Marketing Info &
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1. TEXT REQUIREMENTS
Production Title
RRAMP – the Collector, the Archivist & the Electrocrat
Company/Artist Name For
the headline credit
Christine Johnston, Lisa O’Neill and Peter Nelson
Description – 30 words
RRAMP is an eclectic mix of original music, dance, story, humour and
animation. A tall, lonesome lady-of-the-house lives with her collections and
memories. She has procured two unsuspecting members to join her band.
NEW COPY MARCH 2012:
The long time collaborators behind Fluff, Pianissimo and Decent Spinster are
making a return, but this time assembled as a band.
Description – 120 words
Text for venue brochures,
flyer, program guide listing
Introducing RRAMP… A tall, lonesome lady-of-the-house lives with the
collections and memories that she stores in jars in the rooms of her big house.
She has procured two unsuspecting members to join her band. Featuring
Christine Johnston as the Collector, Lisa O’Neill as the dancing Archivist, her
much shorter personal assistant, and Peter Nelson as the Electrocrat.
Exquisitely animated by Ahmarnya Price, RRAMP is a hard-hitting electronica
dance metal rock set reflecting on unexpected and compelling stories of
archives, collections, pets, childhood imaginings and human frailty. Selections
- collections - recollections... Sharp as ice and bittersweet.
The long time collaborators behind Fluff, Pianissimo and Decent Spinster are
making a return, but this time assembled as a band.
Description – 250 words
Text to be used for working
up a press release
Introducing RRAMP… A tall, lonesome lady-of-the-house lives with the
collections and memories that she stores in her jars in the rooms of her big
house. She has procured two unsuspecting members to join her band.
Christine Johnston the Collector, with Lisa O’Neill, as the dancing Archivist,
her much shorter PA, ever willing to be of assistance but off on her own
curious bends; and Peter Nelson as the Electrocrat… behind his bank of
sound technology, helping the Collector live her dream. The band members
live in her big house free of board… in exchange for filing, archival assistance,
basic administration, technical upgrades, music, dance, to change light bulbs
and to be a listening ear as she reminisces through her collections.
Exquisitely animated by Ahmarnya Price, RRAMP is an electronica dance
metal rock set reflecting on unexpected and compelling stories of archives,
collections, pets, childhood imaginings and human frailty. Selections collections - recollections... Sharp as ice and bittersweet.
About the company – 250
words
The three artists at the helm of RRAMP Christine Johnston, Lisa O’Neill and
Peter Nelson have worked together for the past decade in devising and
performing multi artform performance works. Together these practitioners work
across numerous mediums including music, dance, theatre, contemporary
performance, comedy and new media.
Previous works together include DECENT SPINSTER (QPAC, SOH, Brisbane
Powerhouse); FLUFF (QPAC, SOH, Windmill Performing Arts Festival, The
Arts Centre, ASSITEJ, Sydney Festival, Auckland Arts Festival,
Campbelltown Performing Arts Centre; PIANISSIMO (QPAC, SOH) and
MADAME LARK (numerous national and international events).
Devised and Performed by Christine Johnston, Lisa O’Neill and Peter Nelson
Animation Ahmarnya Price
Artist Credits to appear on
promo material
Costume Design Selene Cochrane
Lighting Design David Walters
Video Production Jaxzyn
Tour Production/Stage Manager Leila Maraun
It is at once mesmerising and shocking. But don’t let me spoil it for you. You’ll
laugh, you’ll cry and you’ll ROCK!
Carol Lloyd, Railroad Gin
These artists talent for trail-blazing their way across the bone-littered
landscape of performance art, hacking through mediocrity with their own
particular brand of brilliance seems endless.
Carol Lloyd, Railroad Gin
Review Quotes
3 please
When they team up and begin a new work such as RRAMP - the community
always knows there is something very special, quirky and honed coming...
Dr. Keith Armstrong – Interdisciplinary Media Artist
No one wanted the show to finish - it rolled with power from its outset - at
times as sharp as ice - with riffingly macho guitar lines, stridently accentuated
performance moves and acutely rendered 'now, today' look graphics…
Dr. Keith Armstrong – Interdisciplinary Media Artist
Production History
Acknowledgements/Logos
– short version
For venue brochures, flyers
Funding & commissioning
credits that need to be on
marketing material – not full
list of thank yous for show
program
Acknowledgements/Logos
– full version
For program
The Brisbane Powerhouse commissioned the artists in 2010 to conceive an
idea for a new performance work, which culminated in the presentation of a
20min creative development showing of RRAMP as part of the 2011 World
Theatre Festival. Following this the artists received further funding through the
state government to complete the performance work for it’s inaugural
presentation with Mobile States.
A Brisbane Powerhouse commission. Toured by Performing Lines for Mobile
States, with the support of the Australian Government through the Australia
Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and through the national
performing arts touring program, Playing Australia.
Logos: Performing Lines, Mobile States, Brisbane Powerhouse, MAPS for
Artists, Aus Co, Playing Aus, Arts Queensland
Originally commissioned and first produced by the Brisbane Powerhouse as
part of the 2011 World Theatre Festival.
RRAMP are supported by Managing and Producing Services (MAPS) QLD, a
joint initiative of the Australia Council for the Arts and the Queensland
Government through Arts Queensland. MAPS QLD is managed by Metro Arts.
Toured by Performing Lines for Mobile States, with the support of the
Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and
advisory body, and through the national performing arts touring program,
Playing Australia.
Logos: Performing Lines, Mobile States, Brisbane Powerhouse, MAPS for
Artists, Aus Co, Playing Aus, Arts Queensland
Warnings EG smoking,
hazer, nudity, language etc
Hazer
Duration
60mins
Age recommendation
(This is particularly useful if
there’s a potential
school/tertiary audience for
this show)
15+
www.christinejohnston.com
Website, Facebook Page
etc if suitable for inclusion in
promo material
www.lisaoneill.com
http://www.picochan.com/
http://ahmarnyaprice.blogspot.com/
Facebook page coming
2. FILES: IMAGES, LOGOS & OTHER ATTACHMENTS
Please include this info as attachments or as links:
Images
Image Credit
https://picasaweb.google.com/109335203462110590836/MobileStatesRRAMP
Use download button rather than right click to download files at full size.
Sean Young
Logos
https://picasaweb.google.com/109335203462110590836/MobileStatesRRAMP
Youtube/Vimeo or MP4
Video Links to any video
online, or send MP4 files
Online - http://vimeo.com/20190497
Reviews in full
Bios
There will be an opportunity
to update these closer to the
season for the program
Password: rramp
Will post MP4 video
RRAMP didn’t receive any reviews for the WTF scratch session but industry
responses were collated and are attached
Sent with this document