel based around an Australian journalist working in modern day Beijing. Through this character, he explores the changing nature of Chinese society and communist rule as it grapples with economic development, as well as the complicity of western journalists in the events and forces occurring around them.

Phillip Adams (VIC) Guangdong Modern Dance Company

Supported by Arts Victoria and the Australia Council for the Arts

Phillip Adams is a dancer/choreographer who founded Balletlab, recognised as one of Australia's most experimental and challenging contemporary dance companies. During his residency Adams worked with the Guangdong Modern Dance Company and was joined for some of that time by musician and collaborator, Lynton Carr. The residency produced a new work, Flower Killing introducing a new working style and choreographic vocabulary to the Company. The Guangdong Modern Dance Company will tour Flower Killing through China and to Indonesia and the Asia Pacific Arts Festival in Berlin. Adams was invited to return in 2002 to create another work for the Company. Balletlab, has also been invited to perform at the Hong Kong Arts Centre in July 2002.

Sally Sussman (WA) Shanghai International Festival for the Arts

Supported by Arts WA, the Australia China Council and the Australia Council for the Arts

Sally Sussman was formerly Performing Arts Manager at the Perth International Arts Festival. Sussman studied Chinese Opera performance and directed contemporary Chinese drama at the Central drama Institute, Beijing and the Shanghai Conservatorium from 1984-87.  During her residency, Sussman worked with the 2001 Shanghai International Festival for the Arts on the Performing Arts Conference and liaison between the Festival and Australian sections of the program. She also delivered a paper (in Mandarin) to the Performing Arts fair about the Perth Festival and an overview of other Australian International Festivals.

Vanessa Tomlinson (QLD) Sichuan University

Supported by the Australia China Council and the Australia Council for the Arts

Vanessa Tomlinson, percussionist, is a solo interpreter of new music, an orchestral musician, a chamber musician, an educator and an improviser who has performed and lectured in Australia and internationally. During her residency, Tomlinson worked with the Sichuan University Department of Music, teaching and collaborating on a series of new compositions. She also studied Sichuan Opera Percussion, Mandarin and leaned about a variety of folk traditions. The collaboration, Electric Mahjong, was performed in Chengu and also as part of Drums in the Outback Festival and the Totally Huge New Music Festival, WA.  Since returning from China, Tomlinson has created a large scale work with 12 percussionists from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

Hellen Sky & John McCormick (WA) Hong Kong Arts Centre

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts

Hellen Sky and John McCormick founded Company in Space in 1992 to explore the potential of communication technologies for new pathways between image, sound and the human body. Sky’s practice has evolved through performance: movement, text, and image making extended through new technologies. During their combined residency with the Hong Kong Arts Centre they developed the infrastructure and conceptual ideas for using the internet as a mechanism for collaborative exchange of live performance practice between China and Australia.

Stephen Eastaugh (WA)

Supported by Arts Victoria and the Australia Council for the Arts

Over the past 20 years Stephen Eastaugh has fused art with a great deal of travel. This wanderlust has led him to numerous locations, some insanely hyperactive (Bangkok, Lagos, Amsterdam) others serene (Ladakh, Sahara desert, Antarctica). During his residency in Hong Kong, Eastaugh held a solo exhibition of paintings based on his Antarctic travels and developed a new body of work for a group exhibition - Bundles of Paper 2 based on his observations and experiences of Hong Kong. The artist also established several valuable connections with a number of contemporary Asian artists during the residency and plans for future collaborative projects are underway.

Bem Le Hunte (NSW)

Supported by the Australia India Council and NSW Ministry for the Arts

Bem Le Hunte was born in India to an Indian mother and English father, and currently lives in Australia. An anthropologist turned advertising copywriter, Le Hunte worked in the music industry and for Indian Television before turning her hand to fiction. During her residency Le Hunte launched the Indian edition of her first novel Seduction of Silence at the Australian Embassy and the book reached number one on the bestseller lists while she was there. She also researched the Jewish community in Calcutta where she was born, along with the lives of other refugees who have come to India at different times, as the basis for her second novel Where the Pepper Grows.

David Pye & Barbara Rogers (WA) Dasksha Sheth Dance Company

Supported by Arts WA and the Australia Council for the Arts

David Pye is a composer and percussionist working principally in the areas of contemporary music and dance and is founder and artistic director of the Nova Ensemble. Together with costume designer, Barbara Rogers, Pye will use his residency time to work with the Dasksha Sheth Dance Company at the Academy for Arts Research Training and Innovation to develop a production of Gilgamesh. Rogers’ residency focused on costume design and sourcing of fabrics and props for the production which was part of the Perth International Festival in 2002.

