Apr. 30th, 2010 11:26 am
Actors Go Bump In The Night
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klwardfrom the article by Maria Galinovic in the St George and Sutherland Shire Leader, Thursday April 29, 2010 -
"Unlike the old Scots for whom this was a feverent prayer, Kayla Ward does not expect to be delivered from "goulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night".
"Ward, of Sutherland, is quite happy to live in a world populated by all kinds of things that other people don't see. "I've always been interested in horror, and that goes back to good night vision," she said. "I see what's there and things that stay out of sight; things that people do that they don't want to be seen doing; and more subtle things that are only ideas or possibilities in the daylight."
What Ward sees could be as simple as night animals or people going about their secretive business, or "strange things peering in windows and doors". The "night vision" - which comes from her Welsh ancestors who had "the sight" - combined with great imagination has led Ward into horror literature. She has always considered herself a writer, and had her first short story published at age 12.
In 2006 Ward, with her partner David Carroll and co-author Evan Paliatseas, published Prismatic under the pseudonym Edwina Grey, which won the Aurealis Award for best horror novel. Last year, Ward's short film about a vampire with a mobile phone, Bad Reception, in which she also had the lead role, screened at the Vampire Film Festival in New Orleans. And, as a member of the Theatre of Blood, she is part of the Grand Guignal theatre revival, and has written a horror comedy for the theatre's next production.
Le Theatre du Grand Guignol horrified Parisian audiences from 1897 until the early 1960s with macabre subject matter and graphic violence. According to Ward, the Theatre of Blood is the only company in Australia devoted to the style, although other groups exist in the US and Brazil. Her story, Chocolate Curses, involves a chocolate shop on the North Shore where a chocolate could cause either delight or death. In keeping with the Grand Guignol tradition, the hour-long program contains three short plays in the hot-cold-hot format, allowing the audience to recover from straight horror with comic horror before horrified yet again. The first is The Tell-Tale Heart, an Edgar Allan Poe story, followed by Chocolate Curses and The Torture Garden, an original from the Grand Guignol days.
The Theatre of Blood happens at the Newtown Theatre foyer at 11pm on Friday nights, following Newtown Theatre's current production. The season opens tomorrow, April 30. Come in gothic or horror costume and pay concession prices.
Details: Tickets $19/$15
Phone: 8507 3034 for bookings
"Unlike the old Scots for whom this was a feverent prayer, Kayla Ward does not expect to be delivered from "goulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night".
"Ward, of Sutherland, is quite happy to live in a world populated by all kinds of things that other people don't see. "I've always been interested in horror, and that goes back to good night vision," she said. "I see what's there and things that stay out of sight; things that people do that they don't want to be seen doing; and more subtle things that are only ideas or possibilities in the daylight."
What Ward sees could be as simple as night animals or people going about their secretive business, or "strange things peering in windows and doors". The "night vision" - which comes from her Welsh ancestors who had "the sight" - combined with great imagination has led Ward into horror literature. She has always considered herself a writer, and had her first short story published at age 12.
In 2006 Ward, with her partner David Carroll and co-author Evan Paliatseas, published Prismatic under the pseudonym Edwina Grey, which won the Aurealis Award for best horror novel. Last year, Ward's short film about a vampire with a mobile phone, Bad Reception, in which she also had the lead role, screened at the Vampire Film Festival in New Orleans. And, as a member of the Theatre of Blood, she is part of the Grand Guignal theatre revival, and has written a horror comedy for the theatre's next production.
Le Theatre du Grand Guignol horrified Parisian audiences from 1897 until the early 1960s with macabre subject matter and graphic violence. According to Ward, the Theatre of Blood is the only company in Australia devoted to the style, although other groups exist in the US and Brazil. Her story, Chocolate Curses, involves a chocolate shop on the North Shore where a chocolate could cause either delight or death. In keeping with the Grand Guignol tradition, the hour-long program contains three short plays in the hot-cold-hot format, allowing the audience to recover from straight horror with comic horror before horrified yet again. The first is The Tell-Tale Heart, an Edgar Allan Poe story, followed by Chocolate Curses and The Torture Garden, an original from the Grand Guignol days.
The Theatre of Blood happens at the Newtown Theatre foyer at 11pm on Friday nights, following Newtown Theatre's current production. The season opens tomorrow, April 30. Come in gothic or horror costume and pay concession prices.
Details: Tickets $19/$15
Phone: 8507 3034 for bookings
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Oh well...
(Otherwise, good writeup!)
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