fortyfivedownstairs presents
Café Scheherazade
A play based on the novel by Arnold Zable
By Therese Radic
Directed by Bagryana Popov
Tuesday, 8 March – Sunday, 3 April 2011*
8pm Tuesday – Saturday
5pm Sunday
* No performance on Friday, 11 March 2011
fortyfivedownstairs
45 Flinders Lane
Melbourne
bookings
http://www.fortyfivedownstairs.com/inhouse-productions/cafe-scheherazade/
03 9662 9966
Musical Director: Elissa Goodrich
Designer: Adrienne Chisholm
Lighting Designer: Richard Vabre
Featuring: Jacob Allan, Richard Bligh, Jim Daly, Marta Kaczmarek, Bruce Kerr and George Werther
Musicians: Ernie Gruner and Justin Marshall
In St Kilda, Café Scheherazade was a warm and safe meeting place with lively conversation and famous recipes of chicken soup and black forest cake.
Revealing the poignant, and often humorous, stories of its patrons, Café Scheherazade is a play that resonates with Melbourne’s culture and history as well as reflecting the courage and resilience of refugees and asylum seekers everywhere.
Café Scheherazade is a love story woven through recollection, reminiscence and music – a celebration of survival and courage.
ABC TV STATELINE FEATURE VIDEO
For many years Café Scheherazade in St Kilda was a warm and safe meeting place with lively conversation and famous recipes of chicken soup and black forest cake. In March 2011 it will reopen at fortyfivedownstairs as a new Australian play written by Therese Radic, based on the best-selling 2001 novel by Arnold Zable.
Revealing the poignant, and often humorous, stories of its patrons, Café Scheherazade is a play that resonates with Melbourne’s culture and history as well as reflecting the courage and resilience of refugees and asylum seekers everywhere.
Café Scheherazade is a love story woven through recollection, reminiscence and music – a celebration of survival and courage.
Directed by Bagryana Popov, Café Scheherazade will feature Jacob Allan, Richard Bligh, Jim Daly, Marta Kaczmarek, Bruce Kerr and George Werther. Also featuring klezmer musicians Ernie Gruner and Justin Marshall under the musical direction of Elissa Goodrich.
Adrienne Chisholm (designer), Richard Vabre (lighting designer) and Alison Huth (stage manager) will transform fortyfivedownstairs’ intimate theatre ambience to recall the charm and warmth of the original, iconic Acland Street café.
“….this work is an opportunity for a meeting between people, to speak and listen to stories which are important because they are a part of us.”
Bagryana Popov, Director
Venue: fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000
Dates: Tuesday, 8 March – Sunday, 3 April 2011*
Times: Tuesday – Saturday 8pm, Sunday 5pm, 2pm Matinee Thursday 10 March
Prices: $45 Full / $40 Seniors Card/ Group +10 / $37.50 Concession
Booking: Book online here
*No performance Friday 11 March
Scheherazade in the media
Cafe Scheherazade takes centre stage includes interview and photo with Ernie Gruner
The Jewish News
By Danny Gocs
Tuesday 1 March 2011
Short black, long chat
The Age, Entertainment
By John Bailey
Monday 28 February 2011
Box Office
The Age: (melbourne) magazine
By Peter Barrett
Friday 25 February 2011
Café Scheherazade is produced and presented by fortyfivedownstairs and is supported by the Sunraysia Foundation, Arts Victoria, City of Melbourne, Besen Family Foundation, The Kronhill Pletka Foundation, Hartline Fund of Melbourne Community Foundation, the Pratt Foundation and private donors.