Jodie Fried (NSW) Darpana Academy of Performing Arts

Supported by the Australia India Council, the NSW Mionistry for the Arts & the Australia Council for the Arts

Jodie Fried is a set and costume designer with extensive experience in theatre, film and television. She has designed several shows at Sydney Opera House for Ensemble Theatre and costumes for the Bell Shakespeare Company. Fried's film credits include costume design for the animated feature Duck Ugly, design assistant on telemovies South Pacific and The Potato Factory. In India Fried worked with Darpana Academy of Performing Arts in Ahmedabad, designing for contemporary and traditional performance art with international artists and performers. She designed for seven productions, one of which toured four Indian cities while another toured the US.

Peter Callas & Yuri Kawanabe (NSW/Japan)

Supported by the NSW Ministry for the Arts, the Australia-India Council & the Australia Council for the Arts

Peter Callas has worked in the fields of film, video art and computer graphics for over twenty years. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous major museums including the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Yuri Kawanabe was born in Japan and came to Australia in 1984. She has held individual exhibitions worldwide and her work has been represented in a number of important Australian exhibitions, which have travelled to Asia. During their combined 2001 Indian residency, Peter Callas and Kawanabe worked collaboratively on an experimental ephemeral installation incorporating ideas of enshrinement and emblematisation - themes common to both artists' practice.

Tim Denoon (NSW) Sanskriti Kendra

Supported by the Australia India Council and the Australia Council for the Arts

Tim Denoon is a NSW poet whose work has appeared in a range of Australian journals including Southerly, Siglo and Overland. During his residency Denoon worked on a substantial collection of new poetry and conducted research into a novel set between coastal South Australia and Goa. He also found a number of opportunities for collaborative work with other writers and artists including translations, essays, and activism. Denoon gave readings and recorded a number of lectures on Australian literature for the Indira Gandhi Open University and was featured in national newspapers.

Cindy South Czabania (NSW) Benda Gallery & Cemeti Art House

Supported by the Australia Indonesia Institute, Arts South Australia and the Australia Council for the Arts

Cindy South Czabania began woodcarving in order to expand her existing range of skills that include textile design, figurative sculpture and jewellery. This also enabled her to experiment and expand her sculpture into the area of puppetry. As part of her residency Czabania exhibited puppets in both Bali and Java and conducted puppetry workshops and performances with local artists and children at the Benda Gallery, Yogyakarta, in collaboration with the Cemeti Foundation. The masks were subsequently exhibited in the International Mask Exhibition at the Palace Exhibition Hall. She also participated in a three-day event on recycling, organised by environmental group AIKON, during which she demonstatrated paper mache techniques.

Julie Janson (NT) Petra University

Supported by the Australia Indonesia Institute and the Australia Council for the Arts

Julie Janson began writing plays with the Australian Aboriginal community while living in Arnhemland in the Northern Territory. She writes plays that have an international and inter-cultural focus. During her residency in Indonesia Janson workshopped her new work, The Crocodile Hotel, set in the Northern Territory in the 1970s and Sulawesi in 1920. Janson maintained a busy schedule visiting theatres and arts organisations across Java, Sumatra and Bali. She was also hosted by Petra University in Surabaya where she was warmly welcomed by staff and students and gave a number of lectures and workshops.

Mitzi Zaphir (NSW) Kelola Foundation

Supported by the NSW Ministry for the Arts, the Australia Indonesia Institute & the Australia Council for the Arts

Mitzi Zaphir has extensive experience in theatre company management, and at the time of the residency was Project Co-ordinator in Cultural Affairs with the City of Sydney where the focus of her work was the organising of large-scale cultural events. During her residency, Zaphir was based at the Kelola Foundation in Solo, Central Java. She assisted with a number of projects including workshops and briefings for Indonesian arts managers seconded to Australia, the workshop program for local artists and arts managers, grant making workshops and the research project into the management means for traditional arts in Indonesia. In 2002 she was a Program Manager for the Timor-Leste Independence Day Celebrations.

Caroline Shaw (VIC)

Supported by Arts Victoria and the Australia Council for the Arts

Caroline Shaw’s literary creation, Lenny Aaron, is a private detective and a woman obsessed with Japan. In Shaw’s new book tentatively titled The Pillow Book of Lenny Aaron Lenny will travel to Japan to investigate the disappearance of an Australian English conversation teacher. Along the way she will, of course, solve a murder investigation. Shaw’s residency in Japan provided her with the opportunity to re-familiarise herself with day-to-day life in a Japanese city and to discover the things that cannot be found in the Japanese/English dictionaries or in the guide books: local customs, vernacular Japanese, attitudes.

