Theatre North presents Fox Monkey Baa Theatre For Young People
in association with Siren Theatre Co
Earl Arts Centre
10 -12 August 7pm
12 August 1pm
Duration - 60 minutes (no interval)
Written by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks
Director Kate Gaul
Composer Daryl Wallis
Adapted by Eva Di Cesare, Sandra Eldridge and Tim McGarry
Beautiful, wild and heart-strong
Combining a haunting score and breathtaking physicality, this production will see the heart soar as friendship triumphs.
Fox tells the fable-like story of an unusual friendship between Dog and Magpie. Magpie´s wing is injured in a raging bushfire and she can no longer fly. She is rescued by Dog who is blind in one eye, and he wills Magpie to get better. He puts Magpie on his back and runs with her. Magpie tells Dog that he can be her wings and she will be his missing eye.
Fox arrives and seeing the pair cozily together, he conspires to part them. He cajoles Magpie to come with him saying he can run faster than Dog. Fox abandons her in the desert, telling her that now she and Dog will learn what it is like to be truly alone. Magpie begins the slow journey back home to her friend.
In collaboration with Director Kate Gaul and Composer Daryl Wallis, Monkey Baa has created a theatrically inventive adaptation of this timeless fable by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks.
Fox explores the intense emotional drama of love and belonging, temptation, risk and betrayal.
Recommended for ages 8+
Monkey Baa received the 2007 Helpmann Award for Best Children’s Presentation, the 2007 Drover for Touring Excellence and the 2006 Drover for Audience Development all for Jackie French’s Hitler’s Daughter.
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