LISTEN to an interview with Marta and Ben on ABC Podcast 'The Stage Show' here. LISTEN to a fantastic interview with Marta on Hobart's ULTRA106five here. WATCH interviews with the cast and crew to get an inside look at how The Bleeding Tree has been brought to Hobart. Marta Dusseldorp stars as the vengeful matriarch in this defiant, blackly comic tale of survival.ĭon't miss this exciting opportunity to return to the Theatre Royal and see Marta Dusseldorp on our beautiful Main Stage. Winner of the Griffin Award, Helpmann for Best Play, and an AWGIE, this is vital, confronting and urgent theatre. Critics have hailed Angus Cerini’s morbidly hilarious fable as “powerful, visceral and deeply exhilarating” theatre “unhesitatingly recommended”. “This is the new Queenstown.The Bleeding Tree brings one of Australia’s most successful and awarded plays of the decade to Hobart. “Mining is no longer the silver bullet,” he says. “We started to realise we could not keep ripping up that wilderness, that it was our greatest asset,” he says.Ĭoulson has seen many booms and busts – but this one’s different. He witnessed the “end of the old ways” of brass marching bands and drinking, smoking and illicit gambling as a kid growing up in Queenstown.įor him the change began after the blockade of the nearby Franklin River in the early 1980s, a pivotal battle that spawned the Greens political party and protected vast swathes of wilderness. Award-winning actress Marta Dusseldorp leads an impressive line-up of established and emerging stars, when filming starts next week in Tasmania, on ABC’s eight-part darkly comedic crime series Bay of Fires, produced by Archipelago Productions and Fremantle Australia. The lead actor, co-creator and producer, Marta Dusseldorp, has also snapped up a place.Īnthony Coulson is a miner turned tourism operator who is restoring the town’s art deco Paragon Theatre. On the heels of the SBS neo-noir series The Tailings and the Paramount+ adventure series The Bridge, ABC’s black comedy Bay of Fires will use Queenstown and nearby Zeehan as a backdrop. The other-worldly scenery is also attracting camera crews. “Unconformity has done for Queenstown what Mona did for Hobart,” he says. That hard edge has melted away now.”Īrnold’s next art project is a workshop in an old school and he is now in talks with the council about developing social housing and a cooperative in an abandoned art deco building.Īrnold may have been the catalyst for the arts boom in the town, but it was a festival, he says, that resolutely turned the town around. Somebody got jilted and burned down a house. “An angry resident blew up the petrol station. “It was a pretty violent place,” Arnold says. The town was in such decline two decades ago a visiting student bought a house for $2,500. There they established an art and residency program that hosted Australian and international artists and staged more than 50 exhibitions. He moved to the outpost almost 20 years ago, and with artist Helena Demczuk settled in an old building. Arnold, a printmaker and painter of international renown, is credited with sparking the town’s arts-led renewal. Today, Arnold often reflects on the cultured Sticht and his “Faustian role in reducing the Queenstown Valley to ruin”. The magnate appreciated art and filled his fine house on the hill with rare books and art, including Rembrandt etchings and 50 Albrecht Durer woodcuts. In the 1990s, so attached were they to the denuded bare hills caused by decades of acid rain, the town even fought efforts by the mine to revegetate.Īmerican metallurgist Robert Sticht was the company’s first manager and became one of the wealthiest men in Tasmania. Over the centuries the town has risen and fallen with the fortunes of the mine and locals have developed a unique connection to the landscape it altered. The Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company was formed in 1893 and ran one of the world’s largest copper mines the company built the town, a railway and a hydro-electric power station. Government geologists tumbled through Arnold’s portal in the 1860s and later found vast riches. A who’s who of Tasmania’s arts scene are lining up for a slice of Queenie, where grand historic buildings, leaning with neglect, suggest wealth long gone. With the mine now in hibernation, it is artists who are waking the place from its slumber. The toxic Queen River in Queenstown, in the west coast region of Tasmania.
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