Bambina Borracha Productions Inc - Words They Make With Their Mouths

UNDER THE WHARF AND Bambina Borracha ProductionS
27 APRIL - 1 MAY 2010

ABOUT THE PLAY

“I turn the corner and I walk down the street. There are people all around me, friends talking over each another, yelling, screaming, falling over. It's like society has collapsed and we wander the streets waiting to be picked off by the Russian Mafia or Mel Gibson.”

Words They Make with their Mouths blurs the lines of identity and sometimes sanity as a single performer brings sixteen characters to life. A haphazard group of young people leave a pub, turn a corner, walk down a street and see their night take a very different direction. In the space of 100 metres their loves are requited, their fears confirmed and urges satisfied. Sometimes in that order.

Boy next door Tim Spencer explodes an everyday story with magic, curiosity and reckless abandon. Words They Make with their Mouths presents young people’s stories told from their own perspective but doesn’t let them get away with it. After all, they still have their youth.

REVIEWS

"Writer Tim Spencer is an entirely unique voice exploring "features of blown youth" 21st century style. As and actor his performance is captivatingly assured. I haven't felt this excited about a new work for a long time. The future of our theatre is in safe hands."

Kate Gaul

"...this is a masterful , intelligent piece of writing- elegantly performed by Spencer. It speaks of love, unrequited and realised, lust, power, competition and the dilemma all these present. Poetic and frequently funny- I found the vulnerability of the characters most compelling and tender."

augustasupple.com

"Tim Spencer’s Words They Make with their Mouths is a surprisingly intimate life-affirming night on the boards. Spencer writes from the hip and performs his own material with unsentimental and brutal accuracy. A tour de force performance flexing as many muscles as there are wry intelligent observations. The performance seductively slips gender, jump-cuts continents and splices character upon character in what some may see as a series of nightmare situations although other’s will experience as a great night out…. tantalisingly good theatre."

Chris Ryan [Version 1.0]

"Carefully considered, passionately delivered and intriguingly constructed, this 40 minute theatre piece will draw you in... Spencer and director Jessica Tuckwell have constructed a cache of characters utterly true to life and instantly engaging. Four Stars."

The Adelaide Advertiser

"Sixteen characters and one man to perform them all sounds damn impressive if you can pull it off - and impressive it was... thoughtfully constructed in a way that will have you riding every emotional wave. Spencer...delivers a piece of theatre that should not be missed. If you don’t see anything else at this year’s Fringe, see this! Final Word: Outstanding!"

Sarah Mena, Rip it up

Words They Make with their Mouths was first produced by Shopfront Contemporary Arts & Performance (Sydney, Australia) as part of the ArtsLab Program in October 2009.

WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY

Tim Spencer

DIRECTED BY

Jessica Tuckwell

PRODUCED BY

Skye Kunstelj
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0419 229 047

PRESS

Alex Lee
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0407 243 176







Photos in this gallery by Alex Vaughan

VENUE

atyp Studio One
The Wharf, Pier 4/5 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay

PERFORMANCES

27 April Preview; 28 April - 1 May 2010
8:00pm (2pm matinee 1 May)
Duration 40 mins

TICKETS

www.atyp.com.au
02 9270 2400

Access/USU $14.50
Concession $17.50
Adult $22.50
Preview $17.50 (all inc. booking fees)

BIOGRAPHY

Tim Spencer performed and directed numerous shows at Sydney University Dramatic Society including Medea, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, Goldberg Street and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. As a co-creator of The Genealogy of Victorian Birds, Tim established a unique method of devising theatre that he developed in Then We had Adventures (Underbelly Festival, 2008). Tim co-founded the Sydney based production company Bambina Borracha Productions in 2007 and since then has produced, written and performed for numerous shows including Beyond the Neck (B Sharp). In 2009 he appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream (B Sharp) and the short film Funnier Friends Than Me.

Jessica Graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 2007 with a Graduate Diploma in Dramatic Art (Directing) after completing a B. Arts (Philosophy) in 2004 at the University of Sydney. She is currently Bell Shakespeare’s Director in Residence. In 2009 Jessica directed Ruby Moon and The Return for Devil May Care and Newtown Theatre, Debra Oswald’s The Peach Season and Lost on Monster Island for NIDA Open Program. She was the Assistant Director on The Removalists at Sydney Theatre Company and was invited to be a tutor at World Interplay Playwright’s Festival 2009.
In 2008 Jessica directed The Soldier and The Thief Wait on a Bridge Over the River Thames While Oblivion Waves Hello at The Old Fitzroy Theatre as well as Noelle Janaczewska’s Duet With a Dictionary, which won the Movie Extra Judges Award at the Short and Sweet Gala Final.
At NIDA she directed Little Hitler’s Ode to an Austrian Bentwood by Maxine Mellor, adapted and directed new Australian work On Top of The Mountain, facilitated a devising project based on Fuente Ovejuna and was assistant director on Sweet Charity and Brecht’s The Private Life of the Master Race.