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SLINGSBY AND STATE THEATRE COMPANY SOUTH AUSTRALIA
IN ASSOCIATION WITH ADELAIDE FESTIVAL PRESENT
THE BOY WHO
TALKED TO DOGS
ADAPTED FOR THE STAGE BY AMY CONROY
FROM THE BOOK BY MARTIN MCKENNA
25 FEB - 14 MAR
THOMAS EDMONDS OPERA STUDIO
Cast & Creative Team
PLAYWRIGHT Amy Conroy
DIRECTOR/ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, SLINGSBY Andy Packer
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR / DIRECTOR OF PUPPETRY Clara Solly-Slade
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Stacey Baldwin
SONGWRITER Lisa O’Neill
COMPOSER-PERFORMER Quincy Grant
SOUND SYSTEM DESIGNER Andrew Howard
SET DESIGNER Wendy Todd
LIGHTING DESIGNER Chris Petridis
COSTUME DESIGNER Ailsa Paterson
MARTIN Bryan Burroughs
MUSO Victoria Falconer
MUSICIAN Emma Luker
COVER James Smith
STAGE MANAGER Laura Palombella
PRODUCTION MANAGER Van Locker
VENUE MANAGER/ASM Gabrielle Hornhardt
TECHNICAL MANAGER/OPERATOR Darian Tregenza
Costumes made by State Theatre Company South Australia Wardrobe.
Set constructed by State Theatre Company South Australia Workshop.
THE BOY WHO TALKED TO DOGS
Adapted for the stage by Amy Conroy
From the book by Martin McKenna
Published by Skyhorse Publishing
Developed with the assistance of Draíocht Arts Centre
Ngadlu tampinthi Kaurna We acknowledge the Kaurna
miyurna yaitya yarta-mathanya people as the traditional custodians
Wama Tarntanyaku. of the Adelaide Plains.
Parnaku yailtya, parnaku tapa We recognise and respect their
purruna, parnaku yarta ngadlu cultural heritage, beliefs and
tampinthi. Yalaka Kaurna Miyurna relationship with the land.
itu yailtya, tapa purruna, yarta kuma We acknowledge that they are
puru martinthi, puru warri-apinthi, of continuing importance to the
puru tangka martulayinthi. Ngadlu Kaurna people living today and
tampinthi purkarna pukinangku, pay respects to Elders past,
yalaka, tarrkarritya. present and future.
Writer's Note - Amy Conroy Initally when approaching this play I thought I was writing a story about ‘a boy and his dogs and all their adventures’. That would have been the sensible story, the popular story, the heartwarming story that sells. But it wouldn’t have been an honest story. To honour this boy’s incredible journey, I had to start in the difficult places, the places we don’t like to look. It’s a lot easier, and infinitely more palatable, to turn away from all that messy stuff. I am a playwright, actor and theatre maker based in Dublin, Ireland. I believe that theatre should provoke, enflame, move and delight in equal measures. I am compelled by a drive to shine a light on people, places or circumstances that are rarely seen, or rarely given much consideration. I am fascinated by what we understand on an intellectual level, but disregard on a human level. I also like to allow the story to inform how it should be told. I am of the opinion that theatre can change the world. It is a firm opinion, maybe uncool, maybe romantic, but firm. You can, however, only do that when you tell the whole story. This is a story of survival. Martin is the kid that is hard to like, he’s the kid that makes people uncomfortable, even though they should know better. Those people defined Martin’s narrative, telling him he was stupid, damaged, troublesome and awkward. They told him so often and so viciously that he believed them. Why wouldn’t he? They didn’t ask why he made them uncomfortable, or why he was troublesome, it was easier not to. But Martin found his own way through; he survived in spite of everything. I wanted to honour his journey; I wanted to give this gloriously awkward, broken, brilliant and radiant boy authorship of his own story - in his own way. Ultimately it’s a very simple one, it’s a story of a boy who wants to be loved. And I do. I hope you do too.
