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"Well, it's that time of the evening when there's not much time left. And we'd appreciate it if you'd try to be quiet 'cos it's that kind of tune, you know." Speedball is a creative response to the iconography of jazz trumpeter/vocalist Chet Baker, a legend of the 1950's 'cool school' whose mystique was built upon a life as turbulent off-stage as it was poetic on-stage. Speedball explores how we respond to a life once lived, how we today as musicians, writers and artists can respond to the life of an eminent jazz musician in all its complications. Taking an ambiguous, fragmentary approach, Speedball pursues an original and organic integration of text, music and performance, where a medley of stories, songs, spoken lyrics and film clips - apparantly random, yet ordered in its inevitable chaos - are underscored by original compositions. Like a speedball falling from the sky, anything goes in this collaboration by director Nicholai La Barrie, writer Mark O'Thomas and pianist/composer Andrea Vicari, as they blend theatre, performance and music with the dexterity of a late-night jam session. Following sold-out
performances at Oval House Theatre in February, the production moves to
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November 2007, 7.15pm