David Jobling
Planting the Dunk Botanic Gardens
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Adelaide Fringe
bigTOE productions
present
Planting the Dunk Botanic Gardens
Written by Mark O'Connor, Planting the Dunk Botanic Gardens is the humorous and moving story of Mark's fight to plant a Botanic Garden on Queensland's tropical Dunk Island. Mark O'Connor, the Reef poet, was the Australia Council's Olympic Poet for the Sydney 2000 Games. He built his garden from the foundation laid by the legendary naturalist, writer and recluse E J Banfield, of The Confessions of a Beachcomber, who settled on Dunk in 1897.
To build his garden Mark was up against the challenges of time cyclones and fellow man.
Mark's labors to grow an Eden, to fulfill a dream, were arduous, thrilling, and life changing. Now, at the ecological three minutes to midnight - close to the tipping point of climate change - such gardens could drown forever. Mark's story becomes a poignant elegy for aradise forsaken.
Written in 1977, thirty years ripening in sun and CO2 has made Planting the Dunk Botanic Gardens a passionate plea for the planet. Planting the Dunk Botanic Gardens premiered in 2008 at the Third Global Botanic Gardens Congress in Wuhan China and then toured to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Mark O'Conner will be present at the Adelaide Fringe performance on Monday the 2nd of March.
The show will be performed by David Malikoff as part of the Adelaide Fringe from 28 February to 7 March (preview 27 February) at The Arch, Holden Street Theatres, 34 Holden Street Hindmarsh.
Tickets are priced from $12 - $22 and may be purchased online through FringeTix
David Malikoff was reviewed as a master storyteller at the 04 Adelaide Fringe for his solo adaptation of Beowulf, later described an extraordinary performance in the national media.
Directed by Edinburgh Fringe and Olivier award winner Emil Wolk, actor David Malikoff weaves this passionate and funny story through the jazz rhythms of Todd Hardy's flugelhorn. The show is performed against the stunning projected images of botanic artist Linda Martin.
Emil Wolk has acted with the Royal National Theatre and RSC, played Ariel to Sir John Gielgud's Prospero in Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books, and was guest director for Circus Oz 30th Anniversary show last year.
David Malikoff gives a performance of great energy, creativity and love. Mark O'Connor's poem Planting the Dunk Botanic Gardens is simply a great yarn of paradise lost and then found, with a real message of hope for the future. It will capture your imagination and take you on a journey through a tropical paradise as diverse as the species and colors this production brings to life through the poetry, artwork, music and the muscle of David's masterful delivery.
Cameron Marshall ABC Radio
present
Planting the Dunk Botanic Gardens
Written by Mark O'Connor, Planting the Dunk Botanic Gardens is the humorous and moving story of Mark's fight to plant a Botanic Garden on Queensland's tropical Dunk Island. Mark O'Connor, the Reef poet, was the Australia Council's Olympic Poet for the Sydney 2000 Games. He built his garden from the foundation laid by the legendary naturalist, writer and recluse E J Banfield, of The Confessions of a Beachcomber, who settled on Dunk in 1897.
To build his garden Mark was up against the challenges of time cyclones and fellow man.
Mark's labors to grow an Eden, to fulfill a dream, were arduous, thrilling, and life changing. Now, at the ecological three minutes to midnight - close to the tipping point of climate change - such gardens could drown forever. Mark's story becomes a poignant elegy for aradise forsaken.
Written in 1977, thirty years ripening in sun and CO2 has made Planting the Dunk Botanic Gardens a passionate plea for the planet. Planting the Dunk Botanic Gardens premiered in 2008 at the Third Global Botanic Gardens Congress in Wuhan China and then toured to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Mark O'Conner will be present at the Adelaide Fringe performance on Monday the 2nd of March.
The show will be performed by David Malikoff as part of the Adelaide Fringe from 28 February to 7 March (preview 27 February) at The Arch, Holden Street Theatres, 34 Holden Street Hindmarsh.
Tickets are priced from $12 - $22 and may be purchased online through FringeTix
David Malikoff was reviewed as a master storyteller at the 04 Adelaide Fringe for his solo adaptation of Beowulf, later described an extraordinary performance in the national media.
Directed by Edinburgh Fringe and Olivier award winner Emil Wolk, actor David Malikoff weaves this passionate and funny story through the jazz rhythms of Todd Hardy's flugelhorn. The show is performed against the stunning projected images of botanic artist Linda Martin.
Emil Wolk has acted with the Royal National Theatre and RSC, played Ariel to Sir John Gielgud's Prospero in Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books, and was guest director for Circus Oz 30th Anniversary show last year.
David Malikoff gives a performance of great energy, creativity and love. Mark O'Connor's poem Planting the Dunk Botanic Gardens is simply a great yarn of paradise lost and then found, with a real message of hope for the future. It will capture your imagination and take you on a journey through a tropical paradise as diverse as the species and colors this production brings to life through the poetry, artwork, music and the muscle of David's masterful delivery.
Cameron Marshall ABC Radio