Director's Note - Andy Packer As I write, we are three weeks away from opening this production. The world around is in chaos. Perth and suburbs are in COVID-19 lockdown, while 71 houses have been destroyed by raging bushfires overnight. Ireland, UK, Israel, Netherlands and Vietnam are in lockdown and close to 450,000 citizens of the USA have died from COVID-19. And yet, here in Adelaide we come to work each day, unmasked, and make theatre. In this moment in time it is impossible to know what future touring life this production may have, but I want us to remember the context in which we make this work. Despite the pain being felt globally, there is an abundance of hope in the room as we bring Martin McKenna’s remarkable story to the stage. Martin had experiences as a child that were incredibly traumatic. Children are powerless. They are the recipients of the world adults create for them. Globally, it is estimated that up to one billion children aged 2–17 years have experienced violence or neglect in the past year (World Health Organisation). Now as an adult, Martin, with all the power he could muster, has shared his story in the hope it will drive change. Is it possible that a piece of theatre can make an impact on curbing that violence? I hope so. Certainly, ignoring these realities is unacceptable. I believe theatre can be an empathy machine, allowing us to gain perspective on other people’s lives. We make The Boy Who Talked to Dogs with the power that we have as theatre makers, to amplify Martin’s voice. Injustice is all around us. We all have a responsibility and the power to make changes to eradicate it. To make theatre during a pandemic is an incredible privilege that would be impossible without the passion, hard work and creativity of all involved. While the future remains unclear, we take each day at a time, making the most of every moment, hoping for a future that is filled with happiness. Perhaps this mirrors Martin’s experience as a child. His persistence, resilience and creativity can be a guide to us all.
Director/
Playwright Artistic Director, Slingsby
Amy Conroy Andy Packer
Amy is an actor, playwright and Artistic Director of Andy is a director of theatre, music theatre and
HotForTheatre. Her first radio play, Hold This, was opera. He has also worked as creative producer
broadcast on RTÉ Radio One in 2010. Her first stage of multidisciplinary arts programs, producer of
play, I♥ Alice ♥ I, won the Fishamble Award for large-scale events and festival director. In 2007
New Writing in the 2010 Dublin Fringe Festival and Andy co-founded Adelaide-based theatre company
had sold-out runs at Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Slingsby. The company’s productions have received
Festival, the Peacock stage of the Abbey Theatre 16 industry awards and toured more than 70 cities
Dublin, The Irish Arts Centre in New York, Lókal and towns across 12 countries.
festival in Iceland, Glasgay Festival, The World
Theatre Festival in Brisbane, Auckland Arts Festival, Andy is renowned for creating original live
Ten Days on the Island Festival in Tasmania, Queer performance moments that are emotionally powerful
Theatre Festival Croatia, Centre Culturel Irlandais and visually bold. His work across theatre for young
in Paris and The Lyric Theatre Belfast. It has been audiences, opera, cabaret, music theatre and
translated and performed in Poland, Italy and symphonic concerts has pushed him to develop
Iceland. It is published by Oberon. a distinctive theatrical form that is at once personal
and epic.
Amy’s acting credits include the critically-acclaimed
production of The Taming of the Shrew at the Globe Andy has directed productions, concerts and
Theatre, London, Futureproof, A Day In May, A events for Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, State
Midsummers Night’s Dream, Portrait of the Artist as a Opera of South Australia, State Theatre Company
Young Man and Citysong (Abbey Theatre and Soho South Australia, Adelaide Festival of Arts, Adelaide
Theatre, London), for which she was nominated Best Fringe, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide Chamber
Supporting Actress in the 2019 Irish Times Theatre Singers, Australian String Quartet, Windmill
Awards. She is a Six in the Attic Alumni, Writer in Theatre, Restless Dance, Tutti Ensemble, Rundle
Residence with Rough Magic Theatre Company and Mall Management Authority and the International
Associate Playwright with The Abbey Theatre. Astronautical Federation. In 2019 Andy was Show
Director for the World of WearableArt Awards Show
in Wellington, New Zealand. Andy was Creative
Producer of Programming at Carclew Youth Arts
2003-2006, Creative Producer of Family Events for
Adelaide Fringe Festival 2007-2008 and Creative
Director of Come Out Festival 2011.
