Brink Productions


Brink Productions is an Australian theatre company based in Adelaide, specialising in the ensemble-development of new writing.
Brink was established in 1996 as an actor-driven collective of seven members, primarily graduates from the drama school of Flinders University, in order to "improve artistic production" in Australian theatre. Brink's founding members were Michaela Cantwell, Michaela Coventry, Lizzy Falkland, Victoria Hill, Richard Kelly, David Mealor, John Molloy and Paul Moore, joined soon after by director Benedict Andrews. Director Chris Drummond was appointed Artistic Director in 2004.
Brink's repertoire of work includes "epic narrative, re-imagined classics, music theatre and children's theatre".
In 2018, Brink premiered Memorial at the 2018 Adelaide Festival, before touring it to the 2018 Brisbane Festival and the Barbican Centre. Memorial was a stage adaptation of Alice Oswald's Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad, with music by Jocelyn Pook. Staged as a theatrical soliloquy performed by Helen Morse, it featured 200 chorus members
In 2018, the also company toured The Aspirations of Daise Morrow to Canberra Theatre Centre, Merrigong Theatre, the 2018 Galway Festival and the Assembly Rooms at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe. The Aspirations of Daise Morrow is Brink's adaptation of Patrick White's short story Down at the Dump, from The Burnt Ones.
In 2016/17, Brink worked in association with Far & Away Productions to produce Ancient Rain, created with songwriter Paul Kelly, singer Camille O'Sullivan and musician Feargal Murray. The theatrical song cycle featured the poems of Seamus Heaney, James Joyce, Patrick Kavanagh, Paula Meehan, Padraic Pearse and WB Yeats and was presented at the 2016 Dublin Theatre Festival, 2016 Melbourne Festival, Canberra Theatre Centre, Merrigoing Theatre, 2017 Dark Mofo, QPAC and the 2017 Adelaide Cabaret Festival.
One of Brink's most successful collaborations was When The Rain Stops Falling written by Andrew Bovell with designs by visual artist Hossein Valamanesh and music by Quentin Grant. During 2008-2010 the Brink cast performed to over 60,000 people in Adelaide, Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre Company, Canberra Theatre Centre and the Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs. The script has been performed all over the world including seasons at the Almeida Theatre in London and the Lincoln Center in New York City.
Brink has worked with a broad array of artists including Benedict Andrews, Howard Barker, Paul Blackwell, Andrew Bovell, Kate Box, Geordie Brookman, Paul Capsis, Geoff Cobham, Robert Cousins, Cameron Goodall, Lenny Grigoryan, Slava Grigoryan, Kevin Harrington, Alan John, Lally Katz, Paul Kelly, Bryony Lavery, Nigel Levings, Yaron Lifschitz, Mandy McElhinney, Kris McQuade, Alex Menglet, Kate Mulvany, Nathan O'Keefe, Camille O'Sullivan, Alice Oswald, Tony Phelan, Genevieve Picot, Neil Pigot, Anna Lise Phillips, Jocelyn Pook, Dedrie Rubenstein, Yael Stone, Gabriela Tylesova, Hossein Valamanesh.

Productions

2018
Memorial
2017
Long Tan
2015
The Aspirations of Daise Morrow
2013
Thursday
2011
Skip Miller's Hit Songs by Sean Riley
2010
When the Rain Stops Falling by Andrew Bovell, a collaboration with Hossein Valamanesh & Brink Productions
2009
The Hypochondriac by Molière, a new adaptation by Paul Galloway
2008
When the Rain Stops Falling by Andrew Bovell, a collaboration with Hossein Valamanesh & Brink Productions, presented with the State Theatre Company of South Australia and the Adelaide Festival of Arts
1998
The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter
Mojo
  • The Advertiser: Overall Artistic Excellence, Adelaide Fringe Festival
1996
 Vanya'' by Howard Barker