Silo Theatre Fundraising Performance 06 - Friday April 21st at 8pm

Silo Theatre Fundraising Performance 06 - Friday April 21st at 8pm

2005 offered much to celebrate for Silo Theatre. We created a tangible new atmosphere in the environment and enlarged our scope for breaking new ground. The enterprise we have nurtured has remained vigorous, high quality, risk taking and solvent despite permanent financial pressures. We continue to offer a powerful alliance between practitioners both established and emergent, working together in a way that must be as rare as it is gratifying.

Image: The Jungle - Sydney tabloid culture...We consolidated our reputation both locally and nationally, and played to 80% of our potential capacity. Over 35,000 people accessed a Silo Theatre production, and accolades were thrown at us from critics and audiences alike. Despite our artistic success, box office earnings can cover only a small percentage of the theatre's income. We need to raise a substantial amount of money each year to fund our development initiatives and artistic programme. On Friday April 21st at 8pm, we invite you to invest in our vision of growth with Silo Theatre's fundraising performance for 2006: the NZ premiere of The Jungle.

In Louis Nowra's matrix of urban poetry, director Cameron Rhodes presents us with 16 degrees of separation. That is, 16 stories, 29 characters, 5 actors and 1 night in Sydney, which together create a thrilling collage of razor-edge realism. Plot-lines and characters interlink in a similar framework to the one that Paul Thomas Anderson used to such dazzling effect in the film Magnolia. We move from the streets of Kings Cross to the harbour views of a penthouse apartment, taking in a tabloid city of gangsters and molls, society bitches, kept men, corrupt cops, corporate high-gliers and media piranhas. This is a one night stand in more ways than one and features Jodie Rimmer, Aidee Walker, David Aston, Phil Brown and Eryn Wilson. THE JUNGLE continues Silo Theatre's commitment to presenting work which defines and articulates our contemporary experience.

In recent years the programming of work like SHOPPING & F***ING, CLOSER, THIS IS OUR YOUTH, THE MERCY SEAT and MY BROTHER & I ARE P*RNSTARS have offered audiences bold explorations of the world in which we live. Like contemporary life itself, THE JUNGLE is not necessarily for the faint-hearted. It's vast, vicious, debauched and decadent.

Tickets are available for just $30 through Ticketmaster on 09 970 9700 or www.ticketmaster.co.nz - every single ticket purchased contributes towards our artist development fund. 2006 is our most ambitious year to date. We take our existing offer with audiences into other venues. We celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Maidment Theatre and Roger Hall's GLIDE TIME in a production directed by Oliver Driver and featuring Theresa Healey, Peter Elliott, Greg Johnson, Stuart Devenie, Kip Chapman and Colin Moy. August offers us a unique collaboration between director Katie Wolfe and actor Danielle Cormack as they tackle THE CASE OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD at the Herald, and for the September school holidays we revive Ben Crowder's mega-hit production of BADJELLY THE WITCH at The Wintergarden.

We'll also journey through worlds created by David Hare, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht and present the NZ premiere of TAKE ME OUT, in which actors Fasitua Amosa, Paul Barrett, Jeff Szusterman, Craig Hall, Edwin Wright and David Van Horn take on the world of American baseball. Our philosophy remains the same. We look towards a ridiculously exciting future and your ongoing support in 2006. I look forward to seeing you on the 21st.

Kind regards, Shane Bosher Silo Theatre Director