Michael Schlitz (VIC) Nagawawa Art Park

Supported by Arts Tasmania and the Nagasawa Art Park Committee

Michael Schlitz has a Master of Arts from the Tasmanian School of Art, and has also taught and studied in the ACT and Queensland. He has exhibited as a printmaker since 1991 and is well known for his whimsical etchings. During his 2001 residency in Japan Schlitz undertook an intensive study of traditional woodblock printing with master printmakers on Awaji Island at Nagawawa Art Park. The artist also established several valuable connections with local artists and residency participants and continued to work collaboratively with artist Hiroke Satake on a book of woodblock imagery and text.

Paola Bilbrough (VIC) Keio University

Supported by Arts Victoria, the Australian Embassy, Tokyo & the Australia Council for the Arts

Paola Bilbrough published her first collection of poetry Bell Tongue, in 1999.  Her poetry, fiction and reviews have appeared in literary journals such as Heat, Cordite, Imago, Westerly, The London Magazine Stand, Landfall and Sport.  During her residency in Japan, Bilbrough was hosted by Keio University in Tokyo where she designed and delivered weekly lectures for 'Australian Text & Culture', a course looking at Australian culture through the mediums of literature, newspaper items and film. She also worked on her first novel, The Currency of Beauty, set in Prague, Warsaw and Kobe just prior to WWII, revising the whole manuscript and writing 25, 000 new words.

Peter Wilson (ACT) Urinko Theatre

Supported Arts ACT and the Australia Council for the Arts

Peter Wilson is recognised for his valuable contribution to the changing face of puppet and visual theatre nationwide. In 1997 he was presented with the prestigious Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award for his outstanding contribution to puppetry in Australia. Wilson was a founding member of Handspan Theatre and was Puppetry Director, Consultant and Head Puppeteer on the ABC/ACTF series Lift-Off. He was also a Segment Creative Director for the Opening Ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games and was appointed Associate Director and Puppeteer for The Theft of Sita which premiered at the 2000 Adelaide Festival and opened the arts festival at World Expo in Hanover. During his residency Wilson worked with Urinko Theatre, a young people’s theatre company in Nagoya and Theatre Kazenoko in Kyoto to introduce his puppetry / visual style of work creating a new work with them.

Rakini Devi Keiko Takaya Contemporary Dance Company

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts

Rakini Devi trained in Indian Classical Dance before emigrating to Australia. Devi’s work involves hybrid theatre, dance, choreography, and spoken word texts based on her own cross-cultural identity. Her background in Indian classical dance and ritual worship of the Goddess Kali have been the subject of many of her internationally presented works. During her residency Devi worked with the Keiko Takaya Contemporary Dance Company, now known as Dance 01 in Tokyo. She choreographed with the Company, performed and conducted workshops.

Sally Couacaud (NSW) Art Front Gallery

Supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade in partnership with the Australia Council for the Arts

Sally Couacaud is a curator and project manager and former Curator of the Sydney Open Museum where she commissioned and managed the City of Sydney's public art collection, including the Sculpture Walk. Based at the Art Front Gallery in Tokyo, well known for its commissioning of site-specific art works and the close collaboration between artists, town planners and architects, Couacaud spent the three months of her residency working on a number of projects including the Echigo-Tsumari Triennial.

Lau Siew Mei (QLD) Rimbun Dahan

Supported by Arts Queensland, the Australia Council for the Arts & the Hijjas Foundation, Malaysia

Lau Siew Mei migrated from Singapore to Australia in 1994. Her first novel Playing Madame Mao, was published in 2000 after the manuscript was shortlisted in the inaugural Queensland Premiers Literary Awards for the Best Emerging Queensland Author. Her short stories have been broadcast on the BBC World Service and published in literary journals in Australia, USA, Canada and the UK. During her residency in Malaysia, she researched Peranakan culture for her new novel. She also appeared at the Singapore Writers Festival.

Micheline Yoke Yean Lee (VIC)

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, the Northern Territory Department of Arts and Museums & the Australian High Commission, Kuala Lumpur

Originally a lawyer, Micheline Yoke Yean Lee gave up full-time legal practice to work as an artist. Her work is driven by a strong sense of mortality, passion for the physical world, and a fascination and fear of the supernatural world. Lee's residency produced several works that explored her Chinese-Malay heritage and the interrelationships and contradictions inherent in both east and west culture. The experience culminated in a major exhibition of work titled Memory is a different culture, a highly personal narrative inspired by the artist's return to her country of origin.

