THE FUTURE AUSTRALIAN RACE

Redmond Barry takes on Marcus Clarke

Redmond Barry has a master plan for Melbourne. A colony of low-lifes and undesirables, not to mention bushrangers, needs cultural building blocks — a university, an art gallery and a public library — if the British race is to prosper.

Marcus Clarke seems a likely lad. He’s from ‘the right stuff’, well-bred, well-educated, a talented writer on the up. If he’d just grow out of his silly bohemian ways, he too would prosper.

At the State Library of Victoria where they work, a spirited friendship grows between these quintessential contrarians. The literary ‘enfant terrible’ and Ned Kelly's hanging judge battle it out among the books from opposite sides of a divide that still haunts Australia.

writers Sue Gore and Bill Garner
director Peter Houghton
performers Jim Daly and Luke Ryan
designer Shaun Gurton
lighting designer Nick Merrylees

5 – 24 May, Queen’s Hall, State Library of Victoria
Previews
Mon & Tues, 5 & 6 May at 6.30pm
Opening 7 May, 7.30pm
Mon – Tues at 6.30pm
Wed – Sat at 7.30pm
Matinees, Thu at 1pm & Sat at 2pm

Tickets $30/$25
Preview tickets $20/$15

BOOKINGS 9534 5984 or complays@bigpond.com

THE MELBOURNE CINEMATHEQUE PRESENTS

FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT: CHILD OF THE CINEMA

Program screening at ACMI, April 16-30, 2008

Running from April 16 to 30 at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, François Truffaut, Child of the Cinema will provide audiences with the opportunity to see some of the most important and iconic films of the early nouvelle vague on the big screen, including The 400 Blows, which catapulted its lead actor, Jean-Pierre Léaud, to instant stardom and introduced the world to Truffaut's own semi-autobiographical creation, Antoine Doinel. In this season of specially imported 35mm prints, The 400 Blows will screen alongside such classics as Jules et Jim, The Bride Wore Black and the Academy Award-nominated Day for Night (one of the best films on filmmaking ever made). It will also include works which demonstrate the extraordinary range of Truffaut's lyrical cinema (Mississippi Mermaid, Les Deux anglaises et le continent).

Melbourne Cinémathèque screens the best of the world cinema across time and cultures every Wednesday night at ACMI Cinemas, Federation Square. For more information visit: www.melbournecinematheque.org

Tickets can be purchased at the ACMI Box office:

ANNUAL membership (Admission for 12 months from date of purchase) - Full $95 / Conc. $80
MINI membership (Admission to 4 consecutive nights) - Full $21 / Conc. $16

ArtsZine has 5 double passes to Giveaway to the screening of Mississipi Mermaid to be screened at 7pm, 23 April, ACMI Cinemas. Email artszine@melbournefestival.com.au and tell us why you love Truffaut in ten words or less for your chance to win! Entries close 5pm Tue 15 April.