When: 20/10/2010 20:00 to 06/11/2010 21:00
Where: Seymour Centre
Address: Cnr Cleveland Street and City Road, Chippendale
Featuring Artist or Label: Music lovers will relive their psychedelic days whenThe Chronic Ills of Robert Zimmerman AKA BOB DYLAN (A LIE) – a theatrical talking blues and glissendorf hits centre stage at the Seymour Centre from 20 October – 6 November. The critically acclaimed production brings to life the story of one of the 20th Century’s most important cultural icons – Bob Dylan. ‘Dylan’ (Matt Ralph) will also be performing three post-show gigs on each Wednesday throughout the run, to get you through the midweek blues. The Chronic Ills… is produced by Critical Stages and Tamarama Rock Surfers Theatre Company and penned by award winning Sydney poet, playwright, and journalist Benito Di Fonzo. The show is a freewheeling ride that takes you beyond the truth and into the realm of Dylan’s inner yarn; disrespectful of the boundaries between fact and fiction. The hallucinogenic script follows Bob/Robert through his early formative years – running away from home at 10, 12, 13, 15, 15 ½, 17 and 18 years of age in pursuit of a music career armed only with a dream and fascist-killing guitar. He left home as Robert Zimmerman and was accidentally renamed Bob Dylan while in a New York public hospital. The story follows the music legend as he encounters, corrupts, jams and gets lost at sea with fellow icons Ginsberg, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Pound, Eliot, Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, and a hipster-Yiddish speaking Abraham Lincoln (to name a few). Rapid-fire exchanges and song snippets keep the show real; packed with in-jokes, wordplay and song lyrics, dubious history lessons and a particular sense of wry humour, not unlike the man.
Door Charge: $Adult - $28, Concession $24.
More details:
Preview nights Wed/Thurs 20 – 21 Oct (8pm); Opening night Fri 22 (8pm); Sat 23 (6:30pm & 9pm); Tues 26 (6:30pm); Wed/Thurs 27 – 28 (8pm); Fri/Sat 29 – 30 (6:30pm & 9pm); Tues 2 Nov (6:30pm); Wed/Thurs 3 – 4 (8pm); Fri/Sat 5 – 6 (6:30pm & 9pm). PLUS FREE post-show gigs each Wednesday.
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