CAST
PRELUDE AND LIEBESTOD
ARIA DI MEZZO CARATTERE
Blazey trained at UNSW and at ATYP. In 1996 she was awarded the ATYP/Lendlease 2000 scholarship and travelled to London where she completed the Shakespeare course at RADA. Since dropping out of Uni in 1994, she has appeared in productions all over Sydney, in Macbeth for the STC, A Chair in the Landscape for the Q Theatre and The Real Thing for Marion Street Theatre. Most recently, Blazey played Angeline in The Imaginary Invalid for the Ensemble Theatre. When not appearing on stage, Blazey is far from idle, she enjoys gardening, reading and swimming. In her spare time, she has appeared in many TV shows including Home and Away, Wildside, Big Sky, Water Rats, many short films and a feature film Powder Burn. This is Blazey's first appearance with the East Coast Theatre Company.
NICK EADIE - Conductor and Peter
Nick graduated from NIDA in 1980. His theatre credits include Taming of the Shrew (Melbourne 1998, Sydney 1998/99) and A Midsummer Nights Dream for Elston Hocking and Woods Productions, Macbeth, Three Sisters, Waya, The Crucible, Summer of Aliens, Two Weeks with the Queen, Furious, and Third World Blues for the Sydney Theatre Company, Extremities for Playbox, The Sentimental Bloke and True West for Q Theatre, In Duty Bound for Marion Street Theatre, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for the Melbourne Theatre Company, and Gary's House and Gulls for the State Theatre Company SA. Most recently, Nick appeared in the Hot House Theatre Production of Big Hair in America, directed by Marion Potts.
Nick's television credits include Cop Shop, Kindred Spirit, The Henderson Kids, The Lancaster Miller Affair, Vietnam, Fragments of War - The Story of Damian Paper, GP, Tracks of Glory, Embassy, Over the Hill, Halifax FP, Medivac and most recently A Difficult Woman, The Man From Snowy River II, Celia, Blood Oath, Aya, On Our Selection and will be seen this year as Mickey Savage in Universal's Savage Honeymoon.
Nick was awarded an AFI and Logie Award for his performance in Vietnam, a Penguin Award for GP and was also nominated for an AFI for his performance in Fragments of War.
RONALD FALK - Concert Master, Ian, and Tristan
Ronald Falk began his career in Australia at the Union Theatre in Melbourne in The Front Page with Monica Maughan and Barry Humpheries. He spent two years at the National Theatre, Eastern Hill, followed by two years in England with The Old Vic, The English Stage Company, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Traverse Theatre and the Scottish National Theatre.
In 1992 he played Lloyd Rees in Swimming in Light for Caracas IX International Festival and then went on to England where he played Clive in the London production of Michael Gow's On Top of the World. His recent Australian credits include The Happy Prince for the Theatre of Image, Mourning Becomes Electra, Love for Love, and Cyrano De Bergerac for the Sydney Theatre Company.
Ron has just been nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Actor for his role as Beckett in Burnt Piano for Belvoir Street Theatre.
SHAYNE FRANCIS - Soprano and Deb
Shayne graduated from WAAPA in 1988. She has worked in theatre for Gary Penny in Passion Play and a national tour of Steaming, at the Stables Theatre in Annually Fixated, A Thousand and One Nights, Re: Public and The Present, for Annie Swan in How Does Your Garden Grow?, Downstairs Belvoir in The Gentlemens New Clothing, at the Performance Space in Spilling Bodies, at Bondi Pavillion in The Gulf, for the Sydney Theatre Company in Antony and Cleopatra, and was last seen on stage in Wank for Pork Chop Productions at the Old Fitzroy Hotel as part of Theatre Hydra 1998.
TV and film credits include: Blackrock, Doing Time for Patsy Cline, Blue Heelers, Home and Away, Wildside, Water Rats, Children's Hospital, A Country Practice, Naked - The Fishermans Wake, Cody, Police Rescue and Inspector Morse.
TAMBLYN LORD - Young Man and Todd
Tamblyn was most recently seen in the cinematic release of Feeling Sexy a film by Davida Allen. His theatre credits include Furious, Hotel Sorrento, Blackrock and Two Weeks with the Queen for the Sydney Theatre Company and the Royal National Theatre in London directed by Sir Alan Ayckbourn, A Winters Tale for Bell Shakespeare Company and Summer of the Aliens for the Melbourne Theatre Company.
In 1999 he made his directorial debut with Oryza's production of The Pitchfork Disney at the Old Fitzroy Hotel as part of Theatre Hydra 99 and was the Assistant Director on The Little Cherry Orchard for Company B, Belvoir Street Theatre.
His TV credits include Water Rats, All Saints, Murder Call, Law of the Land, The River Kings and Boy Soldiers. Tamblyn also organises cabaret and acoustic nights at Side on Cafe for Why Not?