Berni Janssen (VIC) Cultural Centre of The Philippines

Funded by the City of Melbourne and the Australia Council for the Arts

Berni M Janssen is a writer/performer and project manager. Amongst many other projects, she has co-ordinated the Writing Programs of Next Wave Festival, St.Kilda Festival and Melbourne Fringe Festival. During the first half of her residency, berni worked on various regional projects with the Literature Division of the Cultural Centre of The Philippines and, along with Hermie Beltran, from CCP, began organising a literature festival for February 2002 in Manila.

Gavin Robins (NSW) Barangay of Manila

Supported by the NSW Ministry of the Arts and the Australia Council for the Arts

Gavin Robins has created and performed theatre in Australia, and internationally. His residency in the Philippines was split over two visits and focussed on conducting an extensive program of physical training workshops with dancers and performers in remote communities and the implementation of a series of creative development projects. He will return for the third time in June 2003 to work with the company and a core team of physical artists who are now training to be accredited physical theatre and yoga teachers. This residency has set in motion an ongoing training and theatre making culture in the Barangay of Manila and the wider Philippines.

Andrew Ross (QLD) Singapore Symphony Orchestra

Supported by Arts Tasmania and the Australia Council for the Arts

Andrew Ross was the Marketing and Development Manager of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra at the time of his residency.  Hosted by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Ross used his time in Singapore to examine the rapid development of Supported Arts ACTivity in Singapore, with particular emphasis on audience development. He was also able to develop links between the Australian orchestral network and others in the Asia Pacific region.

Rebecca Youdell & Russel Milledge (QLD) Substation

Supported by Arts Queensland, the Australia Council for the Arts & the Australian High Commission, Singapore

‘Bonemap’ is a creative partnership between Youdell and visual artist and performer, Russell Milledge. On their combined residency they worked with the Substation in Singapore for four months, developing site-specific works with local artists. As an interdisciplinary residency across visual and performing arts, Youdell & Milledge interacted with a wide range of institutions, artists and events. They presented four major works at three venues: The Substation; Plastique Kinetic Worms Gallery; and the Australian High Commission in Singapore. Video and animation works made during the residency were documented on CDRom and VCD.

Annie Greig (TAS) Son Mu Ga Zen Dance Company

Supported by Arts Tasmania, the Australia Korea Foundation and the Australia Council for the Arts

At the time of her residency Annie Greig held the position of Artistic Director of contemporary dance company, TasDance. In Seoul Greig worked with the Son Mu Ga Zen Dance Company where she undertook an intensive workshop and master class series with Artistic Director, Dr Sun Ock Lee and assisted her with the administration of the workshop series and to explore cultural exchange possibilities. In May 2002, Greig was invited back to co-convene the Asia-Pacific Performing Arts Network 4th International Festival and Symposium with Dr Sun Ock Lee, at which Tasdance also performed. As a result, Tasdance was invited to perform at the fourth Australia-Korea Forum held for the first time in Tasmania in 2002.

Chris Murphy (NSW) REM Theatre & Sadari Theatre

Supported by the Australia Korea Foundation and the Australia Council for the Arts

Chris Murphy is a Sydney based performance practitioner who has worked as a performer/devisor with a number of theatre companies including REM Theatre, Theatre Kantanka, Salamanca Theatre Company and Legs on the Wall. She was a core member of REM Theatre, performing, writing and co-directing new works with the company. Murphy spent three months in Korea creating and performing Frozen Girl, a collaboration between in Seoul. Murphy also worked with theatre students at Yong-In University, Seoul, teaching and developing a new performance work, Chang Mun An Ui Do Shi (The City In The Window), and also attended classes at the National Centre for Korean Traditional Performing Arts.

Meredith Rowe (VIC) Kookmin University

Supported by the Australia Korea Foundation, Arts Victoria & the Australia Council for the Arts

Meredith Rowe is a textile designer, best known to the Australian fashion industry as cofounder of Vixen Australia (with Georgia Chapman), an award-winning and internationally acclaimed partnership. Rowe undertook an Asialink residency at Kookmin University. The residency involved teaching in the Fashion Department at Kook Min University and developing four different bodies of work exploring her fascination for both traditional craft forms and the elements of global and industrial culture. While in Korea she organised a residency in Australia for Korean artist Inhwan Oh to come to Sydney and set up other projects to maintain bilateral links. Additionally she curated an exhibition of Australian textile/fashion designers for Fashion Centre Korea and exhibited her own work developed in Korea at Westspace, Melbourne.

