Co-devised and performed in The Human Layer , winner of the Melbourne Fringe Visionary Award (2005). Collaborated on design for The Now Hour , also winner of the visionary award (2004). Also performed in and on the design team for, Oedipus on the Inside (2003) and La Fontane (2005). Written two plays including Fish out of Water , selected for the Next Wave Young Playwrights’ Competition (1994) and Prospect , performed at La Mama (2003). Co-ordinated and performed at the Yemaraki ARTS FEST for several years at Montsalvat . Majored in theatre and visual arts through the Creative Arts course at Melbourne University and completed a postgraduate degree in puppetry at the Victorian College of the Arts. Trained in Bhuto with Tony Yap for several years. Is currently directing Lament , 'an exploration of loss, mortality and rebirth through puppetry' to be staged at the Abbotsford Convent in spring 2006.
Here are images and background relating to some of these productions:
directed by Czech director and designer, Petr Matesak
Victorian College of the Arts, Puppetry Department, 2005" La Fontane is a pleasurable post-modern riff on ye olde fables..."
--Herald Sun
"There were moments in the performance last night when they alone would make any theatre experience inspiring."
--Richard Hart, Secretary of UNIMA Australia
"an alleyway puppet skirmish"
Devised by Tamara Rewse, Lachlan Plain, Kelly Somes, Que Nyugen, Zoe Baker
Little Erroll St, Nth Melbourne 2005
Winner of Fringe Visionary Award
Solo work for the puppetry course and basis for next years Lament , 2005
"The Body of Christ is culturally one of our most recognizable symbols of mortality. The story tells of the Body passing through suffering into the humility of death. However in this version it isn’t raised to the heavens but, like the rest of us, it disintegrates and is taken by an irreverent Earth and her vassals. In this version the Son of Man never leaves us, but can forever be heard jamming in the bowels of the Earth providing music for those who liveth upon Her surface."
directed by Michael Camiliri
North Melbourne Town Hall, 2004
Winner of Fringe Visionary Award
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directed by Paul Monaghan
Open Stage Theatre, Melbourne University, 2003
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written by Lachlan Plain
directed by Miranda Borman
La Mama Theatre, Carlton, 2003
- Director's Note: "What does it mean to be Australian? Both humorous and dark, Prospect presents alternative histories and allows the audience not only to glimpse a different past but one with which they are inexorably linked."
Montsalvat, Eltham 1999-2002
"Prepare your metaphysical nether-regions for a castration of the senses."
Decentralisation at Melbourne Central
Melbourne Central Shopping complex (until they kicked us out), 2000
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