Theatre

“håmlet” @ Rapid Reads

09/04/2018 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Tom Christophersen | In: Theatre

Image Source: Old 505

Following the success of 2017’s season, Rapid Reads is back at the Old 505. The festival will showcase the newest work from Australia’s most contemporary emerging playwrights, who will be paired with and mentored by some of our best established writers.

This year, Rapid Reads includes a series of panels, discussions and networking nights for a two-week joyride of new work including…

Photography by Philip Erbacher

what’s going on? it’s “håmlet” a new australian play. a half baked reading for free at Old 505 – Rapid Reads – 830 pm. @apocalypsetheatrecompany @_tomopoly 📷 @fleshskinhairblood #loveshakespeare

Saturday 14 April
8.30PM – ANTOINETTE BARBOUTTIS & TOM CHRISTOPHERSEN – HAMLET – A NEW AUSTRALIAN PLAY

Tickets available: HERE.

Text Source: Old 505.

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APACTALYPTIC

09/04/2018 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Tom Christophersen | In: Art, Music, Theatre

Photo Credit: Alex Apt

The second PACT Salon of the year: APACTALYPTIC curated by Cloé Fournier, will be bringing together some of Sydney’s most exciting artists from various disciplines to creatively reflect on their experience with “the ends of the world”. For one night only, PACT centre for emerging artists extends the invitation to you, to participate and revel in the trappings of life.

The ends of the world in a one-night stand.

In a time when the end of the world has been predicted more than once, we are still here…somehow. Barely alive but here. What does this really mean?

Source: APACTALYPTIC Facebook Event Page

Where: PACT
When: May 5, 6pm-10pm

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Don’t Miss: The Other Woman

21/10/2017 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Tom Christophersen | In: Theatre

Nat Randall and collaborators, The Second Woman (video still), Dark Mofo, 2017. Image courtesy the artists

FRI 20 OCT, 6PM — SAT 21 OCT, 6PM

Carriageworks – Liveworks
Bay 20
Tickets available at the door only – $15
Cash Only

‘In an epic feat of endurance, Nat Randall performs a single scene inspired by John Cassavetes’ 1977 film Opening Night, on repeat for 24 continuous hours. Starring opposite Randall are 100 different men who range in age, background and acting ability. Each scene is captured on camera and projected live alongside the staged performance. Through the repetition of this intimate encounter, The Second Woman explores the complex interplay between identity, performance, gender, emotion, cinema and reality.

Premiering at Melbourne’s Next Wave Festival last year, The Second Woman was named as one of Guardian Australia’s “10 most groundbreaking shows by women” in 2016. This enthralling performance and cinematic experience—coming to Sydney for the first time—is not to be missed.’ – http://performancespace.com.au/events/liveworks-2017-the-second-woman/

Tom will be participating in the event around 2.30am, Saturday. Seriously Sydney, don’t miss this.

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Business Unfinished @ Adelaide Feast Festival

07/09/2017 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Tom Christophersen | In: Theatre

Tom Christophersen’s latest work is queer theatre like you’ve never seen before. The Sydney Mardi Gras headliner interweaves pre-recorded, verbatim audio interviews with Australians who have experienced paranormal phenomena in their homes, with live theatre and installation.

Visually captivating, this performance creates a portal where audiences witness the appearance of unexplained supernatural forces and autobiographical, lip-sync disco.

An artistic investigation into how we might use art to reconcile our occasionally haunted pasts.

November 14th – 18th, 7pm
At BASEM3NT
Tickets $28/$23

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5 Guys Chillin’ @ The New for Sydney Fringe Festival

02/08/2017 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Tom Christophersen | In: Theatre

5 GUYS CHILLIN’

BY PETER DARNEY

Based on interviews with guys found on hook-up apps, this graphic, gripping, funny and frank play exposes the drug-fuelled, hedonistic, highly secret world of the gay chemsex chill-out scene. Following the successful staged reading at New Theatre during Mardi Gras 2017, we’re excited to be mounting a full production of this controversial play.

“As confronting as theatre gets” British Theatre Australian premiere

Tue 12 Sep, 6pm I Wed 13 Sep, 8pm I Thu 14 Sep, 6pm I Fri 15 Sep, 8pm Full $25 I Concession $20

CREATIVE TEAM
Director Patrick Howard

CAST
Tom Christophersen, Stevie Haimes, John Michael Burdon, Will Reilly, Tim de Sousa

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Upper Downs @ Splendour In The Grass 2016

29/07/2016 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Tom Christophersen | In: Art, Theatre
Photography courtesy SITG website.

Photography courtesy SITG website.

Tom will be performing in Bennett Miller‘s ‘Upper Downs’ community this year at Splendour in the Grass.

From the Splendour Site:

‘Welcome to Upper Downs, where everybody is always and never welcome.
Come have a coffee in the morning, or build your own banner after noon.
Once the sun goes down ask for Carlo when you’re feeling game for a game.’

OPERATING TIMES:

THURSDAY: 12 am – 10pm

FRIDAY: 12 am – 10pm

SAT: 12 am – 10pm

SUN: 12 am – 10pm

https://www.instagram.com/p/BIQ_p15hOdC/?taken-by=_tomopoly

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‘Arch’ @ The Sydney Biennale

29/03/2016 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Tom Christophersen | In: Art, Theatre

Tom is currently performing for the 20th Biennale of Sydney in London-based, American artist Alexis Teplin’s installation and performance art piece ‘Arch (The Politics of Fragmentation).

Photography by Mark Metcalfe

Photography by Mark Metcalfe

Free performances will take place on Cockatoo Island on the following dates:

18, 20 March 1 – 5pm
22,24 April – 1 – 5pm
20,22 May – 1 – 5pm

Alexis Teplin’s new performance considers relationships between language, gesture, history and archetypes and asks: ‘When decadence fails us in our quest for utopia, where do we end up?’ Choreographed and structured in response to a space on Cockatoo Island, where her paintings also serve as a backdrop, Teplin proposes a fictional reality; one that is influenced by the fragmentation of language in the digital age.

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‘Business Unfinished’ @ The Joan

18/12/2015 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Tom Christophersen | In: Theatre

Tom returns to haunt The Joan with a brand new show following its killer debut at the Crack Theatre Festival, Newcastle.

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“When I was a child, my father encountered spirits.”

Tom Christophersen returns to haunt The Joan with a brand new show following its killer debut at the Crack Theatre Festival, Newcastle.

‘Business Unfinished’ is an interwoven collection of performed, pre-recorded, verbatim audio interviews conducted with Australian who have experienced paranormal phenomena in their family homes. This performance explores domestic spectacle, lip-sync and unexplained phenomena that most definitely cannot be ignored.

Tom is a Sydney based Queer theatre maker and visual artist. He has been a close friend of The Q working as a collaborator on ‘A Boy & A Bean’ in 2014 and ‘Uncle Harold’ in 2015. ‘Business Unfinished’ is his first feature solo performance and we are stoked we have the opportunity to share it with you as part of Mini Gras ’16.

When: March 4th 2016 @ 8pm
Where: The Q Theatre, Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre

Tickets are on sale RIGHT NOW.

You can buy them here.

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