Richard Giblett (VIC) SSamzie Space

Supported by The Australia-Korea Foundation and the Australia Council for the Arts

Richard Giblett was the first foreign resident at SSamzie Space, Seoul. During his residency Giblett produced photographic, installation and paper-based work that responded to both the physical and imaginative geographies of Seoul. Giblett recorded his surroundings with a plastic ‘Joycam’ polaroid camera and the resulting photographs were included in the exhibition The Yellow Sea. The exhibition also included work based on numbers - the yellow telephone numbers on advertising stickers around Seoul being the only script decipherable by the artist - and drawing based work relating to the zeros and ones in digital technology.

Warren Flynn (WA) Sogang University

Supported by the Australia Korea Foundation and the Australia Council for the Arts

Warren Flynn is a children’s writer from Albany, Western Australia. His Gaz series and Different Voices are popular fiction texts used in secondary schools throughout Australia. Whilst in Seoul he was hosted by the English Department at Sogang University where he taught A Look Into Australia, on contemporary Australian culture and writing. During the residency Flynn drafted a new novel for older teenagers that explores the theme of space - personal, cultural and physical spaces - in Korea. He found the opportunity to interact with students and ordinary Koreans, interview architects and develop his ideas invaluable.

James Verdon (VIC) Chulalongkorn University

Supported by the Australian Network for Art and Technology, the Australia Council for the Arts & the Australian Embassy, Bangkok

James Verdon works primarily with digital timebased technologies. At the time of the residency Verdon was Coordinator of Electronic Design and Interactive Media at Swinburne University of Technology and completing a PhD in Media Arts at RMIT University, Melbourne. While undertaking his residency at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, Verdon produced work for public art exhibition titled Shopping at the Siam Discovery Centre, undertook a new digital video work which was screened at both the Bangkok International Film Festival and the 3rd Bangkok Experimental Film Festival and produced a collaborative piece with Michael Shaowanasai as part of the Month of Photography event in Bangkok.

Sarah Tutton (VIC) Project 304 & About Cafe & Studio

Supported by Arts Victoria and the Australia Council for the Arts

Sarah Tutton has worked for a range of arts and community organisations including the Next Wave Festival and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and is a founding member of 1st Floor Artist & Writers Space. During her residency Tutton worked with two independent galleries, Project 304 and About Cafe & Studio in Bangkok in all aspects of management and programming and researched models for collaborative and cross-cultural practice. In May 2002, the exhibition of Australian and Thai artists, Mai Pen Rai (No Worries) opened at Monash University Gallery.

Catherine Cole (VIC) The Gioi Publishers

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts

Cathy Cole is the author of two crime novels, Dry Dock and most recently Skin Deep, both published by Harper Collins. Whilst in Hanoi, Cole worked on her novel The Grave at Thu Le, about a French family's connection with the city from 1900 to the present day. As well as chronicling the family's story, the novel explores Hanoi's history, including its colonial past. Hosted by The Gioi Publishing House, Coles Hanoi residency provided her with the opportunity to explore the city, its architecture and its stories and to meet with Vietnamese writers and artists. She volunteered one day a week with the publishing house and continues to assist them with their English translations via email.

Craig Walsh (NSW) Vietnam Architects' Association

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts

Craig Walsh has trained in intermedia and sculpture and works as an artist, curator and project manager in the fields of temporal site-specific installation and sculpture in public space. During his residency in Vietnam he explored new forms of cross-cultural collaboration whilst introducing contemporary public art practice to the region. In Hanoi Walsh worked with the Vietnam Architects' Association on a public display involving the video projection of images on to the glass front of the Vietnam Architects' Association.  It was a highly accessible exhibition catching pedestrians in the area by surprise as they watched the front windows of the Architects' Association transform into an enormous aquarium.

Richard Jeziorny (VIC)College of Theatre and Cinema

Richard Jeziorny is a Melbourne freelance designer fr a wide variety of theatre, events, exhibitions, film and television. Over the last twenty years he has worked with the Mercury Theatre (NZ), Melbourne Theatre Company, Queensland Ballet, Oz Opera, Kooemba Jdarra and the Brisbane Festival. He designed the highly acclaimed Urban Dream Capsule for the 1996 Melbourne International Festival and this show has since enjoyed great success in Ghent, London, Montreal and Wellington. A new Capsule was designed for the 2001 Perth International Festival. Jeziorny will be working with College of Theatre and Cinema in Ho Chi Minh City where he will develop a major project with design students, instruct acting students in basic design principles and workshop an Australian play.