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The Golem: or, Next Year In Jerusalem

Surreal comic horror 

 

The Golem was a creature made of clay and brought to life to defend the Jews of Prague.

Then things got out of hand.

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Part myth, part memoir – the team who brought you The Apparatus (The Blue Room Theatre Best Performance Award 2019) are back with their most monstrous creation yet.

 

Featuring poetic and absurd text, bizarre physicality and haunting images from two of Perth’s most devious and twisted theatrical minds. Experience The Blue Room as you’ve never experienced it before in a promenade production using the entire building.​

Winner
Best Independent Production
(Timothy Green & Humphrey Bower)

Best Sound Design
J
oe Lui


Performing Arts WA Awards, 2021

Nominated
Best New Work 
(Timothy Green & Humphrey Bower)

Best Actor (Male)
(Timothy Green & Humphrey Bower)

Best Lighting Design
Joe Lui


Performing Arts WA Awards, 2021

Season dates:

1 - 12 December 2020

The Blue Room Theatre

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Duration: 80 mins

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The Blue Room Theatre

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"The Golem is a stupendous piece of theatre.

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...actions presented within the performance are rich to the point of overflowing in potential meaning and allusion... Spatially we as audience members are guided through the venue, but dramaturgically we are encouraged to simply drift.

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Green’s tall thin form is stretched out across the ground, he comes to resemble Ryszard Cieslak from Jerzy Grotowski’s famous ecstatic physical theatre work The Constant Prince (1965)."

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Dr Jonathan Marshall, Limelight Magazine, December 2020

"The Golem is like dancing dreams inside the thought processes of individuals, as elusive as they are revealing.

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Wherever they are, their performances are ardent and vivid, wordless but physically and emotionally demanding.

 

The performances are magnificently supported by the production’s creative team. Morris’s set is a perfect platform for the action, and, while Lui’s lighting often seems hardly there or wavering, it miraculously always achieves exactly the required effect.

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...when they deliver, which they do often, they are at the top of this town’s pecking order."

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David Zampatti, Seesaw Magazine, December 2020

Creative Team

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Deviser & Performers

Humphrey Bowe

Timothy Green

with Hazem Shammas

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Movement Director

Natalie Allen

 

Lighting &

Sound Designer

Joe Lui
 

Costume Mentor & Construction

Nicole Marrington

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Designer

Rhys Morris

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Producer

Libby Klysz

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Stage Manager

Georgia Smith

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Assistant

Stage Managers

Renee Bottern

Abi Russell

"Bower and Green made use of outstanding physical acting

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Uniquely weird and wonderful... absurd yet constantly captivating

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The show itself is unique and utterly immersive through its splendid performers and exceptional lighting, sound, and set design"

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Melissa Kruger, X-Press Magazine, December 2020

"Highly physical, highly energetic, the two performers move between the two performances with outstanding timing and great organisation.

 

...this is a moving production and one that leaves you thinking"

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Kimberly Shaw, Stage Whispers, December 2020

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