auditions: dirty pictures; a new australian play by tony reck

2 MALE & 2 FEMALE PERFORMERS REQUIRED: PLEASE SEND HEAD SHOT & CV TO tonyreck2010@gmail.com

MEDIA RELEASE: 19.7.2011

Dirty Pictures is a new play by Melbourne writer-director  Tony Reck

"A voice in the dark speaks of a crepuscular world, one in economic and ecological crisis. On a laneway wall an image of Michelangelo's Hand of God burns out; over exposed, any chance at salvation has become a 30 second grab of melting celluloid. 4 anonymous characters engage one another in the endless repetition of The Deal. Drugs and money, love, sex and the technofetish... You want it then baby it's for sale. A shot rings out... then another... A cock crows in the wilderness and a wild dog howls. Lost inside the mountain a young man searches for his disintegrating self while a mother mourns the loss of her abandoned child. Whatever you desire... DIRTY PICTURES is multimedia performance of the streetwise kind. You will know what it is like to lose everything. Somehow, you will find the strength to move on..."

Reck's previous plays include The Great Divide, The Tar Machine and The Antechamber. He is an unflinchingly honest writer-director, one unperturbed by demonstrating in the theatre the less savoury side of existence; as well as the human capacity for forgiveness and the trauma of lost love.

"The Great Divide & The Tar Machine have few parallels in Australian theatre today..."

Jonathan Marshall, InPress.

"The best of the times and the worst of times..." Ralph McLean, 3RRR.

"Some very good writing in The Great Divide and some lovely performances..." 

Geoffrey Milne-774 ABC Melbourne.

"Whatever you do don't eat the chicken..." Melynda Woodward, Artshub.

"An uncannily rendered Aussie noir netherworld..." John Bailey, RealTime.

Dirty Pictures promises to be a bold and uncomprimising night in the theatre.

Performance dates, times and locations are as follows:

DIRTY PICTURES, a new Australian play by Tony Reck.

Collingwood Underground Carpark, 253 Hoddle St. Collingwood, September 14 - 18, 8.00 pm.

(Preview, Tuesday, September 13, 8.00 pm).

Further information, please contact Tony Reck at tonyreck2010@gmail.com