Assistant Director/
Director of Puppetry Songwriter
Clara Solly-Slade Lisa O'Neill
Clara studied acting at Adelaide College of the Arts Over the years Lisa O'Neill has quietly built a
and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (London). reputation for herself on the Irish and international
scenes and now has a growing following with
She has worked as an artist with Sport for Jove her unique folk sound, strong song writing and
Theatre, Pinchgut Opera, The H.E.A.T Collective distinctive voice.
(New York), Working Classroom (New Mexico), and
the La Mama Experimental Theatre Company (New Her debut release Has an Album was followed in
York). She has directed and facilitated with young 2013 by Choice-nominated Same Cloth Or Not.
people for SAYart’s, Working Classroom, Urban Her third album Pothole in the Sky was released
Myth, Camp Quality, Australian Theatre for Young to critical acclaim and is filled with tension and
People, Australian Refugee Volunteers and Western emotion, contextualising themes of love, loss,
Sydney Migrant Resource Centre. heartache and sorrow today through referencing
tales from the past with beauty, honesty and
Clara is completing an Emerging Director Fellowship defiance. Lisa’s last release on the Rough Trade
with State Theatre Company South Australia and imprint River Lea, Heard A Long Gone Song, has
State Opera South Australia. garnered huge acclaim both at home and abroad. It
was Choice Nominated, had a 5/5 star review from
The Guardian on release and a coveted ‘Best Folk
Album of 2019’ from the same publication. She
was also nominated in four categories at the 2019
UK Folk awards and five categories at the 2019
Irish Folk awards, winning one for best original folk
song. Late last year Lisa signed a new album deal
with Rough Trade and is currently working on new
material for that album.
Composer-Performer Set Designer
Quincy Grant Wendy Todd
Quincy is a freelance composer and musician who Wendy’s recent set and costume design credits
writes music for many groups and soloists. He has include The Lighthouse set (Patch Theatre), North/
written and performed a lot of music for the theatre, South (Australian Dance Theatre), Picaresque
working with companies such as Slingsby, Circa, (Robyn Archer, Adelaide Festival), Seashore (Sally
Brink Productions, Queensland Theatre, and State Chance Dance/Dream Big), Rabbits (Steel & Brown/
Theatre Company South Australia. He also writes for State Theatre Company), Emil & The Detectives
concert performances and film, and plays in many (set only), Man Covets Bird and The Tragical Life
groups: from rock to new music and, most recently of Cheeseboy (Slingsby), Long Tan (Brink/STCSA),
wild gypsy music with Golonka, sweet light classical The Young King (Slingsby), Touch’N’Go (Sally
tunes with The Horizon Quartet, and rollicking Chance Dance), Cabaret Festival Opening, Closing
sea-song rock with Mumpsimus. He is co-director and Family Galas 2018, 2017 & 2016 (Adelaide
of The Firm, a company that presents concerts Festival Centre), Blinc Bar Adelaide Festival
each year featuring Australian classical musicians (Adelaide Festival of Arts), Babyteeth, Blasted and
in programmes of new Australian music along-side Pornography (STCSA), Land & Sea, Skip Miller’s
interesting repertoire. Hit Songs, Harbinger and The Hypochondriac
(Brink Productions), Worldhood (Australian Dance
In 2021 he is writing a new opera, When the Rain Theatre), A Lion In The Night and The Little Green
Stops Falling, with Andrew Bovell, composing a Tractor (Patch Theatre Company), Cutaway II
music theatre work with writer Kathryn Marquet for (Vitalstatistix) and Ruby Bruise (The Misery Children
Little Match Productions, Brisbane, and recording a & Vitalstatistix).
new CD with Golonka.
Event design credits include Adelaide Cabaret
Festival Co-Event Designer (2016-18), Adelaide
Festival Centre Sole Event Designer (2015), Blinc
Bar Designer (2015), Barrio Design Co-ordinator
(2012 and 2013), Lola’s Pergola Design Coordinator
(2014) and Persian Garden Assistant Designer
(2006 and 2008).
Wendy has worked on the 2016 Adelaide Guitar
Festival, 2007 Adelaide Film Festival and the
Bowerbird Design Markets from 2013-2017.
Lighting Designer Costume Designer
Chris Petridis Ailsa Paterson
Chris is a lighting and video designer from Adelaide. Ailsa completed a Bachelor of Dramatic Art in
Following his completion of the Technical Production Design (NIDA) in 2003. She has worked extensively
course at the Adelaide Centre of the Arts, Chris as a set and costume designer in theatre, opera,
has continued to develop his experience across dance, film and TV.
theatre, dance, and other live events in Australia and
internationally. Design credits for Slingsby include Ode to
Nonsense, The Mouse, The Bird & The Sausage,
Chris recently worked with the World of WearableArt Emil and the Detectives, You, Me and the Bloody
in New Zealand to design the lighting for its 2019 Sea and Songs for Those Who’ve Come Across the
arena show, performed to 60,000 people. He Seas.
designed and has been touring with the show 13
Ways to Look at Birds featuring Paul Kelly, James Ailsa was the Resident Designer for State Theatre
Ledger, Alice Keath and the Seraphim Trio. Company South Australia in 2019. Recent credits
include Ripcord, Gaslight, Jasper Jones, The
Chris has worked with State Theatre Company 39 Steps, End of the Rainbow and Sense and
South Australia on A View from the Bridge, Brothers Sensibility.
Wreck, In The Club, Terrestrial, Mr Burns, Red Cross
Letters, Eh Joe for the Beckett Triptych, Gorgon,
Masquerade, The Kreutzer Sonata, Maggie Stone
and Little Bird. Chris has completed designs for
Theatre Republic’s The Bleeding Tree, Lines, Is This
Yours’ Angelique, Brink Productions’ Long Tan and
Tiny Bricks’ Deluge, Australian Dance Theatre’s
Of All Things, The Beginning of Nature Part 1 and
Ignition 2016, Restless Dance Theatre’s Zizanie and
Touched.
For Slingsby, credits include Songs for Those
Who’ve Come Across the Seas, Emil and the
Detectives and The Mouse, The Bird & The Sausage.
Other credits include Beep, Grug and the Rainbow,
Big Bad Wolf and Story Thieves (Windmill Theatre
Co), Never Did Me Any Harm (Force Majeure), Cher
and Quiet Faith (Vitalstatistix) and Bitch Boxer and
Seawall (Flying Penguin Productions).
Martin Muso
Bryan Burroughs Victoria Falconer
Bryan trained at Trinity College Dublin. Victoria is an award-winning cabaret artist, theatre-
maker, multi-instrumentalist and musical director.
Noteworthy performances include My Foot/My
Tutor (Dublin Fringe Festival, winner of Best Male As writer/performer she has played at Southbank
Performance), Johnny Patterson: The Singing Irish Centre (London), Griffin Theatre (Sydney), Darwin
Clown (Irish Times Theatre Award Best Supporting Festival and Edinburgh Fringe (with Fringe Wives
Actor 2009) and his solo show Beowulf: The Club, winning Spirit of the Fringe 2018).
Blockbuster, which won the STAGE Award for Acting
Excellence at the Edinburgh Fringe 2014 and toured Victoria’s shows have twice won the overall Best
to Adelaide Festival in 2015. Cabaret Award at Adelaide Fringe (2018/2011).
In 2020 she was nominated for a Sydney Theatre
Recently he played Lenehan in James Joyce's Award (Once, Darlinghurst Theatre Company) and
Ulysses and James Matthews in 14 Voices From a Green Room Award (Glittergrass, Malthouse)
The Bloodied Field at The Abbey Theatre for the 100 for musical direction. Other MD credits include
year Anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Oklahoma! (Black Swan State Theatre Co.),
Insane Animals (HOME Manchester), Courtney Act
(London) and Sasquatch The Opera (Summerhall,
Edinburgh).
Victoria is a founding member of The People of
Cabaret, an initiative amplifying and advocating for
BIPOC-identifying people in the performing arts.Musician Cover
Emma Luker James Smith
Emma is a fiddle player, violinist, performer, Since graduating from Flinders Drama Centre in
teacher and session player based in Adelaide, 2013, James has been involved in various stage and
South Australia. She has performed interstate and screen productions.
internationally as a band member and theatre
performer. Credits include Neighbourhood Watch, Othello,
This is Where We Live, Volpone, Gorgon, Vale
Acclaimed as a violinist of ‘sensitivity and versatility’, and Jasper Jones (State Theatre Company South
Emma is a member of original folk duo The Fiddle Australia), Limit (State Theatre Company South
Chicks and several other bands in Adelaide. She Australia Umbrella program), Emily Loves to Bounce
also performs regularly with folk singer Eric Bogle. (Patch Theatre Company), The Aspirations of Daise
Morrow (Brink) and Deluge (Tiny Bricks, 2016
Adelaide Festival).
James was involved with the development and
production of Stories in the Dark a 2017 Fringe In
Space award-winning show. James also appears in
Shawn Seet’s 2019 film Storm Boy. In 2014 James
was awarded the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank
award.
In 2018 he was in a two-handed production of
Lines (Theatre Republic) and in early 2019 toured
to USA and around Australia with The Young King
(Slingsby).Stage Manager Laura Palombella Laura studied at the Adelaide College of the Arts, graduating in 2014 with an Advanced Diploma in Stage Management. Laura has worked with Slingsby since 2019, Stage Managing the international tour of Emil and the Detectives in the UK and Ireland and the national tour that included the Sydney Opera House. She also stage managed the 2020 production of The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy at Her Majesty’s Theatre. Laura has worked with State Theatre Company South Australia since 2015. Show credits include The 39 Steps, The Gods of Strangers, Dance Nation and the national and international tours of 1984.
Clara Solly-Slade Emma Luker Bryan Burroughs & Andy Packer
Victoria Falconer Bryan Burroughs Quincy Grant Photography: Jessica Zeng
Founded in 2007 and based in Adelaide, The Young King and a Helpmann Award (Best
South Australia, Slingsby presents emotionally Presentation for Children) for Emil and the
challenging and engaging storytelling in rich Detectives in 2018.
live theatrical realms for family audiences and
young people aged eight years and over. Slingsby produces and tours original theatre
productions that captivate, challenge and
Artistic Director Andy Packer and General inspire hope through memorable theatre
Manager Stacey Baldwin are passionate experiences that evoke a sense of renewed
about creating memorable experiences wonder in the world we live in, and the role
for audiences of all ages. They collaborate we each can play in building a happy and
with some of Australia’s finest artists across harmonious global society.
many disciplines and foster international
theatrical alliances. Slingsby’s productions Slingsby’s theatre making has explored
have been presented around Australia and a variety of theatrical forms, ranging from
in New Zealand, USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, original text-based plays (The Tragical Life
Scotland, Spain, Singapore, Norway, China of Cheeseboy, Man Covets Bird, The Young
and India, earning the company a reputation King), dance theatre (Wolf), opera (Ode to
for excellence in the creation of work for Nonsense), concept album concert (Songs
young audiences. The company has garnered for Those Who’ve Come Across the Seas) and
many coveted awards for its work including hybrid image / text based work (Emil and the
three Ruby Awards, a prestigious Victor Detectives). These works have been built on
Award (People’s Choice) – International both original concepts and book adaptations.
Performing Arts for Youth Showcase 2017 for
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were like this,
the world would
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